I think the snowmen have an edge in this fight. But then again, the Park Slope Historical Preservation folks don’t mess around. Tough call.

Anyways, I made this guy for a holiday show that ultimately fell through the cracks. It can be yours for $175 framed. (It’s 13″ x 10″) Just let me know.

Just watch yourself.

As anyone who follows my work might notice, I love keeping my work local. This is a “Happy Holidays” card I made for my friends over at the Brooklyn cafe/roastery Cafe Grumpy.

Love these folks and their coffee and was more than happy to make a snowman melt for one of their macchiatos.

I’ve shown at Cafe Grumpy twice now, most recently my IMPORTANT PEOPLE DRINKING COFFEE show at their Greenpoint location.

It’s month two of my interview plus illustration series with Brooklyn Based!

This month: World-renowned-expert John Hodgman. You can see and read the whole thing here.

Last week, in between bites of turkey and watching football, I was busy painting a big mural for Colson Patissiere‘s new bakery/cafe in South Brooklyn.

The bakery is at 220 36th st, part of what is now being called Industry City (once Bush Terminal) which is a bunch of old shipping warehouses built around the turn of the century. The buildings weren’t built for aesthetics, so I was happy to add a handmade touch. My thought for the whole piece was: these guys have a TON of pastires. Why have a menu written, when I can draw it on their giant empty wall. Plus obviously labeled things crack me up. Here’s the whole mural:

(Click image to see it 1200px.)

Thanks to the building’s industrial touch, it’s hard to get a good sense of the wall due to the lighting and tight hallway.

Here are some detail shots:

It’s been a lot of fun working with the folks at Colson–beyond just getting to sample all of their delicious wares.

My work with them started a few weeks ago when I rewrote/drew their mirror menu in their 9th st/6th ave Park Slope location. As it’s a mirror, I haven’t really found a way to photograph it well. So I invite you to swing by, have a pain au chocolat et cafe and enjoy the view.

For more of my big work. Click here.

This Holiday Season (that being Halloween and the Xmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza/Winterfest and so far not Thanksgiving) I’ve been included in some charity art auctions.

The first is for the fine people at the 826 NYC Superhero Supply Store. They do AMAZING things teaching kids all about writing and reading all while selling every piece of superhero gear you’d ever need. They have an ongoing Tell Tale Art Auction with some other really amazing artists like Lane Smith, Lisa Brown, Adam Rex, Peter Brown, Sara Varon… the list goes on and I’m very flattered to be on it. Here’s my piece below. Go and bid on it here!

Next up is the Red Stocking Soiree for New York Methodist Hospital– a great hospital right near me in Park Slope. They wanted a piece of holiday-related art so I gave them what you see below. Learn more about the Soiree and bidding on my art here!

For those less familiar with Park Slope and its modes of transportation, that’s a 7th Ave Car Service car (the most insane of all Brooklyn car services), a stroller with mom in a fashionable sleeping bag/black down jacket, and a motor scooter from favorite local Chinese spot Red Hot.

My new interview-plus-illustration series with Brooklyn Based debuted today! Please go here for to the full interview with the talented writer Emma Straub.

For the series I ask a few questions to Brooklyites about themselves and the borough. If you know someone else I should interview please don’t hesitate to hit me up.

Yesterday I had the privilege of painting all over the walls of a boutique Brooklyn Hotel, the NU Hotel on Atlantic and Smith streets in Downtown Brooklyn. It was a real honor to be one of their first artists for this guest artist program along with Adam Suerte of Brooklyn Tattoo. So, when They handed me over the keys to room 303 for a day of painting I knew I had to get to work!

There was one big wall that hugs the king size bed’s headboard, which was the bulk of what I was asked to come in and paint around. I had a few ideas of what to mural up in a boutique Brooklyn hotel, but in the end knew I had to rep the brownstones of Park Slope I see every day. Here’s the the whole big wall finished:

(Photo courtesy of NU Hotel. See it bigger here.)

AND, if you want the full multimedia experience, check out this video I put together of the time lapses of everything I painted in the room.

(If this isn’t embedding properly, you can see it here.)

Here’s a detail of the smaller painting I then did over the coffee machine and thermostat:

It’s a cafe and a fire station! Get it?

And here’s one I did right behind the toilet in the bathroom:

Not to be tacky, but I figured it would be a nice thing to stare at while passing the time. There’s a mirror directly across so it’s right there in view whilst upon the throne:

And the best part about all of this, besides painting a mural in a hotel room AND finally getting to see Casey in action while she worked? (My girlfriend Casey’s works at the NU Hotel, which is how I got to know them, and for them to ask me to paint a mural in one of their rooms.) Finally having a TV with ESPN on Monday night to catch Monday Night Football once all the painting was done:

Ahh the perks of being a painter… for bar-related perks of being a painter see the post about my mural at Brooklyn Bar Owl Farm.

Last night Casey and I hung my new show of watercolors IMPORTANT PEOPLE DRINKING COFFEE at Cafe Grumpy in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. It’s a show about, as one might guess, important people and their coffee.

I should also mention here that not everyone I painted with their coffee is technically a “person”. A dog, a dinosaur, several goats, a Greek god, a Sesame Street character, and a beautiful woman who Eugène Delacroix painted were also involved.

Pieces are being sold for $80 and are 7″ x 10″ on hot press watercolor paper framed. Jesus, who is above, is about 11″ x 17″ and is $120. If you’d like to purchase something just let me know here and we’ll figure something out.

Here is the rest of the show:

(Yuri is sold.)

(Cookie Monster is sold.)

(Dino is sold.)

This is my second show at with Cafe Grumpy. My first was at their Park Slope location and was a bunch of watercolors I painted last year summer in Gigante, Colombia at one of the coffee farms where they source their coffee beans. See that here.

UPDATE: I’m really flattered by all of the press this show has received. Here it is:

More and more work from my friends at the Owl Farm Bar on 9th st. and 5th ave. in Park Slope. Loving this as it means I get to draw these owls more… and drink more of their beer.

Here’s a new poster and postcard I designed for their bar events through March. Casey and I designed the font for the copy, which was inspired by the logo/front signage we had already done for them. I like it as it is good and crazy.

Like most of of our local projects, the good folks at Rolling Press printed these up for us. The design doubles (with a little bit of tweaking) as 11″ x 17″ posters and 4″ x 6″. Here are them as postcards: