Supreme Court
I wanted to make a Supreme Court firework called 'Supreme Submission' and started planning labels to draw and glue onto it, but now that the structure is underway I might just finish it by covering it in glassine with no labels and adding a big fuse. I prefer the interpretation to be a little more open. A friend told me he thought it looked like The Met Museum, which I thought was pretty funny. It’s engineered in three or four different sections, partly to make it easier to store and transport, and partly because covering every surface in glassine would be nearly impossible if it were all together as one piece. Once it’s finished, it’ll look like one singular object, albeit a large one at 20” x 18” x 15”. It’s built out of a special archival board made for book covers so this thing is rock solid, almost like light-weight wood.
Burn Book 3; finale
Added 8 more smoke bombs to draw with and I think finish this book.
https://www.teplin.com/burn-book-iii
Cowboy (in progress)
I think there’s probably too much going on here. But I’ll treat it as a lesson as I teach myself to do more stuff like this. I’m tempted to (pen &) ink this but I have a feeling it’ll look too comic-booky which I don’t necessarily want - so I might go straight to watercolor and erase the pencil. 22” x 30", graphite.
3 Friends Agree to Make Up After a Fight
Fountain Pen and white-out on paper, 2025. 21” x 15”. Just making it up as I go along. Lately I’ve been interested in drawing cowboys.
My WFMU t-shirt is live
I've been a huge fan and listener of Jersey City radio station WFMU for 30 years. They're a free-form, nonprofit radio station playing all kinds of eclectic music—totally up to the DJ currently on duty. I've heard amazing things there over the years. about 6 months ago they used my tugboat drawing on stickers for donors to their pledge drive, along with a sweatshirt. Today they just released a new one - my Freeform Fluid letters.
Fountain Pen drawings
I bound a sketchbook that's just for fountain pens. It's different paper than I normally draw on, and the drawings are much different than what I make in my sketchbooks with watercolor paper for pages. Fountain pens force me to loosen up which is important for me. The drawings are non-erasable, fast, and don't allow me to perseverate over every little line. I also get to feel close to my dad when I use this particular pen, one he gave me from his cherished collection.
Images for New Artist Book
Kayrock is in the process of printing a 16 page fake firecracker label book of mine. This is a sneak peak at some of the images.
3 color silkscreen, edition of 200, hand bound.
New Prints!
I was so lucky to work with the amazing printers at Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus, Brooklyn last week. We created two editions of fake firecracker labels printed with extra-large color dots using four screens (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black). The original Chinese firecracker labels I fell in love with in the 1980s have a very similar look, and these prints really bring back that nostalgic feeling for me. There are 25 prints in each edition, and each print measures 16” x 20” on 250 gram, 100% cotton rag acid free paper. Each is $350 or $600 for both.
