I happened upon this Flickr feed today when perusing my google reader. Has some pretty choice material:

Don Solo’ Flickr Feed

There has been what some would consider an epidemic of stink bugs in Pittsburgh this year. Everyone seems to hate them with an unholy passion, although they are harmless, and actually pretty chill bugs. I got this one to sit for me for about 20 minutes so I could draw him. Thanks buddy.

Anywho, I am a fan of stink bugs. Much better than the tent worm outbreak we had in the 90′s.

Yes friends, I am right at that age where EVERYONE I know is getting married. Which gives me more excuses to paint. Here is another collab I did with Lauren for our good friends Karis and Dave. They even hung it in their office!

I was lucky enough to get some time with the talented Lauren Gray about a month ago, when she was in town for the wedding of our two close friends, John and Maria Young. We decided to put together a little (Well, little is a loose term. This sucker was around six feet long.) collab painting together for their present. I hope we did them justice. Congrats you two!

I was doing some Sherlock Holmes reading yesterday, and I stumbled on the rumor that Arthur Conan Doyle’s master criminal, Professor Moriarty, was based on a real life man by the name of Adam Worth. I did a bit of research (Wikipedia) and discovered that not only was this dude real, but he was a huge bad ass. Check out the article here for the full read, but basically this guy covered the full gamut of criminality, from pickpocketing to eventually creating a master criminal ring in London, and escaping from Sing Sing on a tugboat! He was eventually nicknamed “the Napoleon of the criminal world.”

Anywho, I felt like drawing last night, so I threw a quick sketch of him together, and colored it in PS. Took about an hour, minus the time up and down the stairs to grab a few beers.

Strawberry Swing from Matt Clark on Vimeo.

This is some sick nasty animation. The alternate Coldplay video, directed by Ross Neil and Matt Clark, is definitely an eye opener.