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!

1. A life size whale, on the internet!

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I will now commence with moving all of my shit into your head.

My buddy Justin came to me a couple months back, and told me that he was starting an ultimate frisbee team in my home town of Ligonier. He asked if i would put a logo together for the team, in exchange for a jersey. I happily obliged, and proceeded to put together the logo you see below, based on the civil war fort located in Ligonier.

Now, for the bad. Below, you can see the final jersey. Not too shabby right? Well, apparently the printer saw fit to toy with my final eps file, completely jacking up the kerning on the work Fortress. Wherever you are captain dumbass, thanks for that novel idea.

Outside of that, the final jerseys are pretty cool. Some sweat control fabric that’s dang comfy, and you can’t go wrong with Steelers colors

Its not often that you get the chance to do something that you love, and help out a friend at the same time. Luckily, art lends itself well to both criteria.

I attended my buddy Brett’s wedding recently, and was tasked with drawing caricatures of everyone. He’s an awesome dude, and got hitched to a really cool girl named Minda (hey guys!), so there’s no way I would have said no.

Its a funny thing about caricatures. I’ve been doing them for ten years now, and they always hit me the same way: Just a few hours before I draw, I dread the hell out of it. Not because I get nervous or anything (trust me, 10 years of people in your grill while you draw cures you of that), but for some kind of crazy fear of fun new shit. Then I go and start drawing, and immediately I’m in the zone and having an awesome time. I get to hear all the awesome rhetoric of the people around me, and afterward I’m genuinely happy. And tired. Its kind of like going on a date, if that makes sense.

Anyway, the wedding rocked. The pic above of me drawing was done by a fellow AiP grad named Amanda Wilson, who generously let me use her photo for this post. Go check her work out. Now.

And that’s my spew of words for today. Congrats Brett and Minda!

_Rob