Art House Co-Op Sketchbook Project vol. 4; "Friends of Friends of Friends" 

This is my first project for the Art House Co-Op, based in Georgia but are in the process of moving to Brooklyn. They assigned me the theme, "Friends of Friends of Friends," so I used various social networking sites, like Facebook and Twitter, to find inspiration for each "portrait." Each sketch was created from someone's profile picture. Most are pretty spontaneous and didn't really end up looking like the original muse. Each page was created in about 2-15 minutes, and the book was done in a few days (1 in August, and 3 in December-January). I used different materials such as Sharpie markers, Pigma markers, graphite, oil pastels, colored pencils, conte crayons, charcoal, ball-point pen, and White-Out. I tried to use different styles, or better yet, approaches, in each and attempted to be inventive in each entry. When an approach did work and sparked, I explored that approach and ran with it until I felt it seemed old. Then I changed directions.

The sketchbooks are to be part of the Art House's permanent library collection, and will be on tour in Atlanta, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Chicago.