About me: I am not an artist. I have no formal artistic training or education. I've never had a gallery show. I work hard on each image and I do the best I can, but ultimately I do what I want to do, and that's that.
I was born in 1969. I wear glasses because I am slightly nearsighted. I like oppressively hot weather.
If you have any questions, you can email me at mattkish87@gmail.com.
About this Moby-Dick project: I'm working my way through the whole book in order, beginning with page 1 and ending with page 552. I'm not working ahead or jumping around to the pages I might like the most. If all goes well, I should complete this some time in March 2011. We'll see about that.
The blog is updated almost every day with a new piece of art, while this site is updated every time ten pieces are complete.
About the art: While I was in grad school, I worked in a used book store. Customers would bring in boxes of old books to sell to us, and we would evaluate them and resell most of them. Often, we ended up with lots of old books and maps and other paper ephemera that was just not going to sell due to condition, obscurity, or some other factor. Sometimes we priced these items at a dollar or even fifty cents and shelved them in our bargain section, but more often than not we simply discarded them. Dumpster time.
I began stockpiling anything that looked interesting. I was mainly interested in maps, diagrams, schematics, tables, science stuff and repair guides. I didn't know what I would do with it all, but I knew that some day I would use it. Now I am.
In terms of art supplies, I use whatever I want. Especially whatever I can scavenge or buy for cheap, like acrylic / craft paints, ballpoint pens, collaged stuff from magazines, crayons, ink, magic markers, nail polish, spraypaint, stickers, watercolors and whatever looks interesting. I don't use any digital effects on the art at all other than to scan the images and occasionally correct slight color or contrast imbalances so the digital image more closely resembles the actual art.