New Website / New Blog

Please check out www.o-fishel.com to see all of my new artwork. Click here if you want to view my blog.

#9 on the Billboard Charts

I am proud to say that the record that I did handlettering for the cover, made it to #9 on the Alternative artist list.

Congrats to my boys! Support them on tour please.

Open Source

So as you can tell there really haven't been consistent updates on the blog here. I am illustrating a book I wrote right now, I have a thing or two in the air before I can publish them online I did for clients, working on a new website design (the new design will be up for a day either next week or the following as a beta test), and a bunch of self generated works all unfinished right now.

One thing I have been experimenting with is Google Sketch up. Often times I find it hard to find the right reference at the right angle. With google sketch up in about 20 minutes I can built something quick to draw from as reference. The great thing about it also is that it's a free open source app.

After being told about app's I have been going app crazy, and downloading stuff like Quick Silver, Font Explorer X, iGTD, and other open source apps for the Mac.

Something cool coming soon....

For Sure

"For Sure" - 11"x12" Acrylic on Stonehedge paper

This is the first of many pieces I am creating that will be in a section of my website I am going to call "Exhibition". These pieces will feature work that is more geared to the gallery wall, and less for the printed page. I will have one or two more updates on these pieces as they come along.

The big difference between my illustration work and exhibition work is that I am focusing on incorprating painted typography, and adding more relatiable personal experiences in the pieces themselves. To do this I plan on painting them using surrealistic metaphores to bring the viewer relating in some way or another to the works of art.

This doesn't mean I have given up creating illustrations for hire. I am just creating another avenue I am interested in taking.

Small web update to come in a few weeks. I wont be updating my website till the end of May/Early June, because I am adding lots of new illustration work, and a new web design completely hand coded in html/css.

Stay Tuned!

DIY - Make stuff/Stay Punk

Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. Unknown Tag's and Wheatpastes.

A few weeks ago, I was walking around Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY and I saw some wheat pasted posters and images on the wall. I often would wonder who these people are and if there is any intention or meaning to any of it. What is the point of putting something on a wall? I suppose it's the same thing that makes me want to be an artist. It's about making stuff, and feeling proud of doing things that you love. For me, it's important to tell stories with the work and make connections in how people respond to the work itself.

In 2007, I worked as an intern for a DIY Punk Rock venue called Championship records, based out of Lemoyne, PA. At this venue, I made 30 show posters in one summer. I had complete creative control, and it is where I practiced making digital art work and pulled my first terrible silk screen prints. I made a really bad first impression on Come Back Kid with my small 8x11 really really bad prints. Looking back at this venue and what it meant to me, and my growth as an artist, I am forever grateful.

My friend, Mallory Weston, made a great blog post about sticking to doing things herself, and staying true to her craft. Make Stuff and Stay Punk as she says it. I couldn't agree more with this. Living a life that is DIY, has been an essential way that I have lived. I don't know if I could make my own clothes and I don't have the room to grow my own food, but the ethic of if I can do something myself, why not do it?

Thanks for reading.

Sketchbook pages

Here are a few pages from my sketchbook from the last few months.

Some inspiration

I look at alot of older illustration from the Mid 20th (1940-1970) century for inspiration (more so lately), to bridge the past to the present into my own future.

Heres a few people I have found inspiring as of late...


Thomas Vroman


Paul C. Burns


Lorraine Fox


Fred Irvin


Robert Jones


William Winters