Advent 2015 Sketchbook
This year’s advent sketchbook is going to unfold like a narrative. I have no idea where this is going, so I’m along for the ride as well… Here’s how it begins… Editor’s Note: This series ended almost as quickly as it began.
The latest from the silvertooth team
Terminal Minotaur
The SANDY WOOD & OTHER VOICES channel just went live on YouTube a few moments ago. A collaborative YouTube channel where Sandy brings together poets, painters, filmmakers, voice talent, photographers, and other creatives. Terminal Minotaur was the first video in the series, and was a collaboration between Chris Taylor, Sandy Wood and myself, with video…
Revisiting: Halo I & II
It’s strange to see a piece of art you’ve made years ago, having not seen it in person in the intervening years. Yesterday I was reacquainted with two such pieces. In 2008 I crated up two large pen-and-ink drawings on gesso board and shipped them to Los Altos, California, where they have resided in the…
Hand Lettering: All Is Not Lost Noisetrade Sampler
This week I’m taking a personal break, vacationing in a spectacular redwood forest with a bunch of old friends at a Quaker retreat center north of Santa Cruz, California. When you’re miles from your studio with limited supplies, but your illustration client needs something right away, what do you do? Here’s the story of the…
Drawing Close: Mini-Documentary by Kyle Isenhower
[x_video_embed no_container=”true”] Drawing Close // Documentary on Illustrator Paul Soupiset from Isenhower Productions on Vimeo. [/x_video_embed] Kyle Isenhower and I have been working together, making short films together for maybe five years, trailers, interviews, adverts, and storytelling, all in the service of our clients. My part of that collaboration is usually illustrative with a little…
Recent Dimensional Paintings
In addition to my Chartres Labyrinth series of paintings, which I’ll post soon, I’ve also been working on another series of paintings, this time with more dimension, and using found objects. I’ll post more in the series over time. Soupiset, Paul. Approaching Train. [2015]. Acrylic with found objects on 12×16 gesso panel and pine box.…
Coming Soon: Drawing Close
Drawing Close, Kyle Isenhower’s mini documentary on the illustration of Paul Soupiset, will debut here — and at Isenhower Productions’ website, sometime in the next few days. We talked to Kyle and he confirmed the film is basically finished, and is just awaiting the final musical score (being composed by a mutual friend of ours,…
Revisiting: An Illustrated Life
Back in the spring of 2008, during a trip to New York City, I visited with Danny Gregory at his house. Danny edited (and invited me to participate in) An Illustrated Life — a luscious, full-color-throughout, 272-page tome featuring a “sneak peak into the wildly creative imaginations of top illustrators, designers and artists from around the…
Revisiting: Sketchnote Handbook
This sketchnote of mine was included as a small part of the Mike Rohde book The Sketchnote Handbook, which was released November 30, 2012 to a worldwide audience. The book has since been translated to Russian and German. Mike is a brilliant sketchnoter, has grown to become a great public speaker, too, and has become…
Illustrating Faith: A Q&A with Artist Paul Soupiset
Photo by Courtney Perry NOTE: Here is a Patheos interview with me from May 16, 2013 by Deborah Arca Yesterday I interviewed Patheos blogger and acquisitions editor Tony Jones about the new adult faith formation video resource called animate.Faith from Sparkhouse. One of the sparkling gems of animate is the captivating artwork that runs throughout the series, from the…
Book Design: Vinedresser’s Notebook
In the fall of 2013 had the distinct privilege of illustrating and designing The Vinedresser’s Notebook, by Judith Sutera, a Benedictine Sister of Mount St. Scholastica in Atchison, Kansas. It was a freelance project, and at the time I was busy as a creative director of a design firm in San Antonio. I got the…
Revisiting: Logo Design by Paul Soupiset
Below is a handful of logos, wordmarks, and symbols Paul Soupiset designed over the past years. In the coming weeks and months, I’ll highlight a few of the logos, show my sketchbook pages leading up to the idea, and show you the final color breaks as well.
Book Interior Illustrations: Rabbi Evan Moffic
In his 2015 book What Every Christian Needs to Know About Passover, popular speaker and author Rabbi Evan Moffic invites Christians of all types to explore the Jewish roots of their faith as they reconsider and experience the Passover Seder. Abingdon Press commissioned me to create a dozen illustrations as chapter openers for Rabbi Moffic’s…
Book Cover Illustration: Preacher Breath
Book cover design, title treatment, and watercolor illustration for Preacher Breath, by Kyndall Rothaus for Smyth & Helwys, 2014.
Process Video: Buddy Greene Album Cover
When I painted the linework illustration for the cover of Buddy Greene’s Harmonica Anthology, I filmed these two timelapse animations with my iPhone. Watercolor over black pigment liner. [x_video_embed no_container=”true”] [/x_video_embed] [x_video_embed no_container=”true”] [/x_video_embed]
Ave Virginia
Soupiset, Paul. Ave Virginia. [2015]. Watercolor, metallic leaf, dimes, on 24″x24″ gessoboard. Collection of Annette & Kent Kingery, San Antonio.
Painted Tree | Psalm
One of the many art experiments from Laity Lodge. I painted a dead branch white, and then invited people to come over the course of the week and paint and weave threads and ribbons — their prayers and psalms — onto the branches. Photo © Topher Ayhart.