The Artwork of Mike Plaehn

Odell IPA

2011-10-17T09:32:00.003-06:00

Odell IPA - pen, gouache & Odell IPA on cardboard

Inspired by an excellent beer...

Sketches from book #16 / #17

2011-06-28T15:00:00.015-06:00

Some of these photos are poor quality because I lost the original photos I took (hdd died) & I had to extract lower quality versions from ones that I had uploaded to facebook (because extracting the old photos is much easier than re-photographing), so some of the photos don't look any better in high resolution due to .jpg distortion... I need re-photograph them and upload better quality versions later on - not sure when I will get to doing that...

Writing on my mind.

Road trip to SLC

Art History

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More Art History drawings...

Settlers

UMC (CU Boulder)

Airport

Hiking

Airplane

Airport

Outside Norlin (CU Boulder)

Norlin (CU Boulder)

misc.

continuous line drawing @ lunch(1 line)

Some work from 2011 & some sketches.

2011-06-28T14:54:00.002-06:00

Thinking Puma

WARNING AVALALANCHE

Some sketches from sketchbook #15

2011-01-17T12:13:00.015-07:00

Here are some poor quality photos taken w/ my laptops webcam of some recent sketches - sorry for the bad quality / fingers in photos. - could not find the charger for my digital camera, might take the time to use a scanner later for better quality (you can't see the hatching / line quality well in these photos)...

Cubist travels on Southwest airlines:

ARTH1400 lecture:

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Glass artist The Worm working on the torch:

Doug Sayers jamming on the guitar:
Drawings of "The Whitness", live music @ a bar in Seattle:

Sketch of my cat Jagger sleeping on my backpack.

Lightworks - R.I.P.

childhood cat

2010-12-02T23:41:00.000-07:00

I did a painting of one of my childhood cats, named Picasso, wearing a hat while I was visiting SLC, Utah.

2010-10-28T13:22:00.001-06:00

It's been a while since I've updated my blog...
I've been pretty artist-blocked this past year and have not finished many pieces, but here are a few works that I haven't posted up:

Campfire Jam, June 2010:

Untitled, November 2009:

Thumb study, sketchbook drawing:

Also this year I was one of two 1st place winners for ON3P Skis "worst topsheet ever contest" (they could not decide on only one winner out of all the entries, so they made two 1st place winners). Winning a pair of one-of-a-kind custom skis! (191cm ON3P Caylors).
My concept was Stephen Hawking skiing on ON3P '09 Caylors*, to be put onto a pair of ON3P '10 Caylors. My idea came to me the night before a 9am class, I ended up getting out of bed and working on the computer from around 12am till 4am in the morning to create the graphic.
The drawing in the graphic was intentionally drawn poorly. Here was my submission:

Here are pictures of them being made in the ON3P factory:

My skis on the right, next to the stock 191cm '10 Caylors:

Close up:

Thanks so much to ON3P Skis for hooking it up! & Thanks to Stephen Hawking for being a brilliant mind, and source of inspiration. Now I just I can't wait for the ski season, Mr. Hawking and I will be tearing up the white fluffy pow!

LET IT SNOW!

Recent sketches from Sketchbook #12

2010-03-17T22:27:00.004-06:00

I just took some photos of some pages in my sketchbook, it's night time so the photos are poor quality, I plan to use a scanner later for better pictures.

Click photos for higher resolution, because the photos are not the best quality & will be more clear @ higher res:

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Recent Paintings from the end of 2009

2010-01-04T01:22:00.001-07:00

Untitled, acrylic on canvas (2009) - this one's pretty big, currently hanging above my parents fireplace.

Lauren, acrylic on canvas (2009)

Green frogs jump HIGH, acrylic and oil paint marker on canvas (2009)

2 Kittens from memory, acrylic on canvas (2009)

Recent sketches from Sketchbook #11

2010-01-04T01:07:00.007-07:00

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A few of my favorite works that I did @ CU Boulder 08 & 09.

2010-01-04T00:42:00.001-07:00

Digital drawing I did on my friend Uday's tablet PC (2008)

Nude, ink on paper (2008)

Biz Field, acrylic on canvas (2009)

Untitled, acrylic on canvas (2009) - this one is big, not sure about the dimensions, but I think one of the dimensions was 72".

A big painting.

2010-01-04T00:04:00.000-07:00

Untitled, acrylic on canvas (2009)

A drawing from highschool

2010-01-03T23:48:00.000-07:00

Cast drawing, black & white charcoal on gray paper (2007)