I love Morgan Blair. Pass it on.
Everything from her smudgy pencil marks to her hissing tiger drawings and animated gifs that are hurtful to the eyes (I bet she does it on purpose just to mess with you) - her work is the kind of work that lingers in your brain, forever and ever, and it's a problem.
A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, she is living and working in Brooklyn, NY and her interests include trees, legos and making art forever.
For her feature, we wanted to take full advantage of her ridiculous doodling skills - the kind of ridiculous that makes you envious. We asked her a few questions and she answered using her habitual tools - paper, pencil, pen and color.
Take a look around, fall in love with Morgan and her scratch 'n' sniff art. If the scent doesn't do you in, the art will.
Q: Age? Location? Do a self-portrait.
Q: What did you do last night?
Q: As a child, what did you want to be?
Q: Can you show us your favorite drawing that you've ever made?
Q: Grab your cell phone. Call someone (preferably on speaker) and talk to them for as long as it takes for you to doodle something. Show us that doodle.
Q: What influences you?
(Old VHS tapes with insane beginner-digital graphics.)
Q: Draw your mode of transportation (make/model and all the good stuff).
Q: What's your favorite thing/place on earth?
Q: Draw your workspace.
And that's not all, gang. Morgan took a break from her road trips and adventures to also share with us highlights of some of her more recent work and works-in-progress.
An illustration for Amelia's Magazine about a massive cooperative effort in copenhagen, explanation here.
Detail of in-progress cover for Shane Jones' next book.
My hand after air-brushing some plastic at Aurora Robson's studio where I've been working.
Detail of a house painting I'm either still working on or just finished.
Same, different house.
Detail from the in-progress stage of a painting I finished a month ago or so. It is a pyramid receding into a field of pixels.
Front cover of Small Black's EP.
Back cover.
Part of a wall I'm painting at a private residence in Soho.
Larger part of the same wall.
See more of Morgan Blair's work here!
Laura Alvarez (@Bigeyes) / 01/07/2010 @ 5:43pm /
Really nice and dynamic work. I like how she uses colors and shades.
Lisa Currie (@OPPY) / 01/07/2010 @ 9:02pm /
so cool. you can get lost in those shapes.
silav (@silav) / 01/08/2010 @ 2:44am /
remarkable...intense, playful, strange
Emily Whittaker (@MochiPan) / 01/08/2010 @ 3:06am /
Wow, very enjoyable work, to look at and I bet to do too! That was a weird sentence but I hope you know what I mean! I love the comment " painting I'm either still working on or just finished"... haha! I know how that feels. I love working on things which don't have a definite ending point and you can decide yourself when something is finished or not! Love the EP cover and the wall-painting too. It's great to have a medium you can use for lots of different projects. Off to look at your site now!
Emmi (@Emmio.) / 01/08/2010 @ 10:18am /
I wish there was a magazine that would interviews in this way.
Jamie Tao (@jamietao) / 01/08/2010 @ 10:50am /
You and me, both.
dias (@dias) / 01/08/2010 @ 2:50pm /
loving the wall project
SEZIO (@SEZIO) / 01/08/2010 @ 11:04pm /
Awesome Mining! Great feautre. Morgan has a tiger print for sale here - http://www.civvies.biz/sezio/home.php?cat=285
Gabrielle Lacroix Rioux (@Gabrielle Lari) / 01/09/2010 @ 6:40pm /
Lovely. The triangles are really trendy in graphic design and illustrations, they are everywhere.
Sharlene Maree Forde (@Shar) / 01/10/2010 @ 12:03am /
I love love love you Morgan Blair. I love the awesome mixture of messy/raw and precise line work, crazy colours with plain pencil and all the contasting hard and soft edges, Beautiful. Big ups.
Stephen Kissel (@stephenkissel) / 01/12/2010 @ 12:36am /
Whoa... love that wall! Really liking the Little Giants drawing that you mentioned was your favorite as well.
Sista (@Sista) / 01/12/2010 @ 5:26pm /
Great interview, really enjoyed the creative questions and answers.....keep up the good work!
(@) / 01/14/2010 @ 2:30am /
fabulous artwork!
in arsenic (@arsenicofago) / 01/15/2010 @ 9:23am /
awesome!!
Deborah Leigh (@birdonthehead) / 01/26/2010 @ 7:40am /
Great interview! Love the shoes!
lapin (@lapin) / 03/02/2010 @ 3:34am /
I'm still a big fan, and so glad to have a piece of you at home.
(@) / 05/06/2010 @ 9:09pm /
Wonderful picture. . . Manthap banget . . . T.O.P dah!! Numpang post.. kampusku : (Univ. Andalas) Fakultas : (Teknik) Jurusan : (Elektro)
Cecile Cinco (@ceefive) / 05/12/2010 @ 1:25am /
I think I'm getting inspiration :)
Nedra T Williams (@storm) / 05/28/2010 @ 4:58pm /
Like your work
Ashley David John (@ashley john) / 06/02/2010 @ 8:55am /
a lot of love for this :)
norma jean (@Leasiebabes) / 06/09/2010 @ 9:42pm /
i love all the bright colors! =)
Tiffany Nova (@runtiffanyrun) / 06/16/2010 @ 7:03pm /
all of these are wonderful
Tamia Baudouin (@Tamiouchka) / 07/27/2010 @ 1:49pm /
great !
Molly Janiszewski (@VVA1) / 07/27/2010 @ 1:49pm /
your work is crazy. amazing,
JC De Guzman (@JCDeguzman7) / 08/31/2010 @ 1:53am /
wow, you got the coolest doodle =)
adrix (@addrict) / 09/06/2010 @ 1:23pm /
loved!
Miranda Larkin (@elrando) / 04/05/2011 @ 9:42pm /
yesss! love the work of Morgan Blair
blueberry (@blueberry) / 04/14/2011 @ 2:00pm /
just straight amaaaaaaazzzzing
Sretan Bor (@Sretan BOR) / 06/06/2011 @ 12:05pm /
love the cover the EP
Gianne Alabaso (@ggiiaanneeee) / 07/26/2011 @ 5:54am /
It's all great!
Jennifer Rodgers (@redhenjen) / 08/22/2011 @ 11:41pm /
Very cool stuff. Like the interview questions...I am thinking of adding them to my back to school survey for my AP students.
Lorenzo Rangel (@353738) / 10/10/2011 @ 7:48am /
cool..:)
Marta Veludo (@Pony Trash) / 10/25/2011 @ 1:19pm /
just
Marta Veludo (@Pony Trash) / 10/25/2011 @ 1:20pm /
love it
Bianca Dominguez (@girlwithfangs) / 12/13/2011 @ 7:27am /
amazing.
Linda Scott (@BubbleWriter) / 01/19/2012 @ 2:15pm /
Truly wonderful geometrics and colours. Thanks for showing.
Tessa BX (@TessaBX) / 01/21/2012 @ 2:00pm /
i die
Linda Scott (@BubbleWriter) / 01/25/2012 @ 7:10am /
a....maze...ing
Philip Obando (@philipobando) / 02/17/2012 @ 2:34pm /
inspiring.
Alex Summers (@nzuriel88) / 03/23/2012 @ 3:29pm /
What a complex mind you have.. i love the triangular art. Brilliant!
Abraham (@Abe:)) / 05/04/2012 @ 6:13pm /
Great Stuff!
Rudolph Jackson (@rjackson) / 07/20/2012 @ 8:46am /
The retro-digital triangle patterns you make are incredible...I wish I understood color well enough to do that! Good luck with the new website, I'll keep an eye out for it.
Dean C. Graf (@DCGraf) / 08/12/2012 @ 4:38pm /
I especially like the combination of contour line with value added. The drawings are rich and engaging. Well done MB
Hernanda Aji (@Nanda) / 08/13/2012 @ 2:57am /
awesome!!!! cool
JESSICA MOORE (@KIDDYPOP1) / 10/10/2012 @ 4:38pm /
YOUR ART IS AMAZING! IT REMINDS ME OF THE ROLHAD DAH BOOKS. PERFECT!
ron kammer (@kammro) / 12/02/2012 @ 11:50pm /
Like your mode of transportation
Yaakov Yechial Winter (@yechiel) / 05/27/2015 @ 5:24pm /
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Mahee Ferlini (@Mahee Ferlini) / 09/24/2015 @ 12:26am /
Interesting interview and creative art work. Thanks for sharing!
Tammy Rinkwest (@TammyRinkwest) / 11/01/2015 @ 4:10pm /
Like the pencil and pen rough sketches! Check out my digital illustrations on my Behance account - http://www.behance.net/tammyrinkwest. Let me know what you think if you ever get round to it. Anyway, great work man!
Nabashis Dev Misra (@nabashisdevmisra) / 12/04/2015 @ 2:00pm /
Loved your work
Mst. Taposy Rabeya (@Taposy Rabeya) / 02/10/2016 @ 12:45am /
Wow!! I am literally watching agape. Breathtaking art! great inspiration,thank you so much for sharing.