Goodbye blogspot

Hello,

I won't be updating this blogspot anymore - please follow http://nivbavarsky.tumblr.com/ to see my new work.

I love you,

Niv

DEADZONE

"Deadzone", gouache & ink on bristol, 19" x 24"

BIRTHDAY PARTY

RESUMING THE TRAIL

Here's some artwork for my good friend Franciscus' new album as Fennel - "Resuming the Trail". Check out the album here. It's real good.

In other news - I've been posting sketches more casually on my tumblr. Check it out! Follow me! Reblog everything into infinity!

ROYAL PORTRAIT

LAST DAY IN L.A.

POOL

PEOPLE I KNOW

Hello,
Here are some drawings of some people I know.

This is a portrait commission from Emerson Wahl, a Los Angeles-based percussionist.


Jill:


Natasha:


More soon.

Bye!

GRACE JONES (TEN PACES)

Here's a portrait of Grace Jones for Ten Pace's "80's sketch-a-thon" - based on a sketch by Celine Loup.

VIKING+BIRDY

SCURRED

BIG MOVES / THE STRANGER

Hey there internet,
How are you?



This is a poster for my friends Big Moves, a really great LA band.
Also:



My "Cartoons" drawing ended up on the cover of the Seattle Stranger! Thanks so much to the Stranger's AD, Aaron Huffman. It's great to be in the same issue as artists like James Chong, Ana Benaroya, Daniel Fishel, and others.

More soon!

A BUNCHA STUFF

Hey internet,
Here are some new things.



This image was created for the Desktop Wallpaper Project at The Fox is Black, an art/design blog run by Bobby Solomon. Bobby asked my friend Andy to round up some Baltimore artists to create wallpapers based on the discography of Animal Collective (who originally formed in Baltimore) - my album was "Here Comes the Indian", one of their harshest and weirdest.

Check out the wallpapers HERE - Some iphone versions for you:





Here's a painting of Annie Koyama's "Kickass Annie" logo - Koyama Press publishes a lot of really great stuff, like Michael Deforge's brilliant series "Lose" and Steve Wolfhard's "Cat Rackham Loses It". Seriously great comics.



And finally, a sketchbook spread drawn while listening to the new Shlohmo album "Bad Vibes" - it's real good.



Whew. Seeya!

NOBROW 6

I'm very excited to say that these images will be in the upcoming Nobrow anthology. Nobrow 6 focuses on "The Double"/Doppelgangers, and will be twice the size of their previous anthologies, expanded to include both comics and illustration. A lot of really great artists will be in there, and I am very happy to be participating. Thanks very, very much to Sam & Alex over at Nobrow.

Also a big thanks to Zach at Supersonic Electronic for featuring my work today!

High five, internet.
-Niv

TOMB

Some 3 am sh

GIRL

CARTOONS

Some cartoon experiments - I've been trying to simplify things.

DREAM DRAWING

Cats & cacti seem to have become a regular motif....

I have an interview up at The Artfuls - check it out here

Luchador

NO DAWGS

I'm living in Berkeley with some talented friends - Willem, Julia, Shannon & Babs. Some of us were goofing around on a restaurant's chalkboard the other day.