This is not the Banana you are looking for...

Banana-Wan

I met Charles Foltz (Obi-Wan) at this year's Emerald City Comic Con. He emailed me this pic with stumpyBanana. How awesome is that?!

Charles Foltz (Obi-Wan)

Banana-Wan

Charles made this AMAZING Jedi outfit for, who he calls, Banana-Wan. This made my day.

Solitaire Blitz!

SOLITAIRE BLITZ is the game we've been working on for the past year!
Check it out. It is terribly addictive and fun.
I LOVE our awesome team!

Ltd Gallery and Emerald City Comicon

I was invited to participate in a comic book inspired art show "MINT CONDITION" at the Ltd. Gallery + ECCC! They were nice enough to let me create a plush.

Ltd. Gallery
307 Pike Street
Seattke, WA 98122
Opening reception: Friday, March 30th.,  7-10pm

Here he is!

Ben!

Emerald City Comic Con 2012!

Emerald City Comic Con is this weekend, folks!
March 30-April 2
Washington State Convention Center

I will be in the Artist Alley, table P-26...along a row w/ my dear artist friends!
Here are a couple of samples of what I will have at my table:

Chewbacca + Walklman   |  Twin Peaks + cherry pie

boo

boo a video by stumpytown on Flickr.

Chewie finding more DEAD things in the snow.  (Twinkie the Kid)

Hoth Chewie!

...the snow finally arrived....

Retro Game Show!

What an amazing turnout we had last night!
THANK YOU to Rich Werner for making it happen.

Here are the pieces I contributed for the Retro Game show!

Q*Bert (I know.. I know, the 'nose'...)

Burger Time (basswood, polar fleece, acryla-gouache, seed beads and Shrinky Dinks)

Burger Time, Mr. Egg (polar fleece, wool felt, polyfill, cell-paints)

Burger Time, Mr. Hotdog (polar fleece, wool felt, polyfill, cell-paints)

RETRO GAME ART SHOW!

An art tribute show of old school video game favorites!

Piranha Shop

1022 first Avenue, Seattle

This Saturday, January 14th @ 8pm!

I made a Qbert Plush and Burger Time shadow box.

I will be posting my pics soon...

Hope to see you opening night!

MUPPET RAWK III

A group art tribute show where rock album covers and Muppets collide!
Piranha Shop
1022 first Avenue, Seattle
This Saturday, Oct. 15th @ 8pm!

My contribution: Beatles Revolver, Rapidiograph pen on Claybord.

STITCH WARS

Apologies for the lack of posts!

Bear and Bird Boutique and Gallery

I was invited to participate in a fantastic group plush show called STITCH WARS at Bear and Bird Boutique and Gallery in Florida! August 12-September 25.

"Koona t'chuta Solo?"

Here is my contribution. Greedo, made of polar fleece and wool felt.

Emerald City Comic Con 2011!

Hey Everybody!
The Emerald City Comic Con is a THREE DAY event this year!
March 4-6

I will be sharing a table with my bud Suzanne in the Artist Alley, K-13.
Dev will be to our left @ J-1, and a row of friends from PopCap will be to our right!
Look for the RED Table cloths - stop by if you can!

Merry Christmas from the Madans!

(soda can...for scale)   ;-)

Art Blocks for Ghana

Our friend Misael at PopCap involved us with a pretty cool project called Art Blocks for Ghana. It is a charity auction that will help build a children's home in Ghana next year.

This is my contribution. "HOME"

6"x6", Balsa wood, glass, cel paints and arcyla-gouache.

Here are a few in-progress images:

New Bento Box Lunches!

I made a new Edamame keychain Bento Lunch to go along with my Tempura Shrimp Bentos. (Thanks to LadySally for the custom order on Etsy!)  I'll be making more of these for next year's Emerald City Comic Con in March. Possibly, along with a Chicken Karaage Bento as well!)

PopCap Remastering Project

I really overextended myself these past couple of months, taking on too many commissions, pro-bono and personal projects.  So of course, when PopCap created a 'just for office fun'  "Remastering Project" (taking images found at local thrift stores and turning them into new pieces of art), I decided to participate.  We were given a couple of weeks to work on them, but as per usual, I worked on it for a few hours the night before the deadline. HA.

Here is the before and after:

 Colored pencils and Copic markers.

Smoke Break

Stumpy TaunTaun

I meant to post this a while back. This Stumpy-TaunTaun was made for our group PopCap Artshow at Two Bells Bar in Belltown. He's made of Faux fur & wool felt, mounted on a solid wood plaque.

PLUSH YOU 2010 SCHMANCY

Stumpy Yeti & Winthorpe from Accounting

These two are for this year's PLUSH YOU show @ Schmancy! 

Opening night is OCT. 8th at 5pm.

1923 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

Over 100 plush artists worldwide are participating, showing works at Schmancy, Fancy and Nancy. The show will be up for a month, so please check it out if you can't make it opening night!