A Good Hard Push...

WHEW! I had a VERY late start on my 2-page contribution for the Atomic Lead Comic but, I finally finished. And, luckily, it fits the Illustration Friday topic! YEEHA!

Links...uh...Sunday!

...come on everybody! Here we go!
[1]Dave Cooper. God, I love his stuff.
Here's a really cool step-by-step guide to one of his paintings.
[2] Etsy. Sell & buy all things handmade!
Checkout the "Newest" (BUY section) very cool interactive menu design.
[3] CartoonSaloon. Don't miss this!
[4] Sacks10. Oh my god. A Fat Albert art competition.
[5] Keiichi Ohta. Creepy-cool!

Kitty update: Still on the run...

LOST : PT2

LOST

...nearly done coloring ye old Stumpytown Vol.1. and sadly... this panel is so fitting. Our kitty is lost. I CRY! We haven't seen her since Saturday night. I called the local shelters and vet clinic. No luck. I'm pretty durn sure she's in heat, so hopefully she's just out there gettin sum...

Not so S-M-R-T

So, I thought I had the bright idea of painting a full color version of my Stumpytown Comic #1 for the Con. It is taking a VERY long time and I don't know if I'll be able to finish on time... we have 3 weeks until the Emerald City ComicCon and 1 week for the Atomic Lead comic deadline (which I haven't started yet) ACK. Hairball!

Links Sunday!

...i'm a couple days late...but that's ok

[1] House of Cool. Crazy cool art.
[2] Iam8bit. Just plain awesome.
[3] Automata. Love this stuff. Someday I'll make one stumpytown style...

Stumpytown

Dev took these pics while I was working on the last pieces for the 50\50 show... As you can see it is a complete disaster... but at least I can FINALLY say my studio is set up! YEEHA!

Power of the JUJI

So, other than 'spaz cat' and 'freak cat' we've been calling her Juji.
As in the Fruit. HA.

Thanks fer yer support!

Hey y'all!
A 'BIG thanks' for coming to the show! We had a good turn-out! 50\50 will be up for the rest of the month, so those of you who didn't make it out (and you know who you are) can drop by when you get a chance. I forgot to take pics that night, so I have only a few to post...and they are all blurry too. HA! Oh well, here you go...

Don't forget to drop by tonight!

The show is called 50 / 50. Fifty paintings in fifty days, 5x5.
Suzanne and I will be showing at All City Coffee in Georgetown for the month of March. Please stop by for the opening 7 - 9pm! Yeeha!

Links FRIDAY. YIPEE

...it's that time!
[1] MaryBlair. Love her love her love her. Dev found this for me!
[2] BeerMats. Very cool gallery show of beermats.
[3] Genepool. Gene's gallery show of beermats!
[4] BlueBunny. I'll list it again! Kim's blog!
[5] Yun Bai. 'Porn flower' collages from mag snips.
[6] Moleskin. A sketchbook exhibition in Japan...
[7] Fallen Rappers. Custom PEZ
[8] JessHutch. Cute crochet (do ya recognize DoubleFine's baby?!)
[9] RoseyGrier. Pam Grier's cousin...needlepoint for men.
[10] HerbRitts. I'd forgotten about him...but loved his work...
[11] Capsula. ECO burial capsule. Lovely.

Blue Bunny!

Hey Everybody!
My sister Kim joined the blogtrain!
Check out her uber-kickass site at BlueBunny. Yeeha!

100% Chance of Rain...

So, this weekend I was stumped. (ha! stump). I needed to bust out some paintings for the AllCity show and my mind was a blank... the rain wouldn't let up and I swear to god, I was ready to kill.
But then... KRACKA-POW!
The rain doodles came as heavy as the rain...

I still need to buy a chair for my studio area, so my makeshift workspace for the time being is...the counter next too the kitchen stove. At least my vodka OJ is close at hand...

The rain. How to paint rain...
I took a cheat route. I flooded the background with a dark green/black and carved out the rainy bits with a carving tool.

Illustration Friday

Illustration Friday: Glamour. HA HA HA!

Breakfast Tacos ala R.Rodriguez

I can't help it, I love the "10-min. cooking with Robert Rodriguez"
(as found on the kick-ass Sin City DVD)
...he starts off by tossing out the store bought tillas in the trash and proceeds to bust them out from scratch. I decided to give it a shot this morning. They didn't turn out half bad for my first try. But, I'll keep practicing.



2 c flour
1/2 t salt
1/2 t bpowder
1/4 c lard
3/4 c warm water

Well Hello Everybody!

...it's tough enough to keep up the posts on ONE blog...
so, why not....why not add ONE MORE! Yeah, not so S-M-R-T.
BUT... while I was searching for some tips on the Gocco (when I should've been painting) I came across this nifty craftblog. I couldn't resist.
Click HERE to go to my Stumpytown craftblog!
I'll add a link button, but I'm too tired now.

Art Night #2

Edward suggested submitting this for Illustration Friday...
so, I'll give it a shot!

I finally, made a dent and got 2 paintings semi-done for the AllCity show ...the cat dudes are cut out of thin balsa wood and then painted... I've been wanting to try this for some time now, but originally to make custom clock faces.

Suzanne and I estimated that we need to finish 1 painting a night to hit our March deadline for AllCity (does this mean I can take tomorrow night off?) It took a while to get warmed up, but I think I'm close to getting what I want for this show.

The night ended with a bit of Dane Cook. DAMN that guy is funny. I'm going to have to keep a lookout to see if he's comin' to town anytime soon...
Turned out to be a great art night with the boys. They were bustin' out some cool shit... it's always a good motivator to have killer art juice surrounding you.

The Gang

...I was digging through piles of my art crap and finally found my little fimo dudes. These are geez, a little over 10yrs old too. They are 2 inches long (the eyeglass lenses are Elmer's glue, colored w/ blue food coloring.) I was telling Joanna about them the other week - make sure you check out her cool sculpture @ vava when you have a chance.

Click HERE to see the full-figures...

WireWorks

...so this afternoon I came across these old wire sculptures I made some 10yrs ago. I was really into jewelry making and got caught up in this wire weaving stuff. All of these figures are about 1.5 inches tall.

It's LINKS FRIDAY AGAIN!

...it's that time!

[1] Radke. Very cool marionettes.
[2] SamWebber. Augie pointed me this direction. VERY cool.
[3] Parpan. Nice palettes!