Art For Change!

Hey Everybody! Man, it's been months since my last post - I need to to better on this, or no one will come visit me anymore. Sad days.

The latest: I am participating in a local group artshow called Art For Change, and happily, with a bunch of friends! The event asked 50 artists to donate a piece of work and 50 patrons to raise money towards the Barack Obama campaign! Our friend James also donated his time to DJ the event! NICE!



Here is what I donated. It's a clock made of layered, cut basswood & painted with acryla-gouche and cellpaints. I glued one of the wooden dollar bills to the second hand so it looks like it's flying around.

Thursday, August 21st from 7-9pm
1109 Elliott Avenue West, Seattle, WA
The event is an R.S.V.P/Invite only event, so if you are interested in attending, please email them!
http://www.artforchangeseattle.com/

Cheers!

Illustration Friday : Electricity

Hey Everybody!

This week's Illo topic stump'd me at first! My creative juices were bone dry....no images popped into my head at all. It took a while... BAH! I almost attempted to do a take on the 'lightning' guy from Big Trouble in Little China, but ended up doing this stumpydude getting zapped in an electric chair.

Here ya go! Krispy Kitty.

Illustration Friday : Seed

"This Starseed is No Good."

Skeletor was duped! Poor little guy is left holdin' a fake. HA!

A couple months ago, I tried to paint a similar piece for the Saturday Morning Cartoons show on this funky little wooden plaque, but it turned out way too dark and just plain poorly executed. Booo. What a waste of a nice piece of wood. I've been wanting to re-do the piece for some time, so happily, this week's Illo topic game me a boost - I decided to do it up digitally this time around... still dark, but hopefully not as crappy(?)

Hey... don't you think the voice of The Monarch from the Venture Bros. sounds vaguely like Skeletor? Is it just me?

Illustration Friday : Wrinkles

Hey Everybody!

I've been neglecting my blog (what's new), but a miracle happened and I actually did this week's Illo topic! Wrinkles! I have this sick facination with plastic surgery so I wanted to something along those lines. Ahhh, Botox! I originally started working on a generic wrinkled face, but it somehow morphed into Ben Grimm, The Thing. Okay, I know, he's not wrinkled, he's rock - which Dev gave me crap about. So, I made a new one, YODA! All plumped and juiced up.

Here ya go.



A couple folks asked to see the Ben Grimm version...
here he is! Yeah, it doesn't fit 'wrinkles' more like 'cracks' heh.

STUMPYFRIENDS!

Hey Everybody!

A BIG THANKS to everyone who was able to make it out to the OUCH MY EYE, Saturday Mornings group artshow last weekend! It was a really good turnout and man, there were a lot of cool pieces. If you can make it out, the show will be up for another week, from 7-9pm on weekdays only.

Lawrence took a bunch of pics from the show! Check them out HERE.

Here is my take on the SuperFriends! A few of you have asked... "Who the hell is that dude on the end at the far right?" That is Marvin - the SuperFriends era just prior to the addition of the Wonder Twins. I tried to make prints of this, but because it is a dimensional piece, it was a bit tricky, and ended up looking like crap. I'm going to try and find another means to get this going, so at some point, I will have some prints available at my Etsyshop. Cheers!

12"x8", acrylic-gouache and cellpaints on cut basswood, mounted to wood.

Saturday Morning Cartoons, Pt 2

Hey Everybody!
Apologies. I've been so very neglectful with Stumpytown & my blog these days. My attention has been completely focused on our 'baby' this past year. Ooooof! Clarification folks... 'Baby' as in LC. NO REAL BABY HERE. HA.

But, stayin' on target here...
We are participating in a group gallery show this Saturday called:
SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS (pt2)
20 artists' interpretations of their favorite cartoons of the 70's and 80's!
OUCH MY EYE GALLERY
1022 First Ave S
Opening night March1, 8pm

Hope to see you there!

...here they are...

My Homage to Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon for the Good vs. Evil show @ BLVD. I decided not to sell these pieces because for some silly reason, I grew attached to them - I think mostly because it has been months since I've painted, so it was hard to let them go. Sadly, I was pulled from the show and not allowed to hang because of that. Understandable. So, I guess I can show them here:

The Good Guys
Roper, LEE, Williams


The Bad Guys
Bolo, Mr. Han, Ohara
these pieces are around 15" x 6"
Cel paint and gouache on wood, cut out pieces are basswood.

GOOD vs. EVIL @ BLVD Gallery!

Mark you calendars! This Friday I am participating in a group art show called "Good vs. Evil". We were asked to create 2 pieces, One Good, One Evil. I created an homage to Bruce Lee and Mr. Han from Enter the Dragon... heh. I'll be posting the images shortly...

BLVD Gallery

2316 Second Avenue

Seattle, Wa 98121

6pm - 10pm.

HERE is a link to the gallery - Please come by if you are in the area! Thank you Jamie and Damion for putting this all together. I can't wait to see everyone's work. And here is a 'tsk tsk' to Dev. You know why.

MLK logo wins national award

Hey!

I want to congratulate Tony Gable of the Gable Design Group, my friend and past employer, for this recent Savvy Award from 3cMA (City, County Communications & Marketing Assoc.) Thank you again Tony for asking me to be a part of GDG again, and participate in the illustration/collaboration of this piece!

FYI: a lot of folks assume this change happened overnight. Most aren't aware that in 1986, that the King County Council renamed the county after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. It actually took the council 20 years to vote to change the county logo to his likeness.

PLUSH YOU BOOK!

Hi everybody!

I'm sorry for neglecting my Stumpytown blog. I've been super busy & my computer kinda was flakin' out on me. Okay, that is only half true... I also haven't done any new stumpy work as of late... but, a lot has happened in the past month, so I finally DO have a crap load of things and stuff to post so, let's get to started with this tasty bit shall we?

Super-Awesome Kristen Rask of Seattle's own Schmancy Toys landed a book deal - PLUSH YOU! Loveable Misfit Toys to Sew and Stuff. I got my contributer's copy a few weeks ago and it was so exciting to see Stumpytown plush published. YAY!

Also, a HUGE surprise last month, was an article in our local Seattle Times newspaper CLICK HERE! Stumpytown was featured in full color. 'Thank you Karen Gaudette! I don't know you, but thank you so much.' And, thank you Kristen Rask again of Schmancy! The book is now on sale at Amazon and Powell's books online!

Illustration Friday : Alphabets

Here is my take on this week's Illo topic, Alphabets.
"B 'see' D" HA!

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Hey Everybody... I've missed you.

As you can see, STUMPYTOWN will be UNDER CONSTRUCTION for some time yet.
A couple of weeks ago, my service provider Fuitadnet, had a computer malfunction and 2 of their hardrives crashed. They lost all of my data (No images, No html files, No backups.) What they told me was the recovery center 'couldn't retrieve anything'. Unbelievable. (I'll spare you the details of how I was feeling last week)
I switched service providers & got my stinkin' money back.

Luckily, I managed to find an old .index file in my Blogger Template page (Blogger has their act together) so I can slowly rebuild this. But, I had to (temporarily) delete all of my 'rollover' links for my sketchbook diaries, my past artshows and all my friend's links until I recreate all the fk'in buttons, .html page layout files and upload any images I have left on my HD.

Good times.

Illustration Friday : Suit

Hey there... this week's Illo Friday topic: SUIT, so here is my take of Miles in his DUNE stillsuit... catchin' worms.

...hello again...

Hey everybody! I cannot believe it's been over a month since my last post - I'm usually pretty good about keeping up with posts, but I've been somewhat distracted and pre occupied @ my new job...
(and...I forgot my Blogger login usename and passwords. HA)
I've been modeling/textuing at L.C. (which I love, btw) and had some downtime yesterday night, so I did this rough pass model of Miles. I still have to build the lower half of his body and put some textures on him - Dev suggested a while ago to put the 8-bit chicken on his t-shirt. Brilliant! ...and maybe down the road, I can pay gene to animate him... but I don't think I can afford him. BAH.

Happy Birthday Kim!

April 28th, was my sister's 40th birthday! "Happy Birthday Kim!" A couple of weeks ago, we had a surprise party for her (Christy, Gina and I spent a good 3 months in the planning) and it went out with a bang! Kim didn't suspect a thing. Whew! Christy baked a beautiful cake for Kim, and Gina made an amazing video b-day card for her. Heeey wait a minute...what the hell did I do? Anyways, a few pics from the night are HERE. (Kim is now in New York celebrating her birthday with Patrick! Yeeehaa!) I can't wait to hear about their trip when they get back in town. Cheers Kimie!

Illustration Friday: REMEMBER

I know... this is pretty geeky of me, but this is the FIRST thing that popped into my head for this week's Illo Topic: Remember
From one of my favorites, The Wrath of Khan: The Enterprise lost warp power and Spock sacrifices himself and enters the radiation chamber... but just before, mind melds with Bones (in this case, Miles) and says "Remember"...
(my other favorite thing: Dev does a good impression of Chekov "Botany Bay? Botany Bay! Ohhh Noh.")

A New Beginning...

Change is good. "I get to work with Dev again!!!" (can you hear me yelling?)
I start my new job at Loose Cannon Studios on Monday (along with boobie-man Genepool)! I'm super-excited for what's to come. SALUD! KAMPAI! CHEERS!

"Saturday Mornings" at Rocketworld!

Here is Dev, me, Augie and Patrick. Suzanne is M.I.A, as she is...nearly 8 months Preggers (congrats you fertile lady!)


I want to say a BIG THANK YOU to PATRICK MA of Rocket World for letting us have this show and being so supportive, and to everyone who made the effort to make it out for the opening reception. Augie's family made it out to see us from Gilroy and Dev's sister Athena from Canada! I was pleasantly surprised by the turn-out and relieved that the 4 of us didn't end up starring at one another the whole night, alone.

Half the time I forgot to take pictures, and half the pictures came out blurry, but I posted a few up on my FLICKR CLICK HERE. Also, Check out RocketWorld's CLICK HERE (I stole the pic of the 4 of us from Patrick's collection) I also added a new button in my "current shows" link section to the right - my Stumpytown contribution to this group show.


Augie Dev and I got 2 tables at this year's Alternative Press Expo - our 2nd time out - I can't tell you enough how inspiring it was. If you haven't attended, do yourself a favor and go next year. You won't regret it, it's definitely a 'boost' in your creative juice. Check out the few pics I have HERE.

SATURDAY MORNINGS April 20th 6-9pm

Okay people, this Friday, April 20th, we are in a group show called "Saturday Mornings" at Rocket World down in San Fransisco! It's the night before the Alternative Press Expo, so if you are in the area, please drop by and meet with us - the show is from 6pm-9pm, and it should be a good time.
Here is a sneak peak at my Twinkie the Kid "Shelf Life: 30yrs"

Email, don't fail me now

ACK.
Well... I'm having problems with my email, in a MAJOR way. How major you say? Well, le'ts just say I'm probably getting about 50% of the emails that have been sent to me (as Dev and my friends have made known to me), or I receive them days (so far, up to 5 days) after you've sent them to me! So, I'm trying to get the problem fixed (i.e. I may need to get a new service provider)I set up a TEMPORARY solution, so please CC or directly email me at stumpytrouble@hotmail.com

Sorry for the inconvenience... this will hopefully be fixed soon.