PORTLAND, here we come!

A bunch of us are headin' down to Stumptown Comics Fest is this weekend! This is the first time for us to exhibit here - we were told not to miss this one from a few kickass folks down at A.P.E. earlier this year. If you are in the area, please stop by and visit us! Suzanne & I will be @ table 84, Dev & Augie @ table 85 and Edward & Paul @ 86.
Admission is $5 per day.
Friday: 4pm-8pm
Saturday: 10am-6pm

Illustration Friday : GHOST!

Holy crap! I cannot believe this weeks topic - so appropriate for Stumpytown. 'Why?' do you ask? Well, it just so happens I had an recent 'encounter'.
Last Saturday, Dev and I watched Star Trek, The Wrath of Khan, played a couple hours of LEGO StarWars and went to bed just after 3am. It must've been close to 5am when something woke me - I had a sinking feeling that someone was breaking into our house (I've been having this anxiety for the past couple of weeks) I started to open my eyes so I could put my mind at ease that no one was there (as I had done in the past) but this time when my eyes opened I saw a figure at the foot of our bed! A very tall, slender male, with muscular arms, sleeveless shirt, short light hair slightly leaning and looking down at us. I froze.
I couldn't move I couldn't speak and a flood of tingling energy rushed through my body as if I was fallling. I closed my eyes tight and kept repeating to myself "This isn't real, this is NOT real" I opened my eyes and he was gone.

All I could see were the 3 green lights from the tv/vcr on the wall. I looked to my side and Dev was sound asleep. Ahhhhh! My sister said I must've had a flashback of Khan (muscular arms, light hair) Hahaaaa! Still, it was very...creepy.

SPEED PAINTING

Ed started a few of us on a 1 hour "Speed Painting" exercise a couple times a week (with a given phrase) and boy, it's tough! Here are a few of my stumpy versions:

"An exposed to atomic radiation fakir leaps on an apocalyptic warrior in the fog."

"A Supersonic Shaolin monk decapitates an amphibian on a submarine"

"An ectoplasmic fish assembles a goblin in a lane."
Check out Edward's, Paul's, Gene's and Augie's on the Atomic Lead blog!

Wowee wow wow wow

HA! Okay, I know you are thinking, Huh, tomatoes.
But, maybe you'll understand because they were fresh-picked this morning - this gardening business is new to me and Dev, so to have something grow, survive... and be edible... well, I felt it was post worthy. Thanks MOM for the starter plants this summer!

Heeeey... these tomatoes make a decent "Miles" helmet!

Don't Forget TONIGHT!

Things from My Toy Box
Paul Whitehead [metalpig]
Fresh Flours Cafe, Phinney Ridge
7pm-9pm

Plush You2
Schmancy, downtown Seattle
4pm-9pm

Its All Wood (if you're in Portland!)
Augie Pagan
Renowned Gallery
6 pm

Illustration Friday : Trouble!

These durn fish aren't going to take it anymore!
Aquaman... you are on your own, buddy.

Illustration Friday : Quiet...

Aw geez... the cloud he's sleeping on looks more like a 'foot', doesn't it...I tried another version of a cloud shaped like an ice cream sandwhich... because I LOVE ice cream sandwhiches...but it looked like crap (not that THIS looks any better) HA. Oh well.

PLUSH YOU 2!

Mark your calendar for Friday, Oct 6th
Opening Reception, 4:00pm - 9:00pm
Schmancy Gallery and Fancy + Pants
1932 + 1914 Second Ave, Seattle, WA



I've been lucky enough to particpate (100 Plush Artists contributed)
Check out the following LINKS:
Schmancy Toys
PlushYouBlog
PlushYouShowPics
PlushYou Flickr Group
NWSource article

Illustration Friday : Phobia!

I almost did Papaphobia because Fear of the Pope is pretty durn hilarious. But, I kinda felt like painting a garlic instead of the pope for some reason. So here ya go. Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic.
This illo isn't exactly how I imagined it in my head. Its a bit... confusing, but oh well. 'Why the hell does he have a sandwhich?' I don't know. He just does.
Oh, and its a BLT... if you were curious.

Illustration Friday : CHANGE!

"...NOT ENOUGH..."
I had a tough time thinkin' about this week's Illo topic...but last night, one of my favorite scenes of Harryhausen's Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger came to mind - when the queen transformed herself into a seagull to spy on Sinbad...but then ran out of her magic potion to fully change back. HA! Brilliant. Take a walk down memory lane and peek at Harryhausen's trailers HERE.

Illustration Friday : SAFE

Hey Everybody! BE SAFE, KIDS.

Illustration Friday : RUN!

"...ACK! Bees!"
I know... I am lame... I'm posting another piece from the FreshFlours show, but it fits the theme of the week. (I still can't figure out how I could make it so the bee will stay oriented in one direction for second hand...rightside up, upside down. BART! help me out here...)

Illustration Friday : Match

"...call the medic!"


Hey! Illo topic is Match, and luckily I have a couple pieces from our Tastes Like Chicken show to use... hope that isn't too lame. I don't have anything new at the moment...

More Stumpytown garment ideas...

8-bit chicken was just sent off to Porkchop screenprinters tonight. I'm messing around with a couple more ideas (above) and I'd love ANY feedback you might have for me. ...oh, I AM trying to look into the copyright issues for the chewie. I'm hoping it isn't a big deal because it is an 'interpretation' and I am only getting a few dozen printed. But I still don't want to get sued. ACK.

New Link : CHICKEN!

Hey All! I've added a link to my "Events" section called CHICKEN!
(I still have yet to take some shots of the plush)
For those of you who weren't able to join us for the opening last Friday, Tastes Like Chicken will be up until the end of Sept.
OH! And mark your calendar - our friend Paul will be having his kickass show @ Fresh Flours in October!

8-bit Chicken

Hey folks... so, it seems like it is time to get some new stumpytown tshirts made and I'd love to get some feedback from y'all. Please leave me a comment if you like this design or if you hate this design. Black shirts or Olive? I'd like to get these ready for either Bumbershoot w/ Bluebottleart or Stumptown Fest!

A big SHOUT OUT to all our friends and Family!

Thank you everyone for your support in joining Suzanne and I at FreshFlours this past Friday for TASTES LIKE CHICKEN! We had an awesome turn out and got to see a lot of folks we hadn't seen in a very long time. Thanks to Estuko and Kyung for letting us hang our work in their lovely cafe, to Athena for helping me sew stumpytown labels @ 4am and busting out all those chicken buttons for Suzanne and I, to Graig, Leslie and their boys for making the trip all the way down from Vancouver, Canada (so good to see you all!), and to Dev, the best husband in the world, thank you for your constant support, arranging the chickenesque mood music for the show and making sure the wine kept flowing. And last but not least, a big HUG to Suzanne. You did an awesome job, woman. I always love having artshows with you lady. YOU KICK ASS.

I didn't manage to take many pics from the show... I'm hoping to get a few from our friends who managed to snap some up and post them shorly. Thanks all!

Illustration Friday : Clean!

So... we had a small infestation of what I thought were fruit flies in our house this weekend. Turns out they are a type of carpenter ant. ACK! Even worse! A professional 'bug-guy' is coming out to the house tomorrow afternoon so, hopefully he will take care of the problem. So, in the meantime, we keep the vaccum close at hand to suck those little buggers up!

Art Opening: Tastes Like Chicken!

Click the image above to see our Flyer...
Please join Suzanne and I next Friday, August 11th at Fresh Flours
on Phinney Ridge for our art opening 7pm - 9pm.
Hope you all can make it out!

PlushYou2!

Hey everybody! WHEW! I finally finished my plushes last night for Schmancy's group plush show this fall called PlushYou2. Here's a 'shout out' to Dev for hand-delivering them there for me this afternoon.

I thought I'd share a few images with you!





Look familiar? These little dudes are based off of my Illo Friday painting, "SORRY" They are made of felt and polar fleece and about 9 inches tall.


...and last but not least.... "Lone Cone Without A Home"