Drawn and Disorderly Craft Beer and Art Market - 8/06/2016

This Saturday I will be set up at Urbnpop's Drawn and Disorderly Craft Beer and Art Market at Red Brick Brewing Company. Lots of great artists and music by Southern Ska Syndicate.  It's going from 1-5pm. Come on out for a great time!

https://www.facebook.com/events/304824339849401/

24 Hour Delivery Zine

I while back I submitted a drawing to the 24 Hour Delivery zine.  Chris Hamer (Urbnpop) puts it out and gives an idea/theme that artists have 24 hours to respond and it's compiled and printed.  The theme for this one was Wizard of Doom.  Here was my submission.

I thought it turned out well especially with the tight turnaround time.  Since it was a black & white zine with a short deadline I didn't bother to do any color.  I plan on going back and coloring it in and making a real print out of it.

Signed Lando Print

Someone recently bought one of my Lando / Colt45 prints and had Billy Dee Williams sign it.  He was nice enough to send me a photo of the signed print.  Here it is.  

"It works every time".

DragonCon American Sci-Fi Classics - New Work!

I am very happy to announce that I will be a featured artist in this years American Sci-Fi Classics track of DragonCon.  They commissioned some new work based on some of the movie anniversary panels and will have the artwork blown up on large paper hanging in the track room all weekend.  I have 11x17 sized prints available on my Etsy site.  Only a few more days to Con!  Can't wait! Hope you check out some of the panels.  I will have some artwork given out during a few panels including being an official sponsor of the Dirty Dirty Con Con Game Show on Saturday night hosted by Phantom Troublemaker.

Solo Art Show Fri 2/6 @ Diesel Fueling Station

I will have my 1st solo art show of 2015 this coming Friday (2/6) at the Diesel Fueling Station in Virginia Highlands.  It will start at 7pm and will have music provided by DJ Rev Andy.

I'll have paintings on the walls and I will be set up with prints and magnets.  Hope you can make it.  Should be a blast!  The paintings will stay up for about a month after the show.

Diesel Fueling Station
870 North Highland Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30306

New Work! Movies Edition

Here are 3 new-ish pieces in the high contrast style.

I'm working on some new ones and will post those when I'm done.

Cabbagetown Chomp & Stomp Saturday 11/2/2013

I will be in the artist market at the Cabbagetown Chomp and Stomp this coming weekend.  After a number of years in a row I missed last year.  I can't wait to come back!  Come on out and stop by. I will have a bunch of new stuff to show off.  If you want to get enough of the chili then make sure you get there early.  It always runs out.  Here is the Facebook Event page.

Hope to see you there!

Dragon*Con 2012

Dragon*Con 2012 was a blast. Even though I'm still in recovery mode, I can't wait for next year (and have already booked the hotel room).  Here are some of the things I saw/learned this year.

George Perez is the nicest/awesomest/best comic book artist in the world.  He is always very nice and seems to genuinely have a blast at the convention wandering the hotels and taking photos with fans.  On top of that he's one of the all time greatest comic book artists out there and I'm lucky to have gotten some convention sketches from him. 

Georges Jeanty is pretty great too.  I picked up a couple of his Buffy prints last year.

There was a great representation of Atlanta artists including Third Half Studios, UrbnPop, Derek Yaniger, Red Rocket Farm, and HC Warner.  

I ended up with Derek's Dragon*Con 2012 print below (image stolen from Needless Things' Dragon*Con writeup which is similar to this one only much better written). 

Re: I.C.E. Holiday Shopping Spectacular

Huge thanks to everyone that came out to the I.C.E. Holiday Shopping Spectacular this past weekend.  For those people I talked to about commissioned paintings or purchasing a painting at a later date, please send me an email. 

One of the best parts of participating in a show like this is checking out some of the great work of fellow artists.  Here are some of the great pieces I saw and/or brought home with me.

Third Half Studios

 

URBNPOP

Ravengirl

Yema-Yema

RLand

and an Atlantis take off of this

This was the last festival of the year for me.  Thanks to everyone that made it the best year yet!

 

New Painting - El Luchador!

Here's a new-ish painting I finished recently.  It's acrylic paint on a 16"x20" canvas.

 

I had it ready just in time for the EAV Strut a couple of weeks ago.  I had a few people stop and ask if I was channeling my inner Phantom Troublemaker.  Originally this was going to have the Mexican flag as the background.   After I painted it (from memory), I realized I had actually painted the  Hungarian flag.  Whoever ever heard of a Hungarian luchador?  So much for using visual references.  So I ended up using colors from the mask instead.  There is a line in red sharpie just under the wording that's got to have at least 6 coats of paint on it before I was able to cover it up.  The day after drawing the B! logo it occurred to me that I may have just invented the Big Lots logo.  Luckily I hadn't (visual references!).  I have another painting using the same character that I'm just about finished with.  It turned out pretty well and I'll post it as soon as it's done.

I'm Not the Only Artist in the Family

Here's a recent drawing by my 4 year old daughter who is a big fan of Star Wars.

After the 1st time watching Star Wars, she told me it was so pretty when Luke and Leia got married at the end.  After watching Empire Strikes Back, she told me it scared her when Darth Vader made Han Solo flat.  Due to our skipping of some of the scarier scenes, she still wonders what happens to "Obi-Nobi" and why he looks funny in Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.  She thinks the "chorm-stoopers" are not nice.  And recently she's been requesting to watch the one with the bears in it.

New Commissions - Day of the Dead Musicians

I just finished up a set of 4 commissioned paintings.  They were the day of the dead style musicians I painted a few years back.  You can see the originals hanging behind the bar of Dakota Blue and I have prints/magnets of them available too.  These are all acrylic paint on 16"x20" canvas. Huge thanks to the person that commissioned them. As always, if you're interested in a commissioned piece just let me know.

Our Valued Customers

Our Valued Customers is a great comics blog by Mr. Tim who depicts things said to or overheard by him while he works in a comic book store.  He's got a great cartoony style and the quotes are as funny/crazy as you would imagine.

Here are a some of my favorites:

  

During a conversation of a date gone bad his friend asked "Didn't you tell her that you had lightsaber replicas?" and he replied...

Adam Watson’s "Dr. Seuss does Star Wars"

If you haven't yet, check out Adam Watson's " "Dr. Seuss does Star Wars" series of drawings.  These are amazing. My favorites are the Jabba and Obi-Wan pieces.  Awesome stuff.

Distracted By Star Wars

The other day my post on my Star Wars found art was picked up and linked to by the fine folks over at Distracted By Star Wars.  The site is great.  It collects/posts all things Star Wars found on the net.  Go check it out and waste an hour or 2!

New Art!

One of my favorite things about participating in art shows is the opportunity of trading art with other artists. At this years Indie Craft Experience Holiday Shopping Spectacular I traded some of my art for this:

From Urbnpop

And from Cuz I Felt Like It