Sunday, May 30, 2010

"Pickles, the drummer...

...doodly doodly doo."

Some doodles while waiting to leave work.

Crows1
Crows2

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Copic Marker Classes

Ya know how you put stuff somewhere, totally planning to take care of it later? Yeah.

Back in April, My awesome friend and flying monkey wrangler Colleen sent me off to get my Copic Marker certification so I could be her site's resident guru. It was pretty interesting and although I have been using markers since before there were Macs, I still learned a couple of things. I also got some epic markers and a couple of multiliners.

Anyway, nuff plugs. With no further dudes:

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Yeah, not too many male motifs to be found.

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Some doodles.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Sketches

I scanned some sketches I've been working on for CopicMarkerScrapbooking.com
This series is based on the Wizard of Oz

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The Cowardly Lion


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The Scarecrow

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Biennale

Okay, here's the short version:

About 7 years ago, I got an email invite to this event. It was an art festival in Florence, Italy called Biennale. Kinda like Basel Miami I'm assuming. Anyway, I didn't think a lot of it, especially since I really couldn't afford the $3000 entry fees, not to mention the travel expenses. I requested the full package anyway and received it a few days later. It was a pretty impressive packet of info, but, still relatively broke, I put it in my files.

Flash forward a few years to 2007. I'm working for Phoenix Art Group and someone mentions Biennale and I say something about getting an invite a while back. Chick about choked on her dried vegan seaweed. Apparently it's a really, really big deal and getting invited is too. I don't think she believed me, to be honest, and I couldn't find the info pack after all that time.

So I'm watching one of my favorite films; The Big Lebowski, and at the scene where The Dude has returned to Maude's place at her request and the "video artist, Knox Harrington" (David Thewliss) is there. Eventually Maude comes home and after a bit, the phone rings. Knox calls to Maude and says, "It's Sandra, about Biennale."

Every time I hear that I cringe, thinking of the big opportunity that I missed.

Jump to yesterday. I got my second invitation to the event!

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Yeah, still can't afford to go, but at least I have some time to raise the funds, right? Yeah. It's 2700 Euro to enter. That's about $3350 in real money. And again, doesn't include hotel or airfare. But still cool to get the invite!!

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Sneaker Art

I bought these high tops awhile ago. Decided they needed something.

First, I clean the toe of the shoe with some alcohol.
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Using a pencil, I roughed in what I wanted to draw before going in with a marker.
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Using a black Copic marker with the brush nib, I simply ink my design.
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If you make a mistake, Copic markers clean off easily with alcohol.
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The finished product!
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New Name, New Direction

So, it's been some time since I posted here and I figgered it was time to reboot this thing. Hence the new name and new focus. Where before the focus was art and art news in general, I'm going to use this blog more to both get my work out, but also as a motivator for myself. Inspiration is only half the issue. My biggest problem as an artist is motivation.

So stay tuned

Monday, May 10, 2010

Frank Frazetta

Sad news today. Epic fantasy artist Frank Frazetta died today. His most famous works graced the covers of Tarzan and Conan novels, as well as Molly Hatchet's first three albums.


Death Dealer