Righteous!

There's a local coffee shop on Main Street here in Mount Airy, MD and the owner and I have talked a little bit over the phone and online. She's really nice and really enthusiastic about art of any kind.

The deal with her is that she met my Mom in Wal-Mart (we're rednecks, don't judge) and they talked for a bit. She told her about my Dad building motorcycles and our friend Chris being an airbrush and pinstripe artist, then made sure to mention me and the whole drawing and painting thing. The owner of the coffee shop (Vintage Coffee) Michelle was really interested and got my Mom to tell us all about taking some pictures and emailing her about hanging up artwork in her shop.

After about a month of going back and forth and people's schedules getting hectic and topsy turvy, I finally got an appointment with her today and she took five paintings! YEAH I KNOW RIGHT?!

Haha, that made my day This weekend is Fall Fest too, so she's gonna put the artwork out on the street to try and A) bring people to the coffee shop and B) sell my junks and stuffs

I love that woman, it's the first time since high school that I've been able to display work in public and the first time EVER that I've been asked to sell! If you're in Maryland this weekend, send me a note or an email or something if you're interested in seeing all the local music and artwork from Mount Airy

WOOT WOOT!

New Tattoo

Not for me, but for someone else. Hope they like it, should get colored soon. Not sure whether to do full color or black & white though, that's up to the client :)

Saturday Morning Cartoons

I have a big problem with doing artwork, mainly that i like doing it but i can't wait to see it done. So in some cases I get a little impatient and give up, and in other cases I get into a weird manic mood and just work til its all done.

Today was one of the latter situations. There's a group on Deviant Art called "Battle Artist", which is kinda of an online jam format. Artist Jams in the past have generally been two artists on a stage in front of a crowd have the same theme but have to come up with their own interpretations, and based on a panel of judges or audience applause, a winner is decided. Battle Artist does the same thing, and you have one week for the kind of battle that I typically enter. So legally I can't make any money off this because I would be blatantly ripping off DC Comics, but hey, I like my Saturday morning cartoon characters :D here's what i had to do this week...

Finished a New Painting

So I finshed a real painting haha. It's been awhile since i"ve done one and it was more just to get back into the swing of it. But I'm gonna put it up on the Etsy Store tonight and hopefully someone will buy it :) I didn't base this off anything that belonged to me, it's based off the picture below it. A girl in Romania posts up pics of herself and this is one that is slightly more wholesome for the kids and whatnot, she's over on the deviantArt site, you can find her by looking up myBlueLight on dA or myBlueLight-Stock on dA

Zombie pic FINISHED!

I'm sure everybody knows this, but you can click the picture and it'll goto a full view page (should be 800 pixels wide by 1000-ish tall)



Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

So I stayed up for a bit last night and finished doing a few thngs like adding buildings, fire, clouds, a moon, drawing in a few gestural details, and removing the blue tape. I really like how this thing came out and the vignette is actually a lot lighter than you would normally see, but it's kinda cool, has a sort of foggy effect to it.

I'm really happy with this and can't wait to get it up all over the interwebs and see what kind of a response it gets, and the new owners of this little piece I think will be super happy with it, they're all into this sorta thing. So cross your fingers!

Don't Squeeze the Baby Sister's Head

i think i have been lazy the past few weeks not posting up as much new artwork as i did in the past few months. i dunno why, i figure that i've actually been kinda busy and trying to do some artwork for real and make some money off of it. so this past week i talk to the Draft Cycle guys about logos and artsy stuff to do for t-shirts and business cards, awesome... i sold a painting a week or so ago, bitchin'... and i'm finishing the zombie killer illustration for a little bit of dough this week, tubular... monday before work i'm going to a local coffee house and hopefully will be dropping off several paintings to be hung up for sale, potential righteousness :)

the zombie chick, black and white ink, has been gradually getting some color over the past few days and by sunday she'll be done and off to the new home with some friends. i don't wanna jump the gun and add pics just yet, so once it's done i'll post them up. i need to color the left-most arm completely and vignette the background in watercolor (pray... i don't normally do watercolor, especially not over top of, around, or even in the same room as the expensive colored pencils i had to buy).

the other thing i'm realizing is that the pricing that i have set up for these art projects is ridiculously low. i mean, everybody has got to start somewhere, so i figure i trade profit for making a reputation, and keep a few bucks here and there but it all goes back to buying materials anyhow... this is quite the conundrum. once i set a price for something i don't raise it or lower it, but i feel like somebody is gonna come across my etsy store and see something they want and not know why it costs more than the big fancy oil painting that they saw listed for half. ugh, art is silly at times, especially once money gets involved, BAH!

anyways, i'm tired and thinking way too much about things that i shouldn't worry about until they come up in real life. good news though is that i went to a comic book thing and two girls were walking around with their butts hanging out, high five :) haha



ps. bethany hates this picture, mwahahahaha :)