Too Art 4 TV Too - Pics from the show

Hey! The show was a great time and (i think) a complete success! I met a couple of great artists there and got to see some old friends. The work was terrific and so was the turn out. Here's a taste of the show pics, if you'd like to see more go to my flickr photo set HERE


Full house - pretty awesome

Chris George - who helped me sand spackle a few days before the show - awesome work. I LOVE the Danger Club girls painting. Great sense of humour.



Jared Deal's work. A crowd pleaser. I'm loving the plush!


Hey - CORRECTION! I originally thought this piece was one of Dagan Moriarty's but turns out it is by a one Tim Shankweilers. Kano sent me that correction. Thanks so much for the heads up! It's a great piece.

:( - not sure who's these were but I really liked them.


Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you who showed up and showed support - xo

TOO ART 4 TV - MAY 4th!!!! (in case you forgot)

May 4th is THIS Friday Fools!@$%.

All the info is below and in the flyer below and a previous post AND on this website - www.myspace.com/tooart4tv or this website - http://bunnycutlet.com/exhibition.html
Stay Gold Gallery - Brooklyn NY 451 Grand St - 7-9pm, afterparty at BARCADE.

My Jersey Devil - Tillies paintings will be there plus TONs of other great stuff. BE THERE!!!

xo

MyPlasticHeart - Zlik Show!

Hello and thanks to the peeps who came the the ATTACK of the 19"Zliks SHOW!!! It was very fun and very crowded. Zliks wanna party too. You can see pics from the show HERE and on tons of blogs all over the place.

You can see pics of the Zlik I made called the Shaman HERE
andif you are interested in seeing the process from start to finish go HERE !

(all white with him parts stucked on...)



and you can BUY ZLIKS HERE !!!!

UPCOMING SHOWS

So either you're here by sheer accident or you've been spammed by me in the past 24 hours. Sorry for not updating the blog BEFORE doing the promotions - I've never been much good with the linear thinking...ANYWAY - here's a double dose, the flyers with the info again. Also below I've posted a sneak peek at my Zlik design for Friday April 20th at MyPlasticHeart. I'll post images of the whole thing after the opening - don't want to spoil the suprise!

The MyPlasticHeart store is an awesome little spot off of Houston in New York. It's VERY SMALL. For those of you who hope to attend be aware that it's a tiny space and that most of the room is for the Zliks!! If you suffer from a little claustrophobia, feel free to visit on a non-opening day! There's plenty of other great toys there to gawk at.

And here's the Zlik peek-a-boo....


and he comes with...da da DAAAAAA......GHOSTIEWERMS! plus lots of other fun stuff :)

Attack of the Zliks!!!

(update 03.29.07)

MORE sketches!! Still no real commitment to a design. Just making parts, We'll se what fits. Time is running out.....





(update 03.20.07)

Now for some sketch ideas and fabric scans!

First we have the Bigfoot/Yeti/Krampus of sorts. In this version I've left the face of the original Zliks pretty much unaltered. I'll create textures with paint and kneadatite as I build it. He's got 4 arms( 1 nub) and a peg-leg. He's eating and carrying some voodoo plushies. He's also got an exposed bottom. I am hoping to be able to make his fur body removable and planning to paint it's underneath with nudie goodness, all pink and stubbley. Below is a front, back, side sketch and some scans of possible fabrics.





Next sketch is the good ol' voodoo queen. I still love the concept of her and she definitely manipulates the original form of the Zlik more. The Zlik's eyes become buns in her hair, the tush becomes her bosom. Not sure I want to go this route since I already have several paintings and drawings of the queen, but she is SO much fun to make and recreate in different forms and mediums. I haven't purchased any supplies for this one as of yet so I've just included the drawings here....



HERE IT IS FOLKS!



(more picks on my flickr account - HERE)

This is what I'll be (pre)occupied with for the next month. I have some finishing touches to my Jersey Devil - Tillies paintings for the tooart4tv show but other than that it's Zliks, Zliks, and more Zliks I went materials shopping this past weekend at a HUGE fabric store and I'm looking forward to pimping out my Zlik. I'll be posting sketches and stages of development so if anyone is out there - stay tuned...

The show is a display of 20+ artists take on Andrew Bell's 19" Zliks. The opening is April 20th at MyPlasticHeart- 210 Forsyth NY NY check the flyer for info on what other artists will be participating.

Meet Cubes - HOT CURRY!

So part of what's been keeping me busy and off Mojizu and my blog was a little sewing project I picked up for Andrew Bell. Now I'm not putting all the blame on him but...well...otherwise I just have to blame myself and that gets a little depressing! Anyway, the product is about 50 plushy depictions or orange and yellow curry meat cubes - yay! I did a little photoshoot with the first 40 or so before I handed them off to Andrew. Sorry all these little guys are SOLD OUT! But I am working on a third set for Andrew which he might sell from his site www.creaturesinmyhead.com. So check it out! In the meantime enjoy these pics of cutie patootie plush meats...HERE

Gimme Shelter Show

Update 03.14.07

Here we go! I found some pics of my stoof on the wall (not that you cant just check out my previous post but this makes it more official) I've also posted some of the pics I took at the show on flickr for all to see :) Check HERE



(I tried to adjust this a little in ol' photoshop. The gallery was well lit for art, not so much for pics!)


So I'm finally posting again. Clearly I'm not terribly good at keeping this current but I'll do my best. The first post on here was about some works created on cardboard for a show called Gimme Shelter, meant to raise money through auction for homeless shelters.

There are pics posted on their site from the Brooklyn show - to see click HERE

Below are some of my own pics. Thanks to Andrew Bell for hanging my work so nicely and all together - aww.... Uhm except that I dont have pics of my own stuff hanging! I'll have to put that up (pretty embaressing.....)





Thank you Dan and Sonya and Ben (who is outta frame) for coming and showing your support!

Remeber these Water Towers?.....

I was taking a stab at painting the water tower designs from earlier. I might post these to Mojizu (it's been a loooooong while...) Or I might paint a background on it and submit it to the Small Works show this weekend - who knows! Anyway - here it is!


(Be sure to click me! I get bigger :)

Happy Holidays

Hi there! There used to be an animation up here for "Happy Holidays" - if you missed it and want to check it out click HERE

Jersey Devil - Tillie's Hodge Podge

(update 10.26.2006)

Embaressingly enough, it's been a month since my last post! Ack. Hopefully some of you out there are still stopping by. This is the second Jersey Devil-Tillie painting installment. For this one, I went with a black devil, since he is usually, by definition, the absence of everything good/light. The highlights on his skin are a forest green. I'm describing that because these photos of the painting are really, really weak. I used a nice gloss medium over the devil - makes him look thick and oily in person but it creates a terrible glare when trying to photograph it. In the details you'll see an orange glow on his face and body but that's not painted there - it's from the sunrise outside while I was photographing. I'll try to get more professional shots of it but for now just the angle shot of the whole piece was glare-free. Thanks for looking!

Details:









That's all for now. For those of you familiar with my Mojizu stuff - the ghostie worms are in this painting! Sans-ghosties and sans-eyeballs. Go figure :)

(update 9.26.2006)




I've started the painting for the first Jersey Devil sketch. It's about
20 X 20 acrylic on wood. I don't feel that it's finished but I defintely need to give my eyes a break from it. Instead I'll burden yours :)
(is it me or is the one of the worst quality photos ever? good thing i don't want to be a photographer when i grow up....)

(previous post)

So there's a debate about whether the weird vaudevillian grinning face and parted hair belong to Asbury Park, NJ or Coney Island, Brooklyn. I'm not really trying to say one way or the other. All I know is a while back I got commissioned to do a Jersey themed painting. They wanted to include the Jersey Devil and Tillie's face. So I got to it - I've never completed a painting for this but I hope to. I might try to submit to the bunnycutlet animator show who knows. I got kind of obsessed with the face as a mask so I sort of threw it on everybody, kids and devils alike. I also threw in pine trees and cones in some of the backgrounds. Most folks from Jersey and Pennsylvania and most people that have driven' the straight away to visit the Jersey shore are familiar with the Pine Barrens and the creepiest trees ever protected by the EPA - scrubby pines. Anyway I thought I'd post these sketches and hopefully someday the paintings.

Some random critters and Slugponies :)

I've been doodling these a lot during my boring daytime meetings so I though maybe I should post a few. Not sure where I'm going with these if anywhere but I'm considering doing some paintings of them and posting them to Mojizu. It's been ages since I've posted anything new there - for shame!

The Water Towers

I only have two of these so far and unfortunately I lost my mind for second and decided to watercolor all over one of my drawings. I believe I sufficiently destroyed the poor thing. I'm posting them both anyway. I like the concept. A friend went on a beach vacation down south and saw tons of water towers and they reminded him of my work. He sent me a bunch of photographs and I was inspired. I hope to get back to these more intently sometime soon.



(some details)





The UN-watercolored city towers



(a detail)

The ghosties obssession...

I'm sure it's noticeable that these little creepy ghosties have begun to take over my work. It started a little over a year ago. I won't get into to much mooshy gooshy personal detail but I was having break-up talk with someone and I kept talking about being haunted and how I felt that even little inanimate objects and items and street corners can seem haunted. Well since it's just snowballed and they are everywhere. They might be swirling in your wine glass, escaping from a cheeseburger, and so one. I found some older sketches of them and they certainly have changed over time. There are elements about the older sketches that I’m hoping to reassess and maybe reintroduce into the ghosties design. Some of which are more variations on expressions, teeth, and arms.