Black Dynamite

Here's the latest. It's for G1988's Adult Swim group show this Friday. Artists were asked to pick a show from the Adult Swim catalog. This is based on the Black Dynamite cartoon that's coming out this year, which is a cartoon based on the movie. (Just in case you didn't know) Anyway, check into G1988's blog in a few days for updates and images from the show.

Title: Black Dynamite
Size: 18" x 18"
Medium: Acrylics and mixed media on wood

(Home) -Retro Game Night / (Away) -Adult Swim Group Show

Feliz Ano Nuevo muchachos! 2011 is over. Dump, reboot, and download that 2012 app. Time to start anew! Hope everyone had a great holiday vacation. Now that we've gotten over those hangovers, and broken those New Year's resolutions, let's get on with it already.

Some cool group shows coming up this year. I'll post the info for those as soon as I am allowed to. What I can talk about are these current January shows I'm trying to wrap up paintings for right now. Next week, G1988 on Melrose will host an Adult Swim group show. Also, the following day here in Seattle, there will be a retro video game group show at the Piranha Shop. Same gallery that hosted the Muppet Rawk show, in case you were wondering.

Anyway, I will post some art images for those shows as soon as I can. Hope to see some of you at the retro game night show. Until then, I'll leave you with this profound Joseph Campbell excerpt. I'm not one to usually post stuff like this, but I'd like to do more writing this year. If I don't put it out there, I won't hold myself to it. Joseph Campbell is a pretty good place to start, and I think these words ring true today more than ever. That being said, go out, be your own hero, and do something creative while you're at it. ‎


"The hero is somebody whom you can lean on and who is going to rescue you; he is also an ideal. To live the heroic life is to live the individual adventure, really. One of the problems today is that with the enormous transformations in the forms of our lives, the models for life don't exist for us. In a traditional society - the agriculturally based city - there were relatively few life roles, and the models were there; there was a hero for each life role. But look at the past twenty years and what has come along in the way of new life possibilities and requirements. The hero-as-model is one thing we lack, so each one has to be his own hero and follow the path that’s no-path. It's a very interesting situation." 
- Joseph Campbell (in conversation with Michael Toms), An Open Life, p. 109

After Hours at the Cantina

Here's the latest piece that was for last night's Star Wars show at Ltd Art Gallery. Right click in a new window to check out a bigger version.

Title: "After Hours at the Cantina"
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas
Size: 12" x 36"


Lots of great pieces in the show. One surprise at the show were some original  Ralph McQuarrie concept sketches (Scroll to the bottom to check those out). Great to see those in person.  Anyway, the show will be up for the month. Check it out if you're in the neighborhood. By the way , thanks for the old school Fett Memo. You are the f 'kin man. "Hey now!"

Star Wars Group Show!

I'll have a new piece in this Star Wars themed group show this Thursday in Seattle's newest venue for art, Ltd. Art Gallery. Last month's grand opening for this new gallery was off the hook (Do the kids still say that?) There were tons of great artists in that show and it was a blast to have a piece in Ltd's first opening. That being said, I can't wait to see what all the artists kick out for this show. As a wise muppet once said,  "Do, or do not. Etc., etc.."

I'll post some pics from my piece as soon as I can.

Hope to see you all there!

Rock the Terminal Group Show

Hanging some art in the Rock the Terminal group show this Saturday at the Art Not Terminal gallery. Over 45 artists in the group show. If you're in the neighborhood, stop on by. If you miss it, you can always check it out during the art walk on Dec. 15th. Get the deets here.

Pam in the Raw

Here are a few in progress shots of the Pam Grier paintings from this month's Lowbrow Candy Store show at Flatcolor. The two man show with Dave MacDowell will be up until the 27th of this month.

Tried to take a more straight forward approach with the Pam Grier likenesses. I usually sketch things out ahead of time before transferring a drawing to the canvas. I was messing around with the above Pam sketch after finding some good reference, and just started drawing right on the canvas. Felt pretty good about the likeness so I just kept going. You can see both of the finished pieces in this post.

 Anyway, those are most of the process shots I have that were decent enough to show. Will dig around and see if I have some more. In the meantime stay tuned for more updates on some local upcoming group shows for next month. One very cool group show takes place in a galaxy far far away......

*Just a side note about blogger that's frustrating. Maybe it's just me. If you want to see these pics in their original size, you can right click and open in a new tab. For whatever reason that option keeps disappearing in the new lightbox viewer. I won't complain too much about  it because this is all free, but the inconsistency is pretty annoying, among other things. Anywhoooo, enjoy!

Random Desk Shot/Bill Murray WIP

While looking for some Pam Grier process shots, I came across these pics. The last few months was pretty nutty with a quite a few shows overlapping. The shot below is an early in progress shot for a painting that was done for the Bill Murray Tribute show at G1988 which is currently up right now. 

Here's the art table breakdown from the shot above:

1. Muppet Rawk Show

2. Bill Murray Tribute Show G1988

3. Black SPY Mech from this month's Flatcolor show.

4. Garbage Pail Kids group show, G1988.

5. Beetle Queen from last year's Flatcolor show.

6. Visions of Adventure: N.C. Wyeth and the Brandywine Artists

7. Sly & the Family Stone

Anyway, still mentally down shifting from last week's show. Will post more when I get into the lower gears.