Howdy tharr y'all

 Hey y'all! So it has been WAY too long since I last posted. So here's some stuff. I've been super busy working, planning shows and helping Greg plan Dr. Sketchy's. The first one went well and the next one is in the works! I'll post more soon. That there is one of my pieces from the Cat Show. Around 14"x17" acrylic on gessoed plywood.

At Studio 364 we have a show this Friday, the Medical Illustration show.
Then, June 1st, we're hosting the Rock Show, complete with awesome music art, pinatas, beer, crazy costumes, and more! I have yet to figure out what I'm painting for that.

 This was a quick sketch from the first Dr. Sketchy's. The fabulous Nicole Malone was our model, and she posed amongst taxidermy, bones, and other dead things.

 I've been in a rut, which isn't news. But I've been re-teaching myself how to paint nice skin tones by studying the pinups of Elvgren. So, here's one.

 And here's another. That's the first one I did. All the notes are because I discovered that Yale offers open online courses for free. So I took one on Epidemics in Western Society since 1600s, which led me to getting the book And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts. It's about the epidemiological beginnings of AIDS and its social/political effects. I'm a couple hundred pages in, and it is damned fascinating. Now I'm taking a course on the Hebrew Bible (aka old testament) and MAN is it good, especially coming from an overly religious area where you were basically beat up if you didn't believe whatever out of context scripture someone was spitting at you.

Anyways, Yale. Highly recommended.

 Here's the rest of that spread, with a ball point scribble of Henrik Zetterberg from the Red Wings. Boo, playoffs. And another pinup. All Elvgren's, copied by me for learning purposes.

And here's my other piece from the Cat Show, which I posted previously. This and the other greaser cat piece are up for sale if you're interested. And I have $5 prints of this one. Done by the fine gents at HTB Press.

In the future, looks like I'm designing some posters for the next Dr. Sketchys, possibly some gig posters this summer, and some shirts for Rib Fest. Allons-y!

CAT SHOOOOW

Hello y'all!

Sorry bout lack of posts. Been super super busy with work and life and putting together another gallery show at our space in the Hungerford Building. The theme this time is the Cat Show, and it will be open first Friday, April 6th! aka, the end of this week.

I did two pieces for it, on big ol' pieces of plywood. Here's one of them! I'll post the other after the show. Otherwise, come to Studio 364 this friday at 6 pm and check it all out!!!

PS
If you have cat related work you wanna put in the show, there's still time! This Thursday is the absolute last night I'm taking any art. Just contact me and we'll figure something out!!!!

two paintings and a monster doodle.

here's a portrait of the beautiful Kyrie Chamberlain. She painted me in a valentine, and I said I'd paint her too. Acrylic, hour and a half.


and this is a BMW bike I painted on a bday card for my boyfriend. watercolour, pen/ink...

i'm still kinda crap at painting vehicles but slowly, i'm getting better.


I think this little guy is going to show up in the near future.... ;)

In other news, I'm hoping to throw together a show in our studio for First Friday in April, a lot like last year's Gun Show. More details to come.

staayyy tuned!

casey jones 1

kind of a quick Casey Jones paint. Hopefully I'll have time to dedicate to an actual illustration some day. But what a cool character. (teenage mutant ninja turtles, btw)

here's the super rough doodle i was fiddlin' with at work.

Datsyuk winking speedpaint

I think it took about an hour, somewhat over?

Oh well. Pavel Datsyuk, of the Red Wings, winking. Because he's disgustingly good. Cheeky bastard.

Ref image snagged off the twitter account @notpaveldatsyuk which is hilarious.

eh, could be better. Still pulling myself out of this art rut hole i've dug myself into.

paint mess

yay i'm beginning to paint stuff i'm sort of proud of again!

Trying to break a long art rut. Little by little, I'm getting there.
Acrylic, hour or so.
here's a SUPER loose warm up sketch/paint mess i did a week or so ago after I went shooting with some friends. That's my boyfriend shooting a Mosin. I fell in love with the AK-47.

I'm in a rut

I'm having an awful go of it lately. I can't seem to paint well at all right now. Nothing's going how I want it to. To say it's depressing and frustrating doesn't even begin to cover it.

Well, here's another struggling failure. I was trying to paint Gil Perreault. It's... not where I want it to be. But again, I figure I should post my failures as well as my successes.

I'm sorry. I'll try to get my ability back soon. I feel like a bird whose wings have been burnt off. or something else metaphorically horrible. I'm really disappointed and I don't know how to break out of it.