Monster Puzzle

Look what just arrived in the mail.  These are the 100 piece monster puzzles just published by Mudpuppy.  Man, I’m really happy with how it turned out.  The collectible metal tin adds a great touch. The completed puzzle measures 18×12 inches.  Yes, I put it together.  It is just at the right diffuclty level for the 5 + year age range. I completed the art for the puzzle about a year ago so it is exciting to see the final product.  They won’t be available in stores until fall but you can get one now on Mudpuppy.com.

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The art work from past shows has been trickling in recently.  I have posted some for sale on my website. There are both paintings,  and drawings.  A great opprotunity get an original .

MORE STRANGE ART

Another piece of strange artwork.  It makes my brain hurt. The blue sure is pretty.

ILUSTRATION CUT-UP

What do you do with old illustrations? Sell them as stock? Print them out and make origami loafers for your cat? Or do you cut them up and make new art out of them? That’s what I did.

ACCIDENTAL FIGURATION

Over the past two weeks I have had a little time to devote to personal art.  These are two new pieces that have just been completed. Could this be the next evolution of my ongoing cluster flux art?  In the past the cluster flux work has been entirely line driven using only black and white.  These started out exactly the same way, interconnected lines, and patterns, placed in a minimalistic field that develop into clusters of visual information.  This time I was curious to see how they would look if I blocked in shapes with color.  I tried to keep everything as flat as possible with only small hints of dimensionality to try and minimize the association with the world of tangible objects. Even so, I still think that these fall in to the category of character based or figurative art. One more so than the other. In the end I guess they exist outside of the cluster flux series, as the cluster flux are pure abstractions. Either way they sure were fun to make.

NEW SLACKART ANIMATION

I recently finished the illustrations for this summers advertising campaign for Utahs Hogle Zoo. You can check out the   animated television ad on my Illoz page.  Once again the tremendously talented Kirsten Lepore made it all move.

MINI TRON-PHOTO GENIUS

I was sent this great photo from Zoltron.  It was taken by his 6 year old son.  The composition is excellent. Looks like Minitron takes after his Pop when it comes to making killer art.  Glad to see a Wax Pack perched on the curio shelf.

CRUDDY CREEPS: NEW MONSTER MERCHANDISE

Brought to life with a noxious waft of model glue vapor, then raised in a mildewed nest of shag carpet fibers, these creeps are cruddy to the core. This is the first release in my new series of monster merchandise.  The line consists of stickers, matchbook mini prints (probably the coolest thing I’ve done) and artist trading cards. You may remember a few months back I did a artist trading card for Letter Pressed. Well I liked the character so much he inspired a whole new creepy crew. You can pick them up in my web site store.

CONCRETE THING

Just finished this piece for Boy’s Life Magazine.  The article is about chemists at the Italian company Italcementi that have created TX Active, a building cement that eats smog. TX Active contains titanium dioxide, which dissolves dust and grime on surfaces. Tests show the cement can also reduce nitrogen oxide—a pollutant made by cars—by 60 percent. Plus, it can clean the air up to eight feet away.

Cementi!

Everything sounds better in Italian.

BIOMORPH BEGINNINGS.

SKETCH TUESDAY – APRIL 30

Last Tuesday was sketch Tuesday again at 111 Minna.  There were not as many people attending this time. It was right at the beginning of the swine flu hysteria so maybe people were panicked to be in public. Don’t people know beer kills the flu virus?

I went a little overboard and packed a bunch of materials.  BAD MOVE!  After a few false starts I ditched everything but the bristol and graphite.  I decide at that point I would only do one piece for the night, but I’d do it at a larger scale as opposed to last month when all my drawings were around two and three inches. I sketched out a biomorph and went to work on the shading.

A few hours and a couple of beers later I ended up with this thing in front of me. It looks kind of fluish. Maybe that is why it did not find a home that evening.

POP UP DRAWING 2

Just finished another 2.5 D Pop – Up drawing.  This fellow is free standing and is approximately 7 inches tall.  I added a pop up mouth on this one. I have a feeling I’ll keep going with these guys for awhile.  Next one will be in color instead of graphite on paper.