Christmas in the Country

I haven't been able to have a booth for a while but made time to head back to my hometown of Rensselaer for the Christmas in the Country Holiday Bazaar.   I'm doing caricatures and cartoons!   Been up to my ears in commission work so I haven't been able to do caricatures.  It's always good to work live, in front of people.  If you make a mistake it forces you to work your way out of it.  If you don't make a mistake, it makes you look like a master.  It's not nearly as cold here as the picture makes it look.  I just look good in that jacket. 
More commission work to come.  I'm just sworn to secrecy until the product is released.

Chuck

Fountain Square Art Fair

Themselves Fountain Square Art Fair coincides with Masterpiece in a day and I took part in both this year.  I went with Chris Ludden and his wife Ginger, who both do a web based comic at TheBrothersGrant.com.  And also mystic friend and cohort Matthew Barron.  All of them members of the Indy webcomics group.  We made a specialists 16 page mini-comic for the event consisting of two stories.  One by Chris and the other written by Matthew and drawn by me.  I also participated in masterpieces in a day. An event at fountain square that has you work an entire piece of art in public at fountain square. A great, fun event that I encourage any artist to do.  They have a visual art, writing, and music entry. 
 I included a photo of the piece I did for the event.  It's a poor photo, and I did want to do more with my painting but ran out of time.  It didn't win any prizes except to a lot of positive comments and it was invited back for the next first friday event at the wheeler arts gallery.  The day was amazing fun and I can't wait until next year.

Toned paper

Recently saw an artist do illustrations with a toned paper.  He would highlight the sillouettes with white chalk and really made his images pop.  Thought I'd try it out here, and although I was happy with the look I realized some mistakes with subject matter.  The mermaid is underwater,and I don't care how much product you put in your hair, it won't be that solid underwater, and she's already topless, why bother teasing that you'll pull your glove off?  Despite those I like the look and am going to try this out a lot more in the future.

No-Prize

As some may know, I am a member of Indy Webcomics Group.  We got out 100th member yesterday so in celebration I made this official no-prize.  Those who know, yup, its official.  Those who don't can google it.

Yoda!

I was away over the 4th of July and having a great time getting away and camping, but deep in the recesses of my mind I was eager to get back and get this Yoda painting done in time for the Comix Rock show. I found this old frame and knew a Jedi master had to be in it. I tried a new technique with laying all tones underneath and doing color washes over the surface of the dried tones. It worked out great. Left the final image a little darker than anticipated but overall it led to a colorful image that fit perfectly with the frame.

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Art and music showcase!

I'm a member of the Indy Webcomics Group (IWG) and we have an annual event known as Comix Rock.  This year I was put in charge of a lot of stuff.  I organized a mini-comic and contributed the cover along with a page and a pin-up.  I also designed and screenprinted their poster for the show.  Yeah!  The green glows in the dark too!  I have some color variants available at the show and am also hanging quite a bit of art at the show.  I had so much fun at last year's show and it was really what locked me in to being a part of IWG.  I'm really thankful they let me take on so much for this years show and i hope everyone who comes out has as good of an experiance as I did last year.  I already have ideas for next year and would love to make more posters but I think it would be better if as a group we gave more people the chance to experiance the difficulties and great discoveries of putting all these elements of a show together.

Proof I'm stupid (like you needed it)

I recently struck a deal and did illustration for someone's business card who worked at a printing press. I jumped on the chance to get some business cards of my own.  I asked them to print me like a hundred and I guess they liked my work enough to give me what looks like 1000.  Unfortunately I sent them the wrong blog information, but luckaly this was still available.  Sorry for the sparseness of this thing, but I don't doubt I can ramble on enough to fill it in no time.Probst.