If Looks Could Kill Art Boutique (Midway Mania)...

This is an image I did for the If Looks Could Kill Art Boutique in Art Central. The show centered on the Calgary Midway (for non-Calgarians that is the carnival that happens during Stampede time). Anyway, Jennifer, the gallery owner, was keen on focusing on the outlandish aspects associated with the Midway, thus my focus. Carnies. I am particularly happy with the 'Carnie' in the foreground.

Sculpting...

Okay, so I am part of a show coming up in July or August. The show is centered around vinyl toys -- these pre-designed figures that you add your own work to. Now, the vinyl toys in question for this show are called Bax Bears. As the figure is a bear I decided to try and recreate the Sean Connery character Sir August DeWinter for the 1998 film the Avengers. At one point in the movie the character and his lackies are seated around a table all dressed in bear costumes (Sir August removes his mask revealing his face during the meeting). The movie pretty much stuck to 60's camp which I am so very fond of. So far I have only sculpted Connery's head sans hair. I'm pretty happy with the likeness. I haven't done any sculpting since high school, so, needless to say, I am pretty jazzed that I could get a likeness at all.

Above is my Connery sculpt so far, compared to one of the half dozen pictures I have been using for reference.

More May/June 2008...

More of my favorites from May and June.

The amount of adult material I had to sift through to find the pictures of the naked ladies, man I'm still exhausted. REALLY exhausted. What?

May/June 2008 sketches...

I felt pretty guilty last summer having not drawn very much. This summer is a totally different story -- my sketchbook(s) has never filled up so fast.

I'm very fond of the paintings thus far. I need to schedule some more time to practice that.

I think I should find an additional muse, rather than solely focusing on the Adam West Batman. Nah!

The Weather Man...

the old 1966 Batman television series starring Adam West and Burt Ward has been a huge source of inspiration for me in my illustrative work. When I first saw the show around 1988 -- a year before Tim Burton's Batman was to be released -- I remember racing home everyday to watch it (much like children would have done back in the sixties, I assume).

Anyway, these images are of a "Super Villain" I created that I hope would have fit perfectly within that television utopia. The villain's name is the Weather Man, and if I had it my way the character would have been played by Robert Goulet.

I really liked The Weather Man's goons in the fourth piece. Their names: Celsius and Fahrenheit, respectively.