80s Toy Show

My piece for the Autumn Society's 80s Toy show. 'Nuff said!

Ernie Gets Published Again

The book We Are Paper Toys was released earlier this month and there is a section on Cubeecraft featuring the Ernie Cubee I designed. Ernie from the Black Lagoon is an original character created by myself and friend Tyler Parsons.



The book has tons of paper toys by prominent papercraft artists, as well as a CD full of models for you to print and assemble.

FestivALL weekend

This weekend was a ton of fun. It was so nice to be able to take a break and see the end result of so many things I've worked hard on for the past month or so. The photo above is me being interviewed at the Buswater art show. The segment is going to air next Friday, and I'm not sure if I'll be able to bring myself to watch it. I'd much rather remember it as my friend Carrie has captured it here in her photo; me looking somewhat professional and viewers unable to hear all the goofy stuff I said, hah.



This was most of my stuff from the Buswater show. The print of my Billy Bob drawing got a lot of attention, five different people tried to buy it while I was there. Lesson for next time: bring a stack of prints!



Here is my letter being pulled in the art parade, which was a lot of fun to watch. I was told that Beeper himself might pull my letter which made me ecstatic, but he ended up having to stay with the WSAZ car. Oh well. I am still grateful to the young lady here that they forced to lug this hunk of wood down the road!



Here are all the letters on display together at the Capitol Market as several musicians performed.



This is the final version of the brick I designed. It's transferred, glazed, and ready to be installed in Washington Street with all the other artist's bricks. Hopefully they last hundreds of years! Photo by Mark Wolfe.



Here is the original drawing of my brick design being auctioned off in the sweltering heat on Saturday evening. Ted, the fabulous auctioneer, told us to "deal with it" if he started to melt, as drag queens and 94 degrees don't mix.

I sincerely want to thank everybody who thought of me and asked me to participate in these events, everybody who worked behind the scenes for the benefit of artists and the community, and all my friends who came out to see everything.

Tequila

This is it, the big one. I've been working on this piece forever and I finally put the finishing touches on today. It's my entry for Crazy 4 Cult, one of the most highly regarded pop culture art shows in the country. Soon I will be mailing it off to California, then reuniting with it when I head to the show next month.

Kim Pine Wallpaper

I haven't stopped being excited for the upcoming Scott Pilgrim movie. It's a good time to be a fan, since we've also got the final comic volume, a video game, and merchandise coming out soon. As far as I can tell the video game is only coming out on XBox 360 and PS3 via their download services, which is a bummer because I own neither of those systems. It's a 16-bit era brawler which is amazing, and really the only way to do the source material any justice. I hope we at least see a PC version, I need to play it somehow!

Anyway, here is a wallpaper version of the Kim Pine drawing I did a while back. I'm still getting comments trickling in from people who agreed with me that they made her way too frumpy for the movie.

Octorawk Shirt For Sale

I'm really happy with how this one turned out, I think the design looks right at home on a shirt. You can buy one here!

Streetworks Brick Project

I've had this finished for a little while, but since it's part of an event I wanted to make sure to reveal it at an appropriate time. It's my design for this year's Streetworks art project hosted by East End Main Street. The project features art that celebrates the east end of Charleston, WV. Last year we designed banners that hung all along Washington Street, and this year we designed bricks that will be permanently placed in the same street. The designs needed to be fairly simple considering that they're going on such small objects and will ultimately be a single color when applied.



I attended a press event for the project today, where local media came to watch and report as some of the artists transferred their designs onto the bricks. The transfer process wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it might be. I stole the image above from Mark Wolfe's Facebook page; a local graphic designer who also designed a brick and helps organize the project itself. You can see my piece in the photo as well as my friend Staci's, which is the one closest.

The original pieces of art used to make the transfers will be auctioned off this Saturday at 5:30 pm at Frütcake, located at 1599 Washington St. East.