art, contests, and events.

Friday 25 October was the final showdown of Art vs. Art. This was my third year competing, but my first year making it into the top 32! It was a little disappointing that I didn't make it into the final 16, but it might be a good thing, considering the number of times the Wheel of Death landed on Instant Death.

This weekend is the 2009 Fall INDIEana Handicraft Exchange at the Harrison Center for the Arts. I will be a vendor this year! You'll be able to find me at booth #50, which will be in either Gallery 1 or perhaps the basement (the vendor map doesn't make it clear), wherever it is, I'll be across the aisle from A Squared Industries. The Exchange runs from 6pm - 9pm on Friday 2 October and 10am - 6pm on Saturday 3 October.
I'll have a few extra chairs at my booth, so stop by and hang out!

I'll post videos of destruction from Art vs. Art and photos of what I'm selling on Thursday!

Oh and I've been uploading art to flickr! Go check it out. I'm slowly getting a little better about taking photos and getting them up, but I'm still behind, hahah.

cornhole.

Ugh, I really prefer the term "bean bag toss," but more people are familiar with "corn hole." I did not build them, merely decorated them for one of my friends.

More photos on my flickr account!

madame pigeon.

I'm pretty bad at updating this, even worse at updating my flickr account, and virtualnao.com has yet to see any construction. Oh dear.

Classes have been keeping me busy and it will crazy until the end of the semester. Gallery show in August is off, since Gnosis had to close it's doors; however, I'm pursuing some other locations.

Something I was working on earlier today:

out with the old...

Made a new header. I think I'm managing to translate my normal drawing style better into solids. The background pattern was made by hand!

In other news, start keeping an eye on my flickr account. I upgraded to pro last month and have started posting things as I work on them. I will have a huge backlog of work to upload, but I will try to be diligent about it. As for virtualnao.com, I still have yet to figure out how to divide up my portfolio, so who knows when that will happen.

digital doodles.

can't sleep.

frankentits and scrimps.

electronic elephant.

I haven't touched a stylus in a long while. Drawn in Acorn. It's a nice simple graphics and photo editing application. Although, I just use it for making drawings.

(un)lucky - $200

I forgot to post photos of this diptych. It's from a few months back. $200 for sale at Gnosis.

Art vs. Art

Last Saturday was Art vs. Art. I actually finished the painting this time, unlike last year's entry. Last year I actually had a plan and knew exactly what I wanted to do, just ran out of time. This year I decided to just let it develop while I was working on it. Just started with the background and ended up with this finished product:


So now it's time to vote! Go here and look through the thumbnails for my painting (#362) to vote for it or someone else's. You can actually vote for the same painting three time or vote for three separate paintings with the same email address. However, you have to follow the link that in a confirmation email sent to your address for the vote to be official. Watch out, it might wind up in your spam box!

I'm hoping to make it into the top 32 and have someone buy the painting again. It would be nice to make it into the top 16, but I'd be kind of sad if the painting would wind up getting destroyed. This year I will actually be able to go to the showdown since I don't have to go to work anymore!

photoshop brushes

Another slow night at work with nothing left to do for the last hour or so...

I haven't experimented with the various brushes in Photoshop very much. In the past I would use them in backgrounds or as minor texture when coloring line work. And I was never compelled to emulate dry media. If I wanted to do an illustration that had the look and feel of charcoal, I would make a charcoal drawing.

It took a little while to find flow and opacity settings to my liking, but I think I will play with this more.