It's been nasty hot here on the North Carolina coast, but you get kind of used to it each year. If you don't stay out in it for very long, it's bearable.
I have finally finished my most requested dog breed, the Boston Terrier. I have also completed a Red Dachshund and a Black Pug, all of which are in the Etsy shop.
Continuing with the Masonite, and to satisfy my urge to get some dogs out whilst I continue creating new ones for my Fido Series, I created these new images based on some vintage dog illustrations.
One of the textures I found recently was the back of an old water-stained masonite clipboard. It was such a rich brown color, that I entered a little brown phase...
Back to work! Vacation was great, may post on that later.
Here's a new digital collage featuring one of my film can illustrations you may have seen before. It's in the Etsy store.
Odd choice of words I guess, but I'm gonna be taking a week off starting July 28th. This is my first vacation since launching my Etsy shop, and I want to let folks know that I won't be here shipping orders during that time. I'm taking the family up the coast a bit for a week of kayaking, fishing, photo taking and general laziness. Hopefully some new art will get created as well. I'm hoping to get many new dogs done...
When I first created some collages that combined some of my roundbot images with some of my lunastrella images. I was working at a very small size. Because of that, I was unable to print those images very large.
I've got a new collage that's sort of inspired by pop art. It's pretty vivid mix of my own illustrations and a vintage illustration of a banjo.
July 23rd will be my one year "Etsyversary", so to celebrate, I am having a BOGO sale!
My fellow NC Etsian, Tracy Antonik over at PhotoGlassWorks, has put some of my bird collages on a couple of her necklaces. I think they look great, as her work always does.
Got some new critters in the Woodland Critters Series: The Disgruntled Skunk, and the Artful Raccoon.
I have been working on some digital collages utilizing vintage illustrations of birds and some of my urban texture photos. So far, there are 7, but I have more to complete. I decided to take liberties with the colors of the birds where I could.
It's not really clear to me how, when, and why I came up with this idea, but I was going through a phase where I was experimenting with seeing how many images I could come up with using a basic shape as the basis. In these images, I started with a basic head shape that I manipulated to resemble different animals.
I have been trying for about 13 years to come up with series of dogs, and things finally came together with these new images of a few Labradors and a Wire Fox Terrier. A Pug, Golden Retriever, and a Jack Russell Terrier are in the works, among others.
My oldest daughter is turning 5 soon with a rollerskating birthday party on the schedule. So once again my wife needing some art for one of the kids has helped me to create some new work. I added some new background colors to the series for this one, gray and pink.
I have been buried this week with a motion design project that wraps up today. I am excited to start on some new art soon, but not sure where I want to start. We need to prep for the summer season here in the gallery, so I need to generate some back stock/inventory.
I have opened up shop on Mintd.com and on lov.li. These are two sites that allow you to sell your art, so hopefully, that's what I am gonna do. I had the opportunity to join Etsy earlier in it's development than I actually did, so I am hoping to avoid that mistake in the future...
For the past 2 years, I have been experimenting with developing a new format for the delivery of art. One that would be so affordable that artists could easily give them away, and patrons would be willing to pass these small masterpieces along to others, all so that artists could gain exposure for their work.
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