Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Easter Trauma Sketch Cards #2 & 3

Here are the next two sketch cards for the Easter Trauma set.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Easter Trauma Trading Cards

My newest limited card set takes aim at Easter.

There are 5 cards, each limited to 50 copies. The deluxe set, limited to the first 12 of those 50 sets, also features the wrapper, a piece of gum, and a color sketch. The backs feature sad little tales about various aspects of Easterville. This photo shows the sketch that accompanies set #1 of 12.


Thursday, March 18, 2010

Hearse Talk

I have been in the artistic doldrums of late. Nary an inspiration to be found. I guess that happens sometimes, but I hate it. Blah.

My Shiverbones compadre from the North has made something wonderful though... "Hearse Talk". Michael Bonfiglio shot & edited this, and came up with the grooving theme music. My old pal Halsey does the interview. Fun stuff, I can't wait to see episode 2!




Monday, March 8, 2010

New Art Bits


This is the prototype for my large jointed veggie-Cat. It's about 15" x 20", and has 5 points of movement. I thought the legs were to wonky, so I am redoing them before I go ahead with officially releasing the design. This prototype is on ebay this week, along with...

The Newest 4"x6" postcard painting. This is similar to the 4 Veggie People portrait paintings I did with this sort of border over the last year.



I started doing some sketch cards for "Spookshow Funnies" a week ago, here is what 4 of them looked like.





Finally, some of my sketch cards from the new Wacky Packages postcard sets are hitting ebay from various sellers, and they are selling for way more than I ever thought! All the sketch cards are doing well, I guess only having 50 by each artist isn't nearly enough.

ebay #200447504942 has the Klepto hand "Shawl Grab" it ends in an hour and is at $156, last night ebay #130372833860, the Klepto "Umbrella Grab" ended with a BIN of $125

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Mini Die Cut #4

Just finished this morning, here is the 4th in the series of mini die cuts. This measures about 7.75" tall and 25 copies will be produced, each embossed, signed & numbered.

Monday, March 1, 2010

My first Wacky Packages Painting!

I have a painting included in the newest Topps Wacky packages postcard set which just became available today. I loved these stickers as a kid, and still do as an adult :-) I have dreamed about being part of the history of Wacky Packages for as long as I can remember, so this is hugely exciting to me. Here is a scan of the original art before any pre-press work was done on it. The gag was written by Mark Parisi, I translated it into paint.



Each of the 5 artists in this set sketched 50 cards, and these are randomly included in the 250 Limited edition sets. At this point the limited sets are half gone after 2 hours of being available, so If you have any desire to go for a set with a sketch card, time is running out. The sets can be bought here: http://www.toppsonlinestore.com/servlet/the-545/2010-Wacky-Packages-Series/Detail