My Romantic Adventure #50

I had a great time at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment show this past weekend, even if it was thoroughly exhausting. I was able to go to Trader Vic's on Friday Night, one of my favorite places in the world. I even learned to dance the Hula on "Stage" and ended up in a dance off where I went a little nuts perhaps. :-) I met lots of great people, saw old friends, and even found this comic... perhaps the most disturbing Romance cover of all time - My Romantic Adventure #50.


The expression, the thought Balloons, the coloring, everything perfectly marries to produce a truly unforgettable piece of Romantic terror!


I listed a few ACEOs on ebay & etsy today, some I had posted here previously, and some newer ones like these:




I'll close out for now with one more great comic I picked up. I think the scariest thing about it may be his lip!

C2E2 This weekend!

If you are in Chicago, or attending the C2E2 show, I will be at the Pop Culture pin Trading Co. booth doing sketches & selling art all weekend. Come by and say hello!

More info:

http://www.c2e2.com/

"The Cheat"

Recently finished 16" x 20" oil on panel. The only guidance was "I want a bunch of your type of characters to be playing poker"; so here it is. PIcture is a bit wonky, but it's the best I could get of it.

Easter Trauma Sketch Cards #6, 7 & 8

Here are the next 3 sketch cards completed for the Limited Easter Trauma sets.

Evening Ride

I finished this piece today, the first Acrylic painting I have done in ages. It ended up being a lot of fun, I think I'll do some more acrylics! I wish the scan could show the luminosity of the glazes, but oh well. I am liking the idea of giant heads lately, not sure why....

Recent Work

Today I finished this 4" x 6" Halloween postcard painting and listed it on ebay. I call it "Grab!"



I also listed this 18" x 24" Oil on canvas which I finished in late November of 2009, this is called "Shame" and is the last in a series of work that was much darker in tone then previous pieces.



I will be a guest artist at the Pop Culture Trading Pins booth at the C2E2 Comic & media convention in Chicago on April 16-18. I am trying to get some extra work done to have with me there for sale. So far I have done 7 sketch cards. I am excited about the show, trhe Last Chicago convention was a blast, If you will be in town, stop by & say hello!

Easter Trauma Sketch Cards #2 & 3

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

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.

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!

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