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

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.

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

The Stars Conspire On Halloween

While coming up with ideas for the February limited Halloween postcard, I realized in 10 years I had not yet done a "Classic" witch flying on a broom postcard yet. I played around a bit & came up with this one. The original painting is far more aqua toned in the sky, but my scanner just could not pick it up. Here is an image of the Painting & the finished card front.

I blew up my website.

In the process of trying to restore all my broken links to the website I had to download the whole thing to my computer. This blew my bandwidth & it is temporarily unavailable. Hopefully it will be back up soon!

Sprawling Sculpture

This is a recent sculpture I did as a commission for a friend & collector in Canada. I was never able to get a good shot of this beast, it is a sprawling, spindly piece going off at odd angles and turns.I can't remember for sure now that I have mailed it, nut I believe it was about 18" Head to tail & 14" foot to head. Here we go, a series of terrible photos of one of my favorite sculptures. :-)

Good Times and Bad

My dear friend John Ward, owner of National Art & Hobby here in New Orleans tragically & suddenly passed away last weekend. I am trying to reconcile this and the huge hole his loss leaves in the city in general and our lives on a more personal level. A more giving, positive and selfless man I have never met.

John is pictured here standing next to me at the opening of my show at the Big Top Gallery last October.



I miss you, and hope all is at peace for you.

Crazy two weeks

The beginning of Mardi Gras, the Saints winning the 2 big games of the year and the resulting parade of nearly 1,000,000 people Last night, pshwew! Great time to be in New Orleans. Except of course for the temperatures lately. :-) I really shouldn't complain about lows in the 30's considering the snow pounding many of my friends are suffering through. Spring is coming, keep your eyes on the prize!

My production has been cut down dramatically for all of the above as well as a commercial project I am working on that has a tight deadline. It's pretty exciting to me & I can't wait to be able to share the news.

Today I noticed someone is selling one of my older postcard paintings on ebay. It was always one of my favorites, and am half tempted to buy it back! I think the price is about $25 less than I sold it for originally. It will be fun to see if it sells.





edit: It sold, I should have gone for it! :-(