Author: mightylark

It has been a couple weeks since my show has been sent out to Cali, and now I am feeling well rested and ready to move onto the other projects that are waiting on my plate.

I am hanging in the Incredible Print Show at Artstream Studios. You can purchase my prints at Artstream’s online exhibition here. The online gallery at The Hive Gallery also has my work up. My paintings are #38-45. You can check them out here.

I have also started working on the Doodle off Competion. Which can be seen here. The image above is one of my drawings for the blog. The winner of the competition is the first to reach 150 drawings. I’m off to a slow start, but anyone who hits a hundred drawings makes the book and I think I can definitely still do that. It all has to be done by the 1st of June. Wish me luck.

I will have some more work up soon. I need to get going on my show for October.
Look back often.

Ciao,
Mike

I finished. Yesterday it did not seem possible, and now I really have to wonder how I was ever able to stay up all night trying to finish things. The only thing that I can come up with is youth, or maybe that I just didn’t care as much about the quality of my paints. I don’t really know now.

But here are two updated pieces and one which you have not seen at all.

“I Hear you Knockin’ “. Titled after Little Richard’s song. This one has come a long way since it began. Last night I just started trying to use my paint up on the surface and it started getting really thick, and before I knew it, I was just painting, and I wasn’t paying much attention to the subject anymore. This was a pleasure to work up.

“Initiation of the Young”. Not as much contrast in this piece as I might have liked, because I got a little carried away with the color. As it stands though, I’m pretty well satisfied with it.

“On my doorstep, Singing Sweet Songs”. Couldn’t help the Bob Marley reference, because as I was finishing this piece and looking out the window, Three little birds just popped in, stay puff marshmallow man style.

Hope everyone has an awesome day in the sun. Take care.
-Mike

Having trouble breaking out today. I’ve got one more show of birds and bird houses here, and the paintings are looking awesome. I’m amped on them, but mainly because I am pushing my color back to where it once was, (on the brighter side that is), and trying to be a little less anal with my brush strokes. I don’t want Murray Tinkleman finding me and telling me that I’ve already gotten constipated. FYI Tinkleman was one of my college professors, and he was awesome.

I’m making progress, but nothing is really done yet. This one is close, and is breaking up some of my stuffiness. Let me know the ol’ thoughts folks.

I’ve got three others that I am tag-teaming with this one. So expect more posts later today. We’re rolling British Bulldogs or Demolition style. Consider me Ax.

Peace
-Mike

I made it up for work after the long night of painting and I even had time to scan in the second piece that I have been working on for the Hive. I’ve been using color a little bit more unabashedly on this show. It feels very satisfactory to be using pinks and yellows. Back to the frosting paintings that my friends and I would talk about in college.

Here’s the newest. It needs a little bit more work, but not much I don’t think.

I’m also quite a fan of the bulls eye headphone look. Let me know what you think. I’ll be posting more very soon.

peace
-Mike

I got home from work tonight and started to tear up my panel. I don’t know what got into me. Maybe it is my deadline, which is fast approaching. I am not really sure. All I know is that after the Seattle trip I have zilch time to finish up this show, so I am so stoked that I had all of the drawings out on panel.

So today I finished one, and got almost there. Unfortunately, right now I’m exhausted and have only scanned in one of the two. I’ll try to drag myself out of bed tomorrow and scan the other. It’s in pieces, so not as simple as some. But until then here is the first one that I rocked out today.

I hope you like it. Definitely a little bolder than some of the stuff for Blue Bottle.

It’s titled “Up on the Roof”, though I was not listening to the Drifters during its creation. Rather a bit of symphonic metal from the Sword. Have a good one folks.

peace
-Mike

Today I threw together my first ever real digital painting of a drawing. Nothing complicated, just a little color on a sketch that I had put together the other day. Thought it actually came out pretty strong.

Going to Seattle for the week. Be back soon.

peace
Mike

Lately at work I have had quite the opportunity to sit around and do nothing, which as you well know turns into me drawing. Usually at work I start to get pretty elaborate with my sketches too. I think it is in response to the monotony of 18 cheeseburgers and nothing else, but recently I came up with some ideas involving robots and type.

I have been interested in type ever since I first started to pay attention to graffiti and concert posters a la the flat stock art scene. So when I started thinking about pairing robots with quotes that were quite obviously boiled down explanations of human philosophy, it gave me a chuckle and I had to start to bring it out a little.

Here’s the first. There are more to come.

Gotta go. Going to be late to my big day of not much.

peace
mike

Today seemed like a day that I wouldn’t achieve a thing. Turns out I ended up finishing the drawings for pretty much my entire feature coming up at the Hive Gallery.

I am supposed to build on the birds with headphones and bird house theme, which admittedly I have been reluctant to attack, but after a morning of relaxation, I was able to start banging out a couple drawings, and I just got on a roll. Without further ado:

Decided to show a little more close up view.

Thought I would show the passing of the torch from one older bird to a teenager. Kind of like a kid discovering punk rock from his older brother.

Decided to throw in a boom box instead of headphones in this one. Give it that nice eighties feel for all you crazy birds out there.

Another change of point of view. Hopefully it makes things a bit more interesting.

This one may well be my favorite. It didn’t look the best in my sketchbook, but on the panel it is starting to gain a very nice personality. Hope you folks enjoy the little preview. I’ll keep posting the new paintings as they pop out.

good night.
-Mike

Thought I would post the promo image for the Blue Bottle show. It is very exciting for me to see my work on the Blue Bottle site and on the card. It makes me feel pretty successful. On top of that, I have already sold a piece via the online show. So if you’re interested in some, you should stop over to their site and pick it up now.

You can access the online gallery here. Stop in and grab something. Thanks for your support throughout the making of the show. I will have images from the upcoming Hive feature soon as well. Take care.

peace
-Mike

I was instructed to make a piece with my Avatar in a heroic act, which I’ve already told you about. I finally managed to finish that piece up and sent it to California today.

Things have been crazy here. The shows are starting to just blend together now. It’s nice to be so busy, though economically it is difficult to tell how busy I am. I have a couple new pieces in the works for my Etsy page, which I’ll be posting in the next couple days and also I’m working on one of my first prints ever.

I have also just started working on my show for May at the Hive. I’ll have a couple scans of that up in the next couple days as well. For the time being, here is the piece I finished for this coming months group show:

I like it. Hope you do too. Keep checking for more stuff.

I’ll leave you with a Hank III line.
“Workin’ real hard ain’t hard to do, when you got you a lotta money coming to you. But I ain’t got a dime so I’ll just sit here. Even though I’m broke I got a six pack of beer.”

Have a wonderful friday. It’s beautiful.