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So here we go again….I will be showing my work at the Concord Arts Market in two days and what am I doing? Yes, you guessed it! Scrambling to get some new work done for the show. I don’t ever feel prepared, no matter how much work I have to take with me, and this particular show, I haven’t had time to prepare for as much as others due to web work.

But here it is, my thoughts on exactly what wearing a tie means to me……or perhaps just a whimsical piece. Either way it is another robot and I am excited about him. There are also a couple more pieces to come in the next two days, so be sure to check back…….

Until next time……Bahwidda bah dih dang dih dang diggy diggy

So I just finished my first piece in a long time that actually sports a human being in it. It feels pretty awesome, let me tell you. Who am I kidding? I just finished my first piece in a while anyway, say nothing of with a human being or not……I’ve been rocking out in my sketchbook, quite a bit and I am starting to feel a little better about presenting my art here….(new hampshire)

There is not a whole bunch of artists working in my genre here in the boonies……I’m sure a lot of you are saying “duh” to that. But either way here is my new piece…

So this piece has been kind of waiting to happen. Not only have I been having trouble painting in this state but I have really been at an impasse with style and subject matter as well. I am somewhere in between a career longing to do birds doing everything and feeling a little more urban…..and supporting urban style and tattoo culture and the like…so this is where I am going with that….

Also I just recently went to New York to see the stupid Mets…..who need to stop sucking in september……but meanwhile while waiting for the game in Flushing Meadows, I attacked my book a little bit and came up with these two guys trying to place a call. Perhaps they are trying to catch the bus they missed for migration or something…..that would be a cool way to take this…..or maybe they lost their purse, haven’t decided yet, but I am excited to be incorporating new bird ideas and multiple bird ideas…..

And this last sketch is for John Buck. May he keep thinking of Pork……

There is actually stuff going on now….so look back from time to time, I’ll be updating the beer van slowly but surely…….

Rock out with your Oktoberfest out!

At long last in my book, I got to paint a monster again….Oh yea, I love monsters! I didn’t realize how much I missed painting these guys until I made this piece. I cranked it out super quick, so into it…….

So I hope all of y’all like it, cuz if not I’ll be sorely disappointed. Kelly, the derby is for you. ‘Jaunty’ Somebody quick and grab a websters collegiate….

Also going up today, some randomness from my black book. I’m going to sculpt these bad boys. Bird totems for everybody. No really, everybody……

Actually that is probably a little bit of a lie, I’m going to try to work that out with my buddy reggie. he’s awesome…..check out his stuff www dot rm3 studios dot com……

I’ve never used so many ellipse in my life so I think it might be time to go. Besides I was so excited about painting this morning that I forgot to brush my teeth, so I gotta go……….

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So I’m listening to Girl Talk and chillin’ with Ivy who is presently waiting for me to leave my house and all that jazz but I started doing this and I am going to finish darn it……

This is my new series that I am trying to make into a robot totem pole…..the bird totem pole is soon to come as well. Too much time visiting museums in the northwest….

I’ve also started a project that was kind of a rip off of a project that Roger Demuth a professor at Syracuse had the class prior to mine do. Scan in a really tiny drawing and blow it up, print it and paint that. So I’ve been working on it and it’s starting to look really cool. the line seems way more expressive this way.

This is my newest sketch for the show next April. this show is going to be pretty rad. Everyone start getting your tickets to seattle……….

Seems like every time I end up blogging lately, it begins with “so it’s been a while” . This I can’t dispute this time either but nevertheless I’ve been busy and having a good time with everything.

There is some new stuff waiting in the wings, and everything will be coming to fruition within the next couple months. Perhaps there is a move in my near future and perhaps a new job, perhaps one of my business ventures is starting to fly. We’ll see what happens and once it seems more concrete I will let anyone who comes here to this blogspot know.

In the meantime……

Here is one of my first sketches for the Blue Bottle show next april. It’s kind of an ode to a paining I saw at http://www.rrobots.com/. This guys paintings are pretty rad. I thought his robot arms reaching would be better served looking after a bird though…..

This is a sketch for one of the first pieces in my “big show” I mentioned last blog posting. I’m going to be cutting out a bunch of these mini trees….I’m thinking they might represent seasonal changes as well, so there may be some with leaves and leaves changing color and buds as well……all in good time.

My parents are coming tomorrow….we’ll see when next I post….probably another well it’s been a while but……

So It’s been a pretty crazy two month period. TinCan Web Works has been taking off a little bit and that has cut into my time to paint a little bit, but I’ve finally started my first piece for the show at BlueBottle next April. Actually it is almost done so I will probably get that up in the next couple of days……no really, I’m for real this time.

I’ve also been applying to jobs in Canada lately. According to the points system that goes towards immigration all I need is a job offer from a company to score a 75. You need a 67 to get in. So that would be cool.

In the meantime I have been writing up a proposal for a huge show that I’m going to try to get a month residency to make. I think it’s time I bypass grad school and just perform some awesome DIY principles……

so here’s the first sketch for that show….

So I don’t have any paintings to put up today, or sketches for that matter, but I have a lot of stuff waiting to go up. I need to be able to put CS3 back on my computer though, so I’m waiting on the RAM that is coming in the mail… Wouldn’t it be cool if ram for a computer looked like a big mountain goat…….

Started to do a lot of tree drawings and started to carve some of those out of plywood. I don’t know where all of it is leading but I will keep everyone updated. On another note, my legs are sooooore. Started at the farmhouse and I think I may die there…..

see you soon with some images.

Mike

So I think this is going to be the first piece that I work up for the Blue Bottle, but I think I have to put another swooping bird in the foreground to balance out the one in the back, that and if I add another character it will be enough about the characters that the environment can be pretty much atmospheric which is highly preferable in these pieces. Nobody wants highly defined background in a painting that I do of a robot and a bird……

I most certainly thought this robot up after reading some more Asimov……..This research thing could really make the difference. Maybe Joe Glisson wasn’t full of crap after all……

I love this guy. You probably can’t see it but his name tag says Duncan…….Silly but come on, like the runner on the side of a Dunkin Donuts cup isn’t cheesy. I mean what runner in their right mind has a cup of coffee before they leave the house. All that would mean is that three miles in you would be double over some mesquite or something……

Yea this totally has a double meaning…..first off, I screw up enough in my sketchbook that I feel like I should have an oops monster. Just a little guy to say “hey, ya bonehead, this drawing really sucks all sorts of words that I can’t say cuz I’m a well behaved oops monster”. Secondly, you guessed it, I really, really, really t’d my lovely lady off tonight………oops shorry!

So I have a show at the Blue Bottle coming up, which is awesome, but I’m supposed to do robots and birds, and well I haven’t drawn any robots in months, so I’m trying to get back into it. I’ve been reading “I, Robot” and checking out some sci fi drawings and what not. I’m really trying to do a little more research on things. It seems to have helped me with the character of my birds so why not with the robots as well?

Here is one of my newer sketches of bird robot combo though. I’m leaning more towards large bubble looking robots….and am also pretty excited about the old robots on Mars in the second story in “I, Robot” with the saddles on their backs…kind of a cool concept….makes you wonder why they call him the master of science fiction….not really!

I’m not really into these guys eyes. I’m kind of thinking a C3P0 kind of thing…….but I sort of like the small circles too……….

For birds I’ve been really leaning towards Gold finches and Cuckoo birds. I love the crown on the Cuckoo bird and I can’t help thinking of the Cuckoo Pigeon sisters of “Odd Couple” fame when I’m drawing them.

Lastly today…here’s a little emo blast. Thinking about the show that I saw at the ICA in Boston. Can’t get the speaker images out of my head. Never could, but seeing this show just intensified that feeling.

Have to go. Beth just put Weird Al on. Something must be done……..

So I had to quit my job, because my boss was a complete tyrant and I was the only cook left

But on a better not, I sold a couple paintings at the Hive Gallery in LA, and I took a few more to concord to the Speakeasy Boutique and I have the details of my Blue Bottle Show ironed out a little bit.

So here’s a couple of pieces that I took to the Speakeasy Boutique:

Another bird and birdhouse piece. This one is entitled Goldfinch Jazz. I’m moving on to different birds and away from hip hop references. Can I make a death metal bird and bird house? Hmmmm….

I really like this guy. I think Puddle of Mud or something, but way cooler….

Look ma no headphones!!