Tim's Vermeer

Another great movie. It's a few years old, so I'm a little late to this party, but I just watched it and loved every second. Definitely watch it if you haven't seen it.

Edit to add a lecture by Philip Steadman, author of 'Vermeer's Camera' and professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Graduate Studies. Steadman plays a pivotal role in the development of Tim Jenison's theory about Vermeer. This lecture is nice follow-on to the movie, as he explains his own discoveries about Vermeer's work and also goes over Jenison's technique in detail.

Bringing the project along

Leaving it rough.

WIP still

Logo- Hopefully I'm done

Logo design. 

I like the spatter. If they don't like it, I turn off the layer. 

My first attempt was so bad it was criminal. 

Took about 3 hours and was complete crap.

Did the one above after FIRST google searching bakery logos. Duh.

Wanna see the bad one?

Of course you do.

Maybe I had to do this bad one first.

Not really my strength anyway.

This is a Gorham-Montag talent.

I won one

At the Sunday of the Comic Fest I got away from my job at Artist Alley (doing something important, really) to go down to the dealer room. On a low shelf behind a dealer's table I saw the book pictured above in its slipcase. I asked the dealer to look at it. He slid it out of its slipcase and looked at the back cover. Its list price was $100, so he offered it to me for $50. I whined that it was Valentines Day, and I will see tomorrow whether I have money enough after dinner tonight. He said he was only at the Fest for Sunday. I bought the book. I felt buyer's remorse. Dinner was on a credit card.

 Monday of the Fest I walked to the Market at the Town and Country to eat a personal pizza and look through my book. I was flipping and reading and became curious about the publish date. I looked at the title page and saw the disclaimer that this was a limited edition of 1200 and there was a 132 on an open line. AND there was a Jeffery Jones signature. I removed the personal pizza from the vicinity. Now I have a cool book I can't look at. A similar book here.

Ellis's Grammy-Caliber Performance

You guys absolutely HAVE TO listen to this one. It's Ellis at his most voluble. And hilarious. The "Rosemary's Baby" reenactment is priceless. Do yourself a favor: download it now and start to laffin'....

Better Than Fiction Podcast

New Opera Drawings: Tosca

Sad to think if the whole BlueSky/TAG crew were still in town we could all be doing these together. A night at the opera, if you will.

I liked drawing more of the conductor and orchestra.

It's fun until you want to gouge your eyes out

There is a lot of irony of me being the Artist Alley face of friendly authority.

A hungry Marty joined Eric at his table at Comic Fest.

Here I am enjoying the life lessons from a kid with a book at Artist Alley.

I thought comic art would be the last bastion of libertarians in the world of the arts. I was wrong.

WIP- Spiders

Top one will look like stone

Middle left will look like ice.

Bottom right will look like fire.

When will we move beyond the game cliches in fantasy art? 

I'm ready to make oatmeal. lint and pegboard creatures.

Kidding. I'm happy to do cliches. Easier to find reference for.

Now we shall see the PNG effect.

I was going to put shadows under them but I worry it would hurt the read.