FINISHED PIECE GALLERY 1988!

 This is the finished piece for the Bad Robot Art Experience opening Friday April 26th.  Titled "Number Four Please Step Forward" 24"X7" on wood block.

BAD ROBOT SHOW PAINTING SNEAK PEEK 2!

Pretty much done.  Robot criminal line-up.  7" X 22" on board, actually the board is MDF (Medium Density Fiberboard) in a custom made frame.  Usually I have specific ideas about how big the frame should be so I'll make them myself.   Although I'm not opposed to buying the prefab boxes.

BAD ROBOT SHOW GALLERY 1988!

Gallery 1988 is having a Bad Robot Art Experience Show opening Friday April 26th.  I'll be contributing a painting for the show.

Here is a sneak peek of one third of the painting, big shocker it has robots in it!

I'll show more as it is finished, and hopefully see you at the show.

NEW LIMITED EDITION BLOCK PRINT!

The last block print I made for my "100 Robots Show at Gallery 1988" was such a satisfying hands on experience I'm designing a new block print poster.  Etchpop Labs really helps make it easy, they turn my black and white original art into a wood block ready to print.  Artists statements always make me a bit nuts when I'm asked to come up with one for myself.   In my opinion there's not a lot of deep thought behind my work, I just want to make funny ideas and do my best to translate them into some medium. 

As I was working on one of these I was writing down random thoughts, quotes and sentences.  It would be nice to just make bullet points instead of an entire cohesive paragraph.  Based on that dilemma  we have the statement robot print.  (Hopefully I will have a better title soon.)

 I'll be making around 30 or 40 hand made 8"X10" prints depending on how the print block quality holds up.  Then I'll write a statement on each T-shirt to make them all one of a kind.  As I roll along in the process more sneak peeks will be posted.

HB SHOW OPENING THIS SATURDAY!

Van Eaton Galleries is having a Hanna Barbera tribute show opening this Sat.  I'll be there on the early side so I hope to see you all there.  My piece is title: "The Future Is Not What I Expected"   (Rosie IRL)   9"X12"  Acrylic on wood block.   This would be the reality of a robot maid in my estimation, a bit rusty and not so clever.  

Here's the presale link.

WEIRD WAR TALES!

When I was a youngster I wasn't much into super heroes.  I even gave it some effort since many of my friends were into the various comic books I would ask them what they considered to be the best issues then I would take them home read and try to get excited... It never worked.  That said the comic books that really did work for me were Weird War Tales.  World War II was an endless fascination for me, and in the 70's there were tons of Army surplus stores where a kid could get a whole out fit for $1.50.  Weird War Tales was the combination of war fantasy mixed with ghost soldiers, haunted tanks and zombie Nazis.  An accurate history lesson.   It was one of those things that as an adult when I brought up WWT no one knew what I was talking about, I started to wonder if maybe a I was remembering things all wrong. 

Then after a google search I found the WWT Vol 1 from DC comics!  An anthology of many of the old books in one big volume. 

Amazing to see them again.  Maybe that's where I got my love of skulls.

BL!SS MAGAZINE!

 Bl!ss Magazine did a fun feature on me and my robot weirdness for their March issue. Nice job.  You can check it out on line or pick up a copy at an art gallery near you.  The picture was taken by Frolab.