Spirals In Love Show: Monster Art & Clothing

Starting this Saturday, I will be having a show at Monster Art & Clothing (http://www.monsterartandclothing.com/). The opening is during the Ballard Art Walk from 6-9 pm on Saturday, November 12. I'll have original paintings, prints, and assorted art trinkets available for looking and buying. Even if you hate my art (it's OK, I understand), you should still come to the store because it's AMAZING and they have lots of great monster-related items.

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Better Every Day

This painting was a donation for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network's Purple Stride event this Sunday. This is my second year contributing a painting. This will probably be my last painting for a while, but I do have a handful of other paintings I need to get around to scanning or finishing that I will post as they are completed.




I also finished the painting I did as a Halloween gift for my son and uploaded a few versions because I was having fun playing with Photoshop.

Happy Halloween!

A Halloween gift for my son based on a drawing of his.

Reduced To Scribbling

I haven't drawn or painted in a while (or answered e-mail...), but I desperately needed five minutes today to draw some monsters. If you haven't played with Scribbler, I highly recommend it:

http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/scribblertoo/

The original (http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler) is fun too, but I prefer Scribbler Too.

Have Yourself, And Eat It Too

I'm A Beautiful Butterfly

Because Life Needs More Monsters

A friend sent me a link to some of Ben Heine's work (See one below and more here - http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.394490703615.169415.45292293615) and I couldn't wait to try it myself once I saw it.


It's difficult enough to match up drawing, paper, and real life, but it turns out it's even harder to work a camera into that mix and have everything line up. It was still a fun exercise, and despite getting really frustrated by the end I think I would like to try it again. I also need to find out if Heine cheats and just adds the hand holding the paper in Photoshop later, because that would be WAY easier.

Drawing water and being around water and listening to nothing but The Talking Heads for the last few days made me focus on Talking Heads' "Once In A Lifetime" which is about the meaning of life, so I'm including it here. I was going to complain about the linked video for Men Without Hats' "Safety Dance" having twice as many views and being about little more than moshing, then I watched it and smiled the whole time.

Eye Love You

I like to think of this new drawing of two cyclops each seeing something special in the other's eye as the spiritual successor to this very old drawing:
http://spiralsinlove.blogspot.com/2010/09/kiss.html

Call Us In Our Tiny Boats

My art was mentioned today on www.allthingscupcake.com because I am so beautiful. Or because I painted another cupcake. Right now the post is on the front page, but if you're slow you should be able to always find it at

http://www.allthingscupcake.com/2011/09/27/cupcake-dragon-art/.

Funny thing about this piece...it's one of the few I've done that ended up on paper exactly the way I saw it in my head. That almost never happens.

More Christmas Monsters Or Something Like That