ACAC, L5P, Woo yay!

Things have persisted in being busy, dear readers!

The latest news down the pipe, fresh out the oven today actually, is from the good people at Fallen Arrows here in Atlanta. They are printing my drawing "L5P" on tshirts for the Little Five Fest this weekend. I will relay the details of their online purveyance to y'all as soon as such information becomes available. For now you can check out the shirt and accumulate shirtlust:

Drawn by hand... in the computer!!! (ﾟДﾟ) 

After finishing my submission for the Artadia award and writing a bomb-ass artist statement (read it here), I went to upload all my delicious visuals and words about those visuals and... gremlins. Gremlins everywhere, crawling out of my eyes even. However, the Artadia folks are awesome and with their help all gremlins were quickly stomped to a lifeless, albeit still-twitching, goo.

Also! I am super excited to say that my submission to the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center's "Day Job:Georgia" show was accepted! Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaah! My entry is, surprisingly, not immersed in my persistent pixel aesthetic. Instead, my submission consists of about a year's worth of drawings on drink cups as well as an accumulation of drawings found in my workplace which were left by customers and coworkers. Here's a sneaky peak just for you loyal readers of LE BLOG:

If you can imagine around 100 of these on a wall, that's pretty neat, right?

Right now, I'm wrapping up the submissions to the Japan Media Festival and getting my stuff together for the show in Sandersville during the Kaolin Festival. I'm pleased to say my animated collaboration with Aaron Keuter will be part of the Sandersville show this year! Just in case you can't attend, don't know what I'm talking about, or are simply impatient to see this at every opportunity (in which case, thank you!), here's what I'm referring to:

If things go as planned, it'll be showing on a television with headphones so no one gets unconsentingly, completely blown away by the music ;)

Of course, I cannot fail to remind readers that several of my newest pieces are available for purchase at Portland, Oregon's Benjamin Benjamin Gallery. You may find them on the gallery's online shop.

Did I mention I started a new job in the middle of all this? Pray for me, y'all...

Bael, mE.T.h, Benjamin Benjamin Gallery, and other various busy-ness

I've been mighty busy these last few months. First off, at the end of July I was able to go to New York for the second time this year/ever to see my collaboration with Aaron Keuter (Aaron's website) screen at the Animation Block Party Summerfest 2011!!! A lot of hot-linked text, I know, but check all of it out if you have a minute!

While I was in NYC I caught the excellent Lucian Freud memorial exhibit at the Met (I <3 the Met!) as well as Cory Arcangel's hilarious show at the Whitney and Ryan Trecartin's absolutely incredible show at MoMA PS1. A lot of hot-linked text, I know, but check all of it out if you have a minute!!

The past month of August was mainly spent working on a variety of things, first and foremost finishing, prepping, and shipping my work to the Benjamin Benjamin Gallery in Portland for their Wargames show. You can see my pieces from the show as well as purcha$e them on the gallery's online shop! I am very pleased to be a part of the show, especially since it's the premiere of my Memory Beach digital collages, which I worked on throughout the summer. They're looking mighty fine, I must say, and I hope the Portlanders are thoroughly enjoying them!

The next big task on my list was continuing work on my 2009 drawing "Bael":

2009 version

I decided to submit this piece in the drawing category for Utrecht's 3rd Annual Art Competition ("10048" and "CMY-Killa" were my submissions for painting and sculpture, respectively). I made several modifications and enhancements to the piece before submitting. I think the most noticable changes are the filling-in of the ground Bael stands on as well as the tinting of the cityscape behind Bael's crown. I was especially glad to force the edge on Bael's crown by tinting the city. I also removed his pupils because that's waaaaaay creepier.

Present condition (ongoing)
Ink wash and quill on unstretched canvas
69 x 55 inches

I also completed a commission I recieved via my etsy shop. A young lady in Florida contacted me about drawing up a custom meth-head E.T. shirt for her appearance at the 2011 Red Bull Flugtag. Her team is piloting a large grocery cart in this year's competition, so she wanted her meth-addicted E.T. riding a runaway grocery cart.

I was quite glad to oblige, but I learned one thing from the experience: grocery carts are hard as hell to draw.

Turned out pretty good, though!

I also put some items up for sale at the completely kick-ass Young Blood Gallery and Boutique! Several guns, knives, and some new and pretty nifty postcards! I also have some small realistic paintings up for sale at the Kibbee Gallery here in Atlanta; here's one of my favorites, a painting of a Polaroid landmaster:

Cheese!

At present, I'm working on a new shirt design for local Atlanta tshirt printers Fallen Arrows. It's a redux of a shirt I created for my now-defunct cafepress back in 2005. It involves ascetic gnomes, geisha, drawings from my childhood sketchbooks, and other things that make equal sense in the same drawing. After that, I'll be knocking out paintings and drawings for my submission to the Artadia competition! Then I'll be submitting work to the Japan Media Arts Festival the following week and taking artwork to my hometown for the 2nd annual Artists of Washington County Invitational Art Exhibit. And then I'll finally be back to my regular work routine. Oh wait, nevermind, I'll be stocking up for the holiday sales of guns and art. Hahaha yikes nevermind!

Busy busy busy, yeah? More soon!