Art Dump- NYC

So, I went to NYC in October for my first art show there, which happened to by in the Coco MoCA gallery (that would be the Museum of Conan (O'Brien) Art).  It was funded by a promise of art, and the pieces I did there are below.

Macy's Day Parade

 Narwhal of Liberty

It's a Trap(tor)

It took me a total of 25 hours to do these. I would like to spend the rest of my life in big cities doing this kind of art. Not necessarily silly art, but architectural art, as that is my true artistic background.

Molly Raygun

I've been looking at steampunk stuff lately, and had a hankering to draw this a bit ago.  Enjoy.

DOUBLE BLOGS, ALL THE WAY!

Just letting you know that I started a second blog for being funny. Not that I plan on being unfunny other places now, but this new one is specifically for funny, and it has arts as well.

I'd like cheese on my entire family!

So far, it has absolutely nothing to do with either my family or cheese, but it wasn't going to anyway.

Check it out, if you are so inclined. =D

DA Contests

I am a member of Deviant Art.  As of late, I have actually been looking at the contests that are offered there.
Most recently there is this contest that I will be entering sponsored by Eve Online.
I entered a contest last month for Resident Evil (which can be viewed here - though I must warn it is a bit gory). Seems I didn't win, but these are great practice for me to do things that are not my normal subjects.
Always great to widen one's horizons... and put yourself in the running for prizes. ;)

Caspa

One of the cutest youtubers of the atheist crowd, ScouseCaspaXS. I painted her previously and then she got a new camera and I could tell that she had blue eyes, so I had to paint her again.  This one came out much better.

Pictured here with her baby rat. Really pleased with how this came out.  I love painting rodent eyes.

We don't need no stinkin' badges!

It's Cinco de Mayo. I am aware of that.  I am pretty good at recognizing holidays.
So last night, as I was going to sleep after reading Stephen King's Dark Tower - The Gunslinger, it occurred to me that I should do a "black velvet painting" to honor Cinco de Mayo and that it should be a gun slinging kinda of pinup.  And then, I shouted, as I often do, thanks to the movie UHF, "WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' BADGERS!" which startled my husband who was trying to sleep, and I was reminded of the movie "Treasure of Sierra Madre" and then I pictured something close to this painting in my mind.   I must also say that I was inspired by the black velvet world in the X-BOX video game, "Psychonauts" (which is an AWESOME game, all the way, but the end stage is freaking impossible. Like totally.. =[ ).

So here it is, STINKIN' BADGES!:

Look at it big, her face looks wonky all small like.

On Break

So I finished up about 21 of the pieces for the art gig that I am doing.  More are supposed to be coming in June. 
I have come to realize that my favorite way of paintings is kinda monochrome and expressionist.  I have done quite a few pieces this way, but while working on this project, I was tasked with the following portrait and man, I loved it.  It just emerged out of me.  Instead of sketching out the face first, I just started with blotches of color and built them up until the image was created. I feel like an "actual artist" when I work this way, whatever that means.  I'm just creating and not thinking about it... and more often than not, it works out, really well. So I give you the pre-production version of the portrait which now belongs to Disruptor Beam, LLC:

Migraine Art

I was trying to describe to my friends what my migraine aura looks like (I rarely get them but have gotten two in the past three days) and I thought it might just be easier to paint it. It is a quick sketch, but this is what I see when I close my eyes when I have an aura.  Of course, it moves and swims, so I can never look at it directly, but I always think of it as an Aboriginal lizard. Of course again, it is made of light so imagine this flashing and every triangle cycling a flash between the white, yellow, pink, and blue... there is clear in there too, with white outlines.  When my eyes are open, the lizard flashes and swims and blocks out whatever I am looking at.