Geeples.com

Finally got WordPress working. Took a week and a half, but I've got the new Geeples site close to how I think I want it. I'm colorizing the first issue, so look for that. The site is interactive, so hopefully folks'll spread the word and leave comments.

Empty The Frig & Coast City First Friday & The Classics Reimagined Show in Freeport

If you all are up in around Portland Friday, stop by The Art House for "Empty The Frig" show, where I have a small painting for sale. The Art House is at 61 Pleasant Street. Opening reception is 5-9.

I will ALSO miraculously be at Coast City Comics on Congress street, for a showcase of my work around the same time. How can he be in two places at once? Come by and find out!

Finally, the next day I will be at the Freeport library for the opening of the The Classics Reimagined show put on my the Maine Illustrator Collective, to which I belong (in case you don't know). I will have a painting there, too, and am in some pretty awesome company for this and the Empty The Frig show.

Be seeing you.

Under The Sea

I finished a small painting for the Empty The Frig show, sponsored by the Drawing Room. A return to some of the magical ladies I painted back in the 90's. I'm getting back into acrylic, and would like to do a bigger, more elaborate series. Need the time, though. The small details are done with Cretacolor AquaStic water-soluble oil Pastels over the acrylic.

Spooky Art Show is up

The Maine Illustrator Collective Spooky Art Show is now up at Kennebooks in Kennebunk. The opening was last night and I was too sick with the cold I caught in Maryland to go. It's got some great local talent represented. I (just) finished my painting for it... a moment from Bram Stoker's Dracula novel I don't think I've ever seen in a painting. 

iAllosaur is in iTunes!

Finally! Get iAllosaur for your iPhone, and find out what I've been doing most of the year.

After SPX

Got back from SPX yesterday. It wasn't too bad a trip, coming and going. I don't know the next time we'll do a convention again, but Sachi and I have the routine down. too early to tell if anything will grow from the seeds sown. Met some pretty cool people, and of course we tabled with the soon-to-be-famous Ben Bishop and the ultra-talented Meagan Anderson , who were nice enough to drive down our crap from Maine.

We were across from a monster-obsessed duo, half of which, Peter Lazarski, I talked to and traded books with toward the end. Nifty design work and a good eye. Susanne Baumann was to our right with her old-timy minis, and I got to talk to David Allan Duncan,  and picked up the first issue (he had at least 3 there) of his "The Moonshine Murders" chronicling the still unsolved murder of three teenage friends in Alabama in the '50s. Talked with Jason Turner, of True Loves fame, one of my favorite reads, and talked to Frank Reynoso, creator of some really fun, offbeat humor comics. 

The hotel, the Legacy, was nice-ish. The bed was comfortable and the water-pressure good, which is abut all you can ask. We did not stay where the convention was for economical reasons, but we were not too far away. Inside the convention hall it was an ICE-BOX, though... I looked over at Ben the second day, and his lips had turned blue. That was about the time Sachi and Meagan escaped to the Chevy Chase Mall to escape the smell of the nerd herd that surrounded the place. Whew! No more of that for a while!

The Spooky Art Show News Release

    

             

For Immediate Release

September 14, 2009

 

Contact: Maine Illustrator Collective

For Community Calendar, Book Notes, or Galleries & Exhibits as Appropriate.

 

An art exhibition titled “The MEIC's  Spooky Art Show” organized by The Maine Illustrators Collective will be on display at  Kennebooks, a  new  bookstore located in Kennebunk's Lower Village from 5pm October 2^nd  through Oct 31^st.   The Maine Illustrators' Collective (MEIC) is a four year old non-profit collective of professional  illustrators and designers meeting in Portland once a month to brain storm, critique new work, give support, share ideas, and offer advice on promoting each other's work. They also organize events, talks and shows.

The Spooky Art Show will feature paintings and original art based on classic horror novels, scary short stories and poems, and even local folklore. All participating MEIC artists are published or printed  illustrators with several of the participating book illustrators having award-winning books.

Kennebooks and The MEIC will be hosting an open “Halloween” costume  reception with “scary food” on Friday, Oct 2nd from 5 p.m. to 7:00 pm; the public is invited to attend. Costumes are encouraged with prizes to be given to the scariest and the most creative! Pumpkin carving demonstrations will be held on the bookstore's outdoor patio weather permitting.

Come see this frightful display, meet the dreadfully creative talent, and partake of spooky food while being serenaded by haunting melodies.

Art and prints will be available for purchase through the individual artists.

 

Exhibiting Artists:

Joel Zain Rivers- www.obioncomics.com

Nicole Fazio- www.nicolefazioillustration.com

Nancy Cooper Funk - www.nancycooperfunk.com

Judith Hunt   - www.huntjudith.com

Leticia Plate - www.leticiaplate.com

Michael Boardman - www.coyotees.com/illustration

Helen Stevens - www.helenstephens.com

Wade Zahares  - www.zahares.com

Benjamin Dixon - www.00120bc.blogspot.com

Mike Gorman -www.mikegorman.com

Steve Russell - http://mainearts.maine.gov/directory/listing.asp?ID=2675&name=Steve%20Russell

Ed Zelinsky

Robin Swennes - www.designchoc.com

Don Punchatz – a MEIC guest artist and award-winning Time magazine and bookcover illustrator

For further information contact the show coordinators or go to:

 

MEICwebsite:   http://www.maineillustratorscollective.org 

Blog:   http://mecollective.blogspot.com/

 

Kennebooks is a brand new, year round, full service store designed to serve residents and tourists alike who are living and traveling in this area of Maine. Located on Port Road in Kennebunk’s Lower Village, it’s a quick stroll from downtown Kennebunkport, on the way to all the beaches, and provides plenty of parking. With more than 11,000 books, Kennebooks also carries a variety of unique gifts for young and old — gifts that can be paired perfectly with a book, or stand alone. 

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Joel here, I am working on my peice for the show, an acrylic painting showing a key momemt in Bram Stoker's "Dracula," titled "Shut The Door!"

This is it in progress.