New OZ Children's books in the works

Recently I've signed on to illustrate 2 books by Roger Baum who is the great grandson of Frank Baum who wrote the Wizard of Oz. The two books that I'm working on are Oz books and the first book is a Christmas story. The Christmas book should be available sometime this Nov/Dec. I've attached the cover illustration and a sample illustration that was done.

Dia de los Muertos painting and Saturday's Art-a-thon pics

Saturday's Art-a-thon was a big success raising almost $1900 for new studio spaces in the Art Factory 417. Don't know if I'll ever paint for 12 hours straight again into the wee hours of the morn but got to work beside many great Springfield artists. Above is the finished painting which I finished in 12 hours and will be displayed at the Lemon Drop gallery on Commercial for the 1st Friday Art Walk next month. Below are progress pics through the night that were taken by Meganne Rosen O'Neal

Burlesque Life Drawing - 07-06-2010

Tuesday night I ventured out of my safe and normally controlled environment and ventured into the realm of the Burlesque where ordinary women dress in outlandishly complex and seductive lingerie ensembles. For those of you who have not heard of or don't know what burlesque is here's a quick definition.

burlesque -

• a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease)
• spoof: make a parody of; "The students spoofed the teachers"
• parody: a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way

The first 2 sketches are 20 min drawings followed by a 10 minute drawing. Then the last 2 are quick 5 minute drawings. Planning on visiting again in 2 weeks to do more Burlesque drawings 

The model is from Springfield's Cherry Bomb Burlesque and the drawing session is every other Tuesday at  The Art Factory 417 located at 1303 W. College, Springfield, MO from 8 to 10pm. The cost is $7 at the door. 

 

 

Pastel portrait of girl and baby opossum

This is a commissioned portrait that I just finished using pastel. Been awhile since I used pastel and it had it's challenges. At the bottom of the post is the pastel drawing in stages before I reached the finished version.

Sorry for the lack of updates lately. Been very busy but basketball is over and I'm feeling very productive!

More Soon! 

 

Violin Girl Painting in Local Newspaper not once but twice!

Music paintings and Steve Nash painting on SALE

It's half time during the Phoenix Suns game and it's been awhile since I've posted anything on my blog. This May and June all Music paintings ( includes grunge) and the Steve Nash of the Phoenix Suns painting is 25% off.

Also am including a pic of the program that the Steve Nash painting was featured on for the Phoenix Suns game against the Utah Jazz on March 19th of this year

GO SUNS! GO SUNS! GO SUNS! GO SUNS! GO SUNS! GO SUNS!

New Project and SALE items for April - Alice in Wonderland and Grunge

Alice in Wonderland paintings are again on SALE for the month of April for 20% off. Also the Grunge Postcard set is also on SALE for $3.50. 

If you haven't got a postcard set yet better get one because this is the lowest price yet!


Also, just finished this tile sample for a painted tile mural that I'll hopefully be working on in the future. This tile took me 5 hours and the mural's are 3 x 3 ft and 3.5 x 4.5 feet. This project is going to be huge and time consuming.