Painting two more

This week's back-page comic ad for my website in the Twin City's own City Pages. Keep your eyes peeled!





I've been painting a lot more than I've ever had since high school. Actual painting, not digital painting. So there are some new ones that I've started tonight/yesterday. The top one is an eventual self-portrait of sorts, and the bottom one is inspired by an Isaac Asimov short-story, "The Last Question." There's a third canvas ready to go, but I'll wait a few before I start on that one, too.



I finished the Gorilla painting tonight. I've decided to title it: "iGorilla."



I don't know who made this image, but I get a real kick out of it. So whomever did this, salut!

TTYL!

Foot in the Door

Photos courtesy of Heather Buscho, 2010

My friends Heather, Jenny, and I met up for MIA's Foot In The Door opening night. It was crazy-crowded, but worth every second. We saw lots of beautiful and wonderful art from many many Minnesotans, and dug the scene.


Detail of my piece.

Aside from materials that could rot or attract vermin, the only rule of the show was that it had to fit in "The Curator" (see picture below), a foot cubed. There were a lot of flat pieces, and a lot of sculpture, and apparently, a lot of videos and film (I didn't see the filmed parts). In total? Probably about 4800 pieces. Maybe 5000. Not sure.


"The Curator," copyright image Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2010

On through June! Got to it, goddangit!

TTYL!

Block Prints and Foot in Mouth (I mean In The Door!)

This week's comic in the back page of City Pages, the Twin Cities most popular alt-weekly. Fun stuff!



My friend Heather asked me to teach her how to lino-block print, so I brought over my cutter and some linoleum, and we spent the evening working on art. This was one of the two prints I made.



I of course, have been using this Essdee Baren kit. It's pretty neat. Heather used the Speedball kit. Traditional and reliable, but doesn't include the neat baren with it!



The purpose was for her to make her valentine's day cards, so following suite, I made one of my own.



Minneapolis Institute of Art is putting on their once-every-ten-(10)-years show, called Foot In The Door. It was created to show off Minnesota Artists, and allow many to put on their resumes that they've had exhibition experience at a major metropolitan art museum. You read that first sentence right, it only happens every 10 years.



I didn't have time to take a proper scan or better photo, but this is my submission. Seeing as there's about 4500+ pieces going up this show, I figure giving you an idea of what it looks like will be helpful.

TTYL!

LEGO USSR 11

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, prolific Russian writer, was among the first to tell the world about the Gulags in Siberia. While speaking out against the USSR, he was not in favor of democracy as an alternative, as the Russian character is theoretically not suitable for Western-style republicanism. He died a few years ago.



Happy Halloween! Tomorrow, Nikki and I are going to a Halloween/Birthday party as Steam-Punk Pirates. I'll post pics soon after. Our costumes are pretty awesome.



Jp, his girlfriend Megan, and I've taken the plunge and bought studio space at the Steven's Square Center for the Arts, a Minneapolis arts organization. Rent's reasonable, distance not outrageous, and what I'm excited about is a space where if I get the floor a little messy, it won't be a big deal. I'm hoping to get back into painting and charcoal drawing!

TTYL!

Junkyard Empire cover

This is Citypages ad, week 2. The printing for this one was not top notch, so here it is all clean-like.

I've been deep in designing the cover for JE's ep cover. The difficulties has been wrangling opinion from 5 bandmates, plus their management. Don't get me wrong, they've been extremely helpful, and the project's been fun. But making sure all of them get the progress samples, on top of day jobs (and my part-time at J's) has been like olympic gymnastics.


(wrangling the typography)

So far, the process is almost done for the cover itself. As soon as that's done, I can go about designing the inside, cause by that point, the element style and colour are locked in.

Thursday is Mini-Comic-Con at MCAD. It'll be nice to see what the current crop is up to, and catch up with some alumni, professors, etc. I'm thinking of making a batch of Grover's Mom in book form to sell there.


(currently on my website: www.comicartiststeve.com!)

Friday I'm going to be at Macy's in downtown Minneapolis, for Macy's World Food and Artist Marketplace. I'll be giving demonstrations on mini-comics and comics in general. Should be pretty fun! On April 10 & 17, 11:30am - 1pm.