Gallery 1988 is having a show opening January 13 with an Adult Swim theme. My favorite Adult Theme show is definitely The Venture Brothers, heck, I think it might be my favorite cartoon on right now. A fine show, full of fine characters. These are what I made (all acrylic on maple):

Hank Venture and Dean Venture, the titular characters themselves
Title: “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Dean”

Dr. Thaddeus “Rusty” Venture and Brock Samson
Title: “The Buddy System”

Henchmen 21 & 24
Title: “Tears of a Sea Cow”

Dr. Girlfriend and The Monarch
Title: “The Trial of the Monarch”

Keep an eye out for the show, the work is sure to be amazing.

I guess December is done, so this is not really topical anymore, but I participated in Ten Paces Mix Tape, where a few artists make an illustration inspired by a song. The song I got was PJ Harvey’s Down by the Water. This is what I made:

(Done in Painter)

So, these are late, but a month or two ago, I did a bunch of patterns for Paper Bicycle’s Daily Pattern Project. Here they all are collected for your enjoyment:

Topic: Storm

Topic: Luxury

Topic: Myth

Topic: Wild West

Topic: Paisley

Topic: Ring

Topic: Owls

Over the long weekend I had a chance to head over to the Paper Bicycle studio for a couple raucous nights of art making. I made one painting each night, no plan going in to either of them, just sat down and went with it. Good times.

Night One:

Night Two:

Wow, I realize I never posted anything about the Bill Murray art show I participated in at Gallery 1988 is LA.  Check out the show here (I think its still up at the gallery too): Link!

Now, for my Bill Murray, I decided not to reference any specific movie, but more just the fella himself. And what do I like as much as Mr. Murray? Painting wrinkles and folds. SO, I combined these two things I like, Bill and painting wrinkles and painted Bill with lots of wrinkles.

Delightful!

10×10 Acrylic on maple

I am participating this the Second Annual Bad Dads show at Spoke Art in San Francisco.

I made three paintings depiciting Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) from Rushmore, decked out in various ‘extra curicular’ garb.

All three are 5×7, acrylic on maple.

“Yankee Racers”

“Rushmore Beekeepers”

“Piper Cub Club”

I made some more art for Spoke Art’s Quentin V. Coen show, for an art festival in LA the other week.  Here is the work I made:

Raising Arizona

No Country for Old Men

True Grit

All acrylic on basswood, 5×7.

So, I am a little behind on posting.  See, I moved to Minneapolis, and all my computer stuff has been a bit tied up…  Good times I guess.

Anyway, I did another round of Ten Paces for the theme of Monsters, or in my case Ghosts. I made two, here they are:

and the other one

Check out all the work here.

Another week, another Ten Paces adventure.  This weeks topic: Musicians.

I got a sketch  from Rachel Dougherty of Mick Jagger for which I made this:

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And my sketch was of the Residents, check it out Here. Nick Iluzada did a sweet job finishing it.

And coincidentally, the Residents have covered a couple Rollingstones songs, so the whole trade made a weird sense. http://youtu.be/E_nwzeN-cdQ

Gallery 1988 is putting on a Classic Video Game show at their Venice location. (edit: Here is a link to all a the work: http://nineteeneightyeight.com/collections/old-school-video-game-show-originals)

I opted to draw inspiration from one of my favorite series of point and click adventure games: Monkey Island. And who is the best character in the game?! Murray probably, but second best is LeChuck, the Zombie Pirate.

Here is my take on him, based of the original game:

It is 8×10, acrylic on maple wood and titled: “LeChuck”

And it just occurred to me that’s nearly the same name as my Garbage Pail Kid, weird…

And for fun, LeChuck as he appeared in the game