Too Art for TV 4 / Eat World sneak preview

Attention world...if you're in Brooklyn this weekend you should go to the Too Art for TV 4 group show opening. I'm in the show again this year with two massive ink drawings inspired by my Eat World zine. Here's a preview of one of the pieces:

Twisted monster mayhem and carnage in an attractive gallery space. I'm super stoked.

Here's the show details from the Too Art for TV website:

Too Art for TV 4
New York's 4th Annual Fine Art Exhibit for the Animation Industry

Opening reception - Friday, September 18th, 6pm-9:30pm

September 18th, 2009 through October 17th, 2009
at Erebuni, 158 Roebling St. Williamsburg, NY 11211

Erebuni is proud to present Too Art for TV 4, the fourth annual fine art exhibit for the animation industry. Featuring new works by 37 artists; Too Art for TV 4 is the largest and most vibrant show in this exhibit's history.

Animation artists are pop culture wranglers with strong design skills and a love of whimsy. Their profession is collaborative by necessity; an animated production needs many skilled hands to come to life, but the individual gets lost. Too Art for TV provides an annual opportunity for animation’s creatives to strut their stuff, unencumbered.

Featuring the international interactive downloadables known as "Cubeecraft" by Christopher Beaumont, the striking and bold beard-paintings of Devin Clark, the larger-than-life obsessive drawings of Elliot Cowan, the spinning "cinetropes" of film artist Eric Dyer, the dry wit of Chris George’s acrylics, the bright and huge murals of Andrew Bell, plus a wide variety of paintings, sculptures, toys, and video art by many more.

Awesome thanks to Liz Artinian and the rest of the curators! I'm heading out tonight to help set up the show. Rock!

Daily Demon 50: Numgums

Do I dare pick this up again? I do. I'm feeling the need for some closure on some unresolved specters from my past... art specters haunting me.

As a matter of fact, I always feel like somebody's watching me... and I have no privacy...


Also, the Too Art For TV show went great! The turnout was amazing. After they ran out of beer there were still a ton of people at the show, so I figure it was genuinely enjoyable. I took some photos during the show:




You can see the rest here on Flickr: Too Art For TV 3

2A4TV paintings are done!

The paintings are done! Here are both of them.Painting 1...

Painting 2...And some process! I decided to do both paintings of skulls after finishing the first one. Instead of redrawing the first thumbnail I used a mirror to reflect the image to start with.
Pencil on canvas. Painting number 2 isn't a mirror copy of the first one. I changed the expression on the second painting. I wanted this one to look sad instead of angry. I wanted them to look interesting side by side or back to back, so a little bit of semi symmetry was o.k.

Pencils next to painting.
Monk figured out he could warm up by sitting in my chair next to the space heater. Warmth mooch!
The green and blue base colors. I was having a rough time getting the colors right on painting two. I was being lazy about mixing too much paint, so I tried working from the tube if I could. It worked ok since the paintings are mostly flat colors.I started off painting the outlines this dark grey blue. It was too dark compared to the burnt sienna outlines on the first painting. They ended up being a dark olive green in the end.
Then I painted the outlines a dark blue, but I changed that too! haha. The tentacles got filled with a light blue, but that was mostly covered with the same purple color from painting 2.
Now comes shipping the paintings to NYC and then the actual show. You should go!

Warmup painting

This guy happened before the first canvas painting below. I wanted to warm up with something small, so I painted this on some wood panel I found lying around.
He's very fancy. Maybe he'll end up on Etsy some day.

Too Art for TV paintings in progress

Too Art For TV is having its 3rd show in NY beginning December 5th. I'm going to have two paintings in the show and one of them is nearly done!

Here's some of the process (with notes) that got me there...

When talking to the 2A4TV folks they said they would like to have some energetic paintings of mine similar to the picnic table I painted for the Art Park benefit (previously posted here). The picnic table was big, so I was able to do a huge image across it. For the pair of paintings I'm working on 18" x 24" canvas. Big, but no picnic table. I liked the scale of the table painting so I decided to do close up monster faces for the canvases. After some sketching I settled on these two thumbnails to move ahead with:

Then came sketching the image out on the canvas. I already gessoed the heck out of them a few weeks ago so they were ready to go:

I started by painting the background color and moving forward in depth (trying to let areas overlap as I went):

And then it's a big jump up to the painting I posted at the top! I'll try taking more photos of painting #2. Originally I was planning on using complimentary color schemes for the paintings (you can see my original notes on the thumbnails say R/G/W and B/O/W for red/orange/white and blue/orange/white) but I decided to go for analogous sets for both. The next one will be primarily blue, green, and violet. Also, I ended up liking the skull image so much I think I'm going to scrap the ape thumbnail and do a different skull for painting #2. Choices!

Just a few more details to change on painting 1 and then it's done-done. Then onward to #2!

Find more info about Too Art For TV via Liz Artinian's page or "the facebook": http://www.bunnycutlet.com/2008call
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