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So Arts Walk and Make Oly were fun last night. I’m heading back out in an hour to catch more of the festivities (Procession and such), but while I had a few minutes downtime I wanted to share the art I did while sitting in my booth last night.

These were all basically people who walked by my booth last night, dressed up with some sort of mask. Artistic liberties were almost certainly taken. I did the pencils and inking last night in my booth but added the grey and blue ink wash today from inks I’ve had sitting out on my drafting table all week from the Tube art.

Hey all, I’m about two and a half hours from being downtown setting up my booth for the Make Olympia portion of Olympia Arts Walk. I’ll be there selling hot steaming art from 5-10pm, at which point I hope someone will show up magically to help me take stuff down and pack everything into my car. I’ve got a whole bunch of new prints, many of which were probably posted on this blog at one point or another (I’ll get them on the shop soon for those who can’t make it but still want a picture of a tube full of tiny robots), plus several new posters (that are already available at the shop).  Also, about a month or so ago I threw away a couple of weeks of my life working on a piece for a show at the Washington Center here in Olympia this weekend. The show’s requirements were to make a piece of art out of a single sheet of plywood.

This ended up being far more work than I had anticipated and forced the buying of some new equipment, but it was still quite an experience and came out with probably the largest Bathos I’ve ever created, standing at like 3 or maybe 4 feet high. He’ll be available to view in person this weekend at the aforementioned show at the Washington Center in downtown Olympia. Working in this way was fun, so I’ll probably try it again sometime.

There you go.

So I got a new scanner yesterday, a fancy A3 size one so that I can scan larger pieces of art in a single go, instead of trying to glue them together from several smaller scans (a Bathos comic is currently 4 scans). There’ll be a bit of a learning curve as with all new technology, and not just the hour I spent trying to get the driver to work this morning. This scanner’s top is much lighter than my previous scanner’s, so it doesn’t flatten out the paper warp as much (a byproduct of ink wash greys and colors). It’s also got a fairly deep little bed, so I’ll have to test it some to make sure I don’t damage anything when I scan something REALLY big. Overall, small problems compared to have an 11″x17″ scanner at my disposal. Here’s a piece of art I did yesterday:

I’ll be trying to get this guy cleaned up and print ready to hopefully have as an 8″x10″ at my Make Olympia booth during Olympia’s Arts Walk this Friday evening. The tube is pretty accurate (except for the robots) and is actually a Sovtek I took out of a compressor to use as a model. There you go.

Wait, do the words in the subject make any sense?

Anyhow, there is starting right now (or actually, like, 50 minutes ago), a show up at Tasty, a gallery in Seattle, in which I have some art. I’m not there at the opening because it’s far away and I’m sick as dogs still, but I still need to shout about it to the internet. The show is called Heroes, Villains and Vixens. I was asked to do a couple of pieces and promptly turned in 14. Uh, yeah.

They’re all on bristol, mounted on wood, and available for sale at the gallery for the next month. They’re also all compiled up on a poster that the gallery has for sale and that I’ll also have at Olympia’s Arts Walk in a couple of weeks. If you’re in the Puget Sound area, please be sure to swing by Tasty to check out the show.  There you go.