New prints

I made these screenprints on the weekend, big surprise with the subject matter, I know. I'd like to create a series of 8-10 prints or so, we'll see what happens. They're about 12"x9".

Moving On at QEII

Hey guys, I've got some paintings in a show at the MUN library in St. John's until April. It's a group show with fellow alumni Anne Downton and Carolyn Reddy. Drop by if you have time!

Here's the poster with dates.

Me giving a spiel.

With Anne and our artwork.

Humble beginnings

Got a new portfolio for xmas, which forced me to sort through some old junk.

Check out these treasures!

1st Year Portrait (2000).

I remember in the crit I got a "nice try."

And remember this project? Look at how accurate I was!

Caravaggio, Doubting Thomas, 1597

Juried Art Competitions! Deadline List!

Just another resource to check out periodically!
http://www.callsforart.com/result/upcoming

Oh hai.

Merry Christmas and all that.

Anybody have any lovely xmas tree/wrapping paper pile/ugly decorations photos? I will post soon. In the meantime, check out this fascinating doc about the beginnings of the LOL Cats phenomenon!

http://tv.boingboing.net/2007/11/26/laugh-out-loud-cats.html

Earth-shattering news!

I've started a blog:

http://tetecarree.blogspot.com/

More deadlines for the New Year that will be 2008

Here you go, the usual suspects -- please please please look and apply!

Arts and Letters! This year, you only have to submit an image on CD, so no more shipping excuses! Deadline Feb. 15th.
LINK

NLAC call for proposals for Arts Awards - 5 pieces of artwork to present to the winners! Budget of $2500! Deadline Feb. 1st; artworks due April 18th.
LINK


NL Art Bank! Formerly known as Provincial Art Procurement! Fancier nomenclature! Deadline Jan. 15th! Again, digital images or slides only, drop-off at The Rooms.
LINK

Klondike Institute of Art and Culture is looking for applications for its 2009 Artist in Residence Program. In Dawson City, Yukon! Deadline April 1st!
LINK


ODD Gallery, also in Dawson City! Looking for exhibition proposals for its 2009 Exhibition Program. Solo and group exhibitions!
LINK

ALSO, Scott and I and a couple of other artists will have some work in a mini (short-notice) show at RCA starting tomorrow night (Dec. 17th, opening 5-7pm), so please drop in sometime to check it out! There members show is in January.



holy smokes that's enough reading for now. good luck!

3D (sort of)

I've started bringing my notebook doodads into 3D. I haven't gotten any interesting movement out of them yet, but I'm starting to like how the lines and planes are looking.

Here's an earlier attempt. I was using the program's "toon shader" to do some of the outline work, but have since started doing all of it myself. Computers have shitty taste, so you can't leave any of the important stuff to them. They'll just slap a uniform stroke around the contour and call it a day. Lazy fuckers.

Weird new painting

Pony Ride, acrylic on wood, 20"x24"

I had a piece of wood so I made this painting... I was going for a crappy, drab sort of mood, but it's a pretty cheery looking piece, hey? Anyway, it was a bit fun to paint. Maybe I will go back and do some more blind contours next.

Cartoons of cartoony looking people

I found these two ladies in Vice Magazine's hilarious Dos and Don'ts.

http://www.viceland.com/int/dd.php?id=349&country=uk

The chick looked so much like a Jamie Hewlett drawing that I had to draw her. The self-caricature on the left was me trying to push towards the kind of extreme grotesquery practiced by the lovely Marlo Meekins.

http://lambiek.net/artists/h/hewlett_jamie.htm

http://marlomeekins.blogspot.com/

Rare 'n' unreleased!

These strips were either unfunny or didn't gel with the rest or didn't make any sense or all three. I have no idea what the bottom one is about.

New Stuff by People We Know!

Some exciting projects on the g-o for b'ys this month!

Visit http://www.monstergarage.com/ every Wednesday to see new pages from the graphic novel that Scott Keating is illustrating, Chopper Zombie!

And, In Stores Now! The Underworld Railroad, illustrated by Mr. Paul Tucker.

Available in St. John's at Timemasters or from Paul himself. And from www.vipercomics.com .

Things

Halloween Decorations

This year I got it in my head to build a window display. It's pretty simple, a landscape made from cardboard along with a few set-pieces made from carved and painted styrofoam. The big 'attraction' is a floating ghostly skull which hovers between the archway in the front. It's done using 'Peppers ghost', an old stagecraft illusion which is used heavily by David Hoffas. I projected a simple animation on a sheet in the background using a fresnel lens and a tv. Here's a terrible picture of it at night. You can sort of see the skull there.

And some details:

The Archway with a little snippet of the TV which helps create the Peppers Ghost illusion.

Anyone else do any fun decorating this year?

Grant Writing Tips

Barb Hunt had a grant writing talk on the weekend and my friend Ya-Ling went and today she gave me the notes. There's some good stuff in there, so I scanned them in and here they are. There are also notes about organizing group shows... On that note, the deadline for Canada Council Grants is December 1st. Apparantly, you have to have three juried shows.
www.canadacouncil.ca
Link to Assistance for Visual Artists (Project Grants)

To meet the above definition of a professional visual artist, you must have:
*produced an independent body of work
*made at least three public presentations of work in a professional context over a three year period (this means juried exhibitions)
*maintained an independent professional practice for at least three years.

There ya go!! Get to it now, and apply for city and provincial grants too! If this stuff below is too hard to read, lemme know and I'll mail you a hard copy.

New Paintings

Carousel Ponies, 3'x2.5', acrylic and permanent marker on canvas

(not quite finished)

Cowboy with Seahorse (after Julian Opie), 2'x2',

acrylic and permanent marker on canvas

Two new paintings in the works for me this week, that's a lot! The seahorse painting is for RCA's Flattering the Masters show, which opened today. Their big fundraiser auction is on November 4th. And today we printed a similar design at Living Planet, so go on down and get yerself a new shirt.

It's in 3-D!

Check it out! AA sent me a 3-D sketch pad! It doesn't seem to work quite as well on the compy, but if you have some blue/red 3-D glasses at home, slap 'em on and have a look.

Two new paintings

I finished up two paintings before I finished up the albums posted down below this post. It takes me a while to document stuff sometimes. The top one is made from a hunk of Masonite I was using for a cutting board, and I just used the gouges as guides for the paint. The bottom painting is mostly pigment experiments with kool-aid, fabric dye and jello type stuff. it's got some fun textures if you see it in person.

SUPERGOD! The Party Controls the Gun. dual album release

Two new full length albums of hard-listening experimental music made by me available for sale in time for Halloween. SUPERGOD!! The Party Controls The Gun - volumes: Horses & Lazerbeams. you can listen to some highly obnoxious tracks on the myspace page http://www.myspace.com/supergodsupergod
tell me what you think of them when you get the chance. I've been working on them on and off for close to a year in-between more important things. now for five dollars each or two for eight bucks you can have an hour and forty minutes of psychedelic madness to kill some time.

Art Bank!

The deadline for submissions to the Canada Council Art Bank Purchase Program

is October 15th! Visit the website!

From the site:

Please keep the following points in mind when deciding which work to submit:
One (1) work per artist (if more than one work is submitted, the entire submission will not be accepted); work must be current (within last 5 years); and the artist must be a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada

The work must be suitable for public display in an office environment

The amount available for this program is $350,000

Artist, artist’s gallery, and/or artist’s representative may submit (submissions of work by deceased artists will not be accepted)

Slide or digital image is acceptable. Multiple slides will be accepted if required to best present the work. Note that slides offer the best quality of reproduction of the work to the jury (please refer to: The Guidelines for Submitting Digital Images for the Art Bank Purchase Program in MSWord or Adobe Acrobat format)

Work will be juried in November 2007
Results will be mailed in December 2007
If work submitted is sold, alternate work will not be accepted