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3-27-2010
The weeks continue to march onward. I find myself in the middle of crunch time, preparing for Megamoth Studios' offering at WonderCon. Things seem to be going well on that front. WonderCon is April 2nd through the 4th and we will be in the artists' alley, so come by and check us out, if you're in the San Francisco area.
The ink is still drying on my latest intaglio print, so I won't be sharing that with you this week. Instead, you get this:
I hope you enjoy it.
You may also be interested to know I will have a drawing in the Sequim Arts Juried Show in Sequim, Washington. It will only be up for a short while, from May 6th to May 9th, but I am still pleased.
I finished reading The Scar by China Mieville. It was packed with fantastic and thought provoking science fiction. The man knows how to take ridiculous concepts and make them come to life in powerful ways. I do feel like The Scar struggles with pacing. As a reader I felt very much like the plot just sort of drifts along without any real sense of purpose of urgency. There are purposeful and urgent moment throughout the book, but they felt like isolated incidents rather than building on each other to create a larger whole. I was satisfied by the experience, but I feel that Mieville, with his imagination and the themes he explores, really should have left me shaken.
Since The Scar, I have moved on to Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett. So far, Pratchett has really delivered with this one. Of course, I'm a sucker for fairy stories, and for Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg. Cheers all around for this one.
3-20-2010
For years I thought I would never get around to teaching myself screen-printing. I had opportunities to learn it in school, and I did some time as a mechanical press operator, but I never got around to learning how to actually make screen prints from start to finish. I figured I the processes were simple enough I could teach myself to do it without too much effort, given my understanding of other, more complex techniques for making prints. It turns out I was right.
I taught myself screen printing this week. It was pretty interesting. I had to learn it because we are looking at making t-shirts for Megamoth Studios. Now that I have spent all my free time this week learning how to get the t-shirts made, the decision has been made to save ourselves the time and have them professionally done. One the one hand I don't get to apply my new knowledge for an edition right away. On the other hand, I don't have to spend the time actually doing the edition. Also, the shirts are going to look really good and I don't have to deal with the rejects (I would be sure to mess up a few times given how new I am to printing on fabric). All in all, a decent deal for me.
Here is this week's drawing. Just a quick one, and then it's back to work.
3-13-2010
In case you were wondering, yes, I have changed my update schedule from Sunday mornings to Saturday nights. I am a party animal.
This week past has been full to overflowing. Visits from rarely seen family members, the acquisition of a choose your own comic book and an exhaustive review of everything I've learned in Tae Kwon Do in the past 3 years aside, I get to share with you a proof from my newly finished etching plate. This is cause for much rejoicing, I have no doubt. So let's get on with it. I call it "Carry My Name".
Ah.... That feels better. It feels so good, in fact, I think I'm going to have to do it again by the end of the month.
In other news, I've been reading The Scar by China Mieville. The man writes some of the densest science fiction I have ever read. Perdido Street Station, the only other thing by him I have read thus far, was fit to burst with all of the ideas, images and layers he crammed into it. I'm not certain if The Scar is simply building up imaginative speed more slowly than Perdido Street Station or if it only seems that way because I am familiar with many of the concepts. I suspect it is that latter, though it is far too early to judge. If Mieville delivers on his promises, and I believe he will, I have nothing to worry about and you will be hearing some sort of favorable discourse here when I have finished the book.
I would make a comical allusion to the old Batman TV show tag line concerning coming episodes, but I really can't, since times have, in fact, changed. I will settle for saying there will be more next week.
3-6-2010
It's been a quiet and busy week. Megamoth Studio is gearing up for the upcoming WonderCon and Fanime conventions, which has kept all of us busy planning and pushing various products to completion. If you make it to either convention, be sure to stop by to see what our students are putting together.
As far as my own projects are concerned, I am pleased to report fair progress on a number of images. I just put the finishing touches on a new intaglio plate this afternoon. The ink is still wet and would cause more mess in my scanner than I am interested in dealing with, so I'm afraid you will have to wait a bit longer to see it. You will have to content yourselves with two drawings this week. The first is Zeus, King of the Olympians:
Next we have Dionysus, Zeus' twice born son:
Both of these images were created for the upcoming SF Olympians theater festival by No Nude Men Productions this July.
Until next time...
