The banner and some pics of Emerald City Comic Con

This is how the banner came out.  Figured some peeps might want to see it undistorted and clean like.

It came out rad.  Props to the printers.

Don't lie. You've never seen a better banner.

 These are some of my favorite cosplay pics from in front of the booth.
 
Look at dat awesome banner up there behind everything.  Word?

SO CUTE!

Also SO CUTE.  Look - she's like Mario but sweeter.

Met this girl and her buddies and they were super fly (tm).

These two girls were hilarious and super cool.  Skills at cosplay.

Mother f_cking BOB'S in the house.

Best family ever.

Bubble Bobble / Puzzle Bobble Neon Sign art

Pacman, Hamburgers and Shakes, Bubble Bobble, arcades - I tried a bit of everything.

The best thing ever happened.  I made a neon sign.  Well, I didn't do that, because making a neon sign requires glass bending skills, a workshop, and a black belt of ninja art mastery, while I only have a green belt in looking at art.

I designed a neon sign.  Here's how I started.

I built a bunch of sketches around the concept.  I used a bunch of classic arcade/Diner bits and tried to incorporate what he wanted in simple thick elegant line work so the bender wouldn't have a helluva time.


So the guy I was designing for, he liked on in particular, so I turned it into a slightly cleaner sketch, which you can see here.  He loves Bubble Bobble / Puzzle Bobble.

Bob and Bub pictured, because they're awesome and they provided a great color palette

 After everything was built to his liking, I took the work into illustrator to model it perfectly.  It also gave me one more opportunity to play with the size or the glass in comparison to the mass of the sign.

I wanted the thing to look nice and thick/dense with 15mm glass at the size it was to be manufactured.

The sign didn't have that in stock though and we had to go with 13mm.

We picked the sign up the other day and I snapped a few photos of it.  It came out really nice.  In person you can see the colors and they're a bit nicer, but in the iPhone photos, the bloom is a bit impossible to photograph.

Here are my favorite pictures.

A closeup of the neon so you can see all the connective bits.

Obligatory depth of field shot and the colors are pretty close in this one although it's still quite blown out.

The finished sign.  You can compare this to the concept sketch and see that it's pretty close, although if you ask me - I can point out several bits that are off.  I designed the thing of course I'd notice them!

Mission accomplished.  I have a few more neon signs concepts designed / planned and I'm hoping to work few some of them and have them at some upcoming art shows in 2014.

cheers,
&Rew.

Word on the streets...

... is that you've been up to no good, Peach.


Andrew Wilson + Eric Marechal. This is my art wheat pasted up on a wall in Paris, where supposedly, stuff is always going up.

Eric Marechal is an photographer / wheat paste artist that travels around and pastes up art that his friends and artists have give him. I gave him a stack of random silhouette pieces that he plops up around here and there. I think it's cool that such an urban commando exists.

I've been meaning to send him some new stuff. Maybe I'll come up with something in the next few months.

And that rumor regarding peach being a wh_re? I'll let you decide for yourself.

&Rew.

When I'm a werewolf, I dream I'm a human.

I'm not going to dedicate a post to music only, because that's not what I do. I'm a visual artist, I draw. And my blog? It's a public diary-like place I put random musings about my art + some of the music I dig (recently), but I'm tempted to just post about cocoRosie.

CocoRosie is awesome enough to dedicate a post on a visual art blog to.

I'm not going to do that though. Do you know why? Because I have pictures from Eric Maréchal.

More hit and run artwork.

But please, by all means, listen to this track, cause it's rad, but not as rad if you don't have good headphones.

I've seen this group live and they are "hot to death". Seriously creative and creepy cool looking as one of them strips clothes off to reveal faux tattoo coverall like leotards and weird intentional messed up haircuts. Good show. Try the track. I like their mellow stuff too.

cocoRosie - werewolf Omega remix



Thanks Eric. You're dope, but you know that.
&.

the cake is a lie.

art imitates life imitating art.



I made a pacman cake tonight and photo shopped in some fake tubes. I think I've been waiting to do this all my life.

(pellets are Hershey kisses, power pellet is a tall milk)

( < o o o o o o o O
&Rew.

The finished job.

Here are pics of the completed piece.

And a nother mario track to explode Trixi's ears! (^__^)



¿Much easier to listen to, right? And hey, it's also mario related. Woot.

That project was cool - now it's on to a few other things including preparing some art to send to a few people from the last AD4AD and some Holiday cards.

be seeing you,
number 6.

Get CRACK-a-LACKIN! / I made a Gummo Shirt

I need submissions!
You! Ya YOU! Right thurr reading this post.

Email me with your idea for artDirectory for a day3.0! So far there are 2 entries! I demand participation. Email me or comment it into the block. Just like I stated in the last post:

Come up with an idea for a set of postcards and a matching stamp. If I pick you you'll get free art! I'll give it a few days to a week for entries depending on if I get many more.

There. Nuff said.

Sammi, if nobody jumps in, you're still in high standing. (^__^)

Also, I made this shirt. It's a gummo shirt. Gummo is a movie that's pretty hard to watch but it also pretty fun to watch. It's cultish and it's got some akward moments before that stuff was completely mainstream. Things I like about gummo inclue - the nipple tape scene, the rabbit vs. cowboy scene, and the char wrestling scene (although that might be from another movie but probably isn't). The rabbit boy and the movie gummo might not be for you, but it's definitely worth a netflix, yo.
It's based on a screen grab from the movie gummo. I think it's arted enough for me to call it mine.!

Hurray rabbit boy.

cheers,
&Rew.

stamp!

custom stamps got made for next time i send postcards!






woot.
&rew.

A break from That for some of This:

This is a piece I just finished. I have prints of it but no real motivation to put them up and into a store. Can you tell which pop culture ref this is from? It's pretty obvious yet nobody noticed when I had the print out.



Eric Marachal strikes again. He's been so gracious to paste me up again. Thanks Eric - you're helping art spread like a virus.

And here's a pic I've been meaning to post for a while, it's Doug Artus's racecar. If you see him racing it A. cheer for him if he's in a race. B. Don't tell the cops if it's a heist.

That's how we roll.



be seeing you,
&Rew.

Eric Marechel strikes again just in time for the new year.

HAPPY NEW YEAR...FELIZ ANO NUEVO...BONNE ANNEE

Eric Marechel is most awesome. He shares art to the world like others share smiles. Quick, almost effortlessly, this dude is an art ninja.

He goes around the world and wheat pastes art up on walls and posts and bins and frames - adding his touch to the urban landscape. His art is photography and viral placement of other artists' work.

My flickr currently consists of his and my work in several countries. Check it out at:

Flickr's of Eric's stuff

Today he sent me new pics of my work next to Celso Gitahny, John Howard, and Andy.

Here are a few of my favorite ones: