All Star: The Art Of Sports Gallery Show, Part Two

This past Friday was the opening reception for Tony Miello's All Star: The Art Of Sports show at the River's Edge Gallery in Wyandotte, MI. Tony invited a few of us arteest types to show, as well. Those include Jeremy Hansen, John Marroquin, Bill Morrison, Bill Pulkovski, Jeff Sornig, and myself. 

Here are the three pieces that I have in the show:

Lord Stanley 5x7 scratchboard

Flow I, mixed media

Flow II, mixed media

The show runs through the end of November, so get on down there and check it. Unless, you are coming from Ohio, then you'd be coming up. All pieces are for sale.

 

All Star: The Art Of Sports Gallery Show

Flyer by Tony Miello

This Friday is the opening for the All Star: The Art of Sports exhibit at the River's Edge Gallery in Wyandotte, MI. Tony Miello will have the bulk of the works on display, but there will also be works on hand by John Marroquin, Bill Morrison, Jeff Sornig and myself. I will have three pieces, all hockey related. A scratchboard and two sculptures. I will post about those on Friday, before the show starts. The show will run from October 16 to November 21 and starts at 6pm. 

Hope to see you there!

 

Oceanic Tendrils

 

My latest Substack is up and has everything to do with the process of creating the scratchboard piece. You can check it out HERE. 

Blue & White Invitational At The Holland Museum

 

Oceanic Tendrils

9x12

scratchboard/clayboard and watercolor

I will have a piece in the Blue & White Invitational at the Holland Museum. The exhibit starts this Friday and runs through October. You can get all the details HERE. 

This is my second gallery show of the year (there will be a third) and my first ever at a museum, so that's exciting. 

The show is inspired by the Delft collection at the museum, so anything blue and white was fair game. Of course, I went weird. Weird, you say? Pshaw, it's normal where I operate. Tentacles, sharks and gulper eels... I hang with only the best creatures.

So, make sure to tell your friends and if you find yourself on the west side of the state of Michigan, then check it out. It's a cool museum and city, as well.

The Gentoo Scratchboard Process

 

My latest Substack is up and has a brief description of the process of creating the gentoo penguin scratchboard. You can check it out HERE.

Recent Scratchboards With Color

 

Bumblebee

5x7

scratchboard/clayboard and watercolor

Gentoo

5x7

scratchboard/clayboard and watercolor 

I just added a bit of color to each piece. 

A Scratchboard Gentoo

 

5x7

scratchboard/clayboard

Last week a group of us visited the Detroit Zoo for a penguin experience where we could feed and interact with them. There were gentoos, rockhoppers, macaronis and even a king came to visit. 

Then a few days later, I got together with art pals Mary and Jennifer and I worked on this scratchboard gentoo based on some sketches made up from my photos. The plan is to add some color on the beak. 

The Scratchboard Bumblebee Process

 

I did a post over on Substack showing the process for the Bumblebee scratchboard that I posted yesterday. Click here to check it out.

Scratchboard Bumblebee

 

7x5

scratchboard/clayboard

This past week, I had an art day with my friend/teacher, Mary. We worked on our own scratchboard projects, with hers being very ambitious. She's been sending me updates on the progress and her piece looks great. Anyways, I did a bumblebee and had a great time doing it. Tomorrow, I will do up a Substack and show the process. 

Stormtrooper

 

4x6

on scratchboard

I've been chipping away (literally!) at this one for awhile now, so it was nice to finish it up. Of course, nothing is ever really finished, as I could noodle this into oblivion, but you get the point. I struggle with scratchboard, but I feel the urge to keep doing it, as it provides a discipline that is different from what I usually do. I keep looking at the works of Mark Summers and recently, Thomas Ott. One has the straight lines and cross hatching that is ever so precise and the latter a more loose style, but no less detailed. Two different approaches with amazing results. Check them out, if you haven't already.

Grogu

 

Grogu

6x4

scratchboard

This piece done on scratchboard is somewhat of a side project done during my mentorship program with Giuseppe Castellano through The Illustration Dept. we were talking about the illustrator Mark Summers, who is a fantastic artist working in this medium. Giuseppe then recommended that I do a Grogu on scratchboard. He thought that it would be a good match for my style. After a minor tweak (Giuseppe excels at this), I think it came out rather well. 

Cloud Character #1 (Somewhere Between Denver And Detroit)

Here is another scratchboard piece and this was done prior to the scout trooper in the previous post. Clouds are such characters in their own right, each one different than the other and constantly in a state of flux.



Cloud Character #1 (Somewhere Between Denver And Detroit)
4x6
scratchboard

Scout Trooper

I've been tinkering with some scratchboard stuff as of late and came up with this scout trooper character from Return Of The Jedi.



Scout Trooper
4x6
scratchboard

Mr. Solomon's Skull Tattoo

Last year I began writing a story that would eventually be turned into a comic book. Well, actually I plotted the comic out as I drew the first eight or nine pages or so and then realized that I really needed to flesh out the story and the characters a bit more. So, I shelved illustrating the comic until I could write at least a few chapters to get a better feel for the mood of the story. I posted the first six pages over at ConceptArt.org in my sketchbook thread, so some of you may know a bit about The Hat Maker story.

The main antagonist is named Mr. Solomon and at this point very early in the story his past and reasons for wanting to kill this one seemingly old man are obviously unclear. Cue mysterious music here. Anyways, he wears a hood which partially covers his face, but has this tattoo of a haloed skull on his forehead that seems to glow at times.

Here is a scratchboard drawing of said tattoo.