Belle Isle Aquarium Koi Wrangling 2010

This Saturday, November 6th at 10:30am will be the annual koi wrangling ( a much more appropriate word) at the Belle Isle Aquarium in Detroit. If it's anything like last year, those little buggers are going to be a struggle to get in the nets and more than a few will winter over in the pond, I'm sure. There's always some trouble makers in every group.

The weather doesn't look like it's going to cooperate like last year, so dress accordingly if you plan on coming.

Oh, and you can check out the group on facebook.

Detroit Fanfare

This weekend, October 30th and 31st, I will be a guest artist at Detroit Fanfare in Dearborn, MI. If you show up, I will be stationed at table #75, so stop on by and say hello. However, I will be away from my table for a bit on Saturday at 12:30, because I'm giving blood and again at 3:30 because I've been 'volunteered' to be part of a panel discussing sketch cards along with Bill Pulkovski and Tony Miello. So, if you are interested in that type of thang, come on by and give a listen.

You can get all the pertinent information by going here.

Woodstock Generation Sketch Cards

Above are a few of the 3.5x5 inch sketch cards that I did for Breygent's Woodstock Generation set. This particular set was just recently released this past month.

Muck Man #10

Tales Of A Checkered Man

Recently, I was fortunate enough to take part in Denver Brubaker's webcomic Tales Of A Checkered Man by doing a guest panel in the strip's current story line. Denver wanted a panel that was very different from his style and reminiscent of a John Buscema Conan type of look and the panel that you see above is what I came up with (through his direction, of course). So, go and check it out and you can scroll back and read all of the previous strips. It's a fun time and you can check it out here.

And a big thanks to Denver for letting me play a bit with his creations!

Clone Wars: Rise Of The Bounty Hunters Sketch Cards

Back to showing some sketch cards. The above cards are from the Topps set The Clone Wars: Rise Of The Bounty Hunters. I did somewhere in the realm of 230 cards for both the hobby and retail markets and I'm sure that Embo is my new favorite character to draw.

Abe Sapien

Here is a painting just recently finished of everyone's favorite amphibian humanoid. He has some great colors, so naturally I had a blast experimenting with this one. I was going to do something different with the background, maybe put in some bubbles or some swirling currents or something like that, but as I came closer to finishing I liked the way he seems to pop out of the darkness. It would be as if he took one step back the darkness would swallow Abe up completely.

Abe Sapien

10x15

acrylic and colored pencil on illustration board