Prints and Zines!

I just got back from the printers and had a whole bunch of crap made up. Pick up one of these 17x19 signed beauties for the low price of 25 smackeroos. Or grab yourself a copy of PAB: 24 pages of doodly goodness, for only five bucks. Just e-mail me at rsumillang@yahoo.ca and we can sort something out.

Angela's Painting

"Our Lady of Ensenada"

Acrylic and ink on plywood, 36"x36"

Here's a Commission I did for Angela. It's based on a sketchbook drawing I made while in Mexico. The Painting turned out well, but after screwing around with Fred's camera equipment and Photoshop for 5 hours, I've determined that I am helpless to take print quality art photos by myself. So much for not making life more complicated than you'd think it needs to be.

Hair Squares.

Just some doodles lifted from my sketchbooks.

Revamp

I wasn't completely happy with the illustration I gave FFWD. My thinking got all uptight. Here I made a few simple changes and it looks so much better. I'll have to be more on the ball next time.

This is a quick sketchy version of the Eyeball I saw last night while falling asleep. When I get a chance I'll have to do a nice version. I've been meaning to get to the outerspace stuff for a while- I had a bunch of 'Alice In Wonderland In Space' type ideas last fall, and I'd like to get to them. They'd make a good series of paintings if done bright and big and cartoony. But while I type I'm procrastinating on paintings I should be doing now.

Loire Valley Wines

Hey, Sorry for the long deadzone between posts. First I was lethargic about the whole thing, and then, when Artwalk came along, I was super busy. But get a load of my first Bonafide Illustration. I drew her to accompany Kevin Maclean's article on the wines of the Loire Valley in France, Published in this weeks Issue of Fast Forward, in Calgary. Check out all the dead space to the left of her. I wish I had put something in there. Oh, Well. I'll do better next time. I had initially drawn her wearing coveralls and a plaid shirt, and with braids- workwear common in the region, but she came out looking like a hillbilly, so, no. Heres the original ballpoint pen drawing. As you can see, the face was replaced one I modelled after Audrey Tatou:

Stuff

Slow week, but I did manage to get few things done. You're only going to get to see my new coloured version of "Captains of industry"

Nextfest 2009 PartI

Here's the full meal deal, everything that's on the Walls at Crimson Empire, for those who can't make it out. It will all remain on the walls until the end of June at least, so if you get a chance, head down and see for yourself. Some of these haven't sold yet so if you're interested, contact me at rsumillang@yahoo.ca for inquiries. Also, prints can be made availible upon request.

Born in Hell, Cured in Rain (acrylic and india ink on plywood, 48"x24")

Ghost Breath (mixed media on BFK Rives, 30"x22")

Nextfest Part II

Vespertine (acrylic and India ink on plywood, 24"x48"), $700

Baroness Roar in a Frigid Squall (india ink and Acrylic on Plywood, 24X48) $600

Baconfield (mixed media on BFK Rives 22"x15"), $460 (framed)


Pesos and Black Roses (acrylic on paper, 17x14), $250 (framed)

The Ballad of J.Hutnad (mixed media on cardboard, 17X14) $250 (framed)

Nextfest 2009

Nextfest 2009 images Part III

Orderly Stains From the Men Before

(Acrylic and Ball point pen on Paper, 23X18) $450, Framed.

Into the Microscopic Abyss

(Acrylic on paper, 18x15) $350, framed.

An Hilarious Yet Comical Funnyman With a Penchant for Humour
(18x15, Acrylic and ballpoint pen on paper) $350, framed.

HELPSTOPFIGHTTHECURE!

(Ball point pen on paper, 17"x14") $300, Framed

The Church Ladies Will be Looking Forward to This

(ball point pen and india ink on paper, 17"x14) $300, framed

The Bosun One

(India ink on Paper, 14"x17, $300, Framed)

Sarah Hamilton wrote some great coverage of me in this weeks Vue. Thanks Sarah.

Friday 8-10pm, Crimson empire Tattoo. (11630 119st)

Words about me in the Sun

I managed to get some words about me in The Edmonton Sun, on Sunday, by Fish Griwkowsky, as part of an article about Nextfest. Right on, thanks Fish.

These are a couple images from the Zine, which I'm gonna to get off to the printers late today.

The peices are up.

My stuff is on the walls at Crimson Empire tattoo, as a component of the visual arts portion of Nextfest 2009

All thirteen peices will be up for the month of June and maybe longer, so when you get a chance, head down there and check out what I've been working on for the the past couple months. Get your nipples pierced while you're at it- they know what they're doing.

The Opening reception will be held Friday June 12, 8-10 pm. Come on down and drink the Kool-aid, everybody's invited!

Ball point pen fun!

Screwing around last night with the ball point pen- haven't used it in a while, I forget how much I love it! Look at how awesome these are!

Rex

I've been working on my caricatures, in the classical caricatue style. Bonus points to the person who knows who this is.

figurative, sketch

These are couple of ball point pen drawings, done on printerpaper, and coloured up in shop. I can move pretty quickly with these, and I can't wait until I've got the time to hunker down and get serious about putting together more elaborate and refined linework finished in photoshop.

Over at the Harcourt house they'll be hosting the "Naked Show", starting June 12, in which they show a bunch o' crap from the figurative studies sessions of the past year- these are a couple of my submissions,, of which there are five in total. It will be held at the Harcourt House, June 12-18, and will be a component of the "works" festival.

Rainman Twins

Go to 1:21 to see where I got the image from.

They's a little bit distorted, and I distorted them more. I don't know why I'm showing this, I don't really like it.

A Horrible Turn of Fate Took the Life of Marvin D. Lord

" On february 2 1945, foul weather cancelled the following day's mission over Berlin. With his commander's approval, B-17 pilot Manny Klette went to London to see his girlfriend. But the weather broke, and the mission was back on. Lord, who was eager to go, took Klette's place as pilot and was shot down; he was killed along with Klette's entire crew. Lord's photograph is part of a collection by the late Army Air Forces Photographer Gerald R. Massie of Jefferson City, Missouri."

-National Geographic, Vol. 3, No. 185, March 1994, pg. 94

Less than perfect, but all said it turned out well. After months experimentation and practice, I feel like I'm finally starting to enroach on a finishing style that I'm comforable showing to editors, art directors, and reps worldwide. This one was done of the carboard backing of my current sketchbook, 17x14, using watercolour pencils softened and blended with washes of white acrylic, and then gone over with line work in a deep blue acrylic ink. The Neutral density of the brown backing board helped tone down the intensity of the colours which adds alot of depth to the image. It was copied from a National geographic, which isn't exactly high style, and the underlying drawing was done while I was half asleep at three in morning, randomly, thus explaining the generally distorted nature of his mouth and chin. But the eyes are right, so it looks like the person I'm drawing. The two hundred hours or so I've spent drawing faces from my perch at the cafe, out of papers and magazines, and the bi-weekly figurative drawing sessions, since January, are slowly starting to pay off. Drawing a face is easy, but capturing someone's character, and the emotional nuance that goes with it, is very fussy. It's even harder to paint the thing without blowing it.

The problem with faces is that we have a whole section of our brain dedicated to recognizing them- if the tiniest thing is out of proportion or at the wrong angle, it blows it entirely. Whatever, I'm progressing. By midsummer I hope to have a proper porfolio put together.

Smippets of Things you could see the Crimson Empire in June.

I'll Just let this stuff speak for itself.

Here's a peek at what you might see at my upcoming show.

The Opening reception for my show is set for Friday June 12, likely 8-10 PM, at Crimson Empire Tattoo: http://www.crimsonempiretattoo.com

The Work will be on display from May 30 until sometime in Late June.