Come See The Great

Washing out screen I did the Kurt Russell piece with. Can't use this for any other projects... just that painting.

None So Like Him As Ourself

Wrapped up the Kurt Russell piece last night. And it's ready to got over to the Plaza Theatre for the premiere of "Big Trouble In Little China" - EPIC CARPENTER




Also dropped off a new batch of donut paintings for above the bar at ElMyr. These ones are pretty choice.



With the piece before we go see the film.

Shoes Are Out The Way

So I finished painting the piece during the week. It's a mix of silk screen and oil painting. I had to come up with a way to attach the baseball caps so they wouldn't come apart from the panel. Some small pegs and fishing line did the trick.

Restriction In Trade

ZOMBIE WALK 2009
Doing up make-up at Tracy's house.




At the walk with the rest of the zombies... Grrrr. Even made the AJC web page... NICE.




ElMyr for lunch after the big walk with friends. Matt, Judson, Tracy and Linton share a table on the porch.






Then me and Tracy went out and scared people all night long drinking the whole night long.

Sitting With The Big Man

Playing around with all the elements. I need to build the metals for the jacket. I've already started with the large silver one you always see on Napoleon. I lucked out and found a great Christmas ornament that I was able to reconfigure to my liking.

Also recieved my real sword finally. I had purchased a youth plastic sword thinking I could retool it to my liking, but it broke into four pieces as soon as I swung it. Yup... garbage. So I went out and found a Napoleonic Era replic sword. Good stuff.




Metals are finished... just the last minute touches. Zombie walk is tomorrow.



And now for hat #2. I'm gonna do the same process as the first... this one is just abit more elaborate with the 2 colors.





Those are finished... time to get cooking on the painting itself.

More Frank About It

Was able to rework the front of the jacket into a form that I'm pretty happy with with relative ease. The problem with the original cut is that there is no way to you the classic Napoleon hand in the vest. The new cut lets you work that vest. Way better.

I also reworked all the buttons on the vest and began to wear it down to a more "dead wore" appearance.

WAIT... I already know what you are going to say about Photo #2.

Lighten Up The Meadows

Tonight I tailored the drop and fold of the collar and stitched it into place. This helped to keep it more forming to my neck height. I added revised trim work to the entire jacket and added a few embelishments to the jacket. I also added large bands of velcro to the shoulders that will then take to epelletts.

Tomorrow I'm going to rework the entire front of the jacket. It's just totally wrong.

MAILING TRANSFERRAL

OCTOBER 1, 2007
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BARKER - Michael Jackson 13 (3x4 postcard)
KANKA - Michael Jackson 14 (3x4 postcard)
KUTZBACH - Michael Jackson 15 (3x4 postcard)

Mercy Posts No Bounds

MAILING TRANSFERRAL

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007
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BARKER - Michael Jackson 10 (3x4 postcard)
KANKA - Michael Jackson 11 (3x4 postcard)
KUTZBACH - Michael Jackson 12 (3x4 postcard)

Eat Flat To Strive Long

I spent the last week trying to find decent vector logos or anything close that matched up with the 2 different Harley Davidson logos that are on the Jack Burton hats. Tonight I painted the first hat worn by Jack at the begining of the film.

Since my silkscreen equipment is set up to handle baseball caps, I had to use some old school methods of transferring my logos onto the hats accurately. Some clear kitchen drawer liner paper always does the trick when you need to frisket out something.

MAILING TRANSFERRAL

SEPTEMBER 29, 2007
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BARKER - Michael Jackson 07 (3x4 postcard)
KANKA - Michael Jackson 08 (3x4 postcard)
KUTZBACH - Michael Jackson 09 (3x4 postcard)

Chanting For Meeting People

Costume building begins. I hit up the local Hobby Lobby today and bought an outrageous amount of stuff. Lucky for me there was a sale on most everything I was buying. Plus I raided the clearance aisle like a mad man.

Dump it out and sort it up.




I have to say, I'm really glad it's so close to christmas season. I had all the red and gold ribbon I could ever want to choose from. There was an entire aisle of just ribbon spools that were like from 3.99 to 5.99. Really great materials.

So now I begin the process of creating a set of over the top Epelletts for the jacket.

Might Move Out Again

I spent the early part of this evening driving around to every local Chinese restaurant and take-out place looking for Chinese newspapers. I used to have a huge stack, but I guess I threw them away. I want them so I can use the characters in the adverts and such to build up an oriental themed background. But I couldn't find anything at all.

Luckily I had a large amount of Chinese paper materials that I had brought back home from the streets in NYC a few years back. The most amazing thing I found which couldn't have been any more perfect for this piece was a poster for the Miss Chinese New York City pageant. The girls are going to represent the girls that are being held captive in the basement of David Lo Pan's hideout.

Using the main color palette to build up a base before I white it back out.

MAILING TRANSFERRAL

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007
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BARKER - Michael Jackson 04 (3x4 postcard)
KANKA - Michael Jackson 05 (3x4 postcard)
KUTZBACH - Michael Jackson 06 (3x4 postcard)

Stand-up Thug Life

Finally... things have reached the mailbox. I know it's been a long while since I send out work.... but it's happening again. I've got an enormous amount of correspondence to start sending, Beginning today.

MAILING TRANSFERRAL

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009
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BARKER - Michael Jackson 01 (3x4 postcard)
KANKA - Michael Jackson 02 (3x4 postcard)
KUTZBACH - Michael Jackson 03 (3x4 postcard)

First Person Give And Take

Working out the configuration of the Russell pieces. Just playing around with the early pieces of the puzzle here. Going to paint Kurt in green oil and do something in red over his lips. Not sure as of yet. I want develop a work that will feel very white and milky.

Well Breed As It Is

Finishing a few pairings of donuts. These all use the new and improved processes I've been figuring out to keep them in great condition for years and years. These things will never fall off your wall.

Red Like She Does This

Wrapping up all the box frames for the heart donuts. Theres something like 5 dozen or so of them. Need to do some more work to the boxes and then I'll be ready to afix the donuts to them and be finished finally.