Awesome Robot Sketches.......(or mike is excited and stuff....)

So I'm listening to Girl Talk and chillin' with Ivy who is presently waiting for me to leave my house and all that jazz but I started doing this and I am going to finish darn it......

This is my new series that I am trying to make into a robot totem pole.....the bird totem pole is soon to come as well. Too much time visiting museums in the northwest....

I've also started a project that was kind of a rip off of a project that Roger Demuth a professor at Syracuse had the class prior to mine do. Scan in a really tiny drawing and blow it up, print it and paint that. So I've been working on it and it's starting to look really cool. the line seems way more expressive this way.

This is my newest sketch for the show next April. this show is going to be pretty rad. Everyone start getting your tickets to seattle..........

Back by Popular Demand

Seems like every time I end up blogging lately, it begins with "so it's been a while" . This I can't dispute this time either but nevertheless I've been busy and having a good time with everything.

There is some new stuff waiting in the wings, and everything will be coming to fruition within the next couple months. Perhaps there is a move in my near future and perhaps a new job, perhaps one of my business ventures is starting to fly. We'll see what happens and once it seems more concrete I will let anyone who comes here to this blogspot know.

In the meantime......



Here is one of my first sketches for the Blue Bottle show next april. It's kind of an ode to a paining I saw at http://www.rrobots.com/. This guys paintings are pretty rad. I thought his robot arms reaching would be better served looking after a bird though.....


This is a sketch for one of the first pieces in my "big show" I mentioned last blog posting. I'm going to be cutting out a bunch of these mini trees....I'm thinking they might represent seasonal changes as well, so there may be some with leaves and leaves changing color and buds as well......all in good time.

My parents are coming tomorrow....we'll see when next I post....probably another well it's been a while but......

Feeling Good in July

So It's been a pretty crazy two month period. TinCan Web Works has been taking off a little bit and that has cut into my time to paint a little bit, but I've finally started my first piece for the show at BlueBottle next April. Actually it is almost done so I will probably get that up in the next couple of days......no really, I'm for real this time.

I've also been applying to jobs in Canada lately. According to the points system that goes towards immigration all I need is a job offer from a company to score a 75. You need a 67 to get in. So that would be cool.

In the meantime I have been writing up a proposal for a huge show that I'm going to try to get a month residency to make. I think it's time I bypass grad school and just perform some awesome DIY principles......

so here's the first sketch for that show....

No paintings or sketches today

So I don't have any paintings to put up today, or sketches for that matter, but I have a lot of stuff waiting to go up. I need to be able to put CS3 back on my computer though, so I'm waiting on the RAM that is coming in the mail... Wouldn't it be cool if ram for a computer looked like a big mountain goat.......

Started to do a lot of tree drawings and started to carve some of those out of plywood. I don't know where all of it is leading but I will keep everyone updated. On another note, my legs are sooooore. Started at the farmhouse and I think I may die there.....

see you soon with some images.

Mike

I was stoked about my new robots, so I share....

So I think this is going to be the first piece that I work up for the Blue Bottle, but I think I have to put another swooping bird in the foreground to balance out the one in the back, that and if I add another character it will be enough about the characters that the environment can be pretty much atmospheric which is highly preferable in these pieces. Nobody wants highly defined background in a painting that I do of a robot and a bird......



I most certainly thought this robot up after reading some more Asimov........This research thing could really make the difference. Maybe Joe Glisson wasn't full of crap after all......



I love this guy. You probably can't see it but his name tag says Duncan.......Silly but come on, like the runner on the side of a Dunkin Donuts cup isn't cheesy. I mean what runner in their right mind has a cup of coffee before they leave the house. All that would mean is that three miles in you would be double over some mesquite or something......


Yea this totally has a double meaning.....first off, I screw up enough in my sketchbook that I feel like I should have an oops monster. Just a little guy to say "hey, ya bonehead, this drawing really sucks all sorts of words that I can't say cuz I'm a well behaved oops monster". Secondly, you guessed it, I really, really, really t'd my lovely lady off tonight.........oops shorry!

Robot Dilemma

So I have a show at the Blue Bottle coming up, which is awesome, but I'm supposed to do robots and birds, and well I haven't drawn any robots in months, so I'm trying to get back into it. I've been reading "I, Robot" and checking out some sci fi drawings and what not. I'm really trying to do a little more research on things. It seems to have helped me with the character of my birds so why not with the robots as well?

Here is one of my newer sketches of bird robot combo though. I'm leaning more towards large bubble looking robots....and am also pretty excited about the old robots on Mars in the second story in "I, Robot" with the saddles on their backs...kind of a cool concept....makes you wonder why they call him the master of science fiction....not really!


I'm not really into these guys eyes. I'm kind of thinking a C3P0 kind of thing.......but I sort of like the small circles too..........

For birds I've been really leaning towards Gold finches and Cuckoo birds. I love the crown on the Cuckoo bird and I can't help thinking of the Cuckoo Pigeon sisters of "Odd Couple" fame when I'm drawing them.


Lastly today...here's a little emo blast. Thinking about the show that I saw at the ICA in Boston. Can't get the speaker images out of my head. Never could, but seeing this show just intensified that feeling.


Have to go. Beth just put Weird Al on. Something must be done........

Unemployed

So I had to quit my job, because my boss was a complete tyrant and I was the only cook left

But on a better not, I sold a couple paintings at the Hive Gallery in LA, and I took a few more to concord to the Speakeasy Boutique and I have the details of my Blue Bottle Show ironed out a little bit.

So here's a couple of pieces that I took to the Speakeasy Boutique:

Another bird and birdhouse piece. This one is entitled Goldfinch Jazz. I'm moving on to different birds and away from hip hop references. Can I make a death metal bird and bird house? Hmmmm....



I really like this guy. I think Puddle of Mud or something, but way cooler....

Look ma no headphones!!