ArtBox Project for @PghCityPaper (part 3)

I was selected to paint (decorate? enhance? art?) one of ten Pittsburgh City Paper street boxes. This is Part 3 of my progress reports. The next thing I did was the underpainting on the other four sides of the box. Kinda boring, sorry. But if you think the underpainting was boring, imagine what painting “Pittsburgh City Paper” eight times down …

ArtBox Project for @PghCityPaper (part 2)

I was selected to paint (decorate? enhance? art?) one of ten Pittsburgh City Paper street boxes. This is Part 2 of my progress reports. The first thing I had to do to the CP box was prime it, then transfer the sketches and then get the underpainting going. (Sorry, kinda boring.) The sketch on the front. The underpainting on the …

ArtBox Project for @PghCityPaper

A friend (I suppose I can still call her that) from work told me that the Pittsburgh City Paper ArtBox Project just “screamed” for me to paint some Rots. So I sketched, and I entered. And then they went and picked me to paint one of their boxes. I guess now I have to paint it. Here’s the sketch I …

Thirsty Whale Tavern (part 2)

My napkin @ the Thisty Whale Tavern, 40 Cottage St, Bar Harbor, Maine. And not only that, here’s the one from the day before yesterday, hung up (thank you, Kirsten!). And not only that, here’s the one I just did with the first one, hung up before we even had a chance to leave!

April Fool Square Kat

As you may (or may not) have noticed, I’ve failed to post the finished version of my April Fool Square Kat, and there’s a perfectly good reason for that.While I was in the middle of painting the little tyke, I stopped to check my email and found I had gotten one from a representative of the Toonseum in Pittsburgh. He …