A Giant Peach on a National Landmark, and a Silly Video

I've made some sketches for this year's Imagination Stage Children's Ball. The event will coincide with their production of James and the Giant Peach. So, naturally, like last year's Rapunzel Tower, I will be designing an Empire State Building with a Giant Peach on top!

 Other rooms consist of a Countdown Clock Challenge, Flower Pot Decorating, a Cupcake Cafe and a video of a Giant Peach that kids can ride...

Also, I made this silly video that is a, er, "screen test" for the promo for Countdown to Yuri's Night 2013 at the Artisphere! Enjoy...

...Odds and ends from the last couple of months...

Progress shot of the Lautrec backdrop for Hexagon

Dominion Stage's Avenue Q

The unofficial "logo" for the upcoming VOLTRON'S CORPSE exhibition at the Artisphere's WIP Gallery (running as a part of Countdown to Yuri's Night)

The other, more official, unofficial "logo" for VOLTRON'S CORPSE

Finally, Some Elvis Birthday Fight Club photos!

I am sorry that its been so long in coming for these photos, but better late than never! (BTW you can catch more of them at elvisbirthdayfightclub.com) These are a "best-of" from our performances at the H Street Playhouse in DC and the Creative Alliance in Baltimore.

The Traditional EBFC opener

Kittie Glitter Jumpin' at the end

Clown Vs Congress (with Pie!)

Brown Lincoln

Maria Bella

Bear VS Bear

Boxers VS Briefs

Stephen Hawking VS Dianne Rehm

Douche VS Douche

Quaalude Toss

Congress "West Side Story" moves

The Douche's backup...Summer, Eve, and Massengill

Zombie Clown!!!

Submitted without comment

In the Ghetto with Lucretia Blozia

Gigi Signals the final round

Our Iwo Jima finale moment!

ANATOMY OF A GIANT ROBOT HEAD

I recently made a giant robot head. It was a float in the Clarendon Mardi Gras this past week. I thought you'd be interested in seeing the process....

Rob Lindsay created the model of the Giant Robot Head scaled at 1"=1'

I started by creating a frame that was supported by the shaft of an old gymnasium fan mount. The pole terminates into a pillow block, so that the head will be able to rotate freely. The eyes, which were donated by Dave Moretti are old street light lenses.

The frame was then covered by four luan sheets creating the basic head shape

Vic and Ed show up to help me put the jaw on (and work through the electrical needs of the float)

Added a nose, upper teeth and sideburns to hide the pipe hinge in the jaw

Added eyebrows, moustache, ear domes, and lots of "bolts"

Grey paint job on the outside, black on the inside...also an antenna crown, complete with strobe lights!

Still photo on parade day!

This shows the scale a bit better...and the gold Caddy!

Check out this video (Minute 8:20 is where the Robot Head appears!)

And in this one, the head appears at 1:19

A month's worth of updates for the price of one

I have been away from the blog for a month because I have been busy...below is a taste of what has been going on:

Matt Grant asked me to catch some lycanthropy...

Oh, and we shot a trailer for Elvis Birthday Fight Club:

I did some designs for a new tiki bar on 7th street called Hogo...

But they decided that they liked my large velour paintings better than anything new (and frankly, there wasnt any time to paint anything new anyway)

City Paper put my artwork at the top of the column....

The "Angler Fish" painting in the back of Hogo

I have also been working on designs for the DC Mardi Gras...

 

 

 Oh, and I read the news for Weekend Update at the Valentine Candy SNL Tribute Show....

 I have some artwork in the Artpocalypse show at the Dunes...

  I also got the artists of "Voltron's Corpse" a bit more organized....

 And I designed some stuff for Hexagon....

 And of course, I have been painting like a madman for Avenue Q

And lastly, I finished this painting today....

Monkey Moon Judge 24"x36" Acrylic on Canvas

Missed Necronomicon Pages and Haunted Walk-Thru Video

Spooktacular XIII is complete, and we all had a blast, thank you for attending. There have been lots of folks who could not attend asking about unclaimed Neconomicon pages. Yes, some were unclaimed, so if you would still like one, they are available through the artbyjared website HERE

Also, I have been getting folks asking about the haunted walk-thru, and if there was video of it...well, the only video that survived the night was of the walk-thru during the daytime (with unfortunate narration by yours truly)

Blogger will not let me upload videos from Vimeo, so you will just have to click through the following link to see the video of the Spooktacular XIII walk-thru:

http://artbyjared.com/artwork/2886342_Spooktacular_XIII_2012_backyard_walk.html

 There are more photos of the Spooktacular out there, and I'd love to see them, so please send them along!