SPOOKTACULAR 14!

See the below photos for a glimpse of the insanity that was our 14th spooktacular (the all clown circus year! (photos stolen from multiple sources...send me some if you want them posted here!)

Cannon photo op with Ring of fire, knife throw skeleton and Queequeg's Coffin

View from the Cannon

 

Pennants staked in the front yard (with hanging skeleton!)

Clean photo of the 16 foot + plinko

Crowd in the Karaoke Fun House

Gangster clown uses the cannon for a getaway

Bumpin' Backyard

Creepy clowns before they have been won

Space-Ace and Catman

Doctor Rockzo has made a f-f-f-friend

Party organization committee...whatta team!

Artistic Plinko Shot # 1

Artistic Plinko Shot #2

Queequeg died from being crushed by SO MUCH BEER!

Karaoke Fun House

Behind the Music

Favorite triple launch of the party

FOOD! note the cotton candy...

KISS!

The Joker and Catman are suspicious that you have read all the way to the end of this post...

The Circus Peanut costume was found wandering the streets of Petworth the next day...

Short Clown Round Up and POP the Game Show

This week has been busy with two projects that I cant really talk about (not that they are secret, but it's rude to show progress shots of a production that hasn't hit the stage yet...that is, if it were exclusively my project, I wouldn't care...but since they are work for others, you will just have to wait until after the show opens) and last Saturday's POP! the Game Show...so I was only able to make two more clowns:
 

Clown # 22, 12" x 14" Acrylic on Board

Clown # 23, 8"x10" Acrylic on Board

  Last Saturday was the "Night of 1000 Andys" at the Artisphere. As you may have heard, Astro Pop Events put on a little game show, whose name is ably being demonstrated by Kittie Glitter in the photo below.

People loved what I did with last Halloween's 55 gallon drums...

Here's the set as we were setting up....only a dozen more bananas to go!

The finale of the evening...Elvis and Andy go head to head as the celebrities in POP Pyramid

 Artisphere also commissioned me to create a photo op (you can see the design HERE) and it seemed to be getting some heavy usage! Can you name the celebrities depicted?

CREEPY CLOWN ROUNDUP NUMBER 3 (and POP! the Game Show)

Here's this weeks roundup of Creepy Clowns:

Clown # 17

2013

Acrylic on Board

14" x 17"

Clown # 18

2013

Acrylic on Board

16" x 14"

Clown # 19

2013

Acrylic on Board

8" x 10"

Clown # 20

2013

Acrylic on Board

16" x 20"

Clown # 21

2013

Acrylic on Board

5" x 5"

(after Picasso's Family of Saltimbanques)

The other news this week is that Astro Pop Events will be hosting "POP! The Game Show" at Artisphere's "Night of a Thousand Andys" this Saturday October 12. Here's a peek at the design of the set:

And here is a design of the photo op that Astro Pop Events is building for the event:

Clown Roundup # 2

After taking a week off to cruise around the North Atlantic (Maine, New Brunswick and Halifax) I am back and ready for another CREEPY CLOWN ROUNDUP!

(if you are interested in purchasing any, please visit the Creepy Clowns Web page)

#9 Acrylic on Board 20" x24"(SOLD)

#10 Acrylic on Board 11" x 14"

#11 Acrylic on Oak Board, 11" x 14"

# 12 Acrylic on Board 8" x 16"

#13 Acrylic on Board 5" x 7"

#14 Acrylic on Board 5" x 7"

# 15 Acrylic on Board 12" x 16"

# 16 Acrylic on Board 11" x 14" (SOLD)

Clown Roundup # 1

As anybody who is friends with me on Facebook knows, (and I presume that is all of you...except perhaps my parents...who am I kidding? they don't read this blog!) I have been posting photos of my daily clown paintings (to be fair, its not exactly daily...I have been skipping a day or two. but my hope is to have 30 complete by the Spooktacular) These paintings will serve as the prizes for the game(s) we devise to be played at the Spooktacular. They are available for purchase before the party HERE, and you will note that some are already sold.

Clown #2  8"x11"

Clown 3  7.5"x9.5"

 

Clown # 4   12"x14"

Clown #5  9.5"x11.5"

Clown #6  5"x7" (SOLD)

Clown # 7  20"x25" (SOLD)

Clown # 8  12"x14"

Look for more (22 more!) creepy clown paintings in the coming weeks...and get your clown costumes ready!

Also, I'd like to remind you that Saturday is the opening reception for the ArtWhino G40 Art Summit, where my robot painting "NIGH" will be on view...

See you there!

It's so nigh, that its done...and clowns

Here is the finished piece for the Artwhino G40 show (opens Friday 9/13)

"NIGH" 18"x48" Acrylic on Recycled Luan Scenery.

Also, today I started on my annual fall art project, making "prizes" for the games of the Spooktacular. This year's Spooktacular theme is closely related to creepy clowns. So, for the next month and a half, I will be making one creepy clown painting a day. Hopefully I will have 30 made by the event date. I am going to do my best to post each painting daily on Facebook (and a weekly roundup on this blog) so that people can get the opportunity to purchase the clowns before the event. You see, some folks want to purchase the prizes before the event because they A) don't think that they will be very good at the game. B) Find that Halloween art speaks to them and don't want to take chances that others will win their favorite C) Want to personally destroy a creepy clown painting so that it cannot continue to scare others.

If you are interested in one of the paintings, please contact me (Personal message or email please) and I will mark yours as "sold" during the party. I will be posting them (in bursts) on my website, so you can start to get an idea of which have sold (because you can also purchase them there), and what they will look like altogether. (You can also purchase some of the remaining Necronomicon pages from last year, HERE)

Here is today's clown:

Clown #1, 8"x11" (with vintage bamboo frame)

Just a Tiny Bit Closer to Nigh

Just wanted to post a quick update on the progress I made this morning on the painting I am creating for ArtWhino's G40 exhibit. The painting is tentatively called "NIGH". I hope to be finished with it by Tuesday.

Studio Cleanout is Nigh

There have not been very many groups building in the scene shop this summer, consequentially, I have seized the opportunity to start/finish a number of projects that have been on the "to-do" list. Many of these projects involve simple cleanup (we installed new pneumatics, added more hooks, organized the prop loft, etc) and it has been very satisfying to see a clean shop now that groups are starting to trickle back in. This past week I have extended the cleaning spree to the home studio. I cleaned out, and re-organized everything (so, not much art was actually made), I even went through the bookshelf and found a stack of books to sell back. I had about 10-15 big books to take to the used bookstore. They gave me $10 store credit, and refused to take half of them! Anyway, in the end, it means that I have a cleaner home studio, and that I am ready to get back to business.

(Oh, BTW, I got my annual strep throat infection this past week also...caught it at the first sign of a sore throat...so I dont even have illness as a valid excuse for not painting!)

Last Friday's ArtRomp went every well. (thanks for asking) BYT did a photo essay on the event HERE

Anyway, I started a piece this morning. It's for ArtWhino's new space's opening event. The theme is "transformation" which seemed to be more about finding odd substrates than anything truly thematic...so, I found an old piece of scenery to paint on, and went to town. I realize that the photo is not great (camera-phone) but that is partially due to the fact that I have painted the small luan flat as if it were an old piece of metal....so some of the problems in the photograph are due to the glare of the silver paint. I am hoping to get it finished by Saturday's deadline...

NIGH (tentative title) 18"x48" Acrylic on Luan (in progress)

Art Romp Anacostia Tomorrow!

You should come out to Art Romp Anacostia tomorrow night. Really. It's been a long time (6 years!) since the last time Molly Ruppert decided to call up all of her favorite artist-types and hang one of the most anarchic and surprising art shows DC has seen. Think of it as an Artomatic, but smaller and more...pointed...that is, a sharp pointy stick that jabs at you imploring you to get off of your duff and go see the art that the people all around you are making!

Anyway, below is my submission:

Man In The Moon, Mixed Media on Paper, 11"x15"

This guy is a bit of a departure for me (i.e. no monkeys) but I have really been grooving on making more "dreamlike" work lately...I am going to have to take a brief break from this type of work very soon because the siren song of the Spooktacular can now be heard faintly in the distance...(the song sounds a bit like it has a calliope in it...)