This past weekend, I had two art shows here in Atlanta.  I was really not on the ball with posting them on here, so we’ll call this a recap as opposed to an announcement.

The first show, called ManEaters and LadyKillers, hosted by my friends at MINT gallery, was something different and fun, and had a flair of the romantic just in time for Valentines day. The theme is based on the romance comics of the 50′s and 60′s. This was right up my alley because I am a comic book nerd and LOVE drawing in that style.

ManEaters and LadyKillers Flyer

The show had a good turn out and there was some really great art there.  It’s always fun the see other peoples interpretations of a theme. Here are the two pieces I did for the show.

Gambling for Love

Lady of the Evening

I had a lot of fun with these!  They are on illustration board and are painted with watercolor, embellished with color pencil, then outlined with trusty ol’ Micron pens.  I really enjoyed coming up with a “story” for these in my head to help with the imagery for the covers of the “would-be” comic books.  For the show, I took the artwork, which is the size of a comic book, and put it in a plastic comic book sleeve. I then floated them in simple black frames. Fun!

The second show of the evening have a theme not too far from the MINT show’s theme.  “Film Noir and The Femme Fatale” was the show at WonderRoot gallery on the same night.  I was excited about this show because I haven’t shown with WonderRoot yet, and looked forward to working with a new gallery.

The Femme Fatale Flyer

For this show I did another skateboard piece.  (Which, by the way, I am having so much fun painting on skateboards lately!) This piece almost turned out to be a nightmare…after stripping and sanding down the board, I decided to do watercolor on it, which I’ve done in the past.  But this board was different somehow and the watercolors just weren’t giving me the look I wanted.  Thankfully, my colored pencils saved the day!  I like the look the pencils gave it. And once that was done, I was debating with myself whether I should outline everything with pen…*sigh* Luckily, my wonderful art friends convinced me NOT to, and here is the result:

Lady in Red

Oh yeah….she’s hot. 

Here are some “progress” shots:

Line work on the skateboard

Sketch-a-doodle-doo!

Hooray for webcam when my camera is out of commission.

I didn’t make it to the WonderRoot show that night, but the show is up for a month, so I’ll probably go check it out this week and take some pictures.