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I Have Arrived

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A friend of mine pointed out not just a slight rip on one of my designs but a complete rip of an illustration I did. You might recall this illustration I did back in 2009/2010 as an exercise in Adobe Illustrator.

Jane Ire. Vector Drawing. 8″x10″. 2010.

 

Well, it turns out that a roller derby league in the Netherlands decided that they liked it, so they altered it and used it for a fresh meat recruitment poster. The Arnhem Fallen Angels are a flat track derby league that looks brand new from all accounts.

I don’t think this really bothers me, since derby is pretty darn DIY, and it really wasn’t an image I’d intended to do anything with. But here are a few things:

  1. They altered the color of the skater but didn’t remove the NRG skull logo from the uniform.
  2. Anyone who knows Jane Ire will look at the image and say “that’s Jane Ire of NRG”. She has a distinctive way of skating and an even more distinct set of knee pads.
  3. They didn’t ask.

Just ask folks. If I say “no”, then it’s because I have my reasons. If I say “yes”, be prepared to ship me a t-shirt.

Number Twelve

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I did it. And I didn’t think I would. I painted one (or more) painting for every month of the year of 2011.

You see, I was balancing finishing up the semester, releasing some software, and dealing with the holidays. I looked at the canvas I had started at the beginning of the month and thought “There’s no fucking way.” I’d almost thought of just saying that it was good enough. I’d done eleven and that was decent.

I sucked it up and did this in two hours. I want to do this with oils. I think white will be the color for 2012.

SpongeBob

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I started one of my very few commissions this month. A co-worker asked me to do a painting of SpongeBob for his daughter. He didn’t want anything fancy but I’d be damned if I wasn’t going to do something serious. So far it’s going well.

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September Painting Finished

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I thought this one would go quickly, but in the end, no sir – it did not. Maybe it was the scale and maybe it was some of the slight tone areas, but I couldn’t quite pull it off.

There were some troubles with the acrylics. Keeping the paint wet enough on canvas as well as on the palette for subtle blending was difficult and everything started to feel flat. In the end I resorted to a lot of dry brushing, smearing with the thumb and mixing right on the canvas. That seemed to work ok, but my technique is very obvious when you get up close. I’d rather someone wonder how I did something instead of being so transparent.

Enh. But here you go. I like the style and I think I may try a few more like this.

Blocked. 30"x20" Acrylic on Canvas Board. September, 2011.