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Justice is served…

by ncwinters on September 26, 2009

…a new painting for your viewing pleasure.

October is a busy month, with no less than three group shows featuring my artwork. Since I’m terrible about planning anything blog related, I’ll do each show a bit at a time, starting with the closest one. The Hive Gallery in Los Angeles is putting on a huge art show featuring the Tarot Deck. Selected artists were asked to create an image based on a card chosen at random. My card was Justice, which I will mull over for meaning based on recent life events. It’s a return to my works on paper days, to which I have been anxious to return. The painting is acrylic on heavy paper, which was then mounted to wood. The whole thing was varnished and then resined for a nice glossy wet look. I’m very pleased with the result and will be doing more paintings with this technique in the future. I’m most comfortable on paper, and this was really fun to do and took less than half the time, while being twice as good. Go figure. Here it is, “Justice” for your viewing pleasure:

Justice

“Justice”
Acrylic on paper, mounted to wood, resined. 11″ x 14″

The show opens Saturday, October 3rd, at 8PM. Eight dollars at the door gains you entry to what promises to be a fantastic show. Full details below. I was lucky enough to score the cover image, so you know, that’s groovy. Contact Nathan Cartwright at The Hive Gallery for purchasing information.

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More soon, I promise.

*NCW*

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Where oh where has my little blog gone…?

by ncwinters on November 19, 2008

…the one with the waggily tail?

Wow. Just realizing how out of it I’ve been as far as the blog world goes. I’ve been slammed, I’m been slack, I’ve been full of many excuses. A lot has happened from the last post, so let’s jump right into it.

Let’s see, Ginger (my lovely wife) hijacked my last post to tell you all about the Keep-A-Breast show, which went well. I should back up a step and comment on the fantastic job she did on the post. My blog entries will pretty much always pale in comparison to hers. She has started her own blog and is much more professional and punctual with her blogification. Check it out when you can- rambleramble.com. Nicely laid out and her excellent writing makes for a good read. I’m a bit biased though. Did I mention she’s my wife?

Let’s see…what else?

Oh yes, the Deep Water group show at C.A.V.E. Gallery in Venice happened a few weeks ago. Never got around to posting about it, see the aforementioned to slackassery. You can see a nice video of the show, as well as a full gallery of the paintings. I’m quite proud of a brand new watercolor I did for the show. Haven’t done a watercolor in quite a while and enjoyed working on this one. Resined it onto a plank of wood when I was done. Still experimenting with the resining, but I’m really enjoying it. Expect more resined drawings and watercolors in the future.

Symbiosis- Watercolor and ink on paper, resined onto wood.

What else, what else?

Oh, the Beasts of Burden show was at Subtext last Friday. The featured toy was the MIAO cat and mouse combo from Zakkamono. A great show as usual, Don and Dylan are always great, and of course props to George and Gabriel who are always on top of it. “It” of course, being awesomeness. Can’t mention the show without calling out the married pair Zakka and Rae. This super fun and creative duo comprise Zakkamono- the company responsible for the design and production of the MIAO kitty cat and mouse. Both super neat people, both with fantastic MIAO customs in the show. Check out some of the shots:

Never Too Old- Acrylic on vinyl MIAO cat and mouse. Acrylic glaze coating.

Never Too Old- detail.

That’s about it for now. I’m using this long post as an excuse to get my lazy butt back into bloggerizing gear. A little easier now that we have a new Mac, but that’s another story…

(Insert Neverending Story theme music here)

*voice of doom*

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Behold the art of The Hive…

by ncwinters on September 5, 2008

…pardon the sloppy HTML coding.

So here it is. What I’ve been doing the past few months while I haven’t been blogging, Daily Drawing, keeping up with client deadlines, sleeping regulary or eating in a healthy and human-like manner. This is the payoff. This is all part of “Bee-Rotica”- a huge art show this coming first Saturday- September 6th, or tomorrow, for those keeping count. I will be one of the two main featured artists at The Hive. The other is the talented Jason Hernandez. As you may have guessed, the theme of the evening is “erotica” and I believe burlesque-type girls shall be there. Not exactly sure what they will be doing, but if they are pretty and half-naked, I know I will be enjoying the evening.

I am quite proud of this new body of work, and have had many fine compliments on it (which is always a help to my ego). While not necessarily a new direction, I think it is definitely a higher comfort level with the paint than I’ve had in a long time. Enough about all that. Hope to see you at the show, I will be in attendance for the evening’s entirety. I would love to promise more Daily Drawing after this is done, but I can’t make any promises.

Take care, I love most of you.

*voice of doom*