Chai House show

I will be hanging art within the next day or two at Mr. Spots Chai House in lovely Ballard. Artwalk is every second Saturday, so come have a look then.

Have you seen this?? I wouldn't plug any cartoon I didn't love

In the words of David Cross: Totally cool, totally cool, totally cool.

Summertime is Golden Gardens Time

Paige and I enjoying the beautiful Golden Gardens.

Happy Hump Day

This Wednesday night!! Animal Benefit Closing Party at Cafe Racer

Again, all proceeds go to Animal Talk shelter. Prices will come down (at least on my work) for the final night! This beautiful drawing can be yours.

In mural news: Almost every panel has been stolen, and KOMO 4 covered it on the evening news

See the news clip here: http://www.komonews.com/news/23965359.html

Good work teaming up with the Problem Solvers, Bob.

Happy 4th of July!

Here's a random sketch book image of Laura, who had whooping cough.

Get Back Cretins

Jim Woodring has spoken with the city and they will now post these signs that he made around the mural. I guess they will also replace Bob Rini's panel, shown below.

This just in! The notice couldn't go up fast enough. Jim has just received this message from Barbara Luecke at Sound Transit:
"I just received a call from a young reporter from the Capitol Hill Times who would like to do a story about the artist working on Broadway. You previously said you would prefer to be the artists of mystery. Do you still feel that way?
We learned this morning that parts of two more murals were taken early afternoon yesterday. Howdy Doody and seated animals."

They were taken midday? Surely someone out there is a witness.

Bob Rini's stolen panel

A peek of Mt. Rainier from Cal Anderson park

Seattle weather has finally turned sunny and HOT. I took this photo while I was visiting the mural this weekend, which is a block from Cal Anderson park.

This Nib-nailed hand will get you for stealing

Well, the entire mural was up. And then a panel created by Bob Rini was stolen sometime shortly after. Read this: http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/calling_all_snitches
-It's a link to the Stranger's blog discussing the catastrophe.
Some of the photos below are some close ups of the mural.

This close up of the Broadway/Denny mural includes my work. They are the portraits of ladies with wine glasses.

Parts of FOTN mural finally up!

This is a side of the former Jack-in-the-Box at Broadway and Denny, where my Friends of the Nib-sters have a patched together mural on vinyl panels. I don't think all panels are in place yet, but I've heard that the ones present may be tempting some punks into larceny. Not cool.

This is a photo taken by Ellen Forney's camera phone. I'll post some close ups as soon as I can get onto the Hill to see it myself.

Laura and the Leopard

This is the finished version of the drawing below. This was inked and painted with watercolor and gouache. Laura told me after seeing this finished that she had a run-in with a cougar in Bellingham, WA, a year or two ago while hiking. She shooed it away by saying, "No, Bad Kitty!"
So be careful hikers, maybe bring a guitar with you and serenade the beasts.

Musical experiment

This is my friend Laura. I colored and tweaked this in Photoshop...the original sketch is up on my website. I'm working on a redo of her with watercolor and gouache and a leopard in the scene.

Cat Scratch Fever

This is a piece that will be in the Animal Talk benefit show this Friday. Please come and buy animal art! All proceeds go towards this caring shelter. See the official show poster a few postings back.

AWW

I found my kitties like this the other night. It's like they posed.

This is the announcement flyer (created by Mr. Jim Woodring) for a show I'll be in next week

Next FOTN show to benefit the kitties at Animal Talk...(where my babies Jose and Braque were adopted :)