Shows, Prints and Skins! - my latest newsletter

Hi all, hope everyone's having a great winter thus far! Three chunks of news for you all today.

Shows
I have three shows coming up in the next couple weeks... all in San Francisco, so if you're in the area it'd be great to see you!


"Seussian Yellow" - One of the new pieces I'll be showing at "Paper Pushers" next week.

Friday, December 4th - "For the City" at Lower Haters. Annual holiday sale, tons of great artists will be showing their work. See show details here.

Saturday, December 5th - "Printed Matter 7" at Giant Robot SF. I'll be selling my brand new limited edition prints here! See show details here.

Friday, December 11th - "Paper Pushers" at Gallery 1988 SF. This will be my last biggish show of the year, I'll be showing ten new pieces. See show details here. I'll be sending out a reminder email closer to the show with a preview of my work.

Prints
My last run of limited edition prints were of "The Chase." That run is officially sold out and closed, but never fear... You may remember that I asked you to take part in a poll a while back. Well, I've taken in the results, and am happy to announce that I have three new limited edition prints available!

Introducing three new limited edition prints - "Bloom", "Raspberry Triptych", and "Blue Meeting". There will be one hundred of each made. My favorite print shop SF Electric Works really outdid themselves this time - the colors are incredibly vibrant, and the archival watercolor paper feels and looks wonderful.

These prints are available for sale immediately! "Bloom" for $80, "Raspberry Triptych" for $80, and "Blue Meeting" for $60. Prices do not include shipping and handling ($15 in US, more if elsewhere). If interested, please email me with the name of the print you'd like to purchase in the subject line. See more details here.

Skins
The last piece of news is that Gelaskins has just added my "Bloom" piece to their catalog of featured artist skins. This is my fourth piece with them, and I'm pretty excited to see how it will do. Take a look - you can have this artwork (as well as the artwork of many, many talented artists) on your phone, iPod, laptop, gaming device, even a Rock Band guitar!



And that's about it folks. Thanks for bearing with me, and I hope you all have a great day!

Lawrence

Nymph

"Nymph" - ink, watercolor and gouache on paper - 7" x 10"

Haven't done anything figural in a while... maybe I should try more...

Also, I'm getting ready to send out a newsletter to my mailing list with some big news. If you're not already on the list, you can join at the top of the page here.

'night!

Parley

"Parley" - ink, watercolor and gouache on paper - 7" x 10"

Ha, nevermind. I couldn't sleep and decided to finish it.

12 01 09 WIP

12 01 09 WIP - ink, watercolor and gouache on paper - 7" x 10"

Work in progress for the Gallery 1988 SF show coming up...

Seussian Trees

Seussian Trees.

Here they are as a set -- will be showing these at a show coming up at Gallery 1988 SF!

Seussian Pink

"Seussian Pink" - ink, watercolor and gouache on paper - 7" x 10"

A new Seussian Pink -- this one fits a bit better with the other two as a series... Renamed the other one Seussian Elder, since it might be the older, grittier version of this =).

Cheers!

Seussian Yellow

"Seussian Yellow" - ink, watercolor and gouache on paper - 7" x 10"

Hooray, third one is done! Here they are all together.

Hmmm. I may go back and redo the pink one though, it doesn't really sit quite right with me... Ah well, I'll worry about it tomorrow.

'night!

Seussian Elder

"Seussian Elder" - ink, watercolor and gouache on paper - 7" x 10"

edit: renamed this one, since I painted a new Seussian Pink that fit better in the set of three

"Seussian Blue"

"Seussian Blue" - ink, watercolor and gouache on paper - 7" x 10"

A piece inspired by Dr. Seuss... thinking of making this into a series of different trees in different colors... Hmm.

Blue Fairy

"Blue Fairy" - ink and watercolor on paper - 16" x 12"


"Blue Fairy"- detail - ink and watercolor on paper - 16" x 12"

Did some live painting at a guerilla dining event tonight -- here's one of the pieces that came out of it -

The guerilla dining event was by GraffEats. The food was so good... if you have a chance definitely check out one of their events coming up - it's for a good cause as well!

I swapped this piece for a delicious bottle of absinthe by the good people of Old World Spirits.

What a fun night =)

New prints are here!

The new limited edition prints are here!

Same as before -- each is a limited set of 100 prints on archival watercolor paper. Super high quality, beautiful colors, the folks at SF Electric Works (the print shop I used) really outdid themselves this time.

Update:

Prints are now available! View details here: http://www.suckatlife.com/printsForSale.html

Fish Triptych

"Fish Triptych" - watercolor, gouache and pastel on paper - 7" x 10"

Hooray, finished it! Took a bunch of process pictures too, so click through to take a look.

'night!

Doodle 11 19 09

Doodle 11 19 09 - gouache on mat board - 3" x 4"

Still making progress on the triptych -- looking good so far! There will be fish.

In the meantime, here's another doodle I did yesterday. White on black is interesting, I'll definitely need to experiment more with it.

Kitty in Space

"Kitty in Space" - gouache on mat board - 3" x 4"

Working on a triptych for a show coming up, will post the finished piece with process pictures soon. In the meantime, enjoy this kitty floating in space.

'night!

Blue White on Black

"Blue White on Black" - gouache on mat board - 11" x 6"

Just experimenting. . .

Fishing

"Fishing" - watercolor and ink on paper - 4" x 7"

After a few magnificent failures (that I cut off), I finally finished this piece. Hooray!

11 13 09 WIP

11 13 09 WIP - watercolor on paper - 10" x 7"

Looks peaceful...

Dr. Sketchy's Roadshow - "DD 20 Minute Pose"

"DD, 20 minute pose 2" - marker on paper - 17" x 14"

Dr. Sketchy's Roadshow was in San Jose last night!

It was a ton of fun, and by the end of the night I had a respectable stack of sketches of the models in various stages of undress.

For the uninitiated, "Dr. Sketchy's is what happens when cabaret meets art school." It's life drawing, but the setup, atmosphere, characters, etc -- make it so much more than just life drawing. If there is a Dr. Sketchy's near you, I highly highly recommend it.

Find out more information about Dr. Sketchy's here.

Bucket of Does

"Bucket of Does"

For the confused:
Verizon came out with a new phone, DROID, whose tagline is "A bare knuckled bucket of does." This works fine for TV ads, but in print not so much. Nancy Friedman blogged about how this works fine for TV ads, but in print not so much. My friend Bronwyn Jones sent me a link and asked me to draw a bucket of does.

And here it is.

'night!

Fish Experiment

"Fish Experiment" (detail) - ink and gouache on paper - 12" x 9"

Just playing around with different textures. Came out looking pretty interesting though.