Masks

A full sampling of all the masks so far! Some have sold, some are on hold, but all of them are available, as I am happy to recreate any of them as a commission, and can have them ready within a few days.

Bird Mask

Metallic blue-black finish

$65

(Original sold)

Bird Mask

Matte black finish

$65

(Original sold)

Bird Mask

Two-toned red finish

$65

(Original sold)

Cthulhu mask

Green and silver semi-gloss finish

$80

Cthulhu mask

Matte black and greenish silver finish

$80

Cthulhu mask

Blue and silver semi-gloss finish

$80

(Original sold)

Cthulhu mask

Matte maroon and purple semi-metallic finish

$80

(Original sold)

Cthulhu mask

Unpainted, natural leather finish

$65

(Original sold)

Blogged!

Hey, neato! I found out yesterday that I got featured on a Lovecraft-related blog, Propnomicon. It features all manner of Old-One-related objects, art, and curiosities. One of my Cthulhu masks appeared there! Swell!

Link is here: http://propnomicon.blogspot.com/2011/10/leather-cthulhu-mask.html

Upcoming event: The Bazaar of the Bizarre

It's back, and I'm back there too! The Bazaar of the Bizarre returns this upcoming Sunday, October 23rd. Click on the image below for all the main details:

You can also add yourself to the Facebook event, to keep it on your radar.

I have a LOT of new work, and news, for this particular bazaar. I will be offering a selection of the work on canvas that many of you now know me for, as well as some work in completely new media. The short list:

-New original paintings on paper, almost all under $100 each
-NEW! Original handmade, completely wearable masks! Each on

e is one-of-a-kind, and has been designed, hand-molded from high quality leather, and hand-painted. See below for my Cthulhu-inspired design!
-Original works on canvas at special prices. At this event only, select canvases will be offered at 20-30% off of their original prices as listed on my website.
-Signed, matted, ready-to-frame prints of many of my original pieces.

I won't spoil all the surprises by posting everything here, but here some examples of new paintings, and one of the new (completely wearable!) masks:

...And much more to come on show day! Hope to see you there.

-Eden

Gentleminotaurs Prefer Blondes

Better late than never, I suppose? Here, nearly a year later... I bring you...

The post with the actual, final, finished, lettered version. (Posted with permission of the author, the lovely and talented Alison Kooistra! With lettering by the also lovely and also talented KT Smith!)

Art by me, from last spring/summer/fall thereabouts. Please enjoy, and if you did (or didn't), please leave us some feedback! Many thanks!

-Eden

Figure Drawing

Last week, I attended the first figure drawing class I'd been to in... okay, I'll fess up. It had been years.

I had figure drawing as a regular, several-times-a-week thing all through my fine art program at university, but have since been focusing more on drawing from my head than from reference. Lately I've felt like I've been maxing out on that, though. I really can't progress without turning back to live reference, and so... back I go!

I have a couple of dozens of sketches from the evening, in varying styles, and done to varying degrees of completion. This one, however, stands out as my favourite drawing of the evening. The accuracy isn't all there, by any means, but... there's a moodiness and line quality in it that's lacking in a lot of my more literal and accurate pieces. I think the bizarre angle of the model lent itself to a more abstracted approach, and often when that happens, good things can come about. Not overthinking what I'm doing, either, tends to have lovelier results... much of the time.

Sir Percy and Chauvelin: finished artwork

And, la, it's done!



The proper title, and explanation, are on deviantart, here: http://shmeeden.deviantart.com/art/Sir-Percy-and-Chauvelin-209033885

(Damask pattern available here: http://kittenbella.deviantart.com/art/Damask-Brites-Patterns-101555681)

Percy and Chauvelin: more progress!

I've done a lot more work since yesterday's post, and here it is!

First, the inks, which I did by hand, then tweaked and cleaned up in my clunky old version (but still totally practical) of Paint Shop Pro (where I can use a hard edge on the paintbrush tool -- something which is bafflingly impossible in Photoshop).



And then, flat colour!



Next up, I add shading and highlights, which is the best stage of all, as it gives the work some life and some polish. And then I decide whether or not I feel up to adding any kind of background. We shall seeeeeee...