Tom's Art Adventures

Well it’s darn near Halloween 2007 and people are scrambling for
what this year’s costume is going to be. I realize we’re just 10 days
away, but I wanted to plug an old friend’s monster mask business
in the Bay Area – Chuck Jarman and Bump In The Night Productions.

He, his wife and his crew are all probably swamped right now, but I
wanted to get the word out. Just so happens that this plug for Chuck’s
work came along as I was reminiscing while updating my website
SCULPTURE page. I put up some quicktime clips of Chuck and long-time
friend Dan Morgan and I creating an old-age makeup back in the late
1990s. Chuck also assisted me on “The Link” alien makeup project.
These next screen grabs, like the one of Chuck above are samplings of those clips
from the archives.

Dan Morgan is a stage actor/comedian and quite an FX makeup technician
himself and that’s him under the foam latex. The clips are a really cool
glimpse of the work we used to do in our earlier careers. Hope you’ll enjoy.

…In that order.

A Donation:

I haven’t gotten any bids on the “Jungle Girl” piece (Come on folks, it’s for a good cause! See previous post.), BUT we just got exciting news that the “Moxy” sculpt was sold to John Stevenson of Dreamworks, the designer and puppeteer of the live motion-capture character, back when we worked together at Colossal Pictures during the 1990’s. Way to go, John! Proceeds will go to the Alzheimer’s Assoc.

An interview:

I recently had email correspondence with Mahesh Bhat, a gracious and friendly fellow who has an ongoing blog publication ‘KalaaLog’. The site is devoted to digital art, with tutorials and other helpful tips and resources. He asked if I would mind being interviewed and published in this insightful and well-executed site. I humbly agreed and I thought I would share it and the contents of Mr. Bhat’s publications. Thanks for a pleasant opportunity, Mahesh!

Some sketches:

Here is a series of beautiful faces of random girls I’ve come across in print and on the web. The sketches were done in pencil for the most part and done as quickly as I could without destroying the beauty of the girls’ features, ranging from just a few minutes to 15 minutes. I’ll be doing more of these, as I feel it to be a good exercise for me from time to time.

This set was done using Alias Sketchbook Pro:

Well, I am so proud of everyone who came through with their art donations and especially proud of those who stepped up and spent the money! $13,000 PLUS all going to the Alzheimer’s Association!

I missed all the excitement and worst of all, I never got my two donation pieces to the event. The Moxy sculpture was in need of repair before it was to go into the show and I didn’t get that done either. All because of a some stomach virus I caught at the end of the week. I won’t go into details, but suffice it to say, I hope none of you ever end up getting infected with this awful bug.

I’m all better now…and hey, the framed & signed print of Jungle Girl is still up for auction with the proceeds going to the Alzheimer’s Association if anyone wants to get in on the action. Bids open all this week 10-01 to 10-5.
The Jungle Girl print starting bid is set at $45 and if you want to bid on it just place your bid in the comment box of this blog entry. Highest bidder wins and we can settle payment over email here at Maverix Studios.

Let’s give a try, shall we? Come on, you can do it!