The Pink Filmore Poster

I'd hoped I'd be getting a better resolution with my new camera. I'm not. Maybe it's just cameras in general that suck? Anyway, this is the second poster I've done, which I've taken from Bonnie MacLean's collection of concert posters for the Fillmore and made both daylight palatable and blacklight fluorescent.


I got smart this time, though, mixing fluorescent paint with other colors instead of using highlighter ink on the finished product. The result is that this poster is twice as large as the other, yet took considerably less time to make. Not only that, but the color's more even under a black light, and albeit subdued, worked into other shades of red used.


All in all, it turned out bolder than I expected - that magenta is a particularly unexpected shade - but I think it works and I'm far more pleased with this than with the other.

More should, hopefully, be coming soon. Possibly in blue.

Also, a question: How do these LABELS work? As a keyword search? On my blog, they're linked to whole separate categories so that I can separate my travel writing from my reviews. Can we just go nuts labeling our work?

Dawn of the First Day

Just to clarify, there was no trouncing. There was a wee-smidgening, and I think it was largely a matter of sheer and godforesworn luck.

That being said, I am damned happy to see this blog getting activity again, and I think the talks regarding the potential for a shared studio/gallery place are unavoidably intriguing. Once again, I am advocating a Downtown position because I am greedy for and ignorant about the LA area and I believe it to be the nearest to where I currently reside.

So dust off those links and get to pestering!!

And the Winner is...

Ms. Megan Horejsi. Despite having one post go up a day later than regular, she has proven to be better at keeping up with a weekly posting schedule than myself. Congratulations to her and the awesome work she's been doing with The Conjurors. As per the wager, I will buy her a free lunch or dinner or whatever meal at a fast food eatery. Even though I lost, this doesn't mean that you've seen the last of my comics. Let's all remember that these contests are meant to keep us all drawing and that competitive aspect definitely works as motivation. Now, onward to the next challenge!

M vs. M: Week 3

Week 3 draws to a close and both myself and Megan are still going strong with our respective comic strips. I gotta say, this whole wager was a good idea. I don't know if I'd still be motivated enough to continue pumping out a weekly comic if there wasn't something on the line.

I've mentioned it before to the There Will Be Ink group on Facebook, but I still have plans on somehow transforming this little competition driven art club into a viable charity organization. It will be geared towards promoting an art program for kids and teens in the Southern California area. Right now I'm heavily researching what it takes to get something like that up and running. Luckily, other people have shown interest in the idea. We'll see how it develops in the coming months.

Ladies And Gentlemen

We are now into Week 2 of the competition between Meg and myself. At the moment I'm doing more Hullabaloo comics, a strip I've had going for about four years, at my site but doesn't mean I won't introduce other strips I've come up with over the past couple of months. Due to the unpredictable nature of my work schedule, I won't be able to give a specific time for my updates. That may change, especially if Meg wants to raise the stakes to twice weekly in the future.

And They're Off

I suppose today marks the beginning of the wager, as it were. I don't know about Mark and his projected schedule, but I'm planning to update The Conjurors, a fairy tale, every Wednesday morning. So far I've gotten a few posts up, and hopefully I'll be able to continue along this line. If I ever get a serious handle on it, I might even try for twice weekly.

So there's that. Good luck to everyone else participating.