Category: Arts of all Kinds

We did the pinup show at Mint Gallery last night. My cards didn’t sell, but Nick sold one each of I’ve Got a Secret and Murphy’s Law. :-)

My pieces are photos I took at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. I took them into Photoshop and made them monochrome then ran the Ink Outlines filter on them. Once that was done I cropped them and printed them out on cold press watercolor paper. Then I took the original photos as a guide and handpainted the postcards with watercolors. Here they are:

Nick used a pic I took of DJ on the deck, a photo taken by his Dad in 1971 (Dog and cat, entitled “I’ve got a secret”.) and his Murphy’s law piece. Here they are (Sorry for the flash on DJ. The laser ink is rather shiny.):

It was really great to be in a show even if mine didn’t sell. I got lots of compliments. And we won 2 tix to Dad’s Garage as well as a $50 Gift Cert from some chi-chi place in Va Highland. If they gave a $50 gift cert, I’m sure their stuff is too pricey for me, but I’ll check it out to see.

It was a very fun night!

If you’ve not heard of Camilla d’Errico, then you probably don’t read comics or stuff like that. Her art is rather manga, but with lovely pencil and paint.

I was introduced to Camilla’s art by Serena Valentino’s Nightmares and Fairy Tales comics. These two ladies are so incredibly talented! It’s too bad that SLG does very little on the East coast. DragonCon, of course, can’t be bothered to invite them.

I just posted a very amusing story over on LJ that those on my friends list should definitely check out – you’ll laugh, I promise! I can’t talk about it here due to the public nature of this blog, but it’s private on LJ, which is why it’s there.

Anyway, this weekend was really fun and very tiring! We attended the first (reincarnated) ACE con downtown at the Hyatt. We got there late Saturday due to my insomnia issues, but it was OK since the Dealers Room was the biggest attraction for us anyway. The con was just fair, but for $15 bucks, it was well worth it. We see a lot of potential if Pat Henry and the DragonCon empire doesn’t fuck it up. The big star they got was Rosario Dawson of Sin City fame. She’s now collaborating on OCT, a comic being published by 12 Gauge.

We head out to Decatur for the Art House umbrella show. The Art House space is very small and the Umbrella Show was only about a dozen items, so we were only there for about half an hour. We continued on to Doo Gallery for the Sci Fi a Go-Go show by Blast Off Burlesque.

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