Twenty-nine unframed for the world…
February 25, 2010 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Chris, Our Artwork
…one framed for Scott.
More images coming soon. If you missed it, the cover art is here.
Scott Tuma : Dandelion : Cover art sneak peek
February 19, 2010 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Chris, Friends + Family, Life, Like + Love, Our Artwork
I won’t say too much about this for now, except:
I’ve listened to Scott Tuma’s music more than anything else in the past 5 years. Just ask Annie.
Creating the artwork for his upcoming release Dandelion is a total dream job.
The record will be released on 12″ vinyl on Digitalis.
A special limited art edition of 30 copies will include original artwork.
I can’t wait to show you the rest. I’ll keep you all posted!
BATTLE SURGEON: First-look teasers
February 6, 2010 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Chris, Life, Our Artwork
Well, after working on this book for almost an entire year, I think I may have the tiniest bit of understanding of the sense of accomplishment, relief, and pure elation that mothers feel after birthing a child. I mean, come on, who’s pregnant for 11 months?
Kidding, kidding. But seriously, I’m so relieved and so excited to have finally accomplished the complete illustration of my very first graphic novel. I started working on the book back in Feb/March of last year, and about 130 pages of art, thousands of reference photos and videos (thank you, my awesome models), hundreds of emails and phone calls, and buh-zillions of man-hours later, the Hitherto-Top-Secret book is done and almost ready for the world. It is an absolute beast, and I, the writer, and the rest of the Battle Surgeon team cannot wait to hold the finished book in our hands.
The story and images are not for the queasy or faint of heart. You’ve been warned.
A huge thanks to everyone who has encouraged and supported me over the last year, you know who you are. We shall be having a very big party, very soon.
Starting now, I’ll be keeping you all posted regarding Battle Surgeon. For now, here are some first-look sneak peeks at some pages, minus the text, of course. We don’t want to give away too much of the mind-blowing story now, do we?
Poppytalk’s Holiday Market + The Twelve Days of Christmas
November 23, 2009 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Chris, For Sale, Our Artwork
Annie and I are really happy to be a part of Poppytalk’s Holiday Market, starting today! Check out our Koelle Art Shop table here. And the Sweet Ride table here! The marketplace runs through December 18th, and with so many beautiful things together all in one place, it’s quite literally a one-stop shop to find awesomely unique gifts for every single person on your shopping list this year. Seriously, it’s almost unhealthy how much time (and money) you can potentially spend looking through all of the stuff from all the wonderful vendors. Just try to keep it together, okay?
I’m also happy to have these Christmas cards available that I designed a while back at Portland Studios. It’s one of my favorite little pieces I’ve ever done. I just had such a fun time researching and doing the drawings. It’s my little take on the lyrics of the song we all know so well, The Twelve Days of Christmas. Whether it’s historically accurate or not, I love the traditional symbolism of the gifts, and really enjoyed making the art.
Go ahead and have your own little research time and google the lyrics and symbolism, if you’re so inclined. It’s fun. Quantities are very limited, so pick up a 12-pack at the Etsy shop before they’re all gone!
The Sweet Ride Etsy Shop: Grand Opening + Poppytalk Indie Love!
October 19, 2009 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Chris, For Sale, Our Artwork
I’ve been anticipating the official launch of my Sweet Ride etsy shop, and behold, the time has come!
Sweet Ride will now be your one-stop-shop exclusively for all things (well, art) vintage cycling, including original black + white drawings, fancy colorific paintings, signed prints just waiting to get all cozy in standard-size frames, zines, and more.
AND I’m so thrilled to be a part of Poppytalk’s “Indie Love” Marketplace! Stop on by to check out all the hip and happeninz.
AAAND… to celebrate opening shop, the first 10 orders will include a Sweet Ride zine OR a 5×7 print of your choice, free! When you place your order, just include a note of what you’d like! YAY
Check back often (or just subscribe to Sweet Ride’s shop feed) to see what’s new.
White Whale grand opening + studio pics
October 6, 2009 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Annie, Art Shows, Chris, For Sale, Friends + Family, Life, Our Artwork
The Grand Opening of White Whale Studios & Gallery was so much fun!!! A HUGE thanks to everyone who came out to show your support and love and make it such a memorable opening night, to all our friends and family, we love you so much. It was really great to meet so many people we’d never met before, and Annie and I were so happy to just meet and greet and hang out with old friends and new. And of course, ginormous thanks and congrats to Caroline and Dan, as well as all the WW resident artists for doing so much hard work to get everything ready for the public (but ESPECIALLY Caroline and Dan…!!!) And so many other friends and family who helped in little and big ways… THANK YOU, EVERYONE! Annie and I are so happy to be a part of such a great studio collective and gallery (we’re just so excited about our studio that’s big enough for the both of us (and even Marshall too!))… and with so much more goodness to come, if the Lord wills…
Anyways, some of these pics are from the opening night (when the crowds were a bit more dispersed) and some are just other pics of our studio post-opening-night and whatnot.
If you’re in the Greenville area, get in touch if you want to make a visit!
Poppytalk Autumn Color Week: Orange Wednesday
September 30, 2009 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Chris, For Sale, Our Artwork
Don’t miss Poppytalk’s Autumn Color Week photo pool on Flickr!
“Telka” - 8×8 original painting on panel - by Chris
See more images and purchase here
“FOCA” - 8×8 giclee print on German Etching Paper - by Chris
See more images and purchase here
“Metabox Goldy” - 8×8 original painting on panel - by Chris
See more images and purchase here
WWS Stamp
September 24, 2009 | Posted By: Chris
Filed Under Art Shows, Chris, Friends + Family, Life, Our Artwork
Got the stamp made, and Caroline liked it so much she volunteered to get arthritis from cutting all these strips and stamping them for our artwork tags (we’ll write our names, titles, and prices on them by hand). I made the little rearrangement after she was done. Tee hee.
Mark your calendar! October 2nd!
