Bob's ART du Jour: July 2009

About Me

Location: New England, United States

I am a Hugo award-winning fantasy/SF artist who works on both publishing projects and film concept work(such as Jimmy Neutron and most recently, The Ant Bully) but I have a passion for landscape work, small paintings and exploring the properties of paint. This blog will mostly showcase my "painting-for-the-day" as kind of a personal voyage. I'll also be inserting sketches,photos and ideas of projects I am working on, that I can, when I can, so look for those every so often(usually as paint is drying!)

Monday, July 20, 2009

40 Years Ago Today....

Providence Journal Bulletin from July 21st 1969.

Earthrise (8x10, Oils SOLD!)

Vast Desolation(8x10, Oils, SOLD!)

Headed Home(8x10, Oils SOLD!)

Moon Hills(8x10, oils, SOLD!)

40 years ago I sat in my mom and dad's living room with a black and white TV set, and we watched the first landing of Man on the Moon. I can remember drawing pictures of it as I watched TV. Today that living room is now my painting studio and I watched FOR ALL MANKIND and painted some quick oil paintings(back to paintings for sale!) of what I was watching using freeze-framing to paint from the film. Alot of fun and it made me realize how much I missed paintings of the day, and, all the time gone by and the changes it brought when it seemed life was fully in front of me. If you want a painting, email me and I'll set it aside and I take paypal as usual!

Monday, July 06, 2009

Gallery Shows upcoming....

"Eye Monster" 20 x20 inches. Oil.

I have some rather good upcoming Gallery appearances soon!

MONSTER?-Copro Gallery Santa Monica CA July 11th-Aug 2nd. I'll have the ABOVE painting in this show along with some really incredible names in art, and Pop Surrealism. The theme is, guess what? MONSTERS.

SPECTRUM show-Society of Illustrators Gallery, NYC. I'll have one painting in that, "One of Our Robots Is Missing".

ROTOFUGI Store and Gallery, Chicago IL. I'll have a painting of some kind in that and perhaps some 3-D hand painted vinyl toys. Sept ? 2009, group show, organized by Mark Nagata.

KAIJU COMRADES 2- Tokyo Japan, March 2010-group show organized by the one and only Mark Nagata. Of course, the theme is monsters. Japan? Monsters? You have got to be kidding!!!