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Monday, June 15, 2009

Night of the Dead...

So Saturday Night I decided to go to an horror convention. I got there a little late in the day, so I didn't really get to meet to many celebs. I did see however Freddy and Bruce Campbell. You can see how close I was able to get to him in the photo below. I also snapped some shots of these awesome sculpted baby movie monsters.

We left there and after a quick bite to eat we decided to go to a monster mini golf. The place was pretty cool. It had a real Tim Burton/Disney Haunted Mansion feel to it. The only bad thing is most of my photos came out like crap, so I only posted the good ones.








Monster Mini Golf







Later, Joe

More Sketches...

In addition to the Addams Family Show I have coming up, I also have some other shows I've been asked to take part in. So I'm trying to brainstorm to figure out what I want to do next.

This Sketch I did in pencil. I decided to go Dinunzio old-school. It felt good to twist some flesh around again. I think I might try to rework some old ideas and morph them into something new.


These next two are more of the vector influenced marker sketches.




Later, Joe

Friday, June 5, 2009

Addams Family Gathering Show...

So I'm in my studio this morning trying to work on some freelance stuff and I decided to do a quick sketch with markers. I've been gathering a lot of referrence for the "Addams Family Gathering" Gallery show this October, and I had this one family shot of some of the Addams. I decided to bust out a quick sketch of Uncle Fester using markers. So here it is.



I'll post more sketches of my work for show as it comes along.

Later, Joe

Monday, June 1, 2009

Go Check Out This Opening At MAC 650 Gallery This Friday!



My little sis Melissa Williams and her man James Day are going to be just two of many up and coming artist showing this Friday at MAC 650 Gallery in Middletown. I won't be showing but I'll be there giving my support. So go check it!

Later, Joe

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Messing with Sketches...

I've been trying to get back into the swing of things again. I've been so busy with freelance I haven't had time to work on my own stuff. So I've been doing quick sketches and little sculptures to see what I want to do next. Below I did a quick little mixed media sketch. It's a mixture of water color, sharpie, and colored pencil. Then I said what the hell...I scanned it into Photoshop and played with it.

Before Photoshop...


After Photoshop...


Later, Joe D.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Visiting The Past...

So last weekend I decided to take advantage of the awesome weather and go for a hike with Carrie S. Ya know, give my fat ass some exercise. Anyways I decided to go back to where I used to hang out as a a young slug. Some things were the same and some had changed. When I was in High School and Jr. High, the quarry was considered a no man zone. 17 years ago when I used to hang there it was over grown with hidden paths, smashed abandoned cars and trash. We used to tag up the old mining buildings, play paintball, and have parties. It was perfect, no one went down there except me and my friends.

But now it's all cleaned up, and has marked hiking trails all over it. No more trash or smashed cars, except for one real old classic car. The paths leading to the Caves were almost completely gone. The Cave seemed to be lost, but I made my way back up to them and found them in pretty much the same shape as 17 years ago. The old mining building near the railroad tracks where we spent most of our time was still there but covered with this generations graffiti. I couldn't find any traces of our tags. I did find some old rusted CO2 cartridges from back when we played paintball.

So I took some pics of the place, and the new art on the walls. Check them out.



The old mining building.




Some of the tags. I really liked the figures.






The Caves.




The old school car I was talking about.




I hope you dug my little trip down memory lane.

Later - Joe D.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Is this gay?