A few words and then an apparent massive flickr pasting.

Unfortunately my scanner seems to be still out of commission and now serves as little more than a shelf. Though I think the point and shoot camera is doing a mildly better job at not obliterating all the colours.

As somewhat usual I'm in the process of undertaking a new project, though hopefully this is a project that comes into fruition. It stands a moderately better chance as it is a multi-person ordeal. With a decent bit of luck and a lot of hard work I hope to be able to present you all with a nice little art zine come March 2009 entitled 'Cephalopod Party Quarterly.' I shall keep you updated on that as things happen, though as it comes into fruition it'll get it's own blog as well. If you're at all interested in participating/contributing to the zine just let me know.

And now the deluge of flickr paste-ness.

The scanner has had enough of my mess or so it seems. It turns on and all that, the computer even recognizes it for a few moments. Then nothin'. I dunno.

I did get one last thing scanned.



I love love love Winged Victory of Samothrace. (that's what that the painting is of, if you were unaware) Something about the idealism and established terms of beauty is comforting. I dunno. I long to see it in person, though I may have. But going through the Louvre at age 5 didn't leave me with many specific memories.

Since the great scanner crash of last week I've made one more painting thing. It was done in a wonderful blur of spur of the moment type drawing.





I'm so pleased with it. Other tossed around tag lines were, "Beards: Making your moustache less creepy" and "Beards: Making you more awesome since puberty"

Those took up too much space so, I'm fine with what I've got.


And finally, today I make the first "entries" (?) into an artbook exchange type deal with this awesome person here. I'm all kinds of excited. All kinds.

30 paintings, sort of.

This was a rather ambitious project I attempted to tackle last Wednesday at 10 PM before I went to sleep. That didn't happen so much, but I was able to do a large volume of paintings with in a few days time. I'm pleased with most all of them. I plan on doing the final 10 sometime this week, but I also have a large-ish research paper for an english class so it'll have to be balanced with all of that.

So, here we go. Also, as a side note of sorts. If you see these and like them and would like my services as an illustrator for most anything other than bringing about the end of world, I would love to hear from you. You can reach me email-wise at (toastman18@gmail.com)

One More Cup of Coffee

New stuff, oh yes. A children's book, written (to some extent) and illustrated (entirely), by me is very much so in the works. I'm excited.