Vista Production Group!

Hello Everyone,

This past Saturday we had the unveiling of the super secret comic project that I'm a part of, The Vista Production Group.  It is a group of terrific artists based here in Arizona and it will be a one stop access to all things creative and collectible.   The group was created by Brian Augustyn, formerly of DC comics the Flash and Jesse Criscione of the comics super store Jesse James Comics. Our first event had the release of our 1st book, which has all the creators information and great images of our various styles of art.  Here is a group shot of all of us as drawn by Mr. John Derrick West (Dadicus!).

I had a big write up on all of us but my Safari decided to crash and I lost all my blogging motivation to re type it all... So here we all are!  Keep a look out as we release more info about the group and our new creations.

Here is one NOW!

 This is a limited edition sketch cover that we have for our book.  This is a W.I.P. of Spacegirl Molly and I'll have the final version of it posted and on sale soon so let me know if you want it!  I also have a few blank covers left if you had an idea for me to draw just for you.   Shoot me an email if you do!

And here are some other paintings I've done in the past few weeks, one of which is featured in the Vista Inspirational Visions book- 

Space girl Molly- A New World

Space girl Molly- Landing

Afro Samurai... random I know but he is awesome

Some more ART and News

Hello all!

Here are last weeks newest drawings for all to enjoy.  I'll have more new stuff soon as well as a another start to finish process painting.

In other news, my family and I recently had a photo session with Stacey Woodward of Dream Photography Studio.  During the course of the session I thought I recognized here from some where and when we were leaving it dawned on me, I knew her from Phoenix Comicon!  She works with the wonderful site Lightning Octopus and did an Amazing job on our photos so I highly recommend checking out her sites and the write up she did for our Etsy studio.

http://www.dreamphotographystudio.blogspot.com/2012/11/feature-matt-goodall-at-long-dog-art.html

Have a Happy Turkey Day everyone!

ART DUMP

Hello everybody!  Not much new here, just a bunch of random paintings and commissions for some terrific people.  Enjoy!

Painting Like a Child

So here is the story on these paintings.  My daughter Amelia has always loved coloring with crayons and occasionally color pencils but she never really wanted to help me with my own work.  I've noticed recently that she has taken a great interest in watching me paint.  At first she just watched and would make comments on the color I was using.  She then started to become a little more hands on so we gave her one of my old watercolor palettes and some brushes and let her go to town.  I got to admit, I love her paintings.  So I decided to rummage through some drawings that I never finished or just had laying around on scratch paper and I decided to create some art with her.  We took some of these warm up sketches and painted over them. She was allowed free reign to color them as she saw fit. I occasionally would take the paper away and allow some of the excess water bleed around the paper... which made her very angry... I guess she didn't like my creative imput.  I then inked them with brush and crow quill and then used her favorite medium, crayon, to add some other touches.  I enjoyed the collaboration, it took boring sketches and made them interesting.  More than anything, I found the process interesting.  I've trained myself to use a certain creative process when painting and when you allow a 2 year old to do whatever she wants to do with the composition it just completely throws that process out the window.  Here is our results so far...

Amelia, adding some happy little blue tones.

Ultimate Spider Woman Painted

Just playing around with some new brushes I downloaded on Photoshop-

Dog Painting & Ultimate Spider Woman Drawings...

Hello everyone!  Here are some of the latest things I've drawn and painted-  sorry for the horrible scan of the pencils, they never seem to come through good for me.

Mason-
watercolor, india ink

original pencil version

Inked with Pitt Pens

New Etsy Shop Shameless Plug

Hello everyone, my wife an I recently started up our own little business. Please "like" my new Facebook page "Millie & Mason" if you have a moment or just visit our shop if you would like to order a painting. We are a small business that offers custom hand painted portraits (children, pets etc...). Please check out our online shop at www.millieandmason.etsy.com, and feel free to share with friends!  Also the link is on the left hand side of the home page of the blog.