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Here’s my piece for the Super iam8bit show in Los Angeles.
Rise From Your Grave - Andy Foltz 2011 - Acrylic on Canvas
I really had a lot of fun with the theme and was grateful to Jon Gibson and the iam8bit folks for putting everything together for the show.
Ghouls and Pac-Man Ghosts
I was pretty excited, and I wanted to pull together as many references to games I loved as possible.
Trans Am wings signify Resurrection
At the same time, I was playing with ideas of the cycle of putting a quarter in the machine, getting a new life, dying, and returning again after another quarter is spent.
Zombie Mario, aka Dig Dug
Also, I decided that Dig Dug was actually Zombie Mario.
Zeus, from Altered Beast
Is that a Berzerk robot, or a Cylon? Yes.
Rise From Your Grave!
Kong loves the ladies.
Poor Fygar
Opening Night!
The opening for the show was AWESOME! Enduring long lines over 1000 people came through to see the art, meet the artists, hear Leeni and DJ R Rated perform, and play Galaga on a giant screen. Here’s some coverage and footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_RbsbZZPkQ
Process
I started by throwing together elements in Photoshop, working on a structure to anchor all the different elements I wanted to pay tribute to.
I thought a vertical format might be more like a stand up arcade cabinet, so I tried a few tall layouts and liked it.
This was the final rough I used to lay out the painting.
After getting the layout to a point where I was reasonably satisfied, I began roughing out the painting.
That was the last process photo I took before the all nighter it took to finish it!
Poster for a group show I’m curating. It’ll open at Wootini on April 15th.
For The Addams Family Show at Wootini.
I wanted to pull together elements from Charles Addams‘ original cartoons, from the TV show in the 60s, and the two movies in the 90s. I chose a very narrow, almost grayscale palette for the painting to echo the grayscale cartoons Charles Addams did for the New Yorker. A little gold was added to better connect the painting to the lovely decrepit frame.
The Dialog between Little Miss Pink Bow and Wednesday is borrowed from the second Addams Family Movie.
This formed the central theme of the painting. Even in the TV show, Gomez and Morticia seemed to have a more healthy and realistic relationship than many other TV families of the era. In spite of their overt eccentricities, their family was quite healthy, and Gomez and Morticia were passionate about each other.
Ricci’s Wednesday has become canon in my mind.
Peter Murphy’s head is disembodied for no other reason than it felt right.
I love Raul Julia’s portrayal of Gomez in the movies, but for me, John Astin will always be Gomez. His manic smile and relish for madness and mischief connected with me.
The Addams Family credo. Words to Live by.
I used some glow in the dark paint on all the eyes. So I made a UV flashlight to help show it off. When I get the painting back, I’ll get some pics of the glowing eyes.
I just finished a painting commissioned by my brother-in-law and sister-in-law. They wanted something that would work in their kitchen, but would counter stereotypical kitchen decor.
Thus, Chris Pope’s Robo-Cow makes a return appearance.
For those that missed the show at Designbox, here’s my piece.
It was a fun and quick painting. The best part was painting with glow in the dark paint. I got some glow pigment from Jerry’s and mixed it with some medium.
Painting with it was tricky, because I couldn’t really see the paint.
Until I turned off the room lights and turned on the black light. Painting under a black light was super fun.
Here’s the final glowiness.
It wasn’t until I finished it that I realized the extra s at the end of Spexs was redundant.
An epic memorial to the great Magic wars of ’09.
Oil on canvas. 24×36″
Below: George ponders the complexities of his winning strategies.
Below: Matt bristles at Fate.
Below: Andy observes while tinkering with Ableton Live.
After playing Brutal Legend and being perennially entertained by supernatural cataclysm I was in the mood for something that Boded Ill for Humanity. After doodling some colossal beasts I began this small painting. After getting a round layout done I needed something to show the scale, so I got a couple of friends to pose for me for a quick photo reference.
After finishing the painting, I took a photo and pulled it apart into layers in Photoshop so I could animate it in After Effects.
This past summer Lauren and I overheard our niece and nephew as we had ice cream together.
This was prompted by a request for a cow robot from months ago. I decided to try oils again, and was pretty happy with the way the oil paint behaved compared to the acrylics I’ve been using.
As a companion piece to the other WoW druid painting, I present to you, Caturday Nite is All Rite for Fite.
The chief inspiration again is Alamo’s guide, somehow combined with Elton John for no real reason. The Alamo is in the background on the left.
There are a few other details alluding to some other things. The cat in the left corner is inspired by this video. The robot references Keith Kadera’s main complaint about WoW: not enough robots. Pilot Mountain looms in the background as a reminder of my native region.
I found an awesome frame for it at the flea market.
