Keep 6 Contemporary, a contemporary/ low-brow/ pop-culture gallery a few streets down, is having an upcoming exhibition for these vinyl toys called Bax Bear. They gave me one of the ‘DIY’ versions of the bear to paint as I wished, to be part of the show.
So, seeing how I’ve never painted a toy before (unless you include the really awful paint jobs I did on model aeroplanes back when I was a kid), I decided to document the inaugural process.
I think I like it… and Kristal gets the original inks, so too bad if you wanted it, nyeh nyeh…..
Ok, juvenile petulance aside (ah heck, who reads this anyway), other inks are still on Etsy for sale.
The idea was about fox spirits. According to legend fox spirits who live to over a thousand years old have 9 tails and are generally benign. Before this they are tricksters who sometimes shape shift into beautiful women to tempt and mislead men.
These are the final images for several tutorials I have written for Photoshop Creative and Painter magazines. They are usually tailored to the needs of the tutorials which describe different techniques and tools, and usually do not represent my usual style which is why these images have never been on my main website.
It’s abstract, in case you were wondering. Testing functions in Illustrator.
Female demons need a hobby too…
Not-so-little mermaid.
Wingsy
Well not really. But who cares to argue with a guy with a katana?
