First Friday Boston February 3rd 2012: Part 3

Here is the last page for this past 1st Friday Boston. For the past three days I have been at my grandparents' in Cape Cod so tomorrow I will post something about it.

Unfortunately this studio was not open on First Friday, but the poster on their door was impressive, so here is a business card for Pictex.

Here is a business card for Sandy Belock-Phippen.

Here is a business card for Sharon Sass. Even though her paintings are realistic, I like the unrealistic, bright style she uses for her paintings.

Here is Sophia Ainslie's business card.

Here is Susan Gheyssari's postcard.

Here is a postcard for the Soprafina Gallery where Rhoda Sapers and Sarah Kahn had their work displayed.

Here is Terry Levin's business card.

 Here is a postcard for Sharon Hayes.

Here is Tom Ouellette's business card. He was the man who was painting people when I entered his studio.

Here are some photographs I took while I was there.

Here's someone who made strange sculptures with wire. It was hard to just pass by without taking a look.

Here are some art peices of girls' desses.

This artist painted huge paintings of pop art.

It is interesting how certain artists go about painting glass.

Here are a few more paintings.

Here is the inside of an artist's studio. The artist is sitting on the coach. My guess is he is waitning for people to finish looking at his artwork before he takes questions or comments.

This studio was closed unfortunately, but I wanted to take a picture of it. I know how this photographer took this picture. He removed the shutter for a short time. He must have had some sparklers or fire works going off.

Here are some interesting paintings. I'm not sure what they are, but they still caught my eye.

Here are some landscape paintings I saw.

Here are some more paintings from the same studio.

Water is a popular subject of art. It is not surprising as it covers 70% of the Earth's surface.

I think these began as landscape paintings, but the artist chose to add something entirely imaginary to them.

Some more strange wire sculptures.

After 1st Friday Boston, I stopped by my sister's condo to drop off the painting I made for her birthday of our two cats since she was on my way home.

First Friday Boston February 3rd 2012: Part 2

Here are some more postcards and pictures from 1st Friday Boston. Tomorrow is the last day of these post cards and pictures.

Here is Joan Zagrobelmy's bookmark for her strange pottery at Vessel's Gallery.

Here is a postcard for John Gonnella who paints huge pop art paintings. Unfortunately he does not have a website of his own, but he does have a Flickr account.

Here is a postcard for Liz Shepard's work at the Boston Sculptors Gallery.

Here is Marian Dioguardi's postcard.

Here is Movimiento's postcard, which displays art furniture, sculpture, paintings, and offers tango lessons. That was the store with a brick and metal interior.

Here is Nedret Andre's bookmark. At least I think this is a bookmark. I can't imagine this long thing as a postcard.

 Here is a postcard for Andrew Plaut. He was among a few artists who had work at a gallery a block away from the main area.

The New Art Center is looking for artists and curators!

Here are some photographs I took while I was there.

This artist was painting patrons when people were coming into his gallery. These are some paintings that didn't take too long.

Here's a black painted stick. It was just below the black splotch on the wall.

Here is more wall art that would be difficult to hang elsewhere.

Here are some of Joan's strange pottery.

This was what I saw as I passed by an open art shop.

Traditional frames and canvases are not needed. Sometimes for certain artists, they are confining.

I believe we are viewing paintings done by Marian Dioguardi here.

More paintings.

This appeared to be an interesting way to display and sell jewelry.

More paintings that interested me.

First Friday Boston February 3rd 2012: Part 1

I went to 1st Friday in Boston sponsered by SoWa again this past Friday, and this time I scanned the postcards, scanned the business cards, and took pictures of some of the galleries and studios. Some things were different while other things were the same, but it was still enjoyable. I am separating the experience into three blog posts because there are so many pictures for me to show. Here are a few things I saw:

Here is Arnie Casavant's business card. This is a painter of realisic scenes.

Here is Beth Wood's postcard. Flowers and bright colors are her common theme.

Here is B. Glee Lucus's postcard. This artist paints beautiful still lifes that include glass of all sorts of shapes and sizes, and always with bright colors.

Here is a postcard for The Boston Sculptors Gallery. They host many different sculptors' works.

Here is a pamphlet for Charles Tersolo. This is perhaps the only pamphlet I saw.

 

Here is a postcard for Ed Friedman. He took many photographs of statues.

Here is a postcard for Phillip Spinks at the FP3 Residences and Gallery.

 Here is Alicia Thomas's postcard. She did quite a few pieces with spiders.

Here is a postcard for George Gabin's gallery. Unfortunately he is no longer with us.

Here are some photographs I took while I was there.

Here is a black splotch on a wall. It is interesting what can be art.

Here was an art gallery that is a little seperated from the rest, but is usually popular.

I liked how this artist used a siloette of birds.

The artwork is intersting, but so are the people who come to see it.

A particular sculptor at the Boston Scukptors' Gallery liked to carve wooden figures with bird heads.

And further back into the Boston Scukptors' Gallery...

It was interesting to see new artwork displayed on stylized, factory-like wall.

A particular sculpture that hung on a wall. There was also a black one.

Two interesting paintings.

There was a large store that sold old, retro items. They even have various leather jackets that are in great condition.

This looks painful!

Here is a grouping of paintings. Some artists choose to group certain pictures together and can sell them individually or grouped together.

Another picture of that black splotch on the wall. I am not sure how this type of artwork can be sold...

Dark Wizard 2

Here is a much more recent sketch of that dark wizard from my Zheph Skyre series I had mentioned in an earlier post.

You can notice some significant changes to his helm, shoulder pads, and staff. I decided to give those parts of his costume straighter edges. It looks better to me.

I also decided to include a sketch of the character underneath the helm and cape. I wanted him to appear young, except with some gray patches in certain areas. There is a reason why there is a sketch of him as a much older man, but that's to discover in the story.

I was thinking of calling this character Imagian. I believe I got the name from the Latin word for "Image" since projecting images into others minds is a well ability of his, but I am still debating on certain names.

Today I will be going to First Friday in Boston again. I will try to get pictures for Monday.

Grimm Reaper

This is another one of the main antagonists from my Zheph Skyre series. He looks a lot like the Grimm Reaper, but he is not. He is still very powerful and feared as if he were Death himself.

Think of this character as a combination of a ninja, zombie, cyborg, and Magneto from X-Men. Many in my series claims he is the source of zombies in my fictional world, but they all know for certain that he leads an elite force of ninjas/cyborg ninjas that follow his training. The metal magic he can use allows him to mold weapons from nearby metal, primarily the metal cloak that he wears and always keeps moving with his focused mind.


When people describe certain characters as the strong, silent type, he fits that description perfectly. And that is not only because he is a mute. As you can see, he has no mouth or nose, so he primarily communicates through sign language. He could have had implants to have given him a robotic voice, but this suits him better. This way he can remain as silent as death, and he teaches the other ninja to behave as such on missions.

I don't think there are that many mute characters in animation. It could certainly be easier at times to animate hand movement rather than mouth movement that follows the voice of the actor. I don't know, I think it is at least interesting.