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Hey there, sports fans, Al here with the latest;

So it’s been a while since I’ve had to post anything or of recent times because now I think it’s getting closer to finishing another piece of artwork. This one’s a promotional poster for Sady Starkiss and Heavy Metal, and I’ve got a couple more pieces left to go for that group of women images.

Sady Starkiss + Heavy Metal in “Kissing Metal” Art Show Poster. 12”x16” scratchboard

After that, I should be finished and completed with the road less traveled for the Pasquini project show. Once that’s completed, it’s a matter of getting out the varnish, letting it air out and dry out, and then getting a hold of Gango Printing so I can have prints ready to go when it comes time to start selling the pieces.

And that’s about it. Not much else to talk about on the Art Front.

And that’s it, and this kid is out of here.

Blog for 7-14-2020

Hey, there sports fans Al here with the latest: In the last few years, I kinda stepped away from doing blogs because as I have said so many times that real life gets in the way of creativity. Well, these days as if that weren’t the case the world is caught in the grips of a virus that people understand little of and heed even less. Rioting and police brutality ringing in the news every day seems now to be the norm. I for one feel that I can create something entertaining and most of all - fun. The artwork has always been an immediate reaction kind of alchemy. Science Fiction I love and it rings of a future that hasn’t been realized yet. Of course, some of the things that I render do from time to time dip into the dark parts of imagination. Richard Parker and his watery adventure are like that. But after working for years on one project and finishing off an illustrative project like Last Monster on EARTH! Sometimes something different needs to be unleashed. And in a way that comes in the form of Corpse Cop #4 Death Walks the Stars”. It ties up loose ends with other comic book characters that I had worked on for the last 2 Decades with a bookend book that brings most of them altogether. I’ve been compiling several thumbnail storyboards for a finish to Corpse Cop. There are other art projects that I have lined up that still need to be plotted out but the first thing is first to finish Richard Parker and Last Monster on EARTH! But a storyteller sometimes needs a little break from what he is working just to be fresh when he comes back. And with that, I am outta here.

Blog for July

Blog for July

After a long break again and real life constantly throwing you a curve you gotta wonder what the “F!”
But for me the artist inside is loving the fact that I have been able to work on many old projects and finish finally the last couple panels of the Richard Parker saga. I swear to God that has been conspiring against (at first glance) me but as I have had the time to look back and re examine what has come before and maybe this was all the way things were supposed to happen.
With the free time of being furloughed but money still coming in art has jumped to the forefront to be completed. In this case a comic book graphic novel that had placed Richard Parker on hold is nearing completion and being prepped to be “handed off” to my editor leaving me free for time to re focus on Richard Parker. This makes me very excited! In a way we’re Richard Parker stated will be finished in the same household. That to me is great and a great accomplishment. The story and art of “Last Monster on EARTH!” was drawn and completed in the same household before I had move again so having Parker finished will be fantastic! Of course I will reference back to the earlier work to bring myself mentally up speed with where my head is at with the story. Once completed with that then it is back to comic book layouts and transfers for the the bookend series for Corpse Cop. Another project that started out as scratchboard and will finish with scratchboard.
AS A SIDE NOTE: the state of the comic book industry has taken some serious hits over the last couple months with the shut down over everything. Unfortunately at times like like in times of war, art and entertainment has always taken a backseat to the world at large. But as the major giants in that industry (that also spurred one of the greatest franchises in cinema history) find themselves scrambling for ways to infuse they books with personal politics and ostracizing other for having differing viewpoints, individuals with creativity have a prime objective in making their work known. This is the best time to strike with new ideas and styles of artwork that have not been seen by the mainstream public. Art should of all things be fun. And that to me is what completely lacking in books being produced currently.
I have a plan and where I want to go with that.
END OF SIDE NOTE.

So there you have it a new path is being forged and

Plotted. So watch here as new worlds unfold!
And I am outta here!