Art News from Studio Wondercabinet

August; Cthulu Christmas Greeting Card KS campaign, Month of Fear

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October News from Studio Wondercabinet

Month of Fear
I'm busy in the studio this month, but my artwork can be seen around the web. For a diverse and wonderful show of Halloween-themed artwork, check out Kristina Carroll's 2015 Month of Fear art challenge. Participating artists create original work inspired by a new theme each week, and post it on the Month of Fear Tumblr page. New work goes up every day as successive artists post throughout the week. Prepping for our Kickstarter kept me out of the first two challenges, but you can see my MoF; Sabbath graphite piece, "The Worship of Dame Habounde" here. (Slightly NSFW, pregnant-lady nudity.)
My original work from the challenge will be available in the Studio Wondercabinet store on Square Market later this month.

Cthulhu Christmas Greeting Card Kickstarter
Studio Wondercabinet is running its first Kickstarter campaign as Daniel and I raise funds for the Cthulhu Christmas Greeting Card project. I'm creating original artwork for a set of four holiday cards that combine traditional festive good cheer with H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, and Daniel is acting art director, project management and Kickstarter wrangler. We are humbled to say that our campaign funded on the first day, and at this point we're trying to keep the excitement rolling towards the sketch goals. You can read more about about the project on its Kickstarter page, here.
   We want our Cthulhu Christmas Cards to be recognizably Lovecraftian but still hark back to the holiday cards of the late 1920s, when Lovecraft was writing. The Kickstarter page has images of both the two finished cards and pencils for the art in progress, for the curious.
    Away from the Kickstarter page, I'm keeping a journal about the process of making the art at the CCGCBlog page on my website. Links will be reposted on my Tumblr page as well, where it's easy to leave comments and questions.
   Time is short; we need to have the cards print-ready as soon as the Kickstarter ends to get finished sets to backers in time for Christmas. At this point I'm still working on two paintings for the basic set and a third for a potential Stretch Goal reward. Will we achieve that stretch goal? I do not know. But the stretch goal card needs to be ready at the printers with the rest of the set if it does. Our Kickstarter campaign is a short one, ending on 4 November 2015.
   I'll be painting hard for the next couple of weeks to get this project ready for the printers. It will be wonderful to see the finished cards when the project is done!

Season of Stories and Songs, the wrap up...
Last month I showed sketch details from a project for the King County library system celebrating Autumn as "a season of songs and stories." Now the main painting of the project is live at the Library's webpage. Below, I'm posting a detail from the finished banner art, showing all three of the characters that evolved from last month's sketches.

Finished detail from the "Season of Songs and Stories" project, created for the King County Library System last month.

This month's sketch at the end of the letter is a little study of a girl's face with her hair flowing around her. This is a doodle from my sketchbook -- I thought she should be shared at least once before she vanishes forever. The sketchbook is nearly filled up with drawings now. When I run out of pages, they go on a shelf "for future reference" but I hardly ever look at them afterwards because there are always new sketchbooks to fill.

I'm a long-time fantasy artist from the Pacific Northwest. My background includes illustration for table-top games including Magic;the Gathering and Dungeons&Dragons. My work celebrates the fantastical and the visionary because I like illuminating monsters.

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I've started a page at Instagram to post images from my studio. It's become a fun place to share things like my summer adventures in plein air painting or sketches in progress. If you're also on Instagram, stop by!

Upcoming Events:

February 5-7, 2016; MythicWorlds, Seattle WA

April 7-10, 2016; Emerald City Comic Con, Seattle WA

What Interests You?
I want to make sure that my friends here see more of the work that interests them, and only the work that interests them.

This is complicated by my work in three great but different genres; Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, Mythic&Faerie, and Games, including WotC's Magic; the Gathering. Friends here have signed up at events from all three genres. Until now I had no way to keep track of the particular interests that implied.

Now I have created options, called Genres of Special Interest, to my records. Folks joining my mailing list will now be able to indicate their favorite topics from those three genres listed above.

Want to let me know what interests you? Send me a quick email with one, two or three of the above titles and I will update my records before the next newsletter goes out.

But wait, there's an Art Drawing, too!
I'll keep track of the folks who send me word about their interests, and on Dec. 1 of this year I'll draw two names from a hat and send art to the lucky recipients to thank them for letting me know. Just respond by Nov. 30, to be eligible for consideration.

Hello to my new friends from the HPLFF 2015!
Thank you for your interest in my work! I had a great time at the H.P.Lovecraft Film Festival earlier this month, and am already looking forward to seeing you again next year!