116 Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

The 2 previous posts have drawings that will be on display for First Friday November 1st down at Blue Star, space 136C next to Slab Cinema.

I'm showing 32 pieces for this exhibition, and Dallas Blue is showing her paintings. 

115- Mystical Beasts and Humanoids

I just completed 20 drawings that were based on clever packaging for beef jerky. The jerky is marketed for people who are hard to buy gifts for. They named the jerky after mystical beasts and humanoids. Some were just beef, but others were exotic meats: bison, ostrich, alligator etc.

I decided a series needed to be created from the names, and thus Mystical Beasts and Humanoids drawing series was born.

Mystical Beasts:                         Humanoids:

Kraken                                        Centaur

Pegasus                                       Minotaur

Chupacabra                                 Yeti

Unicorn                                       Ogre

Phoenix                                       Bigfoot

Chimera                                       Leprechaun

Loch Ness Monster                        Werewolf

Griffin                                          Elf

Dragon                                        Mermaid

Basilsk                                        Vampire

MYSTICAL BEASTS

HUMANOIDS

114- Explorer or Invader?

Last year I started on a series based on explorers or invaders depending on your point of view.

I wanted to do something that I had not seen before, so I created concert posters for their exploratory campaigns aka 'tours'. 

Here is a list of the 'tours':

Leif Erikson- I Was First Tour- 981-995

Marco Polo- Silk Road Tour- 1271-1295

Columbus- New World Tour- 1492

Ponce de Leon- Fountain of Youth Tour- 1513

Magellan w/ Elcano- The Circumnavigation Tour- 1519-1522

Cortez- The conquistador Tour- 1519-1521

de Coronado- 7 Cities of Gold Tour- 1540-1542

Sir Francis Drake- British Circumnavigation Tour- 1577-1580

Sir Walter Raleigh- The Lost Colony Tour- 1587

Captain Cook- Kiwi- Koala Tour 1770

Roald Amundsen- The 7th Continent Tour- 1910-1912

Apollo 11- Intergalactic Sea of Tranquility Tour 1969

113- Elemental Core 2.0

For 2023 I created 4 large collages. Each piece is 18"x24", the collage fields are 12"x12"

It was a follow up to a drawing series I did in the 90s

Over all shot of all 4:

Close up:

Fire:

Air:

Earth:

Water:

112 Holiday Sales

Both Society6 and RedBubble have sales going on for the holidays.

CabanaBoyProd.redbubble.com

For pieces from my 'Black and Blue' period, check out the Society6 shop:

Black and Blue period

111- Black and Blue period on Society6

Since Society6 now wants artists to choose a plan. I chose the plan that allows for 10 designs and decided to put a few of my pieces from my Black and Blue period on the site:

Behold

https://society6.com/cabanaboyproductions/designs

 

110- RedBubble Shop

I had a rude awakening the other day w/ Society6. 

It led me to look for other pay for print websites for artists. I stumbled upon RedBubble. I created an account with them. 

I will be moving my Society6 shop to RedBubble in the upcoming weeks. Right now only my Costa Rica images and my Milagros Beer Label series are available on RedBubble. 

Here is the link:

https://www.redbubble.com/people/CabanaBoyProd/shop?asc=u&ref=account-nav-dropdown

I will keep the Society6 shop, but only for my 'black and blue period' pieces. They currently are not on Society6, but they will be before the month is over.