Snooki Munny - Vinylmore III

For Atomic Books' 3rd Vinyl toy show, opening Friday, April 2nd in Baltimore.

A bit disappointed not to get a 100% likeness.. thought she'd be easy to draw but her face is really hard to get down, she always ends up looking sort of Asian or Indian. Even tougher on a tiny 2 inch plastic head. This was my first time going 3-D and adding sculpey to one of these things (for the "bump") and thought it worked out pretty well.

Also discovered the joy of 59 cent acrylics from AC Moore. Some of the colors look great and some don't. And be careful if you mix them, sometimes yellow + blue = brown. Best to use them straight from the tube and just buy every color because they are SO cheap.

Wanna buy it?
The above Snooki Munny is now available for purchase from Atomic Books' website for 75 smackeroos.




Anyway, the show looks great this year.. don't miss this Ramen head Munny that I'm already betting is goint to win best of show. I think this year they are also going to be available for purchase online after the opening.



Vinylmore III
Friday, April 2, 2010
7:00pm - 10:00pm

Atomic Books
3620 Falls Road
Baltimore, MD

New Hot Dog Prints

The hot dog madness refuses to end! 4 brand new bright as hell prints from some of my latest excursions. 11x14 giclees printed by Silicon Gallery Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

There are now 16 different designs available, pick up a set of 4 for $100 and a discount on shipping. Check them out on my web shop.



In case you haven't been following, every week I do an illustration of a different hot dog variation for a feature called "Hot Dog Of The Week" on Seriouseats.com and have recently been traveling the country in search of the best and wildest hot dogs. There is no end in sight as new variations keep popping up every day and almost every waking minute of my life is spent thinking about tubular meat.


more hot dog madness
•Hot Dog Of The Week on Serious Eats
•Flickr hot dog photo archive
•Nothin But A Dog Hound - Inquirer Article

Fuss Free

The first Fuss Free show was a blurry week in Miami 6 years ago. Probably the first time I sold a painting for more than 25 dollars. Next friday curator Roy Miranda is bringing it back to Philadelphia at Shadow's Space located right above Kung Fu Necktie. I'll have work up (old and new, hot dogs and not) along with some of Philly's finest. More info below.




Participating artists: Dave Delaney, Matthew Kucynski, Hawk Krall, Martha Rich, Thom Lessner, Christopher Luxton, Adam
Wallacavage, Matthew Michalak, Jayson Musson, Joel Flood, Carrie Collins, Don Vincent Ortega, Ted Passon, Linda Smyth.

“Fuss Free” runs from March 5th, 2010 through April 30th, 2010
Shadow's Space is located at, 1248 N Front St.
(@ Thompson St., Girard stop on the Market Frankford Line)
Philadelphia, PA.

The opening reception, on Friday March 5th from 6 to 10 pm, is free and open to the public.

• Shadow's Space info and press release
• Fuss Free on Facebook
• Out Of Print Mag - Fuss Free
• Opening night on Flickr

Perro Caliente

I was a little hesitant to do a pepto bismol pink hot dog background but it goes perfectly with the crazy Colombian fast food places I visited in Queens a few weeks ago. Sometimes when I paint these things I sort of forget I'm mixing gouache and not mayonnaise and mustard. Usually those turn out the best. New prints coming next week (including this one).


If you don't know, Colombian hot dogs are topped with crushed chips and all kind of crazy mess- pineapples, bacon, ham, cheese, fruit sauce, mayo, russian dressing, hard boiled eggs.

more- Hot Dog Of The Week: Perro Caliente

Sewer Bucks

Portland's mayor is taking money from water and sewer taxes to fund college scholarships. Somehow I've become the go-to illustrator for anything involving gushing and spurting fluids! For Willamette Week.

Salchicha

I think about hot dogs 24 hours a day. Not only am I doing these hot dog of the week illustrations for Serious Eats, but working on some larger long-term projects, all hot dog related. This one turned out pretty great, maybe some prints coming soon??

Read about the sandwich here.

bacon wrapped dogs

Went with a looser style for last week's Hot Dog Of The Week illustration. The article was more of a recipe so I drew it basically the same as I would have in my notebooks back when I really worked in a kitchen, just without the grease stains.

Also cool to mix up the drawings with my photos.. check out the full article here.


From an old notebook... please excuse the spelling....