A commercial I did in December- sorry about the late posting. But is it really ever too late to buy some chickens for a farmer?

I have a couple of pieces in this show this month. It opened with a snazzy affair on first Thursday a few days ago. Fun concept!

The 100 $HOW at the Wieden + Kennedy gallery, Portland – 02.02.12 — 5pm to 6am.
Each original illustration on display will be sold for $100.00 USD. Half of the purchase price goes to the artist and half goes to Mercy Corps.

THE 100 $HOW showcases original works of 100 illustrators from Canada, England, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden and the US. These award-winning artists have been recognized by The Society of Publication Design; American Illustration; The Society of Illustrators; D&AD; Young Guns; The Advertising & Design Club of Canada; and the Art Directors Club of New York and Germany.

Turtles are funny and mysterious. So I started my year 2012 by donating a few of them to a fundraiser for the Turtle Rescue Team .

Last night My Oz opened at the Albina Press. I didn’t really know how all the little pieces would look once they came together as scenes, because I don’t have the space to lay them out at home. So this was all new to me too, even after working on this show for about 9 months. Those huge white walls were quite intimidating to me when I first started thinking about the show, knowing that for the most part I like to work at quite a small scale. It turned out to all work nicely in the space at the Albina Press.

Opening night was great, lots of people showed up and many red dots were placed! The show runs until January 10th. Here are some pictures.

Artshow time! I have worked super hard over the past 9 months to get this show together and I think it will be special. Opening night is this Friday December 9th from 6pm to 8pm and it will run until January 10th. The place is the Albina Press, 4637 N Albina Ave, Portland, Oregon. Its enormous white walls will be filled with lions, scarecrows, witches, flying monkeys, a poppy field, Kansas, the Emerald City and more!

The Oz of my childhood is quite different from the 1939 movie that most Americans are familiar with. My Oz was in a book called ‘Der Zauberer der Smaragdenstadt’— the East German translation of the Russian version of the original L. Frank Baum story. This show represents my own interpretation of that Oz made up of hundreds of small wall-hanging sculptures and cardboard cut-outs.

For the last week the lobby at Laika has been filling up with artsy pumpkins. Portland artists, a lot of them from Laika have created an amazing range of pumpkins to be auctioned off for a fundraiser for the Children’s Trust of Oregon. Here is mine. The ravens are called Doom And Gloom.

You can see some of the other ones here. My favorite is the exploding whale.

And here is another cake topper picture that one of my etsy customers sent me. This could be straight out of a fancy food magazine!

It’s the season to get married. Every once in a while I’ll make a wedding cake topper for friends’ weddings.

This good looking couple are Doug and Serena with Corban the dog. They were even more handsome in person.

Seth and Missy have been married for a while- I’d have to add two smaller figures now.

That’s me and my beloved from my own wedding cake. Yes, our wedding was a little different.

As promised weeks ago, here is a photo of the Ancient Deity of Ice Cream and Real Estate in its spot at the Church Of Ice Cream inside the Peculiarium.

That’s Mike Wellins himself having a hot dog.

Instead of taking down the shelves, we decided to have another show this month at the Peculiarium. This one is called Warts And All and features squids, worry warts and more birds. Why not do a good thing twice?

Phina approves.