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  Take a gander at the post-its I made for Giant Robot's Post It Show 21. These were an attempt to blend my toy art and comic art together. And I think the attempt was pretty successful, but what do I know? Well, one thing I do know is that my wife, Lauren, came up with the caption for the star post-it :->

  My group exhibition pieces keep getting smaller and smaller because I have less time to make them in between all of the other tiny toys I gotta put together. So for this piece I chose Chibi Totoro since they are just a little guy anyway, you know? The Giant Robot Totoro Show opens on Saturday, November 29th if you'd like to see this piece in person :->

  I grew up in the 80s and 90s so a love of dinosaurs was pretty much baked into my DNA. My favorite dino is the Brontosaurus who like Pluto (the planet) was demoted and might not actually be a dinosaur anymore? But here's a tiny diorama featuring a Brontosaurus that I made for Giant Robot's Dino Show which opens on Saturday, November 8th. I hope you get a chance to see this piece in person because it is cute :-> I forgot to take a bunch of WIP snaps of this thing but here are before and after pictures of it painted.

Here are some process pictures of this piece I made for an Italian Horror themed group art show. It was originally gonna be a full shark body with a zombie riding it, but I didn't have enough time to do all of that so I adjusted as I went! I also gave up on the shark holding the severed arm in its mouth because it crowded out the lil zombie head too much. I like where it all landed though. What do you think?

"Please stop fighting, cuties!" is the name of my piece for Q Pop's Crimson Shadows Italian Horror Cinema art exhibition. I chose a scene from Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2 (aka  Zombie here in the states) in which a zombie fights a shark?? Umm have I mentioned how much I love Italian horror movies before? This diorama turned out exactly as I had hoped it would. Small and good! This exhibition opens on Saturday, October 25th with a reception from 7-9pm. Head over to Q Pop to take a peek at the nifty art!

Lookit! I remembered to take some WIP shots of the wooden sculpture I made for Giant Robot's Yokai Show. I forgot to take a picture of the piece right after it was covered in gesso, but otherwise this is a good run through of the stages this went through to become a finished piece. Pretty exciting stuff, eh?

"Scary Friend" is my piece for Giant Robot's Yokai Show group art exhibition. It's based on the radical kasa-obake yokai. I was initially worried about painting it in these colors because I didn't want anyone to think of the 1990s Charlotte Hornets, but my wife didn't even know what I was talking about so I figured nobody else would care either. The show opens on Saturday, October 18th but here are some other very good pictures my wife took to tide you over until then :->