ADDEccentric

This is the next show that I’ll be participating in

Jamie aka Mad-Hatters-Neverland made a post over at the October Toys Forum explaining the idea behind the show:

I’m a cub scout leader (hard to believe I know). What this means is that I put in endless hours of work a week to “teach” and “entertain” a group of 30 kids how to become better – better people, better whatever, just better.

Beyond this, I also run the area rally for 150 kids + families. Once a year, we give the kids a “Kub Kar Kit” (Pinewood Derby in the USA) – basically a block of wood, 4 wheels and some nails and they design and build a car (of course) to race in a rally.

I’d love to have a mini show (in March) based on these kits at the rally – the Ultimate DIY Kit. Yes, there are rally rules about weight and size etc. but I decided that for this show/experiment, I’m not going to limit the pieces to the “rules” – heck, I don’t even care if it runs as a “car”. The only criteria is that it use the wood and wheels as the starting point.

If anyone’s interested in taking part, I’ll send you 2 kits – one for you to send back for the show and one for you to keep. Just remember that at least half the audience will be kids. If this idea sounds cool by anybody – or if you have a better idea, PM me

I believe he is still taking people on for this show, so if you’re interested send him a message.

I’m really looking forwards to this project. I was a cub in my younger years, and I really loved building the Kub Kars.

DYB DYB DYB, DOB DOB DOB

I broke out the watercolours tonight so that I could do a proper rendition of this hairy fella. He’s known as The Raconteur, and he will be appearing again in the very near future.

I really like the October Toys Forums. There’s a nice little community there that is free of trolls and other undesirables in a message board environment. George who is one of the owners of October Toys put a call out to artists on the forum for a special Gwin project he was working on. 11 artists supplied their intrepretation of a Satanic Pentagram and George added the designs to blind bagged custom Gwins he did up for SDCC. They will be available at the October Toys booth #4838 so don’t sleep on these.

Here’s the lot of them

Click photo to embiggen

The one with my art is between the two non-red Gwins.

This is my interpretation of the pentragram that I submitted:

Sorry this update has been the first in over a month. I’ll try to be a better blogger, promise!

So if you’ve been following the SundayDoodle shenanigans over on my twitter you know the score. For those that don’t here’s the skinny: Every sunday, unless otherwise noted, I tweet a message around 8am stating #SundayDoodle is on, and ask for suggestions on what to draw. The first reply is the one I go with.

To date these are the suggestions that I have received and doodled:
-puple monkey dishwasher
-a lady with a dishwasher face baking muffins
-a rabid granny with a highly religious cat
-a robotic gerbil
-a magical pony and ice cream
-zombie vegetables
-a badger dressed as a Victorian gentleman riding a robotic unicorn that’s far too angular for it’s own safety
-an army of cocks invading earth

I will be taking better photos of these and posting them on my flickr.

This Sunday I’ll be doing something a li ttle different. The requests will still go out as normal and I can’t wait to see which suggestion comes in first, remember nothing is too bizzare or taboo for me to doodle. So it’s a secret, but if you like what I’ve done so far you’ll want to be around Sunday morning. The call usually goes out around 7 or 8am EST. See you there!

Oh, you will of course need a twitter account and be following my twitter @ADDEccentric to play the game.

They may be small in stature, but they are definitely huge in courage. Starmen are always running around in the oddest of places exploring the unkown.

Keep an eye out for them. When a few are spotted there always many more, they just might not be as easily spotted as these two.

zincsaucier442 snapped a pretty sweet photo of my Into The Darkness custom.

The pieces from the show are now up for sale here. There is a lot of great art by great artists, go get something!

UPDATE: The Watcher sold at the show last night! This is the first time I have sold a piece in a show (insert happy dance here).

I’m participating in another custom show that ever awesome Dril is running called Into The Darkness which will open 06/05/09 at 1AM Gallery in San Francisco, CA.

Here is a little sneak peak at what I’ll have in the show

This is going to be an awesome show. Just look at this list of artists!

64 Colors, ADDEccenteric, Aeirsick, Alarment, Albert Art, AttemptedArtistry, Ayleen Gaspar, Boompooper, brainstrikers ARTDENKA, Brian Colin, BrownKidd, Bryan Collins, Catherine J. Cruz, Collin David, Coreroc, Cris Rose, DLi$h, D-LuX, DrilOne, FAS, Flyin Bear, George Gaspar, Hariken, InfamousAdam, Jon Paul Kaiser, Ka, KaroGaro, Kat Brunnegraff, Keith Poon, Kel7alpha, Kelly Vetter, Lana Crooks, Leecifer, Leonard Amaral, Lily Black, Lunabee, Lysol, Max Bare, MeSmithy, Mike Maraldo, Nathan Lumm, Nerviswr3k, OsirisOrion, Paridee K, Patrick Francisco, Phoneticontrol, Pretty Poopie, RazhoR REdYOdA, Robot Octopus, rustedhalo, Three, TIBONG, Todd Robertson, Trevor Zammit

If you want other sneak peaks make sure to follow me on twitter @ADDEccentric. I snap a few photos everytime I’m working on something new.
Also we can be flickr friends.

I still need to post up the SundayDoodles here, but if you want to check them out they are on my Twitpic. I plan on adding them to my flickr soon enough with higher quality photos. If you have a suggestion for the SundayDoodle follow me on twitter and be ready around 9am EST on Sundays for the call to go out. First reply is the one I go with.

Later taters!

-ADDE

Just a reminder to everyone that the Skully show opens this Saturday May 16 from 7pm-11pm. If you live in or around Fullerton, CA you should go check out the amazing work of over 90 talented artists.

The OC Register did a nice little article about the show and the art toy movement. It just so happens that they selected my submission to the show as one of the photos they chose to feature. Check it out and make sure to check out the other great customs in the feature.
This is the first bit of press that I have had, so I’m extra excited about it.

I love the shade black (it’s not a colour), in fact 90% of my wardrobe consists of black clothing.  So when I saw that some of my favourite artists were participating in Back In Black 2 it got me pretty excited.   You should check out the designs that are available until May 31.

This is my entry for the Chuckwa Skully show that runs May 16 through to June 5.  If you’re in Fullerton CA check it out.