Tonight’s post is a portrait of Rembrandt’s Soldier Bean in full 16″ x 20″ x 300DPI poster size print, the latest of and now available in my Mr Bean Collection.
This piece was a commission for a client who wanted a 16 x 20 image to appear as a painting and is to be framed like an old master. These are always a lot of fun and great practice. I actually made a major breakthrough experimenting on this image with some new techniques that I will incorporate on all of my future work. I also learned a couple of new techniques in the latest Adobe Creative Suite.
Well, it’s Saturday night and after a very long wait of many months with broken titanium in my back, I go in Monday morning at 4:30am to have it all pulled out and done over. Wish me luck!
Facelift – a portrait of Mrs Bean. This is the latest addiction to my Mr Bean Collection. Click the image for details or Click Here for the entire Mr Bean Experience.
This is my latest personal caricature of a friend and fellow precious metals collector and dealer who I met on instagram after a purchase of a very rare old poured silver ingot. A real nice guy who also works for UPS. Below is my W. E. Mowrey silver ingot collection which he contributed to. Just a few of a large and ultra rare old poured silver ingot collection. W. W. Mowrey Company was established n 1899 and is still in operation.
I’m still waiting on my back surgery but finally have a date of 9/30/19 so these small quick jobs keep me going until I’m finally able to go full force behind my computer again. It’s hard to believe it has been 4 years since my original injury. Two years now since the last surgery which was a complete failure. Below is what it looked like a years and a half ago. It’s much worse now.
I’m looking forward to getting this mess behind me so I can get back to work on new images as well as getting back to the gym so I can complete my training and get my personal trainer license. Three more weeks and then I start another road to recovery.
Back by popular demand, Rowan Atkinson’s Mr Bean character is up to it again posing as a Royal Court Lady complete with his / her teddy bear. Oddly enough, this image seems to be the most flattering to date in a weird sort of way.
It always amazes me how popular these Mr Bean images are and the simpler the better it seems. I can spend weeks on a complex illustration and get little interest, but when I post a Bean image, it goes viral at times. So much so that I have done numerous magazine features of the character and about 2 years ago participated in a beach front art show in the South of France comprised solely of Mr Bean images.
So, I will continue to build upon my Mr Bean Collection and who knows where this may lead. One thing is for sure, it will be fun and his die hard fans will follow.
As many of you know, I love all forms of art and I always enjoy sharing good art on my blogs as well as social media. I had the pleasure of meeting a very talented young man recently on Instagram who specializes in logo design with Space Pirate Logos. I’ve seen his designs all over instagram spanning many communities and spreading like wildfire, including the precious metals community which I’m very much involved in being a precious metals collector myself.
I noticed on one of his posts that he had his logo design pricing listed so I contacted him to see if it was correct. I was amazed that it was in fact correct and so affordable I could’t resist, so I had him design one for me. I’m super pleased with mine and was so impressed, I had to share his work with you here. Space Pirate Logos is where to get yours. Don’t miss out on this opportunity! Below is a little about the artist in his own words and some samplings of his work.
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be an artist. In the early days, a crayon would do but as I aged, I needed more. I went to an art school after high school for graphic design and fine arts. I excelled. I worked as a commissioned fine artist for those first few years after college, painting murals and my own pieces that I would sell. All was well until 2010 when I was diagnosed with retinal melanoma in my right eye. It all came crashing down around me.
After the eye was removed surgically, I found that my lack of depth perception was going to stop me from painting. I couldn’t get my perspective correct anymore. It was devastating. Some told me to continue and just paint what I see but I had a style and I wasn’t ready to change it. So I quit in utter despair…
In those early days of monocular vision I searched for an alternative venue to release my pent up creativity to no avail. Eventually, as all things seem to be today, I turned to my computer for solace. And it helped. I spent my days immersed in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator and all those good things. My skillset eventually changed. I was getting decent and an online friend asked me to do a logo for his Instagram account. Well I guess the rest is pretty obvious.
Today, I no longer use Photoshop to create my logos. The entire process I hold under lock and key, but I will tell you the basics. I work on a Samsung tablet and use a series of apps to get the desired effects I’m going for. Sometimes it works, other times I find myself up all night trying to get it right. I’m sure that’s the same for all of us.
So I feel like the future is bright! I’m optimistic that this one-eyed artist still has untapped potential. In the meantime, I’ll be here hammering out social media art. And feeling like everything might be alright after all.
Be sure and check out Space Pirate Logos on Instagram and give him a follow.
