Author: Kevin Gosselin

Vinyl Roots Preview #2 @dragatomi with @JRYU @TroyStith

OK, here\’s number two.  Now I know this seems like it\’s beat to death but people seem to like and I\’ve allowed myself to make a mega, a regular size one and now a series of minis.  BUT THAT\”S IT!!  No more golems for you after this.  hehe, at least not this version 😉

There will be 8 of these fellas available at the show tomorrow.  The original plus 7 out of 10 of the resin series, three are being held back.  Each is signed, numbered and comes with a \”Golem, my command is card\” which will allow the owner to cast a command spell to their golem.

Aren\’t they cute?

Vinyl Roots Preview #1 @dragatomi with @JRYU @TroyStith

OK, you\’ve seen a couple of these guys before, and although my wife says, \”haven\’t you done that idea to death?\” I said, \”no, in fact I\’ve only done two.\”  Believe it or not I did the original tree ent that got me a win in Munnyworld almost two years ago and the another munny ent shortly after but otherwise, no other munny ents.  SOOOOO, I figured I\’d make a series of them.  This isn\’t your average mini munny though, I stretched the body an additional 2 inches to give the added tree effect. The series is limited to six of which two are reserved for a couple special individuals in my family.  Plus the original is also available, so that makes 5 that will be at the show.  Each one is handed painted, signed and numbered.

Bringing Home A Baby Bumble Bee

Here\’s my entry into the Custom Vinyl Show at the G40 Art Summit.
The show opens May 20th and goes through June 17th.
For more info on the show, visit their site, http://artwhino.com/_webapp_3886764/2011_G40

Originally I was just going to do another rock golem piece but in the style of the red rocks of Utah but when I finished I felt it didn\’t have the personality I had hoped for. I knew I needed something else so I decided to add a supporting character. When reading up on what animals would be present in that environment I came upon a still of Beaky Buzzard and Bugs Bunny. As I am a huge fan of the old Warner Brothers Looney Tunes I was immediately sold. The piece is titled \”Bringing Home A Baby Bumblebee\”

Monsters & Aliens” curated by Zinn: April 8 from 6-10pm

Tonight\’s the night.  My nephew Zinn, who is just 7 years old, is curating his own art show.  He\’s picked the theme of Monsters and Aliens and surprise surprise he invited me to be a part of the show.  Being that I\’m pretty much an unknown in the Seattle scene and nobody has any preexisting ideas about my art, I decided to do 4 original sculpts.  I\’ll post up picks tomorrow, but if you\’re in Seattle tonight head on over to Bherd Studios to see the opening. 

Here\’s some info about the show.

KIRO Radio 97.3 FM

North Seattle Herald 

Bherd Studios

Spartacus, Blood and Sand Shirt

So over the last couple days there\’s been a interest in a illustration I did a while back.  I had submitted this to a couple t-shirt sites but no one accepted the design.  I placed it on redbubble and didn\’t think too much of it afterwards.  But I guess the show has been gaining interest and in turn now my shirt.

If you\’d like to create a shirt head on over to my redbubble site and make one.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/kgosselinart/t-shirts/5827746-3-hail-batiatus

Thanks for the interest.

Auction for MW2 Variant AP

It\’s on everyone.  Starting now until Sunday evening I\’ll be taking bids through email for the the albino cannibal dunny AP I created for the most wanted series 2. It\’s the last AP up for grabs and the only Albino version out there. Only 6 Albinos if you include the ones found in the series.  If you want it just email me at kgosselin@gmail.com and I\’ll keep you posted if someone out bids you.  I\’ll send out a final warning at 6 PM PST Sunday and will close the bidding at 7 PM PST.

When Worlds Collide

Last night was the opening open the When Worlds Collide show at Screaming Sky Gallery in Portland.  I felt really lucky to live in this neck of the woods and be able to see all the great work the other artists produced.  As soon as I get my pictures cleaned up I\’ll post my thoughts on everyones work and highlight my favorites.  I will say though that it was a toss up for me between two pieces at the show.  If I actually had money I\’d have walked away with either Chauskoskis Gorilla Rook or Map Map\’s piece of which the name eludes me right now.  Both pieces were so beautiful in their choices of color and the sculpts were gorgeous.  Simple yet flawless in their design and execution.  If you have means, go get em.

OK, so now on to what I did.  Last fall Fplus invited me to be in his show but as I looked at my schedule I had to step away from it.  Josh was totally cool about it and insisted I still contribute something so I offered to show existing pieces and create a couple new pieces if I could.  So I submitted my two large pieces that were returned to me from other events, namely the Mega Stone Golem and the 16\” Qee Bear.  I didn\’t like rerunning any work but it is good for a new audience to see the work in person as none of the photos I ever take do any of my pieces justice.  At any rate, I did create two pieces for the show.  The first is a bit of a cop out.  My bad.  When I created the Stone Golem it was done entirely in Magic Sculpt which has a working life of around an hour.  So, to be sure of my direction I had done a sketch of the face on a regular sized munny.  So, with that lying around and the overwhelming interest in the original mega version, I decided to complete it and offer up a more affordable stone golem.  Here he is.  For the most part he\’s the same guy, brackets and leaves and nest all in the same place but this little guy, as with all little guys, tend to me meaner.  His jaw is larger and arms bulkier.  Don\’t mess with him.
The other thing I did, which I teased about the other day, was a new direction for me.  I\’ve done some tree ents in the past and wanted to explore it a little more and decided that a bonsai tree would be an interesting direction.  I really don\’t know how the community will respond to this piece.  I personally found this a blast to do and think for my first one it turned out nicely.  I\’d love to do many more of these, each with it\’s own personality while exploring traditional bonsai techniques and designs.  The larger the better too.  But I suppose it all depends on the community\’s response to it. Let me know what you think.  Do you want to see more of these?