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Join the Circus
Some of you may already be aware of this, but this year I am participating in Grand Rapids’ Artprize competition along with Bethalynne Bajema, Ted Jauw, Kate Jauw, Bethany Greenier, John Hyatt, and Cassie Truskowski, with our combined work…
Undeath from Above
The original was drawn in pen and ink on 11×14 inch Bristol Board, I did the coloring with my 4-year old Adesso drawing tablet so as to preserve the pen and ink original.
Red Hand Assemblage
The box has two decorative hinges with a decorative patina on the spine edge if it; The latching mechanism is self-made from another smaller version of these hinges, combined with three solid brass model cannons from a model ship. The latch holds the piece securely shut, but opens easily when you want it to with a slight squeeze of the box and an easy flip of the thumb.
Some Day I Will Never Grow Up
The original was painted on a wood panel cabinet I hand-made for the purpose of doing this painting. I’ll be finishing up the cabinet when I return home.. I can’t tell you what I’ll be filling the cabinet with – but when the construct is done, I will have had a lot of fun making things to fill it with.
Mach Turtle!
Alice rides a Mock Turtle at high speed along a peppermint lollipop shoreline, followed by the Mad Hatter in his own special-crafted craft.
O Frabjous Day
You can tell I am enjoying a piece when I am afraid to go to sleep before finishing it, spraying fixative on it, scanning it, doing pre-press, and proofing it.
Smog is Awesome
Images from the utterly amazing and imaginative collection: World of Smog
How to Make an Airship Model
This construct is mostly wood, with papier-mâché for the balloon and the base shell of the gondola, and mesh sandpaper for the deck floor (to mimic the cross-hatched wooden cargo doors on an old deck)…
The Sweet Smell of Recovery
I am back up and running. Weeee! Three New artworks and some external links featured within this post.
Product Specials
Available for a week at the reduced price introductory of $25 (reg $35). The art is the first panel, special-made for the inside of a special box/portable frame assemblage art piece I am making. It was requested that I make prints of this piece - so, I am making 20 of each on fine art rag paper, signed, numbered, and dated tiny in the margin. They are printed on a fine cotton rag paper, in archival pigment inks for an archival rating of 200+ years. The print is 8.5x11 inches including the 1 inch border. Printed area is 6.5 inches by 9. The Assemblage this comes from is a sort of dark carnival and Miskatonic feeling piece, made to feel much like all the occult ephemera of the late 1800s/early 1900s, a time when mysticism was for city-dwellers was becoming quite the fashion - though I often pull from real references when making these sorts of pieces, I do not imply that they have any actual magickal properties or serious reference value. They are more "camp" for fans of the ooky-spooky.
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Twitter Updates
- Finished the redesign on my site... it looks completely different now. No longer a wall of brown: http://www.mykeamend.com 3 hrs ago
- Testing 17 hrs ago
- Your junk/our art: Grand Rapids artists seeking used materials for #ArtPrize entry http://bit.ly/dqaz3x #art #steampunk #GR 1 week ago
- Limited (25) CirqueAcirca poster giclee ($65, signed by everyone) http://cirqueacirca.com/artprize/?page_id=131&category=5&product_id=24 1 week ago
- #Follow @cirqueacirca and @thesteampig if you like things #circus #steampunk #art and are anywhere within driving distance of Grand Rapids 2 weeks ago
- GR #steampunk event: Track our progress: http://cirqueacirca.com/artprize http://facebook.com/cirqueacirca http://twitter.com/cirqueacirca 2 weeks ago
- Polymer Clay sculpture - only $125 today: http://www.etsy.com/listing/53543432/sorry-charlie-ooak-polymer-clay-sea 2 weeks ago
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