The Dude Abides

Here is a picture of the real "Dude," Jeff Dowd, signing one of the pins for a fan at the Lebowskifest a few weeks back, as well as one with a Dude Look Alike.
Here is a link to the accompanying article.

Posters

I just found out a about a website where you can upload your artwork, and have posters, shirts and other stuff made of it, and where people can buy these things. It is called zazzle.com, and looks a whole lot better than cafepress.
I will be posting some of my artwork there, check it out.

Dax Posters and Stuff at Zazzle

Bo Diddley Art

Bo Diddley is Hidden in this painting, his face is comprised of 3 cupcakes


A quick ink drawing done with a stick.

Bo Diddley is my favorite early Rock n Roller. The most innovative, for sure. Karen and I were lucky enough to see him in concert about four years ago in St Petersburg, it was amazing.
Rock in Peace, Bo!

Rorschach Portraits

I am going to do one of these ink portraits per day, Gestures drawn with a stick. This one is of Macho Man Randy Savage.

to see them, go to Ink Blot Portraits

An Interesting Shambolic Mess

Here is one of about a dozen paintings I did after coming home late from the computer labs at ringling last year. The main focus of much of my art is stream of consciousness. This painting is a good example of this. While many of my paintings will be focused on hiding things within shapes composing a larger hidden image, this one is different, and a satisfying departure to me. I find myself trying to sort out definite shapes that may not be there, but exist among abstract forms in this piece.

A Coupla Drawings

My 2 Favorite CEO's, Jack and Steve, drawn with ink and a stick. I love drawing with a random branch and ink. It can be very fun and expressive.
Man, am I glad to have Jack in the Box again. I can't believe I made it 4 years in Florida without an ultimate Bacon Cheeseburger.




A quick sketch I did for the new ANimated 3-D short I just started working on.

Embarking upon New Endeavors

Four major (artisic) projects that I am working on currently:

500 Bowling Pins Project. I am painting this number of different bowling pins, then I will have a really cool Gallery show with all of them. I have an ever growing running list for the cast of characters that will make up this group, but if you have something in mind you would like to see me do as a bowling pin, feel free to let me know. To watch the status of this project, chck out my FLickr page, I am already well on my way.

Bowling Pins



The Sequel to "The LTC" has begun! I recently started modeling characters for the sequel to "The Last Temptation of Crust."
Although it is not so much a sequel, as a continuation, with a totally different story. We will see what Frank Finkerton does after he leaves the Bus Stop. There are four characters in this story, including the Fink-bot, as TP would say. I am giving myself a full year to finish production on this. The working title is, "Llava los Manos." This title came to me in a dream. This story has been brewing heavily in my mind ever since I finished "The Crust."




This one is almost done. I have, for years now, dreamt of how I can animate my painting style. I figured it out! after numerous failed attempts.
To see one of the failed attempts, that I did something else with, go to daxnorman.com and mouse over the images on the main page.

I worked on the successful animation some, while creating my thesis, but now I am finishing it. I will be done with it on November 7th of this year.




Canvas. One of the cool things about being an artist at an art school is all of the free art supplies you can find. WHile at Ringling, I rarely ever had to buy canvases for my paintings, because other students would just throw theirs away, which I would paint over.
This project is tentatively going to be called "Daxterpiece Numero Dos," I found this huge canvas in the dumpster at Ringling before I left Florida. It is about 10 feet by 10 feet. (Almost twice as big as the original Daxterpiece.
Granted, this canvas really wasn't the painting kind, which may be why it was tossed, but now it is ready. I put 2 buckets of gesso all over it, and now it is ready to grow.
I estimate to be done with this painting in a few months.

LebowskiFest Photos

FF Cow Painting

Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby Rock at Thee Parkside in San Franciso

Wreckless Eric rocks!

Here is Wreckless Eric with a bowling Pin I made for him, at Thee Parkside in San Francisco. This concert was truly one of the best I have ever seen!

Check him out on tour with Amy Rigby. If you like real rock and roll, you won't be disapointed

Here are the tour dates:

August
23 Chalus
28 Portland, Oregon
30 Seattle WA
September
3 Los Angeles CA
4 Merced CA
5 San Francisco
9 Kansas City
10 St Louis
11 Memphis Tenn
12 Dallas Texas
13 Austin Texas
14 Houston
16 Birmingham
17 Atlanta GA
18 Nashville
19 Chapel Hill
23 Pittsburgh PA
25 Vienna VA
26 Philadelphia
27 Brooklyn NY
30 Cleveland OH


October
02 Chicago
03 Minneapolis
07 Ontario
08 Rochester NY
09 New Haven CT
12 Boston


for more details, go to wrecklesseric.com

Strawberry Chicken

Here we have Karen's face amongst some strawberrys, an elephant, a loaf of bread Golfing, a hand, lemon, and a vegetable carrying dancing woman.