baby bird in the studio

100 Bowling Pins in the Desert

I just returned from a walkabout in the desert.

folk art heroes, series 2

VIncent Van Gogh, The Ultimate Warrior, Frida Kahlo, Macho Man Randy Savage, The Dude, Willie Nelson

Hakeem and Nolan

LynchPin

Here is a David Lynch bowling Pin I made for my friend, composer Dave Merson Hess. Dave composed the amazing score for "Porn on the Cob", and is also composing the soundtrack for my first animated feature, Symphony in Sweeatch!

adios California

Porn on the Cob Bowling Pins

Password=waitress

Porn on the Cob, Tale of the Carnal Kernals animated cartoon short from dax norman on Vimeo.

Jake the Snake, Andre, and the Undertaker

Jake the Snake, Andre, and the Undertaker

BlackHeart Music Video

Romance Fantasy Blackheart Music Video by Dax from dax norman on Vimeo.
I approached making this music video as if it were a concert light show.

Napoleon, Skeleton

Romance Fantasy Music Video In Progress

I am currently working on a music video of the song "Blackheart" by Romance Fantasy. It will be animated on bowling pins!(as well as cg and hand drawn stew) In my mind, it is my trippiest animation yet. Also here are some abstract "Fantastic Planet" inspired landscapes I will use.

In the Studio

New Paintings and a new animation coming very soon.

Artist Bowling Pins

Here are some artist bowling pins that will be for sale, along with my paintings, soon at Gallery 444 in San Francisco!

Earl and ET

Here are a couple of the New Bowling Pins I have done recently, Earl Campbell, E.T., and Colt McCoy

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Friends in 'Fro

So My Dog destryed a pillow that Karen Dubbed "Miss October," since it was from that month in 1979! She had a good run, for sure, but continues to live on, since I used her innards to make the afros of these bowling pins last night.

I'm well on my way to creating 500 unique bowling pins. Here are some new ones: David Hasselhoff as Knight Rider, Bob Ross, an Oompa Loompa, Clockwork Orange, Rambo, Napoleon Dynamite. I

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.

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.