Matt's Monster Madness 2012 Day 3: Furry One Shoe

As I did in 2008 and 2011, I will be posting a monster of the day during the month of October. There will be a new monster every day. Some may be sketched, some done digitally, some in photo editing, some sculpture, etc...


You can also follow me on Instagram to see the monsters that way too! My username is @mcrosser.

Today is the second one and it's called "Furry One Shoe".Painted with PC Sketchbook 6.0 by Autodesk and a Wacom Graphic Tablet. Click on the link below to see all the monsters for each year!

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Red Painting

This is another painting that I did recently. It has a very intense red theme to it.

Spring Flowers Painting

I've been painting more lately. As I completed a decorative project for my office, I would find myself with leftover paint that I didn't want to go to waste, so I painted a few extra paintings. Here's one I did with a Springy influence.

Electrocute

This is my first attempt using a new software called SumoPaint. Great potential for this program and I look forward to what else I can create with it.

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Artist Notes - Done in Sumo Paint. It is a free App for the Chrome Browser. It is found in the Chrome Marketplace. There is a downloadable offline version available for purchase.

Painting - Orange

Here's a painting I did. It is twelve inches by twelve inches on canvas. I guess I just felt like painting something bright that day. We might hang it in the room that my office is in. The room will be used for other functions, but I think it will fit with the decor. 

Art notes - I used an Artist Loft 12X12 medium heavy duty canvas. The brushes I used were 12 round. And the paint I used was acrylic - colors were orange and deep yellow.

My New Office

Here are some photos I took of my new office space at HPCC. This is where I can work on all the various creative projects that I do for Team Expansion missionaries.

Experiment in Watercolor

So, I am not much of painter. Part of the issue is that I don't have a great deal in patience while creating. When I draw with a pencil my strokes are instantaneous. When, I use pens, color can be added as soon as I close the lid of the previously used pen. But with paint, you have to be careful about mixing colors that you don't want mixed. While our nephew Kohl was here visiting, I took him to Venice. While there we found an artists' little store. Her walls were filled with watercolors. She had full size originals mixed with various sized reproductions. I noticed that her watercolors were different. They weren't the washed out paintings that I have seen before. I noticed that she used a black outline and then she colored it in with watercolors. It looked like a black pen, since the line was perfect and completely uniform in every stroke. I asked her why the watercolors didn't make the ink run when it came in contact with it on the paper. She said its because she found the perfect pen finally. It is a waterproof, fade proof pen by Uniball. She told me that she had a spare pen that she would give to me. When she went to look for it she realized that she had left it at home. I took a picture of it and looked for it at stores once I got back to Verona. After only four stores, I found it!! At a store three blocks from our apartment. So I gave it a whirl.

The character below is a new character that I came up with recently. Angie and I were out to lunch a couple weeks ago and I saw this statue in the window from across the restaurant. Because we were on the other side of the restaurant I couldn't completely make out what it was. But I thought it looked like something, so I made a quick sketch of it in my notebook. I looked at the statue on the way out and laughed because it was completely different than my drawing and what I had seen in my head. I am also putting the original sketch I made of him.

Right now, his name is Bog. He is part of a comic book idea idea I am working on called "The Year of the Bog", that is unless I change it.

"Love" Painting

So, until the October Halloween monsters start going up on the blog, I thought that I would upload a couple other items. First here is a painting I did in 1996. It is small about 4X6 and done in acrylics. I used pencil to sketch it out first, then painted it.

The Empty Tomb

So, about a month ago, I was asked to help design and build a tomb for an actor portraying Jesus to emerge from on Easter Sunday at Cedar Ridge Christian Church in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. I was part of a creative team that did similar set design and building at East Tulsa Christian Church for years. It was great to be involved and I had fun working on it with some of the same people I used to create sets with. Here are some pictures of the process and the final shots, followed by a short video of the tomb in action.

Scroll all the way to the bottom of the post to see the video.

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