a farewell picnic

A coworker gave his two weeks 13 days ago and tomorrow, yes tomorrow, leaves with as much ceremony as a small studio can muster. It's inevitable that people at work leave, but it feels very strange. Bear with me as I get wordy here; I'm near the beginning of this journey into corporate America office culture. Coworkers as it turns out don't become family, they become statues in one's life. No matter the weather, no matter the time of year, you know where they will be located (any given workday and sometimes weekends). Every Monday morning one returns to spend hours and hours in this forest of cubicles filled with office statues. Then suddenly it happens, overnight one of the statues vanishes. It is a shock. All that is left behind is a coworker shaped hollow space (and probably a jar of mayo in the office fridge). I say, the thieves that steals our precious statues better have a good idea of where they are bringing them. Well, that's neither here nor there. Here is a flash doodle for my recently to be departed coworker. Thank you for all the flash tricks and vegetarian food. This feels like an obituary. *tear

painting for sarah - asking for directions

Pirate captain stops to ask the locals for directions.

Been working on this off and on in my freetime lately. (Mainly when my computer is loading and I have a minute free here and there to draw some lines.)

A friend of mine let me stay at her place in Seattle for a couple of days while I was out on her coast for a wedding. I gifted her with this as my small way to thank her for the accommodations. My friend works at Microsoft on the new Microsoft/Yahoo collaborative search engine at bing.com. Check it out if you haven't yet.

Small painting, 3 x 4 inches. Acrylic on a little gessoed block.

I had this idea for a painting ages ago, but it sat in the back of my mind waiting patiently to be made.

:)

note2tab icon

Icon for an iPhone app called note2tab. Here is a link to Jon's site for more information about the app. This is a music app, much like the other icons I did recently. http://jmlay-music.com/blog/2009/08/note2tab-now-available/
This was a neat little icon to make. I got to take the 5 lines of written music and turn it into 6 lines of TAB. Made in flash.

iPhone apps

Here are some illustrations and graphics for two iPhone/iTouch apps. Everything was made in flash. :) Check out Jon's website for more info on these apps. http://jmlay-music.com/blog/iphone-apps/

Harmonic Ear Training illustration, icon, and spot graphics.

Sync Points Icon

Tuna Platform Loading Spot Illustration

Here is a loading icon for a website to be www.tunaplatform.com. There isn't anything there yet but someday soon I'm told that the lower right hand tuna in this block will be incorporated as a loading spot illustration. :)

Flash!

Star Wars comic

My friend Shelli (http://www.foolproofart.com/) is putting together a Star Wars FanArt Anthology and my friend Braden (http://www.chiefsheepy.com/) wrote up a little script for me. :) Here it is. Made this in Flash.

new buttons

New button designs!

I am always commuting - Paintings for the Mansion Show

This summer there is going to be an art show called 'The Mansion Show' at Beebe Estate in Melrose MA that I got into. http://beebeestate.org/the_beebe_estate.html

My series for the show is lovingly entitled, 'I am always commuting'. It's a small painting series. The canvas sizes are 6"x10", 5"x7", 2 4"x5", and the smallest at 1.5"x1.5".

Lately, it feels as if I am continuously in a state of commuting. There are unexpected residual adjustments to living with a long commute. One gets bonus time to play games, read, study, listen to podcasts or people watch come rain or shine. But on the other hand one can't get to the post office or library before they close.

Whitman Lives Well Poster

Poster for the Whitman Public Library and their lovely librarians.. :)
This took about a solid weekend, but the text all came together surprisingly fast. Time for smiley emoticon number two . :)

Get your immunizations kiddies! Bike this summer! Play with squirrels! All very important things to do when living in Whitman.

Here is the event page at through the Whitman Public Library webpage.
http://www.eventkeeper.com/code/events.cfm?curOrg=WHITMAN

First Night 2009

Here are some website banner ads I did for Boston's FirstNight. This was such a fun project! Check it out at FirstNight.org.





And here are some process illustrations for the illustration for the 2009 button.




Here is the final button! (I didn't work on the type design.)

yoga poses

unicorn-mermaid

The best of both worlds.

This was probably the smartest thing I will ever have thought and I was 8. What I would have given to grow up and be a unicorn-mermaid. But alas, one can be happy with just the memories of running around their neighbor's pool as the rare princess unicorn mermaid, right?

Summer Villians Holiday CD cover

CD cover for my friend Joe's band 'Summer Villians'.

CD for purchase here.

Kelsey's Brithday Card Spots

Spot illustrations for my niece's first birthday invitations. :)

laura's tattoo

Here is a tattoo design I worked on this amazing lady up in Alberta, Canada.

Little Cody Visits the Underworld

cat talk

dino

Chop Chop Sushi Master - for Thom

The lovely Thom May of http://bridgewindsoup.blogspot.com/ recently bequeathed me some acrylic paints before he departed for sunsets over the pacific ocean. Here is a painting for his parting. Maybe abit of thanks for the paints too. I was unaware that he has been painting cats and text lately. We are of similar minds even with a continent separating us. *tears*.

Rock and Art 08

Rock and Art painting for the 2008 summer concert season. http://www.rockandart.org/ Acrylic on 30x30 inch gessoed board. My band for this program was Crosby, Stills and Nash. My amateur photo skills manifested themselves in losing a bit of the color. The richer green blues and lavenders don't seem to be present in the photo. Haha. I like the painting though. It expresses time, a deep appreciating for the beauty around us and strength of will to pursue into the unknown. Here we have a band that's been an influential voice of activism for generations. While known best for antiwar and counterculture themes they also commonly invoke sailing and nautical references. So one can see why I felt compelled to take a voyage approach. :)

past life regression therapist

Hypnosis quackery pseudotherapy as far as I'm concerned.

Waiting in line at AnimeBoston - for Kristina

Back in May one inauspicious Saturday morning my cousin and myself excitedly set out to Boston to attend our first ever anime convention. It warranted to become an entire day of unrestrained unbridled exorbitant anime goodness. Anime Boston. Little did we know one needed to pass the gatekeepers known as registration. One did this by waiting in line. This 'line' meandered through multiple lecture rooms at the Hynes convention center and is the unrivaled winner of long ass lines. For 5 hours we stayed queued, surrounded by one interesting phenomena. Serious cosplayers. Two things occurred to me. 1) We are out of place in our casual attire of sweatshirt and jeans. 2) This is the largest collection of Narutos one could ever expect to see.


Have been working on this a little bit here and there in my free time for over a month now. Flash and a bit of photoshop magic.

zot likes carrots

modelsheet : me

Model sheel turn of a very stylized me character.

Schrödinger's cat

the paradox. it doesn't seem to apply so well from the point of view we live in. quantum level rules don't exactly fit the same. not nice for kitties.

my thoughts follow me wherever i go

trails of thought follow my days.

logical fallacies. genetic mutation. skeptical debates. nihongo tango. fundamental zealotry. mythology. warping views of science. theories for gaps. empowerment and prehistory. rules and bigotry. beliefs. events. causality. collapse. nutritional values. significance.


a curiously interwoven stream, fleeting and floating away at the only constant i know; that of my internal voice.

Character Illustrations

Character illustrations for Group 4 (http://www.g4arch.com/) and a project with the Columbus Metropolitan Library.:)

a dog and his boy

My buddy Evan and his awesome dog Rufus! :)
http://evansussman.blogspot.com/

we are friend

for amanda

Odds & Ends

zot thinks she is a turtle

Prof Layton and the Mysterious Village!

Zot...We are friend!!

kitty!

for jack

Our head writer at work is leaving. :(

(if anyone is waiting on me for requests, e-mails, art or commissions.. sorry! been crazy busy.. moving, doctors apointments, family, and work... i go on vacation mid next week, so i'll be get back into the swing of things and up to date with everyone!)

chicken soup for joe

fluffy bunny keychain!

My boss came back from Japan and gave me the cutest keychain!

mr. nibs and me

flash doodle for today

don't think.

don't think. you aren't good at it.

flash doodles for work peeps

Marji-marji of marji4x.deviantart.com gave me one very nice scarf for my birthday.. :)

and Jesus of the fellas who sits behind me at work somewhere had a birthday.

end my students loans #8

Oh tree painting!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190163164545#ebayphotohosting
auction ends Oct-21-07 20:54:57 PDT

I'll remember that

Flash sketch for today.

:)

End my student loans #7

Second viking painting! Auction ends Oct-13-07 18:08:40 PDT

Boston's Weekly Dig! Fall Dining Guide! Oh Happy day!

http://www.weeklydig.com/9-40-10-03-07-10-10-07 and and and... they made a poster you can purchase~ http://www.weeklydig.com/blogs/e-t/more-dining-fun Check it out!

#6 End my Student Loans Please

Wheeee! Number 6! Viking and Vikingette. Acrylic. Primed board. I love this painting. It is part of a two part viking series of which I loved painting. Shall place the second part of this series up on ebay next week. Oh yes, I think I shall.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190157998777

auction ends : Oct-06-07 16:38:32 PDT

paintings for my mum

Paintings for my mum. :) Gave these to her awhile ago, just realized I never posted it here. :) She likes trees and castles.

#5 End my student loans

Io the Heifer Maiden painting from back in the college days. This eventually turned into the mini comic of the same name. Oh yeah, got like 10-15 little copies of that mini. If anyone wants one, just drop me an e-mail and I'll send ye one.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190155674644
Auction ends Sep-29-07 14:09:42 PDT

little heart of mine, you are better off somewhere else to grow

Was playing around in flash with face shapes and hair styles and made this cute little guy. I wish I could say I had the idea before wacom pen hit tablet.. but it just kinda evolved into a little sad concept sketch. Super quick flash sketch. :) These are fun.

selected angry sketches from my todo notebook

Hehe. I particularly like the last one where i have forks in my eyes. hehe.

#4 end my student loans

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190153765552


Yay! Up to Ebay adventure #4. This is a great little painting. Did this in college for an assignment for 'do whatever you want for a promotional piece'. It totally reflects my favorite colors. Found an awesome frame for it too. :)

luck dragon and the spartan looking guy

photoshop/flash sketch. I wonder what a good command for a luck dragon would be.

end my student loans #3

Here we have the third acrylic painting in this ebay venture. Perfectly angsty in every way. :) I've always been fond of this painting, it reflects a certain level of frustration.
Coolest thing about this painting, only used four tubes of paint in creating it. A red for almost everything, a yellow and white for highlights and blue for making some dark spots and the cage. Painted this awhile ago.. I was participating in a lot of figure drawing at the time. There exist a bunch of paintings made about this time with nude figures in them. Haha. Many more figurative paintings like this to come. I'm sure. 12 by 12 inches on canvas. :) Ebay auction to be found here.
Auction ends Sept-16-07 17:19:45 PDT.

word girl party photos

Here are some photos from the WordGirl Premiere party!
We had this awesome wall of characters. Here I am standing in front of the extra of me (green shirt up and to the right!) with my old roommate Nichole (nicholekelly.com) Also here is a picture of me sitting by my desk with all my desk flare. Yup! That's the guy from reboot!



We had some a serious rice crispy bake off. You can see some of the variety of flavors here. Peanutbutter and jelly, espresso caramel, kid killer marshmallow peeps, chocolate frosted, apple cinnamon.... it was nuts. The very talented Lindsay Fisher was face painting and creating arm murals. I got a chupacabra chasing a goat.

i have worked very hard for my little slice of nothing

I got home from work on Friday and promptly made this in flash/photoshop very excitedly to express a thought that permeated my week. My birthday is coming up. Around 8am Saturday morning I exclaimed to my mum, "Mum.. Mum.. Look what I drew!!" She didn't seem impressed. She glared at me and said "why don't you paint be grateful for what you have". Hahahaha.

a doodle for this evening

found myself procrastinating a bit. haha. enjoy.

end my student loans #2

New painting up the ebay guys! Wiii!

This is a fitting painting to be #2 on my ebay venture as it is lovingly labeled as 'mr satyr why did i go to college?' or 'mr satyr for this i went to college?'. I could never decide which was more fitting. But this painting has a little story. This was an acrylic painting I did after work about a year ago. At this time i was working in oil painting restoration, which was a really awesome job.. but..... Going to work day in and day out, not having a car, endless streams of bills, and so began a feeling deep down in my gut. A feeling I think everyone knows. A dark grey spot kinda nagging, kinda restless, kinda worrisome, kinda lonesome, kinda wanting more, kinda expecting something. I was living out of my parents attic, was eating nothing but peanut butter and jelly. I've got the degree I always wanted, I can paint exactly how I've always wanted!.. but I was too busy running around making ends meet to paint. That can make someone feel very trapped. Not learning anything new. Stagnating. Thoughts running wild. Confused. Should be somewhere else, but don't know where that is exactly. So much going on. It was the end of the day. I wanted to paint. I painted this. :)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190149108671

request 115 - novasette fanart

Fanart request for my friend Zack from novasette.com and lifemetercomics.com :)

word girl premiere!

Everyone!!!!
!
Wii~ The premiere date for the show that I work on is upon us! Today at 4pm on PBS and then again on Friday at 4pm on PBS if you can.. tune in and check it out! Yayyyy!!!!! I'm totally listed as character design in the credits!

here is the word girl website!
[link]

executioner flash sketch

End my student loans

Okay! Its official.

Started the weekend painting auction venture which I mentioned earlier. Here it is : I vow to set one new painting up on ebay once a weekend until i'm totally out of paintings (hah.. like that would ever happen!) or my student loans are done with. These aren't crappy paintings either! I love every single one but they aren't doing any good sitting around in the basement. Actually I've got this gut feeling that if I don't spread them far and wide some tragic fire will consume them and they will all vanish in one firy blaze. So, I need to find new homes for them. I've got 17 paintings queued up right now so I'm good for awhile.

About all this...Thoughts?

So, the plan is this. All proceeds from this venture directly go into vast student loans. This also means that I will starting making more traditional paintings.

End my student loans painting #1 - Fish and Boat! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190145565566 Auction ends Sep-04-07 18:35:10 PDT Spread the word! Thanks!

ART CARDS! ART CARDS!

Yay for promotional freebies! FREEEEEEEEEEEEEE for the taking! I just uncovered a rather large box of these mini art cards and I would love to get rid of them all! So, if you want a set (4 cards in all, full color double sided) give me an e-mail with an addy and I'll send a set over to ya! Questions? This offer stays open until I've run out or get overwelmed with going to the post office all the time.

Front and back :)

request 114 - monkey at the dentist

Request for : Very scared Monkey is up for a Dentist visit with a Dr. Penguin. that's it.

requester : Vanessa (http://www.slaveprincess.deviantart.com/)

This request came in a little over a week ago, but it jumped way to the front of the list! See.... I'm riddled with nightmares of my teeth falling out. I couldn't stop from working on this. Just the day before yesteday I awoke from a horrid vivid dream of losing a crown (which i don't have!?!?) and watching it turn into a rather large marshmellow before evaporating into nothingness. then i rushed and looked into my dental coverage only to discover that I can only get 50% off one crown ever 5 calendar years. So I wasn't covered! I was petrified. Insurance and dental bills. Scary! Reminds me to floss my teeth, that's forsure. Haha.

rage

hmmmm i should do this kinda thing more often. just randomly drawing how any particular thing makes me feel and see what i can come up with. :)

perseus and medusa

wiii! my mini comic!

Request #113 viking speak

got a jibberish request. hehe. fun. :)

happy happy new flash sketches!

Request #112 - Happy

Here is a quickie, my friend Dave requested me and him having a good time. :)

fortituda invicibilia sunt

Was researching about my last name (Maguire) and found out that we have a family motto, crest, castle in northern ireland and history of kings going back to 1600s..! Motto's pretty cool. Justia et fortituda invincibilia sunt. Justice and fortitude are invincible. I'm always saying that I need to 'fortify' myself (most of the time with coffees and a big dinner) to get pyched up to do almost anything. Hehe. :) I'm just gonna trunkage that it 'Foritide is invincible' and keep that as my personal version.

Here is my rendition of the flying ghost king of the Maguire's.

Want to start selling paintings again. Well, need more like it. There is a stack of paintings sitting in the basement just asking to be liberated and student loans can really bite someone in the butt. Here's the news. Gonna start putting a painting up on ebay once a week. Gonna shoot for Saturdays. So here we have 'holymoley needs to pay off my student loans painting #1' This will be fun. Check back on Saturday for the offical ebay auction update. Gotta converse with the gods of the post office. :)

Fearless : Malarkey anthology #2

Wooot! Fresh off the press! The new Massart Inprint anthology! Copies are 10 bucks!

cd art - The Infefinite Article

Here is some cd artwork I've been working on for a local band, The Indefinite Article. They decided to go a different route for the CD artwork and ended up just wanting the iconic pyramid logo, but I really like how it came out.

Request #111 Bake me a cake

heatherrr4.deviantart.com asked for me to bakeher a cake so she feels better. :)

Request #110 DemitriRedding

DemitriRedding.deviantart.com asked I draw a little him! Here he is!

Forest Painting Commission

Painting commission from a little while back. I was really happy with how the VW bus came out. :)

<3s for Mike

There be tons of little fast flash sketches floating around my computer, here are a few themed to be a shout out to my super awesome coworker flash guru Mike! Check out his art over at http://www.mikeannear.blogspot.com) He has taught me so many awesome flash tricks over the past couple of months! I can't thank him enough! (Yes!!!! Oh yes! He really does have all these awesome hats.)

Squeeze

Just finished a painting for rockandart.org. I wanted to wait until I had a better photo but I can't wait anylonger. ;) RockandArt is a great auction for arts for humanities that pairs up artists and musicians. I was super lucky, I ended up getting the band Squeeze. Squeeze is best known for their hit 'tempted'.. which I'm sure you just all know! Templed by the fruit of another..!!! But I've always been a fan of their song 'Pulling mussels from a Shell'. Here is my painting, for the event. This photo was snapped on my cell phone in the morning before I dropped the painting off at the Bank of America pavilion.

Zombie Rache and other assorted Rache flash sketches

I left my wallet at home. It was sad.

I over ate. And here is the sketch for my ripped off arms sketch. :)

headaches galore

Headaches! Eek!
Yay for Excedrin!

Dwarf and Viking Adventures

Here are some flash sketches of some of the crazy adventures of Viking and Dwarf. My friend Laura (thelaa.blogspot.com) and myself recently found yourselves sketching silly scenerioes of these two dudes and them forwarding them to each other. Here are a few of mine. :)

my new hair cut

Here is shout out for www.locksforlove.com!

Request #109 Juggling Woodland Creatures

Requester : Laura Ceredone www.thelaa.blogspot.com

Request : A polar bear and a goat juggling small woodland animals in the forest...with an audience..

Request #108 Ender's Game

Coworker asked for some ender's game fanart. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is the best book ever!

Request #107 Viking Big Band

Request : Viking Big Band, Three trumpets, three trombones, six saxophones, drum set, guitarist, and bassist. .

Requester : Rich Day

I should probably point out that I didn't follow this exactly. Haha. :) Sorry Rich. Enjoy!

Request #106 Photographer

Request for a little peronalized icon for a photographer. here ya go!

Request #105 Cat Bag Pirates

requester : Jai


request : Hi can I have a pikshur of cat-bag pirates plzzz?!
Shelli and I are cat-bag pirates and YOU CAN BE TOO!! We should all have a cat-bag of course! otherwise, whatever!

Request #104 Food

not sure how to interprete this one. So... decided to draw what I like best.

Request : rachel maguire I am da girrrrlllllll.

Request #103 Pink Pig

Requester : my almost 3 year old neice, Hannah

Request : Pink Pig

Request # 102 Panda Barbarian + Mutant Zombie Beavers

requester : Felipe : D

request : Bum-Boo, the brave panda barbarian, verses Morbo; evil emperor of planet Kwasar and his mutant army of zombie beavers. from space.

Request #101 ABC

Request - ABC

Sometimes I get requests that I'm pretty darn sure come from robots surveying the internet. Haha, I enjoy these requests. It is cool to think that a robot is sitting at a computer somewhere making a request. ;)

Also! An animating coworker, the lovely Laura Ceredona taught me how to juggle this week. This one is a juggling inspired request!

Request # 00 Squirrel w/ Acorn

Request : Squirrel with acorn.

Requester : Dave Murphy

Not only did Davie request a piece of arts, but he also request it be vector for his website, and if it could be #100. So, here it is, long time in waiting. ;) Happy requesting you guys.

Request #99 .

Request = .

I'm a girl, I totally had too. Sorry guys. Haha.

Request #98 ZZZ

Request : ZZZ

So, I finally moved into a place closer to work and have been able to get back into drawing requests! Yay! So, the other day I found myself popping away at 3:30am and drawing requests in a frantic fury. My new little room looks just like this, a few worldly possessions sporadicly placed in a perfect little white room. The $8 Ikea light, $23 Ikea bedframe from the As Is room, my sketchbook, my paintbox, an assortment of drawing utensils and a slightly battered blue alarm clock. XD. Thought it was fitting to draw this one at this time (+ it totally was 4:35am btw). So, here is the 'zzz' request. I should sleep more. I <3>

Request #97 Pickle Ball

Requester : The Boyfriend

Request : You and me playing pickle ball. Use reference!

Haha, it is exactly like the boyfriend to request a scenrio of us to hang out and not have me making art. He says he is going to request 'us playing cribbage' next, so he can look at these requests and think about us having a good time. Hehehe. ;) Crazy boyfriend. The boyfriend would probably want it known that he wouldn't wear jean capris, that is some artist liberty on my part cause I think they look cute. ;)

Request #96 Robot Pirates Fighting a giant Squid

Requester : Mike Annear

Request : Robot Pirates Fighting a giant Squid

This is one dang awesome request! Dude, I had so much fun putting this together. Mike's a pretty darn awesome guy so check out his art at http://www.mikeannear.blogspot.com/

Request #95 Airplane chasing a bird

Requester : Joe Plieman. Who by the way wrote this song about zelda. http://www.joshspaulding.com/zelda.html

Request : I believed it was real, but thought it absurd,
Looked up at the sky and saw an airplane chasing a bird.

Request #94 Monkey Frogs

:) : ) :)

Requester : Felipe

Request : id like you to draw me with monkey frogs...doing...i
dont know, ill leave that to you...

Request #93 A shout to besmirch the trundling appleyards

The sketch for this request has been sitting in my sketch book for months now, waiting for me to have the time to finish it and get it up here on the request page. It is quite the fun and nonsensical kind of request that I love to get. Enjoy. :)

Requester : Les Canney
Request : A shout to besmirch the trundling appleyards.

Request # 92 Siberian white tiger zombie battle

Okay, I went a little over board on this one. No zombies or multiple Siberian tigers were mentioned in the request. But.... every good cemetery scene really needs some zombies in my opinion. Enjoy. :)

requester : heather nicole

request : two girls in a cemetery. the sky has a bunch of stars and a full moon.
also, there is a white Siberian tiger next to them keeping them safe..

Request #91Giant having tea with a ladybug

Requester : Laurie Bowen

Request : If you get time will you draw a giant having tea with a ladybug?