New Year...New Directions

This is Battleheart Tomorrow Forever; a crumbling relic of Titania's most earliest of ages. The stories say  these magnificent structures hovered high over the land on perpetual patrol to safeguard the realm.  Their eventual decline and disuse has never been clearly explained and, in light of more pressing matters and realities, have become the stuff of legends and fodder for the Creatives.

Cinder 526 has led a small team of bots to the Etherhold Mountains, which encircle the southern cape of Titania, in hopes that their latest information would hold true: that a Battleheart would indeed lay at rest along those lowly mountains. He and his companions now stand in awe of the ancient hulk too stunned to report their findings to Al.  It is Al, or Alpha One, who has set the Cinderbots and Hakos to seek out the Battlehearts.  He believes that their secrets may well uncover the mystery of the Makers and provide a defense against the coming Hellion Horde.

Collaborative Work for MAIYA Gallery

These pieces began as a conversation with Mark Niemeyer about the similarities in our themes and subjects and the differences in our approaches and technique. We talked about each of us painting the same robot in our own styles. The project went through the usual evolutionary process and with some encouragement from Kelly, Mark and I agreed that we would each paint a background then swap canvases.  There would be no preconceived subjects or themes.  Just free painting of a background.  The experience for me was a lot of fun as I have often reworked not only my own canvases but have customized album covers and posters on occasion.


These works are available at the MAIYA gallery in Sacramento at 22nd and Jst.

T-O-M-A-S 109

Ever since WAL-E came out, people who've seen the movie and then see my Hakos often ask, "Where's Wally?" or "When are you going to make a Wally?"  Typically, I smile and reply with, "Someone's already made a Wally?"  The question I was waiting for was, "Could you make a Hako Titan that I could use as rubbish/recycle bin?"

T-O-M-A-S is a prototype, so he's not painted and detailed.  A normal grocery sack fits down inside and the fin acts as a handle to open the lid.  He's corrugated card, so I've requested the kids not use him for not food/drink waste but for dry rubbish.  Once I get the right tools, I'll line this one with Coroplast and see how long it holds up.


Enjoy and Create!

C!nder

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

More Hakos for the Holidays

 "Daisy" 16" tall Cinderbot Hako featuring the Titanian Butterfly and flowers. 

2.5" and 5" tall Cinderbot Hakos. 

Current Work.

 "Underground"
16 x 20

When I first started this painting, I was thinking of a community of bots that existed in a labyrinth like network of machines service ways beneath the surface of a world.  This final painting shows a Cinderbot playing with a collection of lab mice while tending a system monitor.  There's a few hints in the painting to tie into one of my favorite stories. 

"Arrival"
16 x 20

I started this one with a sky and hill and the idea that a group of Cinderbots would be watching the sky for something.  I spent some time considering what that "something" could be then hit on the idea of daisies.

September Updates...

Greetings All!



The art I've had up at Capital Garage ...

 and at Blue Lamp ...



will now be up at Maiya Gallery this September.


Be seeing you...


C!nder