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duttonart drawr ings ramblings and pick me ups skip to main skip to sidebar monday february 23 2009 farewell blogger hello new website thank you to everyone who has followed my blog over the past two and a half years i ve decided to merge my poorly neglected portfolio site and this semi updated blog into one website hopefully the result will be a happy new place you guys will enjoy spending some time at duttonart words and pictures subscribers you ll continue to receive new updates from the new feed address you may just need to click the refresh button within your reader if you d like you can update your feed readers by clicking here as i mentioned in an earlier post i ve been working toward a new goal which may or may not fly with everyone art and literary journalism i always cringe when i hear about a celebrity of some sort announcing a bold new direction like the dude from n sync taking up writing or joaquin phoenix taking up music i m sure they can do it but i tend to be skeptical so i feel embarrassed for them ahead of time luckily i m not a celebrity i m also keen on embarrassing myself so i have some room to be flexible i m also no steinbeck but i hope you guys will humor me anyway of course you ll notice a lot of familiar material presented in a much more accessible format a lot of my sketchjournal images throughout this blog have been catalogued by book year or travels in the gallery section and of course you can always revisit the one hundred seventeen posts i ve left behind thanks again and see you at the new site posted by mike dutton at 2 01 pm 4 comments labels news thursday february 19 2009 two cafes this will probably be the last post before i unveil the new website blog i m thiiiiiis close to being done with it and i m pretty excited about showing it to you guys here s a couple more journal pages to help tide you over this first one is from inside rudy s can t fail cafe in emeryville i ve been eating there for three years and i ve yet to collect all the novelty tables that is some of the tables have themes novelty items toys etc encased in clear resin and i collect them by sitting at each table to eat so far i have the batman bottlecap and operation board game tables there may be a couple more that i m forgetting i ve made it a goal not to cheat and look at a table unless i ve been sat at it in order to add it to my collection pretty silly huh it s kind of a silly place though at any rate i added the pez table over the weekend sweet and this one is a view of the homemade cafe from within the mojoe cafe i left out a number of cars parked or otherwise this journal has fine grooves in the paper which makes it hard to guide a pencil sometimes like trying to drive smoothly over a washboard road but i like the effect it allows me to loosen up and not worry about drawing straight lines which everyone knows i m pretty firmly against doing anyhow you guys might remember this cafe as shown in my comic a couple months ago i renamed it mojoe to blend my two favorite local spots see you guys soon posted by mike dutton at 8 46 pm 2 comments labels ramblings sketchjournal monday february 09 2009 new journal pages work on the website revamp is coming along nicely design work is done and is now just a matter of filling the site with content in the meantime i ve been keeping pages in a new journal this time in a square format book by elam binding com posted by mike dutton at 2 28 am 3 comments labels sketchjournal watercolour friday january 16 2009 for wyeth i had all kinds of thoughts i wanted to write on how andrew wyeth had been such an important figure to me in art and in many ways life i wanted to pull quotes out of the many books i have lying around in every room of the house to better illustrate what was behind his work and why it s had such a profound and personal effect on me instead i grew restless so i rushed out of the house to find something to paint in my own neighborhood because that s what he did his entire life and will continue to do so through the eyes of all those who learned to see their own worlds the way he might have seen his for wyeth berkeley marina cypress watercolor 7 x9 thank you mr wyeth posted by mike dutton at 6 22 pm 3 comments labels plein air ramblings watercolour wednesday january 14 2009 some recent work goals reviewed and new ideas boy it s been a while happy new year for starters and belated merry christmas since i missed that too i ve been buried up to my neck in work and for that i am very very thankful here are a few images from various projects that i hope you ll enjoy i thought it d be fun to see how well i lived up to my goals for 2008 in this post here they are with the results in italics art wise i will find a publisher or self publish at least one art journal compilation this year i didn t quite get this one but uh i m still working on it a solid deal for a children s book will happen if you count coloring books then yes i ve finished two and am working on my third it s been a very enjoyable experience so far and i m hoping to put out a few every year i will have at least two one man hangings in small non gallery venues i m cheating a little bit here since two have already been arranged yeah this was an easy one since as i mentioned two were already arranged i ended showing my work in two cafes one of them twice and three local gyms an odd location but the response was very encouraging and i was happy to have my work available for all kinds of folks to see folks who might not normally step into an art gallery the icing on the cake though was having a piece in the totoro forest project which was shown at pixar and is currently displayed in a museum cartoon art museum in sf i will fill up three journals whether they re full of drawings writings or disasters i barely finished my wide format journal i ended up getting too precious with it after all which is my fear with every journal the good side of this is i didn t tear out a single page except for one which was made up of obscenities a drunk at a football game scribbled in i did fill up a couple other books that carried over from years past as well as some very small spiral bound notebooks heavy development on my graphic novel will begin now that i know what i want to write about i m still holding off on this story i want to get it right i decided instead to make 2008 the year i learn to do sequential storytelling and to wield a brush for inking and my ongoing webcomic project www oneswoopfell are the fruits of this endeavor my studio will finally have overhead lighting done thanks father in law for helping a home improvement challenged artist i will own an open box m i chose what i feel to be the far superior choice based on my own demands an alla prima pochade box this was a treat to myself with my very last paycheck at my studio job before i went full time freelance adventure wise alex and i will travel to europe at least once we re looking forward to a hopeful italy trip in may we went to italy you can read about that in this old blog post i ll spend more time outside of the studio for work whether it s finding a way to paint during cold weather sitting in cafes aimless walks or mini trips in and around the bay i always feel like i can do a better job at this and i don t feel like i made much of an improvement from the year before or the year before that alex and i will also spend more time climbing outdoors this coming season which leads me to the next category we did get outside a lot more in 2008 my highlight of the year tied with italy was my first trip down to bishop here s that entry athletics wise i will train harder and develop a six pack for the first time in my life because lord knows i don t have many chances left my cat has unwittingly been dragged into this with me as she somewhat resembles a bowling ball at the moment i m sad to report that neither i nor my cat have improved much in this department hey there s always the new year the 2009 goal so what are the goals for this new year easy i m going to roll art and adventure into one category see you guys have been gracious enough to put up with my occasional whining about my wanderlust well it s time i blend two things i treasure dearly into a single ambition if 2008 was the year to learn to do comics then 2009 is the year to learn travel art writing if such a genre exists comics and illustration will still be there of course i ve seen a good number of travelogues by artists in various formats but my aim is to do something a little different something a little less self involved i can t really describe it any further but hopefully i ll have something to show soon so you know what i mean with that said i m going to be retiring this blog very shortly and starting up a new blog stay tuned for the new website address and what i hope will be a more engaging and entertaining format for this latest experiment here s one last teaser as a thanks for reading this far or scrolling down very quickly posted by mike dutton at 5 51 pm 5 comments labels illustration children news monday december 15 2008 a vampyre story artwork earlier this year i had a lot of fun working on autumn moon entertainment s a vampyre story the game is finally out so i m now free to show some of the background art i did i don t wanna ruin it for any of you gamers out there though so i ll keep it to just three images you can download a free demo of the game where some other bits of my work show up like the layout for the options screen among other minor things like the graveyard office door and stove textures the game itself seems to be generating some buzz albeit amidst mixed reviews i can t say i cared much for the protagonist s voice possibly the worst attempt at a french accent i ve ever heard but the game does seem pretty fun at the very least the visuals are worth seeing give it a shot posted by mike dutton at 4 10 pm 7 comments labels news tuesday december 09 2008 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