Illuxcon 2017

Tomorrow I leave for Illuxcon – to see all the amazing work, see all the wonderful friends I have made over the years, to drink in ART for five days! This is the highlight of the year for myself and so many others.

This year I have truly gone all out to make my offerings in the showcase something special. I am also introducing two kickstarters I am working on: The Derpies  and Hamsterhead Hall Playing cards. I will have about 50 Derpies and some Halloween Derpkins on hand for sale this weekend in the Showcase. I will have samples and a portfolio of the drawings I’ve completed so far for the Hamsterhead Hall project to preview as a sneak peek not available online!

I’m bringing back some pieces from last year, with some new additions! Spock now has a crew with him this year – Kirk, McCoy and Uhura. You may have to pry McCoy our of my hands – he’s my favorite. I have a series of oil studies I did as part of a productivity exercise that had it’s successes and its failures, but I did manage to produce some lovely images that I’ll be displaying for sale. And finally the Girls as I have been calling them. These are a continuation of the paintings I did two years ago: Fire, Earth and Rain. I truly love where these have gone and I have a stack of these to do when I get back.

These pieces will be available exclusively at Illuxcon for the duration of the show and will be for sale on my site next week after I return.

Can’t wait to see you all there!

Preparing for a show is always a huge pile of things that must be done, a mad rush to finish all those pieces you had all year (you thought) to get done… but it’s always exciting! Illuxcon is one of the most amazing events and I look forward to it every year! The particular thing I love about it is that is focused only on the ART and the Artists that create it. It’s an amazing array of some of the most beautiful work you could see anywhere. Not only that but it’s almost like a family reunion – it’s a real community of people who are willing to share and talk and exchange their passion and enthusiasm for the work with each other. It has grown and expanded but has never lost the focus of artists and their art. Patrick and Jeannie have truly created an amazing space, event and community like no other!

I will be in the Showcase again this year and I am really excited about all the work I have to show! I’ll be sharing my new pieces this week while I am prepping my display and packing everything up. Can’t wait to see you there!

Sometimes it takes a long time to finish a piece. It gets a bit orphaned along the way… but now it’s finished. I’ll be revealing the finished piece at Illuxcon this month!

 

Getting ready for a show is an amazing amount of work and it’s easy to let all normal life things fall by the way. I’m really excited about bringing all the wonderful work I have done this year with me and am still working on more things I am dying to show off! I will be a part of the Showcase show this year again in Reading and I’ve got a much more exciting setup and selection this year. I’ve added some sculpting, and I will be showing off the Kickstarter project I have in the works. I’ll be posting some of the pieces I’ll have in the show over the next two weeks – hope to see you there!