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A little help?

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Okay, so I’ve had this idea for a painting for a long time now, but I’ve yet to find the canvas I want for it. So I guess what I’m asking for is does anyone have a giant sheet of metal I can have? I don’t care if it’s clean, dirty, rusty, banged up, what type of metal, whatever. And the larger, the better. I’ll come and pick it up (as long as the distance is within reason). If you’ve got more than one, even better. Let me know if anyone can help out, please just use the contact form on this site to let me know.

Thanks for your help, and if I find what I’m looking for, it will for sure end up on the site.

Site Addition – Mosaic

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Now that I’ve reached a pretty substantial number of pieces on the site, I’ve made an addition to the homepage. I’ve added a mosaic of thumbnails of everything I’ve uploaded. It’s a very cool way to look at it all. There’s a random preview version of it on the homepage, but then there’s the mosaic with everything uploaded here. Let me know what you think!

As Day 100 Approaches

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

First off, I’d like to apologize for some of the quality of the art the past week. I was enjoying my new drawing style, but I think I’ve become bored with it for now. I’m thinking of working on a multi-day project to create a true comic book style drawing, similar to what my friend Scott is doing over at his site.

I also did the math, and it looks like I’m only one day off of having my 100 day of art falling on Christmas. That would have been too cool for that to happen. Oh well, it’s still exciting that I’ve gone this far. I need to prioritize better and get my projects done sometime before 10pm at night. That’s part of the reason the quality have been lacking.

Also, I don’t know if no one is watching this blog, or if everyone is just RSSing it, but the few comments I was getting have dropped off. One reason I did this was to get some criticism, so if you’ve got something to say and help me out, please do so.

Thanks again for watching.

Notice – So Far So Good

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

I can’t believe that I’ve kept up this project this long. I’ll be honest, there are some days that it feels like a chore, but for as many days that there are these, I almost always end the day glad I forced myself to do the work. Some of the pieces have worked well, some not so well, but that’s the nature of this beast. I’m not sure how big of a following I have going, but if you’ve been liking watch me work through my issues, then please pass on the word about this blog. Webdisaster has given me a few good promotions, which has been much appreciated. He is doing a similar project to mine over on his site.

There is also one thing that I find hard to believe, and that is how fast 50+ days have gone by. I’ve never really counted the days like I have since starting this project, and it really is amazing how it goes. It’s almost a performance piece in itself.

Well, keep the feedback coming, and I look forward to the remaining 300+ days.

webdisaster.net

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

A friend and co-worker of mine has also recently started a daily art blog, attempting to do one 15 minute sketch a day. He also works on his own web-comic which is also found on the same site. Please, show him as much love as you show me.

webdisaster.net

Week 1 – Satisfactory Start

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Well, it looks like I’ve survived this experiment for a week now, and I think things are going okay. I really would like to move away from just doing drawings and doodles now and try to produce some more prints or paintings.

Now, I want to clarify that I’m posting EVERYTHING that I’m making, whether if it’s crap or not. I want everyone to see the progression of going from 0 to 60 (or 365 in my case). This is just not a showcase of my art, but hopefully a tool to let people know that there is a lot more going on with the artistic process than they may think. Well, at least with my artistic process.

Any suggestions and criticisms are more than welcome. Please don’t feel shy, if an artist can’t take criticism, then they are certainly not the the correct field.

The Beginning – September 17, 2009

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Today is day one of my attempt to create one piece of art a day, for 365 days. It might be as small as a sketch (most will probably be this) or something as large as a full painting, but there will be something posted daily. I know of a couple of times in the next year where this may get to be tricky, from being out of time, and other engagements, but I will post. It might be only a photo of the sketch, instead of a scan, but it will make it online.

So, I hope you enjoy what I’m attempting to do, and follow my daily trials as much as you can. Also, please feel free to comment on what I post. I’ll need the feedback.

Thank you for your time!
Andy Erickson