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!!!!
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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!
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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. :)