Hello!

If you have arrived here you most likely are a new owner of a "Penciled In" drawing...our collaborative series for Art-o-mat®.

UPDATE: Late Summer 2012 This edition of Penciled In is a collaboration with William Hessian. William and Took met through Art-o-mat and enjoyed each other's art. William conducts Miniature Art Hunts across the US and Took knew she wanted to bring William and the Miniature Art Hunt to her hometown of Northville, MI. In 2012 Northville celebrated its 2nd Annual Miniature Art Hunt and William and Took decided to collaborate on 100 Penciled In portraits.
William started out with Took's basic characters that were transferred to the blocks and then added color and his own unique touches, giving them a whole new personality. You can find out all about William HERE and HERE -- he is one dazzlingly brilliant guy!
PLEASE -- leave us a comment, name your character, tell us how you got it...just look for your character's number on the back of the block, then find it in the Blog Archive on the right side of the blog...scroll down. We'd love to hear from YOU!

UPDATE: Summer 2011 This batch of Penciled In is a sort of "All-Stars" edition. Juana and I made 100 blocks with an assortment of 17 of our favorite Penciled In characters, as well as 3 *new* "Youngsters" -- a young cat, a young dog and a young rabbit. Each character has 5 variations. We hope you like them! PLEASE -- leave us a comment, name your character, tell us how you got it...just look for your character's number on the back of the block, then find it in the Blog Archive on the right side of the blog...scroll down. We'd love to hear from YOU!

UPDATE: 2010 "The Youngsters" is the all-new set of Penciled In characters. They will all be getting names and comments from us. If yours doesn't have a name yet, please check back periodically -- or tell us what YOU think it ought to be. Oh, and please disregard the instruction insert in your box...just look for character's number in the list in the Blog Archive on the right side of the blog.

We would LOVE to know how your teensy portrait came to you -- leave us a comment. Did you get it from a machine yourself? Was it a gift? Did we trade with you at the swap meet in Minneapolis? What machine was it in? Was this your first arto-experience?

Oh...and give the guitar on the right side of the blog a try, too!

Cap & Leo -- about us

Cap: aka Took Gallagher (a triple Capricorn)

Took is an arto-host and artist. She is living happily ever afterly in Northville, MI with her 4 cats.
Took is very easily entertained and enjoys a semi-wide variety of activities such as: cutting magazine pictures for collages, doodling new characters, playing Magic: the Gathering with Juana, drinking waaaaaay too much coffee. She also loves cotton candy and finding ways to turn her tongue blue.

Visit Took's other blog.

Leo: aka Juana Moore (a Leo)

Juana is a lifetime painter, collagist, and maker of stuff. She loves hanging out with Doug and the cats, playing with dolls, watching movies, customizing and painting toys.

Visit Juana's website.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Gearing Up

We will be finishing up with the last minute preparations for shipping on Friday.

We need to scan the blocks, fill the boxes, wrap the boxes with cellophane and then ship them off to Artists in Cellophane.

Then we will begin to post the scans and start commenting on them. I (Cap) will comment in blue and Juana (Leo) will comment in purple.

This is so fun! Follow our blog -- come back after Friday!

UPDATE: I mis-spoke...I should have said Juana and I will POST stuff in blue and purple. "Commenting" is for everyone else. LOL -- sorry for the confusion. --Took
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We're listed!


Today Clark Whittington added Cap & Leo to the artists page at the Art-o-mat® website!

Use the link, find the "artists" tab on the home page. We are listed in the "L" section. Click on our name.

SO exciting!!!
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

ACCEPTED!

Yay! Today Carol emailed us the good news -- our prototype was accepted for Art-o-mat®!

We will be taking a road trip to Minneapolis next week to participate in the Art-o-mat® Minneapolis Regional Swap Meet. The event will take place at Le Meridien Chambers Hotel on Saturday, April 17th from 1:00 - 4:30 p.m.

In the meantime, we have made some blocks to trade with fellow arto-artists and also a few to sell at our table. We will begin our first official set for vending in arto-machines once we return from the Minneapolis Swap Meet.

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Thursday, April 1, 2010

Rarin' to go!

Well, we mailed our prototype to Artists in Cellophane for this
* new and improved * version of "Penciled In".

We are looking forward to Minneapolis and trading with other arto-artists and seeing how the public receives our efforts! AND we are itching to blog and Facebook about this blog and our collaboration!

SO EXCITED!
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