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: This was the runner up for the block from this set that I was going to keep. I really really like it and I think it goes well with the monster that I did keep.
CAP: This cute little girly monster is Desdemona. 
CAP: Say hello to Angus. I think Angus is just adorable! And the idea of a young plaid monster with a Scottish accent really appeals to me.
CAP: I'm naming this adorable monster girl after local artist Emily Slade. click on Emi's photo to go to her website
CAP: It was a tie for some time when I was deciding which character to use for the labels for this series. Ted just barely lost out. He is SO cute!
