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.
Showing posts with label snake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snake. Show all posts

Monday, November 8, 2010

Y - 68 "Bernard"

CAP: Why is this little guy reminding me of Dr. Bombay from Bewitched? Dunno.
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Y - 56 "Fuschia"

CAP: This is Fuschia.

I got the name from Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast. I have only seen the movie...so that is my point of reference.

Lady Fuschia: [dancing along] I am Fuchsia! I am me! Don't be frightened, wait and see!
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Y - 43 "Derek"

CAP: Oh, there are so many reasons for liking the name Derek...too many to list. I was wrestling with the names Derek and Dirk and went with Derek.
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Y - 28 "Milky"

CAP: This cute guy may as well be a red milk snake because he looks to me like he has a milk mustache.

The name also references a local tv personality from my childhood -- Milky the Clown, whose sponsor was Twin Pines Dairy. click the Milky pic for info!

Snakes, clowns...both can be kinda creepy but still cool.
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Y - 10 "Cyril"


CAP: This snake reminds me of the delightful Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook. I love everything about both of them!

I'm ssssso happy I found this video clip!
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Shipment on its way to AIC!





























CAP: YAY -- I completed the finishing touches on the latest edition of Penciled In for Art-o-mat and shipped them off to Artists in Cellophane today!

Juana and I are calling this "Penciled In: The Youngsters" because the characters are all little guys.

Here is a sampling of the 12 ALL NEW characters -- Wolfy Jr., Bear, Robot, Snake, Calf, Monster, Goat, Cat, Giraffe, Lamb, Panda, and Polar Bear.

I will post each one separately and hopefully the new owners (and anyone else who feels like it) will leave comments for us.
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