People Watching Here and There.

As my move is drawing nearer time to draw has become less and less. but I have been sneaking in a 15 minutes here an hour there. but i did get 6 hours in this week, yep that is weak. But here are some people at Starbucks, Chicfila, A waiting room, The Kingsville Public Library, and Grapevine Mills Mall.




I am also preparing for my swan song, my last day at Boomerang Comics in Lewisville Texas. I will be signing and selling Comic book stuff Art cards and originals it will be on October 24th 2009, it is a Saturday 1-4 pm so come on by and say goodbye and buy something!!! there will be some great deals. Boomerang Comics will have a sale on all kinds of stuff and a costume contest.




6 hours more ...929 hours to go!!!

Stuff Available in Art Cards and Originals (none these are part of my hours)

MY NAME IS .... MY NAME NAME IS......



Well the time has come for the reveal, but first the list of names

Art 2
Arty 2
Ringo
Woody 5
Woodman
Blankslate
Forman
Woodrow
Manny
Mitch
Mr. Twigman
Comet Khan
Artman 2
Man of La Luncha
JoJo
MOLASH
Arthur
Sketch
Mini-Marty
Woodman
Harpo
Tomash
Truett
Betty
Sticky

As you can see there is quite a collection of the names, and great explanations. Example Comet Khan pronounced Comicon is a tribute to Usan Bolt and my love of comics(Leslie. springfield mo) Woody's were numerous, Tomash a tribute to a former art teacher. Ringo cause "he just looks like a Ringo", Truett dedicated to the fonder of Chic-fila. The silent guy in the Marx brothers, Harpo, not many girl names.



MANNY


The winner is Ellen Marie Cole AKA blesdwmn, from the The Colony. Tx. Ellen's name MANNY short for mannequin has been chosen. It was tough but after consoling with the other Judges ME, Myself, and Marla, Manny is the name. Ellen has won a drawing of Manny and a commissioned work done by yours truly. I will be holding another contest around the Holidays with drawings from Europe so stay tuned.

Michelangelo.....First Painting

I went to the Kimbell Art Museum on friday with Marla, this was great day. But first we started with lunch at the California Pizza Kitchen this is a great place order something different every time bbq chicken today. I digress, the Kimbell ( www.kimbellart.org) is a premium museum and I been to a few. Their new Exhibition Michelangelo's First Painting, The Torment of Saint Anthony showcases the only Michelangelo painting outside of Italy.

Here is the information
Alan Shestack; Fifteenth century Engravings of Northern Europe; no.37, 1967, National Gallery of Art, Washington

The Torment of Saint Anthony is the earliest known painting by Michelangelo, painted after an engraving by Martin Schongauer when he was only 12 or 13 years old. It is currently in the permanent collection of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. It shows the common medieval subject, included in the Golden Legend and other sources, of Saint Anthony being assailed in the desert by demons, whose temptations he resisted; the Temptation of St Anthony (or "Trial") is the more common name of the subject. But this composition shows a later episode where St Anthony, normally flown about the desert supported by angels, was ambushed in mid-air by devils

There is a lot more stuff from the from the renaissance Raphael, Carrvaggio, Donatello etc. check it out. Michelangelo went to the fish market to study scales of the fish and then used it in his painting. I wanted to change it up myself so I made up creatures that were demon-like from video games modern. I worked in pencil and ink. So I put Schongauer, Michelangelo, and mine.




5 hours...935 more to go

Back @ GAMESTOP

A few shout outs @ GAMESTOP ....Keith thanks for being a gracious host, Cory, Adam, Laura, Jamel, Chris, Christine thanks for the buffet, keep drawing. Every one i missed keep shopping at Gamestop.


The time at Gamestop is always fun people are friendly conversation goes everywhere starting with video games to life to politics to childhood dreams. I want to encourage readers and followers of this blog to reach for that one thing you want to do, should of done, dreamt of doing. We humans have these things that pop in our head, especially the creative types that we are afraid to chase. We tell ourselves no one will care or people will think we are foolish, I say go for it!! Risk, Try, make a run for it you don't want to be 75 years old say woulda, shoulda, coulda. Here some of the things people have communicated with me what their 1000 hours will be.

Learn to play a Musical instrument. 2 people

Do community service. 2 people

Work ( this person has been ill and hasn't been working for a while)

Be active, walk or run for a 1000 miles.

Some Art I did at GAMESTOP






5 hours ......940 to go...

Delphi Sibyl and Some Hands

As I am reading up on where I am going to in Germany and Italy I get excited about going to the Vatican and seeing the Sistine Chapel ceiling. I did a study of Michelangelo's rendering of the Delphic Sibyl, but instead of a frescoe I did it in Prismacolor pencil. I don't think my land lord would have like the ceiling done anyway. i think Michelangelo spent more a 1000 hours on the ceiling, actually 3 and 1/2 years.







Many artist have weakness, I have many but my number 1 and 2 are Hands and feet. I do all sorts of thing to hid them so I did a hand study, eeehh.



5 Hours with 945 to go...

Come on Guys Name Me

REMINDER

As this contest is going on I decided to work on quick sketches 5. 10 and 15 minutes and also foreshortening (the visual effect or optical illusion that an object or distance appears shorter than it actually is because it is angled toward the viewer).




With that I will let one you name him or her. If you have suggestion email me martylongoria@gmail.com and If you win, I will send one of you a drawing of your choice.

A few rules and disclaimers

Must be a Follower

Nothing profane or something I can't tell my mom.

I don't want more than 3 syllables.

one winner only

CONTEST ends September 30, 2009

Not valid in any war torn countries*****







5 Hours more.......950 to hours go.

Starlett

I have always enjoyed old movies, you Know the black and white kind, even the silent kind. I studied film in college and still consider myself to be a movie snob. Don't get me wrong I do like popcorn movies but the fact that a great story can be ruined by by crumby editing and framing. So I wanted a monochromatic( one color palette) feel but not be black and white, B&W is monochromatic but with grey.


Sorry about photo quality

Anyway here is my weird attempt to draw with marker. I have these prismamarkers and I am trying to run them out before I leave. (moving to Germany end of October) One prisma ran out in the middle of the piece, there is my problem with them to begin with, the other is about to die. I am changing to COPIC a japanese marker that has a brush tip that has a lot of give and refillable. I still like my finish piece.

2 and 1/2 hour

45 hours down .......955 to go