Have a Scary Halloween!

Clown-Fish; 5" x 5" acrylic on paper, by Greg Newbold

Here's another one of my goofy fish that I finished just yesterday. It seemed appropriate for Halloween. This one is a little creepier than usual, but still pretty funny. It's getting shipped off to a fundraiser for the Westmont Museum of Fine Art in Santa Barbara, California. Everyone was given a 5" x 5" piece of BFK paper to do anything they wanted on. My friend Scott Anderson teaches art there and when I saw his contribution, I was a little embarrassed by my previous effort. It was a fun drawing, but not typical of my painted work. I asked for another shot and this is what came out of it. I did it as a demo for my Illustration 1 class at BYU. I have seen a few on the pieces for this show posted online and I think a few people are going to end up getting some little gems. I'm tempted to bid myself.

5x5 Invitational

I have been invited to participate in a fundraising event for the new Westmont Museum of Art in Santa Barbara California. Each participating artist was asked to create something on a 5" x 5" piece of  Rives BFK paper and return it for the show. The piece could be a doodle or a more involved creation. All pieces are to be auctioned off to raise funds for the museum. Deadlines are looming, so I didn't feel I had time to do a full blown painting, but this was a nice warm up to the day. I decided on a little freehand version of my Devil-Fish and colored it a bit with Prismacolor pencils. The exhibit will open on November 30, 2011.

Get the full blown  Devil-Fish demo here.