Drawing for Epic wrap party in Orlando

This blog is usually reserved for things that have actually made it into the world but in this post I am displaying something that didn't quite make it. This drawing (pencil, blood and acrylic ink on paper mounted to slate rock) was made to be shown at an Epic wrap party in Orlando organized by Heidi Kneisl. Epic is a health care software company in Wisconsin that I have been doing tons of mural work for with a large crew of scenic artists working for The Nassal Company out of Orlando Fl.

This post is being published to prove that the drawing actually exists although the promise of it arriving for the event was flubbed.

Sorry guys!

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I have been living next to the largest orange in the world or "The World's Largest Orange" for the last few months and have been working on various parts of Legoland, a theme park to open in Winter Haven, Fl. this month. I feel it is important to introduce the "scenic" art side into this blog because it is the commercial art that has allowed me to survive through the last 17 years or so. I have worked on reproductions of Egyptian temples to scale in foam and stucco, faux finished towers 46 stories up on the Atlantis Casino in The Bahamas, worked on Universal Studios Wizarding World of Harry Potter, touched up experiential machines at the Scientology Flagship in Clearwater FL, sculpted, painted and cast stuff for more clients than i can mention here all over the world. This post is dedicated to some of the most recent projects i have been involved with working for Nassal Co. in Orlando Fl

Below are some of the parts of Legoland, Winter Haven's entry way and large fiberglass fish for Pixar.

These are the turrets for Legoland's entrance before they are skinned out and finished.

Huge fiberglass flags adorn the tops of the turrets in its complete state.

Metal armature for the Legoland entrance arch.

Progress on the Legoland pieces can be seen in the below images.

It is worth mentioning that the hotel that i stayed at on SR 192 is between the "Largest Orange in The World" and this gift shop shaped like a wizard.
Next are images of scenic treatments and sculptures for Universal Studios. The first image is a before and after of an outhouse that needed to be aged. Using paint treatments to achieve this look is one of the many things done in the scenic industry with regularity. So common. in fact, that it becomes second nature to execute this kind of work.

Here is a sculpture of a comical swamp beast. Sculpted from urethane foam and prepped to be molded and cast with plumbing included- the head is meant to spit water on people.

More scenic adventures both past and present will be posted as part of the Cryptovisual Blog in the future.

Nazars for PYT and Sugar Knives for Baltimore

Projects for the end of June beginning of July 2011 include creating a "premium" multiple for Tampa Fl. based Philanthropic Young Tampa and a sugar dagger multiple for Current Space, Baltimore MD.

During 2010 i produced the first of what has become a series based on sympathetic magic. The nazar stickers shown above were made for the Elvenwerks exhibition at The Peacock Room, Orlando FL. They are meant to ward off "the evil eye" and therefore preserve an individual's good luck. Elvenwerks was an Experimental Skeleton Inc. project, more info can be found at(-http://experimentalskeleton.com/Elvenwerks.html and http://experimentalskeleblog.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html)

Philanthropic Young Tampa( http://www.pytampa.org/ ) is an organization that seeks members to help secure works of art for institutions like the Tampa Museum of Art and puts on small events with lectures. I am now creating a multiple work of art to help boost membership for PYT. The work will take the form of an amulet style nazar seen below. New members will receive one of these works with the eye on the amulet matching their own eye color.

Another project in the works- a multiple for the Current Space "C A R T" exhibition opening in on July 9th in Baltimore, MD. This work takes the form of a hard candy cast dagger. Based on my own memories of Astropops and the candy's tendency to become wicked pointed at the end when sucked, this "Sugar Shank" candy is a functional weapon once sharpened by the owners saliva. Below is a sketch book page dedicated to the project.