Lizzy D's Art Blog|My art, projects, and life in general

What a wonderful weekend! Hiya and welcome to my blog! I had so much fun working the Tiny Army Booth during the Phoenix Comicon. There were so many people to talk to and so many different costumes! To tell the truth, I never been to a convention before (at Leprecon I just put art in the art show and didn’t participate in anything else – that was a mistake) so everything was new to me. I did sell some of prints I brought, but it was the experience that I was there for. I learned so much from my fellow artists and had tons of fun! Here are some pictures that I took:

I was blown away at how awesome these costumes were. I wonder how much time it took to put on the makeup?

This is the booth of the founder of Tiny Army, Daniel Davis. He’s a pretty awesome guy and has a fashionable mustache.

I was actually a little late in taking this picture. What I wanted was what happened before that. The Power ranger guy was walking by a group of kids when one of them stopped him and asked if he was a power ranger. He was immediately surrounded with children that were looking up at him in awe. That was the shot I wanted, but I was a little slow in getting my camera.

There were tons of bounty hunters in fact there was a whole booth for Star Wars, no surprise really.

Speaking of Star wars, my son and husband came in near the end of my shift and we walked around together. Marius (our son wearing the white w/ black lines shorts) thought R2 was so awesome. This R2 moved and beeped like the real thing, it was pretty impressive!

A quick shot of the Penguin.

This guy was pretty awesome. As he was looking at my art I pulled out my camera. He then pointed out that I had one of those “soul stealing machines”. I should have asked him if I could have a piece of his soul but I just asked to take his picture. After that he gave me a flier for the TusCon, a sci-fi/fantasy convention that be in Tucson, AZ in November. After looking it up I’m planning on getting my own booth there this year!

On Saturday my son got to meet Mario!

I wasn’t there when this picture was taken but from what my husband told me Marius mustered up the guts to tug on the Storm Troopers arm to ask him for a picture, then afterwards the Trooper gave him a high five!

This was a must have picture. This guy did an awesome job with this costume!

I asked the blue lady for a picture and got Lando in the background!

Like I said there were some amazing costumes here!

I’m not sure what these costumes are from but I thought they were pretty cool!

Again not sure what they’re from but great costumes.:D

And this one was just plain cute!

Though I spent most of my time in the dealers area there was one place I wanted to go for a couple minutes. Three actors; Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, and Wil Wheaton, from Star Trek The Next Generation were there and I just had to take pictures of them. Yes I’m a Trekkie and proud of it!

Sadly I pulled a stupid and didn’t take pictures of the booth I was at, or any of artists that were at the booth with me, but the least I can do is link you up to their websites.

Fabein: http://fabienbadilla.com/

Fabein was a lot of fun to hang out with and he was selling some awesome stickers about having a emegency Zombie plan.  Do you have a plan in case there are Zombies?

Wesley: http://www.nearbeyond.com/

Wesley is a 6’7″ nice guy whom even though he gets a lot of tall jokes just smiles and laughs with everyone.  And I always love looking at his art.

Ken Jacobson: http://www.penart.com/

A quiet guy with amazing art (make sure you look in his latest stuff for his picutre of King Kong and Godzilla shaking hands)!  Ken is so nice, I forgot to bring something to eat with me and about when I resalize that he came in a chicken wrap and offered half of it to me without knowing my shortage of food.

Gilead

He is just great to hang out with.  He has wise things to say and funny things also.  You just can’t help but like him!:D

As you have noticed blogging hasn’t become a set habit yet but I’ll get there, don’t worry.  So how did Leprecon go… not so good actually.  I didn’t sell any of my paintings or prints, but I can count on one hand how many pieces in the whole art show were sold so it wasn’t just me.  It was a slow convention this year, and both the artists and vendors experienced low sales. I walked around the vendor area Saturday afternoon and it was empty save one or two people.  I was a little down about it for a few days, but you can’t give up on something just because it didn’t work out the first time.  When you get lemons you make lemonade!  And lemonade is really good!

This weekend is the Phoenix Comicon, and I’ll be helping with the Tiny Army Art Group booth on Friday from 2:00 – 5:00 and on Saturday from 1:00 – 4:00.  I’m planning on selling prints of some of my fairies and other works and telling people about the Tiny Army Art Group.  Not only that, I thought I would have some fun and give a discount on one print to whoever comes up to the Tiny Army Booth and says to me “pink marshmallows”!  Note: there will be other artist at that booth throughout the con, and possibly at the same time as me. This discount is only for my art – I don’t want any embarrassing mix ups. So come on down to the comicon and check out all the neat stuff there and say hi to me! The booth is just inside the entrance its number is T7 in the Phoenix Convention Center South Building. See you there!

I’ve been keeping my husband busy this past week with my galleries website’s re-design.  He is such an amazing guy you won’t believe how much work and time he has put into helping with not only my website but this blog and has been teaching me how to use everything along the way.  I’ve designed a new logo that I’m going to use on it and try to incorporate into other places like my business card and maybe on here as well eventually.

There are a few things that I’ve been working on as well. Today I’m starting on a piece for this contest it should prove fun.  I also am getting ready to redo this picture:

I call it “Stubborn” and it was originally from a contest that had a time limit of 24 hrs.  Yep, I was up working on it till 4 in the morning then didn’t win anything.  Oh well, it turned out pretty cool, though it’s not at its best. I’m going to redo it in acrylics with some slight changes and fix some of the things I don’t care for in it.

I’m planning on displaying some art in the LepreCon convention here in Mesa, May, 14-16. I have never done anything like this before so this should prove quite an experience.  I’m hoping I’ll have “Stubborn” done for this event as well as a few others, but I do have some finished ones I’m excited to show to the public. I may also be attending the Phoenix ComiCon this year, and helping out the Tiny Army with their booth. I’ll post more about that when I find out more information.