Piper / Walk to School

'Piper'

'Walk to School'

Occasionally when I do collage I have a really good idea for mixing two elements together, in these two cases, mixing black and white photos with a simple texture or color. I then sit and sort through all my stuff and am totally lost for what else I should add. I eventually give up and let the piece sit until I pick it up down the road and flip through my photos again still finding nothing. I've been sitting on these two collages for awhile and I think its time to just call them finished. Sometimes all you need is a simple collage.

Oil Paintings at J Dubs Coffee

Today I brought some of my oil paintings over to J Dubs to display and hopefully sell. From left to right I have...

'Biggie' Spring 2010 $125.00
'Vegetables and Tools' Summer 2010 $250.00
'Juggling Balls and Coke' Summer 2010 $100.00
'Pumpkin and Hand Drill' Fall 2010 $75.00

So make sure to stop in and get yourself a coffee and enjoy the work. The address is 1000 elm street, right next to thousand crane in the Brady Sullivan Plaza, directly under the dark foreboding Brady Sullivan Tower.

Comic Book Character Designs

'Ricky'

'Stinkfoot'

'AJ, Marcus, Brad & Topher'

Before we jumped into making our comic book we did character designs of all the main players. We're starting work on the actual pages soon so expect to start seeing some of the actual story. I still need to come up with an ending, probably something involving a high speed chase, huge explosions, hostages and a police standoff. Yeah that could work.

Nature

I had to get out of Manchester today so me and Jess Durant went to a state park. I tried to take photos but I accidentally exposed half the role. There's a reason I'm not a photography major. Luckily this drawing of Jess and her magnifying glass survived the trip. I was going to color it in but photoshop kept quitting on me and then I accidentally busted my wacom pen. I'm ordering a replacement but sadly I can't play in photoshop for probably a week. Technology doesn't like me today.

Down the Block

For My Graphic Novel Class we're going to start work on a 24 page comic. Mine is about going to be about a pair of down on their luck losers named Ricky and Stinkfoot (The two guys standing against the store on the right). To give you a short preview of the gripping narrative they get themselves in a heap of trouble and end up getting pursued by a pair of dimwitted bike cops trying to get a high profile arrest to get them off bike patrol. Before we started the story we did some characters designs which I'll probably post soon and this scene to put our characters into an environment. I'm setting my comic in the fine city of Manchester and you'll probably recognize this happening spot as Down the Block, home of cheap beer.

Orbit

Me and Jessica Durant did some collaging last night and this is what I came up with. I also spiced up the blog with some artists links to your right. Check em out. They're special people. Enjoy.

Modern Warfare 2

Here's a comic page I did a few weeks ago. I'm starting to get a theme with these. The Misadventures of Aaron. Enjoy.

Parade

My latest short comic strip is about something I'm sure we can all relate to. Those damn parades Manchester is so fond of! This was me last Sunday thanks to every marching band and firetruck in Manchester cranking it up to 11.

On a better thought I just bought my very own domain name. www.MindofMitchell.com which links to my website.