First new Journal Page

BIG NEWS BIG NEWS BIG NEWS!

Hi everyone, big things are going on around here and I wanted to ask you to pass the word. In the past I have used this blog as a way of posting new work and promoting my art. Not as successfully as I wanted I might add. I recently made a decision to take on a huge project and this blog will be a part of that work. I have been told my numerous friends that my sketchbooks look like they need to be published books. They look like finished work. I have suffered in the past from an insecurity that results in work looking stiff or lifeless. That is except for my sketchbooks. They look vibrant and full of life. It just seemed that when I went to do “real art” I lost the spontaneous energy that I started with. Then it hit me. The journal is my art. It is filled with comics, drawings and writings about my daily life, philosophy, art, religion, education, family, you name it. I decided that I am going to work on a project to publish my journals. Right now, I have enough good pages to do a 200 page book. I have 3 options: 1. publish by myself in 20-page zines, 2. Write a Xeric Foundation grant to have a printer print the book or 3. Approach a real publisher about the work. The second part of this project will involve this blog (which may change to chrismostyn.com at some point). I will be posting like twice a week to show new pages on the blog. I will also be writing on the blog about things that interest me but the journals will house much of that anyhow. So there you go. The journal as art. Please read often and please tell your friends. I think it will be an awesome thing for all of us. Thanks again.

Mostyn

Walkin’

A piece for a show in Chicago

Playing around

Ok, so lately I have been playing around again in paint. The 2 biggest changes are flattening things out rather than having things rendered and also trusting my characters. I am using my drawings of hundreds of creatures as a source for mining imagery. The creatures are there, I am trying to avoid using any already existing themes or genres such as aliens, frankensteins or such. I hope to post soon.

ABSTRAKTOR

Ok, so I have been playing on the side with jam packed abstracts. Hey, that rhymes! Sort of. Well, I gots a couple here and on Flickr. So check ‘em out.

Waaaaah Hoooooo!

Ok, so here is a poster I did for the upcoming Big Smith Show here in Springfield at Cartoon’s. Please come out and show your love and support.

Hey check this out

Yo! I am in a youtube video. It is like the morphing women in art one only with dogs. Somehow, the director picked an older pencil drawing for it. It is like third from the end. Thanks to Moira for including me. Leave her a comment on youtube to help her rating.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mpIp0Ebao8k

Zines-a-Plenty

Ok, so lately I have had the amazing good fortune to be apart of some zine projects. I am going to be in the next Voida Voida book out of London. I am putting a couple of pages in the Eaten By Ducks zine edited by the amazing Sean Aeberg and I am doing a 2-man book with my buddy and amazing artist Michael Canich. To top it all off, I am starting a new zine tentatively called “Progress Ruined Everything.” It will be about all the things I think about on my daily walks. Things like public transportation (or lack thereof), greed, religion and the DIY vs. Consumerist mentality. It will be filled with drawings, writings, comics, quotes…

Hope to have the first one done by the Fall. We’ll see. Please check out the links to the other guys I put up here. They are really great.

Playing around

Ok, so I get bored sometimes and I start coloring in my book like a coloring book. I have been using highlighters, markers and in this case, watercolors. Very liberating to have the freedome to do this with no concern of good or bad, archival or not.

SCREW OPEC-MART

You know, lately I have been walking to work, 3 miles one way. I have been spending a lot of time thinking about the city I live in, the environment, rampant consumerism, DIY culture, Greed, Gentrification, and the need to put our cars in the garage and put our fat butts to the road and walk more. I am thinking about making a zine about these things and may try to draw some things related here soon. I miss the days before Wal Marts (I like them but hate the death of dimestores). I miss cheap plastic toys, and I miss the days of childhood when I could ride my bike 15-20 miles in a summer day and think nothing of it. I would love to see more walkers and bikers demand that our lame city planners make paths and sidewalks so that we dont have to get killed as we choose to stick it to OPEC. Well, all for now.