Commissions!!!

I’ve been so crazy busy.

Not that I’m special or anything, I’m just explaining my absence. I do want to stop starting posts with that thought, though.

I had a crush of commissions (like a murder of crows) to complete for the holiday season. I’m nearly finished, but at least now I have breathing room! 

The first finished, due to its Christmas present deadline, is this little puppy. Or, little puppies. It was commissioned by a friend, as a gift for his aunt.  This is a follow-up to his commission-gift-awesomeness of this one for his wife.  This family likes yorkies. I’ve also found out that yorkies are hard to paint, due to their beige and grey coloring, but I’m no longer as intimidated by them. Well, painting them. I got bit by a yorkie once.

My second commission that I’ve completed, I no longer have the imagery to post.  They were court-style sketches, but for a court case in the early 80’s! I was contracted to draw sketches, as if I was present (I was alive then, but my crayon work has gotten better with age) for four scenes. The director/producer of the project had audio of the scenes, but no video to cover it. I’d done court sketches before, in real life, on the spot, but this one required a phone call to my mom to find out what color palette people wore then. And, yes, I made sure all the required sideburns were in place.

My third commission was a custom framing job for a customer that had recently bought a painting. He wanted me to frame in a 3-d manner (to give it depth) some sentimentally-valued papers that he had saved.  Check! Done! Completed at the Art Bank to play keep-away from dog hair. Thanks Remy.

My last official commission is so almost done, I can almost taste it. I’m just waiting on the informational particulars. This one’s looking pretty rad too, so I can’t wait to finish it.

I have one informal commission that I’ve been told to work on at my leisure, and, it sounds like I’m about to be working on yet another one. At first, all these commissions scared me quite a bit, but now I’m starting to like the work. So, anyone else?