Vote for Magpie!
Just a reminder to vote for me everyday until March 11, 2011 if you want my Magpie design for the official San Diego Artwalk T-Shirt.
Link to vote: http://www.missionfederalartwalk.org/tshirt.htm , I’m at the very bottome, the last one of the list. Damn the Zuill name!
Buns Galore
Your favorite tart and mine is on the cover of this weeks issue of San Diego CityBeat magazine. It’s their sex issue. Behold the raw sexuality that is Buns Galore.
You can see her online at: http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-8739-andrea-zuill.html
There is also a picture of me. After some fancy photographic angles and extensive photo-shopping I don’t look that bad.
The Mad Hatter
The next print in the Wonderland series is The Mad Hatter. This piece was difficult. I didn’t start out designing him with a image in mind. Just by randomly sketching I finally came up with this image.
The Mad Hatter is now on sale at my store: www.badbird.etsy.com
Also, he will be featured at El Take it Easy, February 10th, 6pm to 9pm, 3926 30th Street San Diego, CA 92104 - (619) 255-8778
This is part of the San Diego North Park Craft Mafia Valentine’s Gift Bazaar.
Valentine Gift Bazaar
Just in case you haven’t already heard I will be participating in the Craft Mafia’s Valentine Gift Bazaar. Here is the info:
Valentine’s Girft Bazaar
Starring: The North Part, San Diego Craft Mafia & me
At: El Take it Easy, 3926 30th Street San Diego, CA 92104 - (619) 255-8778
When: February 10, 2011, 6pm – 10pm
I will have the Alice in Wonderland prints, which include Alice, The Caterpillar, and the Mad Hatter. Also, I will have t-shirts of the Zombie Rabbits, Buns Galore, Flopsy Chooses to Fly and HOOOooo Do You Love Valentine T-Shirts.
Hooo Do You Love T-shirt by Andrea Zuill
Alice in Wonderland by Andrea Zuill
I am starting up this new year with a challenge to myself, complete a entire set of Alice in Wonderland prints. So far I have done 3, Alice, the Caterpillar, and the Mad Hatter. Alice is now available at my Etsy store, www.badbird.etsy.com or click on the above image. In the next few days I will be releasing the other two prints. All of the prints will be available in sizes 7″x8″ image size on 8.5″ x11″paper, 11″x14″ image size on 13″ x18″ paper, and 14″x18″ image size on 17″x22″ paper. As always, if you need a custom size just let me know.
Alice will also be available at Leaping Lotus, in Solana Beach (it will be there by this weekend) and at El Take it Easy in North Park, San Diego on February 10, 6pm to 10pm. Click on the image below for details.
Valentine's Gift Bazaar by the North Park Craft Mafia
No, it's not a unicorn whale, it's a Narwhal.
From January 15th through February 14th, 2011, I’ll have work on display at Filter Cafe, in North Park, San Diego. I’ll be showing with two other artist, Nicholas Gecan and Danielle Clark.
I’ll be hanging several of my prints including this Narwhal print (see above). And yes, this is a real animal. I didn’t just stick a unicorn horn on a whale. I was a little surprised by how many people thought that I made this creature up. Well, I didn’t and here is proof, The Narwhal.
Filter Cafe, 4096 30th St (between Lincoln Ave & Polk Ave)
San Diego, CA 92104
(619) 521-0533
The Partners in Crime
Once upon a time, I did quite a few dog portraits. I’ve created dog portraits in embroidery, watercolor, oil paints and now in giclee print. My customer wanted the portrait as a Christmas present for a friend. I wasn’t going to be able to meet the dogs so I had to work from photographs. This can be difficult because I like to play and interact with my subjects to get an idea of their personalities. Often, the owners will sit with me as I get acquainted with their furry family member(s) and tell me stories about their pets. My goal is not to make a portrait of a Pomeranian or Poodle or German Shepard but a portrait of a friend. More often than not, the portrait is a surprise for someone, or even harder, the pet has past away. So I always do my best to get as many photographs of the subject as I can. I still like to have the owner(s) talk to me about their dogs. I really need to understand their pet.
This client wanted the pups done in the cartoon style of my prints. In cartooned styled artwork you get to concentrate on the subjects character more than exact likeness. After a couple days of sketching I scanned in a drawing and colored it in. I emailed the image to the client and we began a back and forth dialogue to try to find tune the personalities of the pups. Colors had to be darkened, the dog on the left needed to look older and the dog on the right needed to look a bit more excited. After about 5 emails and making a series of slight changes I got it right. Even now, a couple weeks after finishing the piece, l ‘m very pleased with the portrait.
Wouldn't they make great plushies?
As you know I did a craft show on Saturday and another on Sunday. For the Sunday show I was a vendor at the San Diego North Park Craft Mafia - Holiday Hit List Craft Show. And guess what! I forgot to take pictures!!!!!
This show was beautiful. It was located inside the historic Masonic Hall. A really cool old building. The Ladies bathroom even had a lounge with a vanity. The vendor area was highly decorated. Besides the regular sort of Christmas decor one might see at this type of event they had men dressed as angels supported by wire hanging from the ceiling and a full size replica of the Nativity scene, which included a live donkey, camel and for some reason a tiger. For the finale of the show all the vendors and customers joined hands and sang The Little Drummer Boy while a fake snow machine spit out chemical snow. I dare say not a person had a dry eye in the house, but you’ll have to trust me on this since I forgot to take photo’s.
When the doors opened there was a great flood of customers. But the customers were not the only ones buying. I think all the vendors made large strides toward finishing their Christmas shopping. I came away with jewelry (Artista Muerta), soap (Meltdown Soaps) and a dog collar for Homer (Belle Pepper Couture).
I’m trying to get Homer a modelling contract with Belle Pepper Couture so I am submitting to them this ad -
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