Posts tagged "painting"

April 12, 2009

I’m drawing and waiting around for dinner instead of celebrating easter with my family, but i’m not that surprised. I wanted to post some of the last things from my old sketchbook; I was waiting to see if they got picked up for designs but got impatient. These are designs available for purchase now, if interested in these or any other work, contact vass@ladisputemusic.com.
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next is a shirt design i’m working on for merchant ships. it is a work in progress, but heres what i’ve got to date. its a guy wearing a richard nixon mask, which i feel like i have to explain cause its otherwise weird.
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last is a painting i’m working on for native. i’ve been focusing too much on drawing lately, trying to get back into painting after a brief absence.
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hire me for shit, adamxvass@gmail.com.


April 20, 2009

I went to Indiana to see my best friends and family and celebrate my birthday (albeit a little late, but better late than never), so I haven’t done much. However, a week is too long to go without an update.

These first two are paintings I gave to Native for their practice space as sort of a congrats gift on finishing their new album. I also gave them the wide painting that I posted in my last update. These are acrylics on packing paper. Forgive shitty camera phone picture quality. The first one should look familiar, I think I posted the sketch in a previous entry.

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Last thing is a watercolor painting I’m doing for a project that I’m apprehensive to talk about until it is all said and done, just in case. I got a water color set for my birthday and I’m real stoked on it, but this is the first thing I’ve done since like high school so it isn’t great; I’m goin to have to take a 2nd shot at this, and likely a 3rd.

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I’ve got 10 days to make rent, haha, so if anyone needs work done, please get at me! Paintings, drawings, shirt designs, cd layout, whatever. I’m cheap and reliable. vass@ladisputemusic.com please.


Paper Tats

for whatever reason, i’ve been painting a lot of tattoo style watercolors this week. heres what i did, the majority having been done in the past 24 hours.
these aren’t the greatest scans; for some reason the scanner doesn’t pick up the grey stain of the paper and it makes it white. i could use some tips on how to increase scanning accuracy if anyone has them.

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More Tat Paintings

a couple more from the past day or two. the raccoon was after we hit one on the drive home from bob’s bday, my first time being in a car that killed an animal. the triclops dog is my favorite thus far:
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Even More

I’ve been doing more than one of these a day and am pretty proud of the results thus far. Here is a shark, for shark week, an eye of providence since i had a small square of paper left, and a self portrait post-haircut and glasses.
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Keeping it up

trying to do one or more of these a day, and a couple on some days to make up for days i miss. heres three from last week. i’m back in grand rapids now which means i don’t have a scanner (someone let me borrow one please?) so updates might be less frequent or in different medium (digital camera pics that suck).

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Some Paintings from Tour

here are some watercolor paintings i did on the road in the past month. i only brought black ink with me cause i didn’t want to lose or damage my whole set, so everything was gray-scale and a few things had red hints from a pen.
i know i did more than what i’m uploading but these are all the pictures i got and they’re all with my cell phone so they sort of suck.
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lastly, my friend alex got one of my paintings tattooed! it looks awesome.
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Holiday Season & Tattoos

the holidays are approaching, which means a lot of people need gifts, and i need to be able to afford to get people gifts. a simple way to work this out is for you to purchase or commission paintings from me! i will do work for you to give as a gift at a lower rate than i normally would so that i can purchase gifts for my loved ones. contact me at adamxvass@gmail.com.

also winter means a lot of bands going on tour for winter break. i’ll be doing discounted rates for shirt design’s during the rest of november and december, so get at me to take advantage of that as well. adamxvass@gmail.com.


that being said, i have two more tattoos i designed to post. one of them on myself even. 4 of my best friends and myself got this matching owl boxer on our left forearms. each of us got a different symbol on the tshirt, mine is the E for equality shown here.
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the second is one i should have uploaded earlier on my favorite tour manager, shay. i drew this up on the thursday/fall of troy tour last month and two weeks after i left, he got it done on his shoulder. pretty proud of this one, just black and white:
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Been A Month

I probably shouldn’t go a month at a time without updating. I was gone on tour with a great band called Touche Amore and let my work take a major backseat to having fun for a couple weeks. Here is most of the stuff I made in that time. Be on the lookout for new art on ladisputemusic.com and myspace.com/ladispute that will correlate to the artwork on some 7”s we have being prepared. also working on artwork for a 3rd edition of here, hear which will come out on christmas via digital download.





Getting back in the swing

Since I didn’t draw anything while on the road with Native, I’ve been trying to do a lot to catch up and get back in the mood of drawing and painting. here are a couple things i’ve done for the hell of it in the two or three days i’ve been back.
the first is just colored pencil and marker, the next two are just marker, and the last is a bigger piece i did with markers/spraypaint/acrylic on wood. i left my bristol in indiana so i’m not doing any watercolors for the time being.






and this is a small part of a big piece that may turn out to be a big deal, or may turn out to be just a rough draft, or may turn out scrapped. not explaining it yet, will take at least a few months before i start running my mouth on it.