Travis Louie's Monster? Group Art Show

Travis Louie's Monster? Group Art Show is opening this Saturday, July 11 at CoproGallery in Santa Monica, CA. the cool thing is all of the works in the show can be seen online.

Some of the artists featured are: Dan May; Jessica Joslin; Audrey Kawasaki; Brom; Bob Eggleton; Amy Botello; Molly Crabapple; David Chung; and many more.


"Creature" by Vincent DiFate

ArtOrder: George Pratt, Renato Faccini, WIP Podcast, and a question

While attending Conceptart.org's Reverie workshop in Dallas with Dave Dorman, I participated in a WIP podcast by Peter Mohrbacher and Jeff Himmelman (also, with WIP is Anna Mohrbacher.) You can listen to the WIP interview and read more about WIP at John Schindehette's Art Order blog. As an added bonus, there is a link to Devil's Candy Store artist, George Pratt, and work process.

ArtOrder: George Pratt, Renato Faccini, WIP Podcast, and a question

Reverie '09 - Thunderdome!

These are shots from various stages of the Instructors' Thunderdome competition on the last day of the Conceptart.org Reverie workshop in Dallas. The instructors are given a topic at the start of an hour and then let loose to complete an image from scratch, to be judged by the entire workshop.

The topic given was to show hope even in the oppressive situation in the Congo where the population struggles with abuses associated with mining ores used in our everyday technology like cell phones and laptops. The finished images will be utilized by HOPE.

Get involved. The Devil's Candy Store is working on ways to help right now.


Kevin Llewelyn's image is on the right.




Andrew Jones (the eventual Thunderdome winner)


Whit Brachna


Bobby Chiu and Jason Chan faceoff


Bobby Chiu


Jason Chan


Dave Dorman starts his third hour ever drawing digitally


Dave continues while figuring out the program as he goes


Dave near completion of his piece and his 3rd hour of digital painting. (ever)

Reverie '09 - Monday, March 30 Walk-Thru

Reverie '09 - Monday, March 30

Christ, it's late again. 3AM.


Greg Manchess


Bobby Chiu shows Dave Dorman the digital ropes


Bobby Chiu teaches class


Dave Dorman paints acrylics over oil (You can't do that)


Dave Dorman paints digitally for the first time!

Reverie Workshop - Part 2

More scenes from the kick-off party at FIG.

Reverie Workshop - Dallas '09

A few quick scenes from the kick-off party for Conceptart.org's Reverie Workshop in Dallas, Texas. I'll be posting more this week, along with videos.

Conceptart.org's Reverie in Dallas

Well, Dave Dorman and I made it thru a very bumpy flight to Dallas. We're in Texas for Conceptart.org's Reverie workshop, which is another like the Revelations Symposium in Seattle last January. Dave is an instructor at this one and I'm just here being an artist. I loved the last one and I see no reason that Dallas won't be better.

The whole thing kicks off tomorrow in typical Conceptart.org fashion with a huge party that starts at 9PM in conjunction with the AFI Festival going on here. Dave and I will probably hit the Dallas Art Museum tomorrow, since it is one block from our hotel. I'll be taking pics and vids and will do my best to keep everyone posted.

L. A. Banks' 12 Tribes Convergence Summit

On February 13-15, in Philadelphia, PA, L. A. Banks and hers fans held a three day celebration of the Vampire Huntress Legend novel series. Leslie's 12th book in the series, The Thirteenth, was released and it was a party all weekend. The Devil's Candy Store played a part by sponsoring the Madame Isis sword essay contest. On Saturday night, we gave away a custom-made, Tony Swatton sword to Portia Adams.

It was an honor to part of this author's grand weekend and here are some photos to prove we were there:


L. A. Banks being interviewed


Eric Battle with Madame Isis sword




Photo by Don Lafferty