You can read Jon Busdeker’s article about my show and my artwork HERE.

Since becoming a world-renowned superstar I’ve begun living a more lavish lifestyle; One that involves wrapping a cashmere sweater around my neck and feeding Betty Fancy Feast. Here is the latest promo video for my show on Saturday. I hope I don’t come across as too stuck-up. But really, what do I care now that I’m famous?

The series that I began months ago is finally complete, and just in time for Picturesque. Little Spring Park is my 7 foot long, 5 part watercolor of downtown Huntsville’s Big Spring Park. I’ve always enjoyed riding my bike and walking Betty in the park, so I thought it would be fun to consolidate my favorite parts of the park into one nice little visual stream. Have a look at the painting in this nice little video that my friend JD Frey of Dead Worker’s Party helped me put together.

Want to pre-order prints of Little Spring Park to pick up at my show this Saturday? Hurry! I go to the printer Wednesday morning, so order HERE now!

Here’s the promo vid. FYI: I was pretty sick when I shot this, so don’t think that I’m always this greasy.

As explained in the video, pre-ordering your prints will guarantee that the prints you want don’t sell out before you get to the show, and it helps me out with the up-front costs of having prints made. It’s also a way for you to get my work even if you can’t come to the show. I will gladly deliver work to anyone in my area, or have prints shipped for a little bit extra.

HOW TO PRE-ORDER YOUR PRINTS

Pre-Ordering your prints is simple: Click the “Add to Cart” buttons below the pictures for the prints you want, and if you need your prints shipped to you be sure to click the button at the bottom of the page to add ten dollars to your total order

You will be redirected to a PayPal checkout page. If you are not done shopping click “Continue Shopping” and it will return you to this page. Once you’ve filled up your cart click “Proceed to Checkout”. You can log in to your PayPal account if you have one, or pay with a check/credit card”. That’s it!

The final day to Pre-Order prints is Tuesday, Nov 11th. All orders placed after this date will be fulfilled after my show on the 14th.

Picnic Crab $35

Pearl Cave $35

Watermelon Day $35

Snow Cone $35

Armadillo Turns One $25

LaShonda is Not Impressed $25

Hot Dog Beach $25

Push Up $25

Cat Water $25

Cobra Winner $25

Little Spring Park Part 1 $45

Little Spring Park Part 2 $45

Little Spring Park Part 3 $45

Little Spring Park Part 4 $45

Little Spring Park Part 5 $45

Click the “Add to Cart” button below if you need your full order shipped to you for an additional 10 Dollars.

The final day to Pre-Order prints is Tuesday, Nov 11th. All orders placed after this date will be fulfilled after my show on the 14th.

If you have any special instructions about your order please email me at happeninrecords at gmail dot com.

Here are my two most recent promo videos:

I’m serious about that invite business. If you are on Facebook, help a brotha out.

RSVP and invite your friends HERE.

That’s right; I’m talking about Picturesque, a solo exhibition of new paintings by your favorite artist, Dustin Timbrook, at Lowe Mill Studios on November 14th, 2009. The opening reception is from 6-9 PM that Saturday night.

Can’t wait to see you there, and if you are on Facebook, don’t forget to RSVP and invite all your friends on the event page.

Huge thanks to Anna Sue at the Flying Monkey Arts Center for helping me with this video.

And here’s a spooktacular new painting to haunt your dreams this All Hallows Eve: Cat Water.

Cat Water

LaShonda Is Not Impressed

Still not convinced that you should attend Picturesque,  my upcoming solo art exhibition at Lowe Mill Studios in Huntsville, Alabama on November 14th between 6 and 9 PM?

Well, I’ve got 5 incentives that will set your mind right. Watch the following video and learn. Then RSVP on Facebook.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Here is what I painted yesterday. I’m starting to get a pretty bad itch to do my own children’s book.

Pearl Farm

When? Saturday, November 14th, 2009 from 6PM-9PM

Where? At Lowe Mill Studios. 2211 Seminole Drive Huntsville, AL 35805

That’s right folks; The event of the year is just weeks away! Picturesque is the art event you’ve spent you’re whole life waiting for. Beautiful watercolors, social titillation, exquisite catered cuisine, and gallons of sparkling alcohol. Don’t be the one person in Alabama who misses out. RSVP here.

And if all those promises are not enough to convince you, here’s a little something to seal the deal…

That statement is probably true for most grown folks. We were all at some point gap-toothed, clumsy, and gullible. But the kind of funny I am referring to is intentional. I was clever.

If you had asked me if I was a clever child about a year ago I would have told you no, that I didn’t develop a sophisticated sense of humor till adolescence. But a long-forgotten discovery in the giant stack of my elementary school artwork has made me think that the opposite might be true. I was at my peak in the 6th grade, and everything since then has been regression. That discovery was my old comic book series, The Adventures of Super Stik. I spent the better half of my 5th and 6th grade class time obsessively drawing the things. There are so many that it took me more than an hour to read them all, and after revisiting the series in completion I hung my head in shame. I was so much funnier back then.

Super Stik is a super hero in a world of stick men who, with the help of his faithful sidekick Fat Boy, fights villains of every sort, resulting in violent calamity and mangled, disembodied stick people on every page. The series started in the fifth grade as a one page strip and over time developed into a labor of love that I devoted every spare minute of class time to. The idea for Super Stik came from my friend Devin’s crudely drawn comic, “Fat Boy”, about a fat stick man who sat on people and crushed them (get it? he’s fat!). I appropriated Fat Boy and made him sidekick to my own character, and the dream team was born. Super Stik was a hit!

I had experienced childhood fame amongst my classmates for my drawing skills, but never like this. Kids hounded me to finish the next issue of Super Stik, and excitedly crowded around it upon each release. Mind you, this was probably a grand-total of 30 kids, but when you are in the same class all day every day that’s a pretty big deal. The demand for my comics made me increasingly ambitious with every new issue, and the quality of Super Stik went from a crudely scribbled one-off to carefully crafted works of art.

I’m going to occasionally post old issues of Super Stik on this site, working in order of release. But first I want to show a later-issued comic from 6th grade, because as I explained, the beginning issues are pretty archaic. This issue has all the same elements of those early issues (stick men mangling and impaling eachother, Fat Boy killing the bad guy by sitting on him) but the visuals are much more dynamic here. I’m really proud of these comics, and I hope you enjoy them now as much as you might have when you were ten years old.

In this issue, Super Stik and Fat Boy are visiting the Empire Stik Building when they are confronted by their old enemy, Robo Guy, and are forced to battle his legion of robotic minions. You can download the comic as a PDF HERE, or view the comic as one long image HERE. Enjoy.