Drawing Mr. Terrific

Movin' Right Along

 I just finished this oil painting from "The Muppet Movie". This scene features my two favorite Muppets: Gonzo and Rowlf. I've always loved the Muppets and working on this painting has give me a great deal of joy. It turned out how I wanted it, if not better. To me, it's just a fun painting, and a lot of the times that's really what I'm trying for is to make artwork that's fun. This painting will debut at the REALLY COOL COMIC CON July 19th through 20th, 2025 at the Dort financial center in Flint, Michigan

Comic Convention appearance

 I'm going to have an artist table at the Really Cool Comic Con in Flint Michigan July 19th and 20th. This drawing is going to be available for sale. I'm a huge fan of Lil' Archie and have been since I was a little kid. I'm going to have original artwork and a few art prints available for sale, as well as maybe some wood block monoprints.

 This is the completed, final homage to the classic Fantastic Four #51, featuring wimpy and other members of the Thimble Theater cast. I made another smaller, sloppier watercolor of this idea a month or so ago. You can see that version in a previous post. 

"I Yam A Lonely Sailor" print

 I haven't done any printmaking in a while, and by a while I mean maybe 10 years so I thought I would do a block print. 

Each print is handmade and for sale. Contact me if interested.

Rough Draft Homage

I'm a huge fan of popeye, but obviously. I am also a huge fan of the thing from the Fantastic Four. Wimpy is one of my favorite Popeye characters, so I thought I would do a little homage to one of the classic Fantastic Four covers by Jack Kirby, but splice it with E.C. Segar's Popeye characters from Thimble Theater (which became Popeye).

This is a sloppy rendition of my idea. I'm hoping to make a bigger and better version of it soon
 

Painting a Muppet LIVE!

Making a Comic Book Page

Nuttall Art posters available

 Prints and posters are available from Fine Arts America. Click HERE 

Nuttall Art Prints Available

 I'm on a site called "Fine Art America" to provide prints, posters and numerous prints!

Click HERE to check out the site! 

Current work in progress

 I haven't really been wanting to draw or paint lately. I have a lot of stacked up artwork that's going nowhere, and no commission work or sales. But I did feel like just doing some watercolor portraits of comic book characters. This one's a work in progress I just started today, about half an hour in. Still working on it and not using any reference material:

After seeing the photograph of it, I see that I've got quite a bit of work to do.

Inking Sweet Pea and Popeye

February 8th, comic show AND Exhibit Reception

 February 8th, 2025 is going to be a busy day for me.

From 10am-3 I'll be set up at the Warren Elks Comic Show in Warren, Michigan, drawing comic book and cartoon characters as well as caricatures, and selling original artwork. HERE is the link to the event page 

At 4pm is the opening reception of my solo art exhibit in Detroit at The Gallery at Brewery Park on Gratiot Ave. A link to the event page is HERE 

All are invited and welcome to both! It's about 25 minutes between venues. I MIGHT be draw free sketches at the exhibit reception!

New exhibit

 I've just been asked to display my "Heroes" series at The Gallery at Brewery Park in Detroit. It will be up the month of February 2025, and the opening reception is Saturday, February 8th at 4pm EST. 

This graphite drawing is one of the pieces in the exhibit, as well as more portraits of Jack Nicholson, and Sammy Hagar (The Red Rocker) , Van Halen, Sergio Aragonés , Popeye and more. 

More info as we get closer to the show.

Public Popeye

 I'm taking a break from working on the Popeye comic, and right now I'm working on a watercolor sketch of...Popeye! With the original version of popeye (which was created in 1929 by E.C. Segar in his comic strip "Thimble Theater") having joined the ranks of public domain, I've been fixated on doing something about that somehow. This is a picture that I am dabbling with of a kind of comic book style/ semi-realistic style of Popeye from 1929. 

I'm still at it.

 I haven't posted much at all on this site, because honestly I haven't been doing a whole lot. But I have been working on a comic book. It's not an official thing at all, just something for me to get some ideas out of my head. It's a Popeye story (Big shock). It looks to be a three or four issue long story line. Just fanfiction. I've been posting on Facebook and Instagram every so often some of the updates. I've got one issue drawn lettered inked and colored. I'm working on issue too with the drawing lettering and inking. Here's a quick shot:

This is just a portion of a panel (I don't want to give too much away). 

I'm not a good writer, and my technical skills as a "comic book artist" is lacking, but hopefully this project will improve my weaknesses.

I'm taking a long break from doing any realism. I haven't really done any since probably August (it's the end of December now), I think due to lack of interest in my work and a little bit of defeatism. I get that a lot. I'm not done with realism, I'm just taking a break. I'll keep updating about this book and if I have any events or anything going on. If you don't see any updates on here, check out my Facebook page or my Instagram, which you can find in the links on this site.

Small Business Saturday

 So, yeah. Small Business Saturday. Here's my Etsy store with original artwork: https://jasontheartist.etsy.com

Saginaw is the last stop

 This Saturday is the Saginaw Comic Convention at the Saginaw Marketplace. This is the last convention for me this year. I'll have some fine arts and illustrations, as well as drawing cartoon, comic book characters and Caricatures. The link to the event is HERE .

No monkeys will be there (that I know of).

Last Con for the year

 I've just signed up for the Saginaw Comic Convention at the SVRC Marketplace in Saginaw, Michigan. It takes place September 28th, 2024 from 11-6. Here's a link to their Facebook event page. I'll be displaying and (hopefully) selling original artwork, and drawing caricatures, comic book and cartoon characters. This is one of the drawings I'll have available. It's an 18x24 graphite drawing. 

This is the LAST comic convention of 2024.

Best of all worlds

 So, Sammy Hagar has embarked on a new tour to celebrate and honor the music of Van Halen, as well as his career, and the careers of his band members, which right now consists of Michael Anthony of Van Halen, Jason Bonham, and Joe Satriani of Chickenfoot with Sammy and Michael Anthony. This friday, August 2nd, the "Best of All Worlds" tour is going to be hitting Pine Knob music theater in Clarkston michigan, where I and my brother will be going and taking artwork to hopefully give to Sammy and the band. I have not done this and a long time, because I didn't want to put my brother through that again. Since 1997, I've been taking artwork to concerts to try to give to musicians that I admire, and feel as though my brother and my wife have had to suffer through me trying to finagle a way to get backstage over get to the front of the crowd or get to security to try to get the artwork to the bands. So for the last almost 10 years I've given up on bringing artwork to musicians, and that includes Sammy Hagar. But my brother just kind of hinted the other week that the reason he gets tickets so close is so I could try to get artwork to the band on stage, which means that he's always intended for me to do that without actually saying anything! So this concert I'm going to try it again, which works because Van Halen is one of the biggest reasons I got in to music and Middle School, particularly the Sammy Hagar era because that's when I got into music was around the For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge album, which is my favorite album of all time, and not just favorite Van Halen album. We were lucky enough to see Van Halen in 1993 and twice in 1995, that's the last time we saw Van Halen. The 2004 tour was too expensive for us to go to, but we've seen all but maybe three Sammy solo tours if you include the Chickenfoot shows. Here are some of the pictures that I created for the band members. Wish me luck on giving these to them face to face!