Art de Combat II - Enchante Gallery, West Branch, MI 5-30-09

For those of you unaware of what an art battle is, A little blast from the past:

Try (try to fall in love) by Sammy Hagar

This song is one of my favorites. I've been singing this to my kids since my 8 1/2 year old daughter was first born.

April is full of action!

Although I'm stoked about the 1 year anniversary, I'm also a little stressed, because the week before NUTTALL ART is going to be at the OGEMAW COMMUNITY AND BUSINESS EXPO at Ogemaw Heights High School and I'm trying to get stuff around to give away there, as well as at the anniversary party. The anniversary has been integrated into the Downtown West Branch Art & Wine Walk April 16th. I'm the artist and the business is Moments By M Photography, so there will be wine and food served during the anniversary shindig.
At the 1 year anniversary, I'm going to try to give away stuff, have a $2 raffle and have things for sale, so I'm trying to do artwork specifically for the raffle, plus my own projects and commissioned artwork. AND I'm doing lessons still. Right now, this is what I'm looking at to raffle or sell-

Giving away SWAG!!!!! And selling swag, too!

Available at the Studio's Anniversary shin-dig, for example, for sale or raffle-

About to throw a party, and everyone's invited (except THAT guy!)

Alright, cats 'n' kittens!
April 3rd marks the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of NUTTALL ART STUDIO!!! TO celebrate, I'm hosting a "party" on Saturday, April 16th, 2011 from 4pm-8pm at the studio. There'll be free food, drinks (no alcohol), $2 raffle of specially made artwork and other stuff!
Now, this event DOES take place the same night as Downtown West Branch's Art & Wine Walk (from 5-9), where local artists display their work in downtown businesses (the businesses actually stay open PAST 5 that day!), and those businesses have free wine tasting and food. So, there's plenty to do in the area in those 5 hours! Parking for the studio is down N. 3rd St. across from Morse Clark Furniture. Hope to see you there!

REJECTED!!!!!

An undisclosed gallery just wrote me back-
"After reviewing your work on your blog we do not feel it would be a good fit for you or us in our gallery. We sincerely appreciate your interest in our gallery."

Studio Birthday coming soon!!

I've gone through my old posts here on the ol' blog, and apparently I paid my first month's rent on NUTTALL ART STUDIO around April 3rd, meaning the 1 year anniversary is coming up!! I want to celebrate! I want to share (as I have since I opened)! So, On Saturday, April 16th, 2011 I will be having a ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of NUTTALL ART STUDIO at 105 N.3rd St. Suite 1, located in Downtown West Branch, Michigan! I'll probably have some giveaways, some free food and what-not.

DON'T FORGET THE MAMAS!!!!

I know it's early, but I'm offering a Mothers' Day Special: 11x14 drawing or painting, up to 4 subjects, for only $60!!!! The regular price for a 4 subject 11x14 is $92. Offer expires ONE WEEK before Mothers' Day! If you want a larger portrait, we can work out a special.

I can't stop!

I've taken a break from my Popeye series, but I'm going to get back to work on it. I just finished up the Wimpy charcoal drawing (seen here) and you can see the rest of the series HERE .

My take on Americana

After working on it for over a year, I think it's finally done!


What? Did you think I was gonna just SHOW you the finished piece here??

What's a guy gotta do?

SOOOOO..... know of any art galleries who'd be interested in displaying my work and NOT just want to take my money?
I've found that most galleries I've contacted either (A)want money to exhibit in their gallery (B) aren't looking for artists at the moment(C) they don't reply back or (D) don't feel my work would fit into their gallery.
These are the reasons I haven't pursued gallery shows in awhile. It becomes very discouraging. I've contacted galleries in Michigan and across the country, with no interested parties.

who do you think will win the World Series 2011?

The....Sharks?

Ask me anything

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Paint It Black (or draw it black and white

Graphite drawing I was hired to do of Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. I did a much smaller drawing than this of the same image for the same person when I was around 15 years old.

LIMITED time only!

So, just for giggles, I'm temporarily dropping the price of my SRV charcoal drawing from $494-$250. Interested, or know somebody who is? Contact me ASAP because I might only have the $250 price on it for a day or so...
jasonnuttall@yahoo.com

What to hang?

I've been thinking again about being in galleries, I had (or have) a chance to have a solo exhibit at Kirtland Community College, but I started wondering about what would go in it? Should I put a mash-up of artwork,have a theme or exhibit one of my series', such as Jack Nicholson or Popeye? Or both? I could go with a personal hero theme. If the opportunity arises, what do you think my exhibit should have?

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Aragones draws Nuttall!!

This is one of the highlights of my life! Ignore my talk about my nose, though. Nervousness and giddyness cause me to make stupid comments. This is my lifelong hero drawing...me! AND GROO! AND SERGIO!!

Comic Book Greats Sergio Aragones pt. 4

This is from a series that Stan Lee had done in the 1990s that I was unfortunately unaware of. It's just fantastic to me.

Sergio Aragones.m4v

I just found this short documentary from 1991 of The moustachioed Maestro Sergio Aragones`, speaking mainly about the comic book GROO THE WANDERER, then with Marvel Comics.