Call for Entries

I am thrilled that moly_x will be exhibiting at Minnesota Center of Book Arts (MCBA), between mid-January through March 2011. It's coming up! This is a great venue, and this exhibit could mean some wonderful opportunities for other exhibitions around the country, and possible grants. This is a very receptive community.

I would like a few of the great portrait books from this group. These books do not have to be completed. If you have a book right now would you consider sending it to me next. It will be out of circulation through March, but it will get some wonderful attention. I will guarantee it's safe return, or delivery to the next artist on the list.

MCBA does a great job of documenting their shows, so you will have a nice record. Whoever is in the book may add another credit to her/his resumé. We will continue to look for other similar venues for moly_x exhibitions. There are many book art institutions like this around the country, and there are many university book arts, and illustration programs.

I have dreamed of this exhibit since we started this little project. I would like to get 2 or 3 portrait books from this group.

Thanks for you help.

Yours,

Marty

Omar's moly

Omar's moly is finally finished. Sorry this is taking me sooo long. I'm not quite so happy with my self portrait, but we can't always look as good as we want, can we? Hope everyone is doing fine. I'm in the middle of doing Ramires' moly and Danica's moly now. Robert's and Omar's will be moving along tomorrow.

-Suzette

Heidi's Moly

I finished also Heidi's Moly. I worked on pencil in order to blend my drawing with Ramires..The bushes and heidi's photo give me the idea of the flying butterflies. I left my portrait unfinish but recognizable to avoid stealing the attention from Heidi's portrait.

Dana´s Moly

Halas.. (basta) like they said here .. I have to send Danas moly soon or I will keep working on it... so I guess this is the final stage..next week to the post

Tim wearing 3D glasses 2

 Sorry Tim but I love this picture :-) Are so expressive :-))

Tim wearing 3D glasses

Check another video here: Video 2

Dear MolyXp2 friends

After some weeks of trouble and a lot of imbalance, I'm using Saturday to work on the Tim's book It's been a time with less worry and a bit of fun and peace in my new studio.Through the window I see my daughter's room, I'm drinking mate and I'm listening to a Vitor Ramil milonga... It seems the sun will shine again.

hi group!

I started sketching my idea for Heidis Moly today!
I still don´t have a picture.. but I will post soon
Having still arround Dana´s Moly I could not resist temptation and retouched a few things.. it looks better. i will make some new pictures....
but I guess is better I send it to Danica as soon as possible.. Danica could u confirm your address?
about other issues... Peppermintha have you decided if you post a new Moly?
and Suzette how are you? It have neen a while since we have heard from you.

Dana´s Moly

I finished Dana´s Moly yesterday night.
I was inspired by her new haircut :-)
I have to say that the previous works from Tim and Ramires are very good integrated... mine looks a little isolated.. but I choose to left some space inbetween since ramires portrait of himself could get lost.
For Dana´s hair I used some gold dust mixed with watercolour, the other tools are sepia, pitt pen and colour pencils.

Summer 2010 - Oh, how the time flies!

Hey gang! Summer has been flying along as of late and I've barely had time to make a mark on any of the projects I've got lined up (Thankfully, I don't have any molies for this group that I'm holding hostage).


Just this last weekend I went camping with several old friends from high school and attended our 15-year reunion (which was surprisingly fun!).


I did get a rare chance to draw with a willing student, Gabe, the son of one of my best friends, Mike Cerroni. Mike died tragically in a snow-mobile accident in 2006 so it was really amazing to spend some time with Gabe like this. He's an incredible kid (and he did an awesome portrait of me! Wish I'd taken a pic of it to share, bummer).


I've also been training for a triathlon coming up in September (my third, so far), and this year I finally broke down and bought a REAL road bike! No more getting passed by geezers and 12-year olds!

Hope everyone else is having a fun and productive summer! Looking forward to seeing some new work here soon.
UPDATE: Almost finished with my first commissioned painting! Pretty pleased with it:

Hi guys!

I came from Tarragona a week ago, I attended a work-camp there. We were divided into 3 groups - artistic, theatre and music, and we had to prepare something for the city in two weeks. The town of Tarragona provided for our group a wonderful wall. It was directly in the centre and it was a touristic point of the city. The place was called Mediterranean balcony - the city itself was quite high above the sea and from this huge balcony you could look over the sea. So it was a big responsibility to create something nice on the wall, because we didn't want to destroyed this nice touristic point :)

and this is the result! It s not exactly what we wanted to do, but it was very difficult to agree on something together (we were 10 in the group). Anyways, it was a great experience for me :)

summer 2010

Hi guys!

Maybe because I still don´t have many friends in the emirates I hang arround a lot in internet, checking what my virtual friends do. I was very happy to read that Dana go a haircut and that inspired me for the drawing in her Moleskine!

I´m very curious what everybody is doing this sommer.... or winter depending of the hemisphere you are. So if everyone can post a few words with a picture would be a nice way to get to now us better.. get more inspiration..and break the silence that from time to time fell into the blog

I will try to make a picture today of the work in progress...of Dana´s moly. I used to have an idea for Heidi´s but since it was a long time ago since I did the sketch...it bored me now, I will think about someting diferent.

Molys just arrived

Hi everybody! just a few lines to tell you that heidi's and Dana's Moly just arrived!

It took exactly a month to arrive here from Brazil!

I added a picture of me in Oman. I went there last weekend.