Checking In

I received 2 books from Heidi recently, mine and Danica’s. It is so great to see my book after so long...unfortunately Heidi had started what looks to be a fun sketch, it’s a shame she wasn’t able to finish it. I’m going to send this book back out into the wilds soon, you ready for it Nicole?

Danica’s book looks great so far but only has three entries! So sad that one of our most enthusiastic members (Danica is in at least 2 other Moly_X groups and has drawn in 5 books for this group) has such a quiet book. I’ll try and be quick with my entry and send this on to Claudio ASAP.

I hope everyone is doing well wherever you are in the world. Please check in on this post and let us know what you are up to.

Hello Heidi!

Heidi,

Looking back through the old posts I see that you have had both mine and Danica’s molies since at least March. That is over 6 months! This situation is no longer acceptable. Please, please just mail them on. I understand that you are a student and are probably slammed with work...there is no shame in leaving the group...but hanging onto other people’s work for this long is just no good.

Please respond to this post and we can figure out exactly where these books need to go.

Thanks,

-Tim

MolyX Portraits @MCBA

I‘m not sure why I didn‘t post this ages ago. Maybe I thought the video was too shaky or something, but whatever. It's here now. You can see Robert‘s book in the top right of the case. Enjoy!

Watch @ Youtube

The postman visited me today!!

It is a beautiful and challenging book, I will strive to maintain the high level.
I've seen this in Minneapolis, but I do not tire of saying how beautiful is the work of Nicole, and Tim was also lovely. I love the idea of the book on the table to make small doodles.
Thanks for the gift Tim :-))))

Nicole’s moly

I’ve been working on Nicole’s book ever since I got back from my trip to Minneaopolis for the MCBA show. I think it’s almost done but I can’t decide whether or not to add any color or tones to her portrait or mine. I’m a bit worried about screwing it up...but I’m also not sure if it looks unbalanced without them. Thoughts?

Oh! I almost forgot to mention the little guest appearance by Marty’s little raccoon! Our fearless leader himself added that and I thought everyone could add a little doodle to the moly on the table in this.

UPDATE: I worked on the background a bit more and after adding the grey to the computer and Nicole’s headphones I’ve decided it’s finished. I’ll send it off to Claudio on Monday.

How is everyone else doing? We haven’t seen an update in a while. I’m not even sure who has what at this point. Could everyone check in on this post?

MolyXers in Minnesota!

I had a wonderful time in Minnesota over the last few days with Claudio and Marty Harris (our gracious host and the founder of our incredible project). It was a bit surreal meeting these guys for the first time, yet knowing them so well from moly_x...it was much more like seeing old friends rather than people I’d never met in the flesh before.

Talkin’ Moly_X with Marty at MCBA

Last night we had a wonderful Q&A session with Roz Stendhal’s Visual Journal Collective at the Moly_X exhibit at Minnesota Center for Book Arts. The ladies were all very enthusiastic and several have already expressed interest in joining the fun.

Working on Nicole’s book at Marty’s house with Claudio

Sadly I was not able to finish Nicole’s book in time to send it off with Claudio today (Too much fun with ‘The Band’ as Claudio was calling us). But I will get it done before I skip town.

I encourage anyone within driving distance of Minneaopolis to try and stop by the MCBA show before it comes down on March 6th. It’s truly inspiring to see so many of these amazing books up together at once.

Ramires' Moly - Finally finished!

Happy New Year everyone. I hope 2011 is treating you well so far.

So, I've had Ramires' book for far too long now but after the incredible image he made for my book I felt I really had to knock this out of the park. After scrapping a few different sketches I hit upon the idea of using Ramires' own dream-like images in the drawing. I've loved his blimp-whales ever since I found them on his flickrstream. I also love his intricate speaker systems which suspend from the whales. I figured Claudio should definitely captain the wonderful craft bringing ethereal sounds to all those he drifts over. Hope you like it Claudio!

I'm debating adding full-color to the two inset panels, but I'll probably just leave them alone. Now, who should this go to next? Or should I send it to Marty and see if he can squeeze it into the show?

Moly on the way

I just sent Tim's Moly to Danica. it will be arrive on a week.

Tim's Moly

I decided to do my portrait as a tattoo in Tim'arm. In the original Photo he is showing a roadrash he got in his arm after a bike accident. Later I though that I will add some colour to the background and shirt to link better the portrait with the other drawings. This was my first time with acrilics and I am glad there were just flat colour surfaces....

Tim,s book ready to go

 I sent today to Omar. I sent in the quickest possible with the promise to arrive within a week. The last time I did so, but it took almost a month. Pray brothers :-)

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.

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:

Julia Kay's Portrait Party

So, while we’re all waiting on the next masterpiece in one of our wandering molies, I thought I would share a cool new flickr group I stumbled upon called Julia Kay’s Portrait Party. I wrote a fairly substantial post over on my blog with some of my favorites. Or you can just click through to start checking out all the amazing portraits.
Omar has already joined the party (and I’ll get to your portrait soon, my friend), anyone else?

Here’s one I did of Moly_X founder, Marty Harris:


UPDATE: I did portraits of Omar and Danica for the Portrait Party too!

in Three D!

Hey gang! I uploaded a few pics to my flickrstream of me mugging like an idiot. And here's a bonus one of me discovering the joy of Three-D!


Have fun with these.

Dana's moly - finished?

So, I threw some ink at Dana's book tonight and am reasonably happy with it.


I dig how we look like some kind of oddball buddy team like Mulder and Scully or something.

However, I'm debating whether to add anything into the background. I was thinking of continuing the background color she used in her opening portrait somehow. I made a couple quick mockups in photoshop and would love to hear your thoughts:

I like this last one but I'm not sure if I could pull it off in the book without trashing the sketch. I'll probably just leave it alone...unless you all talk me into it!

Tim's book

So, I joined this group way back in October 2008, didn't contribute anything until March 2009 and never started my own book at all! I've had this moly since around that time and even had a rough sketch in it for at least a year. But for whatever reason I never got around to completing it. Ever since we got this group re-booted in January though I've wanted to give it another shot and finally pushed myself to do it this week.


I was inspired by Ramires' awesome paintings for some of the other moly_x groups to try this little painting. It's the first time I've used acrylics in one of these books and I'm pretty happy with the results. As you may or may not know I'm big-time skier...I raced in high-school and college and have been instructing and coaching for over 15 years so this portrait is me in my element.

I'm going to finish up Dana's moly this week and send both of these off to Ramires soon. Hope you're ready for 'em, Claudio!

Dana's moly - work in progress

I started working on Dana's moly tonight. I don't think I've really captured her expression from this great photo on her flickr page but there's lots of work still to be done on it.

Heidi's moly arrive today

The book is here in my hands sound and safe.

Heidi's Moly - finally finished

I'd done Heidi's portait ages ago and sketched out what I wanted for mine a while back as well, and after Omar's call for updates I broke out the pens today. This is the result:


In her flickrsteam, Heidi has some photos of her in front of this giant mirrorball thing that I think looks awesome. My drawing does it no justice but that's what I was going for.

I'm not really pleased with the gray tones (I should have done an ink wash instead of using cheap Pitt pens) but oh well. It's done and headed to Ramires tomorrow.