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By Victor, September 13, 2009 9:58 pm

I got a new lightbox for my birthday. Now I can make cartoons in 1/2, no!, 1/4 of the time! I’m rebooting my old “Life On The Slide” comic strip. Here are the first two I did in like no time tonight.

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By Victor, July 18, 2009 10:30 am

Here are some recent gouache paintings I’ve done. I’m really enjoying the inexpensive gouache paints I got recently and whenever I have an hour or two, try to turn out a painting as I develop my technique. Here are a few of my more recent attempts. Click on the thumbnail for a larger preview, or the title beneath the painting to be taken to that painting’s Flickr page.

A Boy and his Airship

The Agony of Weenie

Ulysses, Portrait Study 1

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By Victor, June 26, 2009 7:28 pm

Here are two more recent portraits from my class (just concluded). It’s the same model in both (just in case you couldn’t tell). The first was done by mechanical pencil and the second is a pencil sketch with ink wash (unfortunately I took too long on the pencil sketch and only left about 15 minutes for the ink wash). Click on any picture to see a larger version. Or go to my Flickr stream!

I also did my first gouache painting last night! I call it “Why I Do Not Fish”:

Not to be left out, ‘Xander also did his own picture, which he calls “Why You Should Never Ever Ever Ever Go Near A UFO”. The composition is just awesome:

Art is fun!

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By Victor, June 12, 2009 8:12 pm

Okay, so I’ve been in this portrait class for six weeks now, and my portraits are improving. I can see, though, why it takes more than six weeks to learn several new mediums and become a good potrait artist (not to mention I’m trying to develop my own pen and ink portrait technique). Art is hard! But it’s fun, and a lot better in the instant gratification department than recording songs (2 hours anywhere for a piece of art vs. 8 hours or more in front of a computer for a song). Anyway, here are some portraits from my most recent class as well as a painting (my first painting in 20 years!) I did last night for fun, to try out my new watercolor set (click thumbnails for the biggies or click here for the images on Flickr).

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By Victor, June 9, 2009 6:01 pm

I just did a (relatively) simple website for GoGreen Step, a local Michigan business which takes single-use plastic drums from the food industry, paints them up, puts a faucet and a filter on them, and sells them as rain barrels. We’ve had ours (55-gal) for a little over a month, and it’s already filled up three times (and the vegetable plants in the garden really seem to prefer rainwater to tap water… who knew?).

Anyway, if you’re in Michigan and in the market for a rain barrel, check them out.

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By Victor, June 7, 2009 3:06 pm

It was time to update the ol’ blog, and here we are: updated to Wordpress 2.7, updated the Flickr plugin, and installed a nice shiny new theme that should showcase Jackie’s art a lot better.

Still to come: theme tweaks, an expanded ‘blogroll, and maybe even that swanky Lightbox image viewer. We’ll see!

Please leave us feedback to let us know how you like it!

UPDATE: Lightbox seems to be working for the most part. For example, here’s the first two portraits I ever did, for the the portrait class I’m taking right now. If you click on either, the full-size image will appear:

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By Victor, March 7, 2009 8:10 pm

TuneCore now has a pretty neat little player app. Listen to my instrumental release from last year and if you like any of the tunes you can buy them via the player’s link to iTunes (they’re also on Amazon MP3, and just about everywhere else, too).

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By Victor, November 23, 2008 7:26 pm

I did this animation about five years ago, but only recently “discovered” Vimeo as a means of uploading videos with much better quality than YouTube. Testing out the embed feature of Vimeo here.

Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel from StudioLams on Vimeo.

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By Victor, October 27, 2008 10:25 pm

A little anti-redistributionalist Calypso for you! I play the ukulele on it. Download, listen, and enjoy!

Victor Lams – “Spreading The Wealth Around”