Chernobyl Collective Arts Presents: BAM-POW

My Dear Readers,

Here is a very special project that is near and dear to my heart by the Chernobyl Collective Arts.

I would like to preface this post by noting a few things. Chernobyl Collective Arts consists of a small group of West Philly artists, musicians, and free thinking minds. A lot of these people were brought together by the late Chernobyl House that was in West Philadelphia. This house was an infamous and unofficial venue for bands from all over the country to come perform for the good people of West Philadelphia. I even had the pleasure of painting a mural in their stairwell. The house disbanded due to some problems with the landlord in 2009. Since then, the house was bought and completely renovated. Only my mural remained. Now, the legend of the Chernobyl House lives on through the newly regrouped Chernobyl Collective Art's and it's new Zine...

Poster By Kevin Wallace

This poster represents the release party for our new Zine Coming April 2nd. The culmination of three months of fundraising, hosting music shows, organizing, and back-breaking labor. My dearest readers, I cannot express to you how amazing this event is going to be. I can vouch for every single name and band on this poster as either my friends or my heroes! The delicious Dock Street Brewery is hosting this release party! We are repping West Philly SO HARD with this one, Folks! I am STOKED!

The Art will be on display at the Dock Street Brewery by...

Adam Fergurson, Alex Stanton, Beatrice Sadler, Brandon Lee Phillips, Chase Brown, Fletcher VanVliet, George Cosgrove, Kevin Wallace, Michael Wyman, Morgan Jamison, Steph Cisso, and Stephanie Ricci.

The Music will be performed by West Philly legends...

Mose Giganticus, Da Comrade!, TJ Kong and the Atomic Bomb, and No One and the Somebodies.

Here is my contribution to the Release party, a new painting I just finished today that will be featured at the release party...

"BOOM" by Alexander T. Stanton

Latex Paint and paint marker on plywood

48 1/2" x 24 1/2"

The Zine which will be titled Bam-Pow and will feature Art, comics, poetry, articles, stories, music and more by many, including a comic by yours truly. The first issue will be printed partly in black and white, and partly in color and will include a CD compilation starring many local bands.

For me Bam-Pow will be elementary in giving good exposure to the many unsung artists and musicians in the area who need to be in the public eye. The Zine will be a biannual release taking the West Philadelphia Art Scene out of the underground and into the world.

If you can't make the release party, I will be back with details on where you can get your own copy of Bam-Pow!

This is sure to be one for the books.

One Love,

The Stantonizer

Another Mural Completed by Liz Rattan and I

Here's another Mural By Alexander T. Stanton and Liz Rattan. As you will see, the theme was based purely on animals on bicycles. I liked it because it was whimsical and fantastic. This was a pretty basic commission that helped me get through a long winter and is currently helping me get a new and much needed computer.

Here are the exam rooms.

We were also asked to do something for the waiting room and this is what we cam up with.

This is the Waiting Room.

We were also asked to do something for the exam rooms as well.

Check yall later!!!

1 Love.

Hungry Poster

I have been getting my hands dirty with Sean Glass. He has commissioned me to be his set designer, props master for his upcoming gore-tastic musical HUNGRY. This is gonna be a good one folks. Alien-Plant-Zombies, good versus evil, true love, booze. Here is the poster he commissioned me to do before color.

Here it is AFTER color.Working been working on this in good old photoshop 7. Waiting for my new computer to arrive in the mail then its photoshop cs5!!! Woot! I finally feel welcome to the second decade of the second millennia of the common era. More Posts to come very soon.

Museum Visits 2010

I could never express the importance of drawing has to my artwork. My sketchbook is my most important tool for everything I do. Drawing from life is the best way to keep my skills sharp, and get inspiration. Being a sculpture nerd, drawing sculptures helps me hone my skills and gain insight to how they are made. Here are some life drawings from this past year I've done that have inspired and influenced me.

"Nataraja" by Late Chola 12th Century, Delhi Museum, New Delhi, India 2010

black and white charcoal pencil on poo paper

"Adam" by Auguste Rodin, Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Black and white charcoal pencil on poo paper

"Capuchin" by Franz Xavier Messerschmidt ca. 1780AD, Neue Gallery, New York, NY

black uniball pen on paper

"A Surly Old Soldier" "Childish Weeping," & "Quiet, Peaceful Sleep"

Franz Xavier Messersmidt ca. 1777-83AD, Neue Gallery, New York, NY

Thats all for now, Enjoy!

Stanton

Tiger's New Hoody and Nataraja Update

Greetings, My Lovely Readers!

First I would like to give an internet shout out to Adam Fergurson for hooking up my dog Tiger with this original, one of a kind print on his doggy-hoody. I love this man! Check out his website because he is a long time friend of mine and an amazing artist who has been tearing through the galleries here in philly with mucho gusto. Get'em Ferg!

A lot of people ask me about how Tiger has been doing lately and I'm happy to report he's doing great. Just got back from the Vet with a clean bill of health, so I celebrated by hooking him up with something to keep him warm this winter. Thanks again, Ferg!

In other news I have continued to work on my Nataraja Sculpture. I did some research and made a "skreed" using tin, salvaged wood and some hardware to carve out a pattern for the ring section of the sculpture. I've been building it like it was molding, so I cut the blade of the skreed from tin bought at the hardware store. I used chisels and a Dremel tool to carve the wood negative out. Below is my first attempt: Skreed Blade Version 1.0 plus the pattern I'm going for.

Below is my first prototype, or first draft, just to see how well the skreed works.

Here is the sample I made. This isn't what I am looking for but I am proud that the skreed works and I like how the sample looks all on its own. There's no success like failure and I am very proud of this failure. In fact, here is a detail of it. It feels so smooth and perfectly semi-circular. I love it and the next one will be even better.

This is it with the figure but its nice to see them together and gives me an idea of what it might look like when it all comes together. The coming together part is the problem. How am I going to attach all the elements together? Stay tuned! Completion is a long way away, but its not the destination its the journey.

Tonight I have a show. HERE. Hope to see you there.

Until next time!

Stanton

Gonna Be in a show soon.

http://fluxahedra.com/breaths/

Woot!

New Business Card.

Now that I have a customer base I decided I need to network better so I went onto my trusty old photoshop 7 and made my own business card that I can just have my local copy center print out. You can do this on just about any version of photoshop yourself and it only took me a few hours to put together. Some might disagree with my use of the courier font, but as you can tell by my blog font I am a huge fan. Here it is.

Here is the Layout I used. I am a big fan of numbers and formulas and in terms of design I like to lay out some rules to follow, so the rules I chose to follow here are that of the Golden Ratio to squeeze all my information on my card 1 for nothing, 1 for my number, 2 for my blog, 3 for my e-mail, 5 for what I do, and 8 for my name. I really like the results.

If any of you people out there have any feedback about business cards in general I would love to hear from you, I am sure that there is much I can improve on this.

Until Next time!

Stanton