Space Bed

This is how warm the light in my bedroom seems to me. not sure if that's good for painting. Perhaps ill move to the kitchen.













hello there, i will add more of these shots trying to figure out different times of days for fun and practice, yay.

MOCCA

HI! So ill be at MOCCA tomorrow and Sunday with Scott C. Scott will be selling tons of his awesome stuff and I will be debuting my second epic mini comic titled SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT. Here is the cover and a tid bit. We will also be selling some Hickees. So come by the table and say hi, it would be nice to meet you. I think its not supposed to be raining tomorrow like it is right now.

Flowers for Martha

So my buddy, the talented Kate Berry, wife of Ian, hooked me up with this fun illustration job for her work. She is the style editor for Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine. They printed these flowers on some olde timey paper and they are going to do something smart with them for a smart wedding. so if your into flowers and weddings you might be into this. i was into painting them.

Sweet

So Tim is down at E3 in LA showing the game BRUTAL LEGEND and i had to show you this awesome poster draping the Staples Center. Scott C designed the character (Eddie Riggs), Dave R modeled him, Marke P sent me the 3d elements and i composed it and painted it. It is exiting for me to see something i painted so huge on the side of a building! though it was really an awesome group effort. Long live Double Fine!

Waxing Frida

just curious.

Sketches

Here are a few recent ones from the New York area. Central Park, East River/Brooklyn, and across the street from 9th street espresso-East 9th and Loisaida (ave C). hope you are good.

Super heroes

So the awesome people who picked up my Greek helmet inspired Batman painting from my show in january (included) have commissioned me to paint 2 other super heroes of my choosing. i chose Spiderman, who is cool, and Night Owl, who is different from Spiderman and Batman in the traditional sense, but who is bird based and i like superheroes who are bird based. OK i hope you guys are good.

happy spring

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Tools I use

hey so that awesome website The Tools Artist Use has asked me some questions that i have answered, it was fun. if you've ever been curious about the stuff i use to make paintings you might find this interesting. there are other cool artists who have answered the same questions. sweet! hope you are having a nice weekend.

We're gonna have a TV party tonight!

All right. Well, actually its tomorrow night, and actually, it's not me but gallery 1988 Los Angeles! It's also a show to celebrate 5 years of gallery 1988 selling art to the people of the world. Katie and Jensen are really awesome and to them i say congratulations!

So I depicted Appolo and Starbuck from the hit 1970's TV show Battlestar Galactica. I liked that show a lot as a child, and once even sent away for some crazy box that was supposed to be the cockpit of one of the space ships. I've enjoyed the new Battlestar Galactica, not as much as some people i know, but I do think its weird that Starbuck is a girl now. Which maybe i am realizing bothers me more than i thought previously, weird. OK, i hear LA is nice right now so hopefully it's still nice tomorrow night and you will feel like going to this art show!

hey there

It's me Nathan. I want to tell you about an art auction that i am going to be contributing a couple of paintings to. it is an auction to help Adobe Books, an awesome used book store in San Fransisco. i have enjoyed that place many times so i am happy to try and help. If you are in San Francisco you should go there. There are many artists whom i admire in it, which also makes me excited. OK i hope your spring is off to a good start. thanks. another show soon, ill tell you about it a little later.

face and spaces

hi, so my show went really well thanks for coming! everything worked out really nicely. of course my camera was out of batteries but some friends took pictures that i will post here as i email and ask for them. anyway here are some highlights. if you would like to own any of these paintings contact the gallery. or just check out that link if you want to see all of the paintings. thanks again everybody. i got some pictures from my awesome photographer cousin that was there. none of these people are me but i look like some of them because they are members of my family especially my dad in the middle there. ill post more pictures too later. heres some nice words and more photos. Here too!

It's 2009

Here is something; I am contributing a piece to the Beastie Boys Tribute show happening down in LA at Gallery 1988 this Thursday night. It sounds like its going to be another awesome, crazy show down there. I depicted one of the best albums and photos of all time. I hope 2009 is going well for you so far. thanks again for checking this thing out this year. more to come from my show thats opening this friday here in SF. ok, bye for now.

heeey

Well the snow is falling here atop Nathan Stapley headquarters and there is news to be had; My art show is coming up soon. It's my first solo show in a real gallery so i am very exited about it. Other information on this show is that there will be live music provided by a real member of my family and his 2 friends. They will be playing the kind of music that i like. There will also be beverages and many friendly people. Here is the official flyer. also here. You should really go. Also, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Here are some other ones from the show that I've scanned. many more to come. besitos.

So I Married my Cousin

Hiee. So I just mailed these 3 paintings to this awesome new gallery in Philadelphia called T&P Fine Arts. They will be on display there this Friday night the 5th of December, 2008. You should go and check this show out and look at my paintings and many others that will be there. These are the first 3 paintings in the new series "So I Married my Cousin". I depicted, Jerry Lee Lewis, Edgar Allan Poe, and the famous outlaw Jessie James. Those dudes married their cousins. I hope you had a good Thanksgiving.

seasons greetings

Well, the leaves have changed colors and are starting to fall off the trees here at Nathan Stapley headquarters. Blog priorities have not been in order since summer, but for good reason; I have nothing new to show you. I have a solo show at 1988 gal SF in January where there will be many paintings to see. Also I'm going to be in a show in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, in December. Also i will be in the second installment of the Totoro forest project exhibit at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco in December there is a book out too. I can show you a painting of this guy i did for a friend. My Pac-Man painting was printed in this German magazine, GEE for an article on I am 8 bit 08. I'm glad you can't read German. Awesome. More to come sometime soon probably.

crazy for cult LAST NIGHT!

So this is a new one, but you should go back in time to last night and go to CRAZY 4 CULT. The second annual show at 1988 gallery in LA celebrating one of my favorite things, movies. I don't have a scanner right now where i am, or even a cord that takes the photos from my digital camera and puts them im my computer. So i am sending you this little study i did for my peices. Fitting with the time traveling nature of this post, I did 3 small paintings of the Time Bandits. Randall and Wally, Strutter and Vermin, and Og and Figit. hope you are good. im going back to New York City now. well tomorrow actually, perhaps i will post the photos i have of said pieces when i get there.













here they go. sweet.

I AM 8-BIT (4th annual!)

You cant stop Jon Gibson. the mastermind behind the 4th annual I am 8-bit show, coming up soon in LA. check out the awesome flyer that Scott made, you can actually cut it out and put it together and make a nice little paper toy for you to look at. also, here are the paintings i made. I'm going to Argentina now. till next time.

World of Wonder Storefront Gallery
6650 Hollywood Blvd
Hollywood, Cali.

Totoro Forest Project

Yar! Totoro Forest Project! Put together by the one Dice Tsutsumi. You may have heard of this because there are like 200 amazing artists involved. So since i already posted my painting down there a bit (see Top Secret), ill just post another photo of Moochie because he is what my painting is based on. Anyway it's going to be an auction at Pixar, also a juried show at the Cartoon Art Museum. So its a great thing for a great cause put on by great dudes and kind of a tribute to one of the raddest guys of all time. ok thanks. hope your doing good. ps. i live in New York now. its actually summer here, something i find enjoyable.


















update: here is some info on tickets for the event
Totoro Forest Project Tickets Available Monday 8/11 10:00am Pacific Time!

Many of you have been wondering when and how you can buy tickets for the upcoming Totoro Forest Art Auction Benefit Event to be held here at Pixar on September 6th. Finally we are ready to start selling these online! The first pre-sale will start monday 8/11 at 10am. Here's the options available - Please note that all tickets include the stunning Art of Totoro Forest Book (worth $40)
Forest Friend - 100$ regular admission + book.
Forest Sponsor - 200$ includes admission + book + signed limited edition print
Forest Champion - $300 includes middle VIP live auction seating + book + signed limited edition print + gift certificate to Blowfish Sushi
Forest Hero - $500 includes front VIP live auction seating + book + an original drawing by one of the artists
Tickets will go on sale at this LINK exactly at 10AM Monday! We have a rather limited numbers of tickets so we suggest acting quickly if you want to be part of this event. Remember many of the donating artists will be in attendance, this will be a night to remember!! All the "Totoro inspired" art is up for preview at TotoroForestProject.org. All proceed will be donated to the Totoro Forest Foundation!! Let me know if you have any questions.

Group Show Tomorrow Night!

Hello everybody. There is an art show going on in the city of san francisco tomorrow night Friday June 20th at 1988 gallery. the gallery is on Sutter street @ Polk. this painting will be there as well as that painting of the little girl on the see saw down there a couple of posts back. stay sweet.