Event Flyer…
Nov10
on 11/10/2015
at 12:01 am
Randie officially invites you to her art show at Java Bob’s… be there for the fun!
Here’s a few other events Randie took part in or showed up at…
http://squidrowcomics.com/yak-show/
http://squidrowcomics.com/artparty-flyer/
Good. The show’s during the Christmas buying season. Tell everyone her paintings will make excellent gifts.
Yes! Just in time! What better way to tell someone that you love them… (besides telling them that you love them) than an original Randie and Ryan print! Wait… did I just say that?
Soooo… Brig: Ever think about doing any art in Randie’s style, signing Randie’s name to it and then selling it in real life?
In my Shards Universe I have an author named H.K. Devonshire who was born and raised on Mars and is a best selling author of Martian Westerns. My characters read his stories, as do my readers, which blurs the reality line in a fun way. My writing style as HK is very different than my normal style and people really seem to enjoy it.
You could do the same: Make/Sell some pieces as Randi in real life, then have them show up in R&R comics later on.
The thought has crossed my mind a few times. Randie’s work is sort of all over the place. She is into abstracts but then she does landscapes, too (which I DON’T do so much)… Maybe it would be a good exercise. It’d mean I have to get sloppy… like she is… which I dunno… I’m a bit of a neat artist. I don’t do dirty well.
Martian Westerns… like shoot’ed with cowboy hats?
Martian Westerns are based on the history of Mars as settled in my universe. Though started as a small science facility, when vast deposits of iron and titanium were discovered there, it started the Martian Iron Rush, which triggered a huge migration to Mars of people who wanted to get rich. The population was composed of the pioneerish rough-and-tumble group. They settled down in various areas on Mars with limited resources in the towns and vast Martian deserts between settlements, very much like the Old West. So much so that the Martians, as these humans were now called and identified as, enjoyed the comparison.
Another similarity was the struggle the law had to keep up. They eventually used an Old West method: The Martian Territorial Rangers, who rode hov-bikes from town to town, enforcing the law as best they could; often with arrest, occasionally with gunfire.
Mars settled down after a number of years, but the love of that period lived on in the Martian Westerns as written by many authors, most prominent among them H.K. Devonshire. Like most, Devonshire romanticized the period, focusing on the Rangers. His favorite characters were the fictional Rangers Roids Cavanaugh, Dixie Gomez, and Becky Elam. Devonshire’s over the top style is compared to the serial dime novels of the American Old West and to the spangle-shirted cowboy movies of the mid-20th Century which featured Roy Rogers.
*hehe* And there you have it! You can find some Martian Westerns here:
http://shardsuniverse.net/the-hk-devonshire-stories
Lawlessness is always a theme, yah? I have another sci-fi writer pal who ALSO writes about like on another planet… Neptune Road has a certain amount of lawlessness to it while still being controlled by Earth.
… and I love the name Dixie… it makes me think of two things: Pixie & Dixie… the cartoon mice… and an old lady with a cigarette dangling from her lipsticked lips, with one hand on a slot machine handle and the other on a whisky sour.
Okay… so, is this a real show or part of the daily strip?
Since it’s at Java Bob’s I’d say it’s just in the R&R universe.
That’s what I thought, but I looked online and saw there was a real Java Bobs…
Java Bob’s is the Squid Row coffee shop that goes way back… If any of you remember Tim the Barista… Randie’s barista crush… he worked at Java Bob’s. So the place is fictional. You may also remember Grace got a job there when the Artbox closed. And if there is a real Java Bob’s out there… that’s cool.
Showin’ off that tiny heinie!
I think we all draw ourselves the way we wish we were… My butt would that small or smaller and I would be a size 2.
Art, Coffee, Coffee-art, Coffee-fuelled-art, Art of Coffee…… Hey, sounds like a good time to me! More gallery showings need to be done in coffee houses.
When I graduated from college, I had my work in coffee houses… there’s a lot of traffic in coffee houses…. places of inspired thinking. I sold quite a few paintings this way, myself.