Allen Swerling. Rest in Peace.

To all the people who visit Allen's site:

I just want to let you know that Allen passed away from cancer on September 18, 2015 after a short but intense illness. I will try to keep this page active and post some of the images from his sketchbooks and other things.  All of us who knew him will miss him dearly. He was a wonderful man and a wonderful artist.  If you wish to order any of his prints please contact me through his facebook or email.  It may take me a while as I will not be checking as often.  I will try to maintain all his electronic files so that his prints will still be available in the future.

Connie.

Hell Clown

Another piece I hope to put into the circus show 8X10 inches on wood.  Mixed media. 

Yummy

I forgot to post a picture of the painting from the last show.  "Yummy" has found a new home so I won't be bringing him home again.   Glad he has a space on someone's wall. 

Gator Man Finished

Here he is. Not a good quality photograph but gives you a good idea of what it looks like.  I tried to make it look like an old fashioned side-show poster.  I sprayed the surface with fixative because I used a number of different methods including acrylic paint and pencil crayon.  The lettering was traced off and painted on by hand, so I wasn't sure how it would turn out.  But I think I got the job done tolerably.

Gator Man

This is a sketch I will have for the Circus show coming up at Superwonder Gallery.  A salute to the side show posters of the past. This is planned to be a mixed media painting.

Souvenir poster for Coldwater

This is the finished souvenir poster for the Coldwater Steampunk Festival.   This was a lot of work because the octopus and diver's helmet were so detailed.  Also the border and lettering were also done in the computer in illustrator 8.  I think my computer nearly had an implosion but it succeeded in producing what I needed to get done.  The poster will be available in limited edition at the Steampunk Festival in Coldwater this summer.

Steampunk Octopus

Finished the illustration, here is the picture without the words.  Lots of work went into this one.  The helmet and the octopus took many hours.

Updated Poster, still in progress

Here is the next stage of the souvenir poster for Coldwater.  It has the cleaned up octopus and the background is done, only thing left is to pick the colours for the octopus.  I will post it when it is finished.  Decided against a green octopus because that would be too much like someone else's project so I think I will go with reddish tones.  Let the organizers at Coldwater know if you like it. 

Souvenir pins for the Coldwater Steampunk Festival

I thought I would use my humour to describe the Steampunk festival in Coldwater.  I designed something that could be used for every year, and this year is the fifth year of the festival therefore the big 5.  I felt they needed their own logo to be made into buttons for fundraising purposes.

The second pin is with western lettering to fit with the theme they have for this year. I carefully spaced the type, moving letters individually into the best position.

So if you are heading to Coldwater, or just want to support the festival, purchase a button wherever you can. I will try to post when they are available.