Robots n’ Monsters

See a couple of my pieces for the Robots n’ Monsters Charitable Menagerie here: http://robotsandmonsters.org/gallery.html

Robots And Monsters is an arrangement set up by artist Joe Alterio to support worthy charities and provide contributors with some charming original artwork. Comics artists use cues from the donors as inspiration for a watercolor drawing of a robot or monster. Consider it: you’d have something unique and original for your wall, and the satisfaction of contributing to causes you can really get behind.

Recent paintings on view, various places.

I’ll have a set of 8 paintings decorating the exam rooms of a women’s clinic in northwest Portland. The Pearl Women’s Center will be showing a set of 16 x 20 oil-on-panel seated female figures.

Also, I’m part of a group show in November at the 100th Monkey Gallery in southeast Portland. The show is titled ‘Pilgrimage’. My two works are a large 4′ x 5′ canvas titled ‘The Moon’ (a large round pregnant woman), and an 18″ x 24″ oil called ‘Flying Birds’.

Also, check out a series of my floral still life paintings showing at Bugatti’s Ristorante in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

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been working on a series of still life oil paintings, most all of them 16″ x 20″. phasing out of them now. not exactly sure why, but I seem to be moving into a series of portraits. or, at least, paintings based on real people.
they’ll be posted in my flickr stream (below right) as they appear.

Online exhibit

Picture an online exhibition of art on the subject of Tea — tea drinking, tea cups, tea cozies, tea sculpture, tea parties — images provided by contemporary artists and photographers. No admission costs, no parking lots, no snooty museum atmosphere — it’s all right here:

http://verveinementhe.net/teatime/

The bog is called VerveineMenthe, and a drawing of mine is included in this group exhibition of 42 images.

show of paintings in January/February ‘09

It’s titled “Seated Women: a show of new paintings by Robin Ator”, scheduled for January 14th through March 9th at a local community center called Friendly House. (http://www.friendlyhouseinc.org/pages/programs/communitycenter.htm)

"Kitchen Table"

Kind of exciting, for me. I haven’t had one of these for several years. Looking forward to it.

There’s about 15 or 16 paintings, all about 16 x 20″, oil on canvas on panel, nicely framed, and chosen to fit the theme of the seated female figure. Given the venue, all the nudes have been left out.

You can see a representative sampling of the paintings by following the flickr links at the lower right of this page, and finding the set called ‘paintings’.

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(added as the show ends:)
Hey, it all worked out pretty well. At the opening, there was an hour or so where it was too crowded to turn around. Almost too many people to talk to, but I sure had fun trying. My favorite DJ Eric pumped out real calypso for everyone, and there was plenty of food.
Sold a few paintings, too.

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the Laika After-Hours art show…

…took place recently.  I was in it, with 54 other artists each providing a piece or two, which created a large and more-or-less coherent show of contemporary art.  It ran Oct 11. – Oct. 19, 2008.

I showed 2 tall-format paintings, each 18″ wide by 48″ tall.  The model was a woman who used to work at the studio.

hey, got a cartoon printed!

Got a cartoon printed in the 10/08 issue of the German humor magazine Eulenspiegel. If you happen to be in Germany, you can pick it up off the stands and flip to page 106, and find it across the fold, top center.

It’s this drawing right here: http://www.toonpool.com/cartoons/Yer%20Dead_12242

I hope they pay in euros!

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quick trip to Boulder. never been there before.

Dear Diary — had a great time in Boulder, Colorado on a whirlwind trip to a business meeting.  Weird how you get there: shuttle bus on a toll highway from an airport 26 miles away?  A town that size without its own airport?  A very white town, quiet, nicely maintained, filled with well-off, fit people.  A blue spot in a red state.

Anyway, I was asked to be part of a group pitching ideas for a new snack cracker.  Shouldn’t give company names ~~ bad form.  Perched high above Boulder in a restaurant overlooking an already-high-in-the-air city, working in groups to compare and refine ideas.  The food was terrific, and the company was interesting.  all in all — thumbs up.

update on Klutz’s “the 15 greatest Board Games in the world”

The unusual rhomboid box in which Klutz ships its books arrived today. Like the previous ‘Rescue Trucks’, Klutz sent me a complimentary set of copies of “the 15 greatest Board Games in the World”. So nice of them!

Corsaro was the game I illustrated, with a sculpted-and-painted view of islands, houses, and a pirate-infested stretch of ocean, plus a colorful sea-dragon.

Corsaro seems to be a new incarnation of an earlier European boxed board game, which you can see here: http://boardgamegeek.com/image/44217

Portland Business Journal insert Portland Executive Home & Life: article about me

Go figure.

But here’s a picture to prove it. And maybe some big publisher will want to make me a great deal.

It could happen.

Spring 2008.