From the monthly archives:

May 2007

Horse — ‘Smiling Buddhas’

by Roy Blumenthal on May 29, 2007


horse — smiling buddhas, originally uploaded by royblumenthal.

A few months ago, I got my first cartooning commission from a Human Resources company.

This was the illustration I did as my initial offering, and one of the clients loved it, and the other kinda thought of it as a starting point to make new ideas.

So his idea was to have a horse standing on another horse. With multiple panels. And that would have taken me a serious amount of time to paint.

So things stalled.

And finally, the project disappeared into the mists of time.

So now I’m free to share the pic with you.

I made this painting using ArtRage 2.2 on my Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc.

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2007-05-28 Balance

by Roy Blumenthal on May 28, 2007


2007-05-28 Balance, originally uploaded by royblumenthal.

This is a quickie done for Blue Moon, for the same client I can’t talk about. It’s going to be used as an incidental illustration in another of the concepts we’re presenting to the client.

I’ve based this image on the human statues of Cirque du Soleil.

As usual, it’s done in ArtRage 2.2 on my Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc.

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Roy, Hanlie, Liesel, Katlego, Rosie, Carmen, and Ukpong are all doing various components of their Digital Arts Masters at Wits. All of us are classmates in the ‘Critical Debates’ module of the course.

And we’re all presenting our 20-minute presentations. They should be darned interesting. And exciting.

The thing is… we need an audience. There’ll be two examiners present… Christo (our Prof), and an external examiner. Our job is to impress the living heck out of both of them.

And a big, rowdy, intelligent, interested, engaged audience would make us look good.

So please consider coming to the event. It really is high-level stuff, and you might learn a thing or two. Or teach US a thing or two.

But more importantly, in the question and answer sessions, you might be able to make us look good by making seriously intelligent comments.

No pressure.

But please come.

Date:
Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Time:
9:00am – 1:00pm

Location:
Wits University Digital Arts Department, The Convent, opposite Wits Theatre, next to the Nunnery.
Corner Jorissen and Station Streets,
Braamfontein, Johannesburg.

This image has NOT been sanctioned or vetted by my classmates. I just hacked it together cos I wanted a poster for my blog. It’s a remix of a pic I made some time ago. I simply added lettering, using ArtRage 2.2 on my Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc. I was at Graham’s desk at Blue Moon at the time. Getting in his way. And having people ogle my pc.

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2007-05-28 Who

May 27, 2007

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2007-05-28 Who, originally uploaded by royblumenthal.
I’ve had a most fruitful set of brainstorms with a client of mine — the industrial and corporate theatre company, Blue Moon.
I can’t mention who their client is, but it [...]

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Characteristics of Adult Children of Abuse — Roy’s Story

May 22, 2007

This is a 9′40″ video-version of a presentation I gave to my AACA group. ‘AACA’ stands for Al-Anon Adult Children of Alcoholics.
My mom was an alcoholic from when I was born, and my dad was a wife-beater and a weekend-drunk.
I’ve made the video to share the four roles adult children of abuse tend to take [...]

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2007-05-13 Kyle’s Batperson tattoo

May 14, 2007

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2007-05-13 Kyle’s Batperson tattoo, originally uploaded by royblumenthal.
My girlfriend’s sister is dating Kyle Lindsay, a founding member of the former LINDSAY McGUIRE BAND. He’s now formed a new band called ELUSION, and he’s well on [...]

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A polyamory quandary at Earth2

May 5, 2007

Friday, May 4, 2007
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As you might know, I attend a polyamory supper once a month. Last night (Friday), J and I schlepped off to Earth 2 for this month’s installment.
J and I are exploring the possibilities of poly. Currently, we’re [...]

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0013 Matinee Soup ‘Alzheimer’s’

May 1, 2007

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0013 Matinee Soup ‘Alzheimer’s’, originally uploaded by royblumenthal.
Ye gods. Winter has set in, and I’ve been zwanged by flu. Not the terrible, snuffly, sore-as-hell flu. Mine’s the slow, insidious, sap-the-soul kinda flu.
Which means I’m able [...]

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