ROB EVANS

Rob Evans
Height: 6'3''
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Fashion Shows: Givenchy Mens, Tim Hamilton Redux & Jeremy Scott.
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Famous' Firsts - George Perez

As promised at the beginning of last month, we'll be spending the next couple of our Famous' Firsts posts looking at the first time each of the creators involved in the DC New 52 initiative first got their pencil or typewriter involved with the Man of Steel.

Today's entry features the mighty talent of George Perez!

Now this will actually be the second time that George Perez has made a high-profile entry into the Superman line, with the first being the helming of Action Comics when it returned to a monthly after its stint as Action Comics Weekly. For whatever reason, his time on the title never panned out, and he left the title with the potential for a great run never realized. Here's hoping the second time doesn't set a pattern.

That wasn't however, the first time George Perez got the chance to draw Superman. For that, we have to go back another eight years or so to some of Perez' earliest DC work in the pages of Justice League of America #185.


In looking at that panel, you can definitely see the beginning of the George Perez style. The funny thing is, however, is that I see it in the rubble and background more than with Superman himself!

George Perez is definitely famous for his massive crowd shots and dense illustration, but hands down, he's the best rubble illustrator in the business...and he's got three decades of work to prove it.

Script by Gerry Conway
Pencils by George Perez
Inks by Frank McLaughin
Colors by Gene D'Angelo
Letters by Todd Klein

Justice League of America #185
Crisis On Apokolips or Darkseid Rising!
December 1980
Copyright (c) DC Comics

New Perspective on My Open Studio Tour

http://crcleblue.blogspot.com/2011/07/it-was-delight-to-meet-both-her-and-her.html

Please take a look at this nice blog about coming to my Open Studio yesterday.

Thank you Circle Blue! It was a pleasure to meet you too.

Miley Cyrus and Jordin Sparks

Miley Cyrus and Jordin Sparks posed for a picture with Starkey Hearing Foundation co-founder Tani Austin at the Starkey Awards Gala Open House on July 23, 2011.Source: Dis411.

Happy Day at the OPEN STUDIO~~!!

I had a wonderful day at the OPEN STUDIO for the CAM 6th Annual Art Studio tour!

So many people! Friends! New friends! Neighbors! Visitors! Great people!!

Wonderful to see everyone ...and have a minute conversation with everyone!

Thank you ALL for making it a super day!

Can't wait till next year!!!

Bug - Doing the Hokey Pokey

Looking at this bug I am reminded of an old elementary school song - The Hokey Pokey

What a fun song that was to sing! Even as adults we sing that song here in Blacksburg during Virginia Tech Football games. I pulled it up on Wikipedia and found some very interesting info on the origins of that song. I didn't realize that it was also sung in other countries.

Here is a link to the info on Wikipedia: HOKEY POKEY.

You tube has some cool videos of the VA Tech Marching Band doing the Hokey Pokey also - Click HERE for the Link.

I would love to hear if you have sung this song - as a child or as an adult.

Here is the same shot of the bug - just not cropped as closely. He has Queen Anne's Lace as his "umbrella". Thanks for all of the comments from yesterday .... I got some good laughs from those as well!!

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. ~Josh Billings

'COAL PAINTINGS' and MORE

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Knowing Stillness Oil On linen 85 x 160 cm 2011 In recent weeks my BLOG has been attracting larger numbers of visitors [up to 100 per day!], which is great. Many thanks to all of you who have dropped by. I was quite excited to read on my STATS page today, a number of search phrases and words which have brought visitors here. They include: Darling currency blogspot Abstract rendering Bible 3d 3d hidden images Coal paintings Hidden pictures within pictures Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox Multiverse tree So, the painting above is one of my multiverse paintings. Knowing Stillness invites you to consider, in stillness, the possibility that we are not part of a universe, but a multiverse. I say, in stillness, because stillness provides the space/place where possibilities, that perhaps have not been considered, can be seen, heard and felt. Stillness...almost...replicates that dimension just preceeding the Big Bang, when space, distance and time did not exist, but potential was potent. In Stillness sees a multitude of my much loved transcultural/religious trees-of-life form into one entity...a planet, a universe, a nano particle? Beyond this entity is a space shimmering with small circles of white dots. For me, these are the portals to other universes, keeping in mind, that the universe/multiverse, as a metaphor, can mean these portals could be conduits into the realms of human psyche. Meeting Place Of The Mind Oil on linen 100 x 70 cm 2011 The painting above again gives my tree-of-life some cosmic rendering! This is a paragraph from my previous BLOG post for this painting. The image is a man and woman, who seem to morph into one being. There outstretched arms reach forward erupting into cascading trees. The vortex/spiral enclosing the figures is like a spring of energy, suggesting that the man and woman, who are at the centre of this energy are... conduits, the core, the essential element, the stillness that is replete. The moon, in its phases, represents time and the energy of push and pull, an innate balance. I've uploaded this painting on this post because it is one of my newest, plus if you put on a pair of 3d glasses the painting goes totally 3d! This actually happens with quite a few of my paintings. I had no idea they did this amazing 3d layering until a man brought a pair of 3d glasses into my exhibition Frisson in 2010.

Murray Darling Currency Gouache on paper 30 x 42 cm Murray Darling Currency is one of my 'quiet activist' paintings which 'speak' about environmental issues surrounding water, coal seam gas mining, food security and so on. Here's a link to a previous post about this painting. http://kathrynbrimblecombeart.blogspot.com/2010/11/murray-darling-currency.html Can We Eat Coal For Breakfast....No Gouache on paper 30 x 42 cm 2010

$oils Ain't $oils Anymore Oil on linen 70 x 100 cm 2010

The two paintings above could be called 'coal paintings' ie: like the phrase used as a search that lead someone to my BLOG. Here's a link to the post I wrote about Can We Eat Coal For Breakfast....No! http://kathrynbrimblecombeart.blogspot.com/2010/11/food-fantasy-in-future.html Here's a link to the post I wrote for $oils Ain't $oils Anymore http://kathrynbrimblecombeart.blogspot.com/2010/12/oils-aint-oilsany-more.html Check out my GAS GALLERY http://kathrynbrimblecombeart.blogspot.com/2011/05/gas-gallery.html I am currently working on large oil painting inspired by the Murray Darling environmental 'conversation'. Like the work on paper above, I am using a map of Australia with the Murray Darling region painted in small $ signs. A tree-of-life cascades across the canvas forming the oceans and the continent, reminding us that we all share life on this planet...and

<><><><><> have done so for millenia and hopefully for many more into the future. The small $ signs question how we 'value' our natural resources. The fact that the viewer is unaware of the $ sign until up close, 'asks' the question, 'Have you noticed?' I hope to have this painting finished by next week. <><><><><> In Stillness and Meeting Place of The Mind will both be in my Melbourne exhibition 'Paradise' @ Purgatory Artspace, 170 Abottsford St, North Melbourne 8 September -8 October. I intend to hang some of my 'quiet activist' paintings too, because our environment is our paradise...and paradise lost. Check out my PARADISE online gallery for a glimpse at some of the paintings. http://tinyurl.com/3ndj542

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Borlotti Beans (31 JUL 2011)

A while ago, a small child visited with her mother.
She asked me if gardening was my job.    No.
...  if I wanted it to be my job.    No.
Why ... ? this and Why ... ? that.    I'd never met a child interested in gardening before.
She then explained that her teacher had given each member of the class a bean and a yoghurt pot filled with compost to take home.  Why a bean I thought ? ... don't

Kids Kicking Cancer Event

Miley Cyrus attended an event in support of Kids Kicking Cancer in Michigan on July 19, 2011. It looks like Miley had a great time and got to meet a lot of her young fans.Credit: Miss-Miley-Online.

Sunday versus #19

Superman vs. Plesiosaur

So this is the third Plesiosaurus we've featured in the Sunday versus posts so far, and Aquaman has failed to show up in any of them.

Slacker.

Script by E. Nelson Bridwell
Pencils by Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks by Kurt Schaffenberger

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #72
Lois Lane's Aquaman Tricks!
February 1967
Copyright (c) DC Comics

Long Hair vs Short Hair

OK.... so I got my hair cut.

It is a little shorter then I wanted it to be.

I told my stylist to cut it like she did a few months ago...

Here is how she cut it in Feb:

Guess what? she cut it way shorter, I guess I should have been more detailed in my description.

My new cut:

Now I am thinking that I am going to grow it out again. I have been having this battle for years, I cut my hair short then grow it out for 2 years, just to cut it all off again:

Here is my hair exactly a year ago:

Here is the thing, I love long hair, I think it is very pretty.

In fact.. I dream that my hair looked like this when I get up in the morning:

However, it is a pain to style.

My hair is wavy (not the pretty wavy), So I have to blow dry, straighten and then style it.

It took me at least 15-20 minutes just to do my hair! And if I wanted curls, that's at least another half hour on top of that! I just didn't have time for that anymore.

If we are going somewhere, I have 2 kids to get ready, diaper bag to pack, snacks to prepare, etc.. So I barely have time to get ready let alone do my hair.

So I decided to cut it. Now it takes me like 5 minutes to style my bob.

One more thing. I was looking for pictures to use with my long hair, guess what? The one above was one of like 2 where I had my hair down. In all the other pictures, I put my hair in a pony tail or bun because it always gets in face and bothers me.

In a pony tail while visiting family in MO:

In a pony tail at the beach:

In a pony tail at the pumpkin patch:

In a pony tail at my baby shower:

So.. whats the point of having long hair, If I am going to hide it in a pony tail all the time?

But for some reason I still want beautiful long hair. Even though it is a pain.

So, I think I am going to try and grow it out again, and make myself style and leave it down! Ha! we will see how it goes..

So what do you prefer? Short or long hair?

Has your hair style changed since you became a mom?

Leave a comment, let me know :)

Squirrel - Face to Face Fun

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

- Victor Borge

I LOVE to Laugh! I was texting yesterday on my Iphone with Autocorrect on - and I wanted to type "Yipppeeee" and the phone "corrected" it to show "Tupperware" I sent the text before I caught the error and had the Biggest Laugh in a long time. I'm still laughing.

Fill your Life with Lots of Laughter :)

OPEN STUDIO TODAY! CAM 6th Annual Open Studio Tour in St. Louis

Studio is all cleaned and ready to go! All new artwork -- small and affordable.

Please come to the Contemporary Art Museum's 6th Annual Studio Tour in St. Louis today!

I will be there-- showing all the new work and discussing my new upcoming projects.

Feel free to stop in and have a look!

All are welcome - and all are invited.

Open Studio

3156 Shenandoah Avenue

St. Louis, Mo 63104

Come and have fun!!

Free drinks and treats.... also some free handouts.