Sat 30 Jan 2010
I haven’t been arting much recently, partially because of this guy! My new pal and roommate, Lefty Lyman, is an approximately one-year-old boxer mix. The fantastic Southern Hope Humane Society no idea how he lost his leg. He crash-lands on the stairs sometimes, but other than that, he gets around fine!
Sat 30 Jan 2010
Since the Bears didn’t even come close to the playoffs this year, I was a bit bored while watching the playoffs at the bar, and used the opportunity to try several new dark winter brews on tap. They were all delicious. Dark beers go well with cold weather and football, which are two of the very few things I like about winter.
The first was Fort Collins Brewery Chocolate Stout. It was pretty tasty, as chocolate stouts go. It did not, however, taste at all like chocolate. It was smooth with a hint of sweet up front, and a sour aftertaste. It didn’t have much bitter flavor either, so I can’t even say it tasted like cocoa… but despite that, it was a good pick.
I give it a 7.5 / 10.
Sun 10 Jan 2010
It’s Thermodynamics!
Gouache and ink on ACEO
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Creating my art plan for 2010… stay tuned!
Wed 23 Dec 2009
Happy Holidays! See you again in 2010!
Love, Meg
Mon 21 Dec 2009
Keel-Billed Squid by Meg Lyman
11×14″ gouache on Canson board
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My commission requests are getting really interesting! This is one of my recent ones, and a favorite. I am having a lot of fun putting various animal patterns on cephalopods (see below: poison dart), and this commissioner wanted me to put the Keel-Billed Toucan pattern on a squid. Birds are so colorful and this one is particularly pretty. The hardest part was figuring out what parts of the squid should correspond to the various bird parts!
Sun 6 Dec 2009
Glow-in-the-Dark Shark by Meg Lyman
ACEO, gouache
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Color experiment!
Thu 19 Nov 2009
Poison Dart Squid by Meg Lyman
8×10″ gouache on matboard
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Hey everyone, I’m back! I’m all moved into my new house (well, mostly, except for the boxes full of books), and life is fantastic. I haven’t done much art in the last month, and thankfully, I haven’t had any conventions to prepare for. Back into the saddle!
Sat 10 Oct 2009
Poison Dart Octopus by Meg Lyman
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HI EVERYONE!
I’m going on a blogging hiatus for a month or so. My house sold and I’m about to buy a new one and move! If everything goes smoothly, you should see more art and posts from me in less than a month.
Wish me luck!
Fri 2 Oct 2009
Poison Dart Nautilus by Meg Lyman
8×10″ gouache on paper
$50 – e-mail to buy
Holy moly, life is busy.
Two conventions last month, one coming up, getting my house under contract and all the various sundry associated tasks, looking for a new house, seeing my little sister happily married, traveling for work… it’s been fun but crazy!
I have a bunch of commission work to do now. These cloudy fall days make me want to snuggle up with some paint and create all day.
Tue 22 Sep 2009
Cosmic Koi by Meg Lyman
11×14″ gouache and ink on illustration board
$95 matted – e-mail to buy
This was another fun experiment! I used a large ink brush by Pentel – the kind you have to squeeze to get the ink flowing – to do the outline. I painted the koi with gouache and scanned it so it could be used as a tattoo. Then I colored the background, using salt and a white ink pen to make “stars.” This is pretty much backwards from how I usually work. Finally, I went over the ink again. It was challenging, but fun.
Also, I was out of big black mats, so I painted a beige mat with black gouache. It’s quite absorbent, so it worked well with only one coat… but the black gouache came off on my fingers if I rubbed it. Solution: frame or put in a ClearBag.