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SATURDAY Oct. 27, 2007
New Paintings and Drawerings by Chris Chappell Check out Pictures from the show at my FLICKR Page. Thanks guys! So stop by and look at art.... David O wrote a cool announcement about my show: "Chris Chappell is the co-founder of
the Austin Figurative Project and Gallery. He was with the legendary
ArtHive back in the day. His paintings are wonderfully careless.
I'm constantly motivated to be a better painter by looking at his
work. He finds possibilities with paint where there really should
be none. He's also a stunt sketcher. When he's stopped at a red
light he whips out his sketchbook and draws the intersection. Sometimes
he even makes paintings from those lightning-fast short-hand drawerings.
And those paintings will make you cry little tears. Soy tears. Thanks David! Also in October 2007 there are lots of birthdays...my son turns 3! Happy Birthday Finn! And my mom turns old, and my sister turns 23 or so. Plus my simpleton cousin Erica turns 35, Liz's dad would have had a birthday, and Barbara Whitehead.
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My Painting for the Women and Thier Work "Red Hot Red Dot" Show |
September 2006It's been a busy couple of months... I've been working on a figure painting project with David O, a landscape painting project, and a few murals. Check out new murals here. |
A shot of the new "Butterflies" mural... |
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July 2006Scanner Darkly comes out in theatres!!!I was lucky enough to get to work on the movie A Scanner Darkly. Directed by Richard Linklater, it comes out in March of 2006 and stars Keanu Reeves, Woody Harrelson, Robert Downey Jr., Winona Ryder, and many more. But who cares about famous movie stars? The really cool thing about this film is that it is being animated by awesome Austin animators like Bob Sabiston, Nathan Jensen, Paul Beck, .....and tons of others. Many of them I don't know and didn't get to meet in my one short month there. I worked exclusively on background art under the wing of super talented artist Greg Geisler. |
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Feb 2006I made several murals for Austin's GREEN GATES Project. They are 5 by 6 feet and will be displayed on gates at the Whole Foods Market downtown. The Green Gates project is "a citywide environmental arts celebration." Visit Austin Green Art for more information about the project and how you can make a gate or banner. Incidentally, Earth day is on April 22- which happens to be one day before Michael Schliefke's Birthday. Michael's birthday happens to fall on the same day as Shakespeare's AND Secretary's Day. Email him to wish him a happy birthday, he would hate that. |
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Dec 2005The Blue Genie ARt BAZAAR was a success as it is each year. I was a participating artist again and I showed several new works. |
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Nov 2005 I completed a mural for Desire
Boutique in Austin,Tx. The mural is a graphical representation
of bamboo in two BAMBOO Murals |
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UNICORNS! "Will There Ever Be a Rainbow?"
The Big Unicorn Art show: "Will there ever be a Rainbow" hosted by Michael Schliefke and Ian Shultz and Bolm Studios opened to a huge crowd Nov 4th. There are pictures and info about the artists here. |
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Oct 2005I made some crazy Halloween "photo opportunities" for the kids... |
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Sept 2005I was one of dozens of animators on a project Bob Sabiston did for the Austin City Limits Festival. It turned out to be over three hours of animation made with an animation software Bob himself created. A different software Bob created. Not ColorEngine. Check out the intro page of Flat Black Film's web site to see an example of animation made with it. |
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Sept 2005I was lucky enough to get to work on the movie A Scanner Darkly. Directed by Richard Linklater, it comes out in March of 2006 and stars Keanu Reeves, Woody Harrelson, Robert Downey Jr., Winona Ryder, and many more. But who cares about famous movie stars? The really cool thing about this film is that it is being animated by awesome Austin animators like Bob Sabiston, Nathan Jensen, Paul Beck, .....and tons of others. Many of them I don't know and didn't get to meet in my one short month there. I worked exclusively on background art under the wing of super talented artist Greg Geisler. |
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