Unicorns for the Unicorn Gallery in Camden, London

My Little Pony and Unico, Ink with Digital Color, 12" x 16"

Just finished this bad boy! Printing it tonight with the help of Alex Carlson and her beautifully convenient Epson printer, then mounting it onto wood (using Kathy Weller's awesome tutorial) to ship off to the Unicorn Gallery in London!

This will be my very first international group show, so I'm really excited!


Speaking of shows, I've been attending a TON of openings lately:
-New skull show at the Ars Moriendi Project last Monday, Jordan Pantiedosi and friends at the Yes, Oui, Si gallery near the MFA (used to be the old Rice Bowl Gallery), my own show at The Estate last week (pictures to come!), a gallery show this Thursday featuring Karl Stevens, and another show on Friday featuring several of my favorite artists, including Raul Gonzalez.

I'm also preparing for a skate deck show, a t-shirt collaboration, developing my first line of toys, painting another skull for the Ars Moriendi Project, random interviews, a talk at MassArt, and a super secret endeavor involving the Paint Pens in Purses ladies!

And just as a last thought - here are some other funky colorways I'd played around with after finishing this piece. When you use Illustrator every single day at work, Photoshop turns into a magical no-limitations breath of fresh air for effects!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Piranha Plant Siren

A painting I made for our annual Design Dept. Art Swap at Converse! One of my senior designers, Eric Swartz, got to take her home!

Painting © Allison Bamford
Piranha Plants © Nintendo


Prints available soon through My Etsy Shop!

Zombie cupcake!

Drawn from a suggestion. Thinking of putting him on a greeting card or as a screenprint! :)

©Allison Bamcat 2011

New painting and header!

Mr. Cupcake, 16" x 20" acryla gouache on canvas


Close-up

Finished this guy up last night! I'm really digging him! I started this painting a couple of months ago and became frustrated painting on canvas. I'm used to working on super-smooth surfaces with my paints, so it was difficult to use all these fine-tipped 00 brushes on such a toothy surface.

But I fell in love with again this week and vowed to finish it in between work and kickboxing and shipping and printing and working on all my other projects. I'm really happy with it - it was worth it to give it the time it deserved. :)


Also, new header! New products to come! And I'm looking forward to a marketing/branding seminar next week to learn more about my audience and the skills I need to create my own brand. Very excited!

New paintings!

But you only get to see one right now!

Demonicorn, 13" x 12" acryla gouache on antique panel

For a Collectives show in Boston coming up at the LAP gallery, hosted by the ever-cool Fish McGill.


Also, my friend Tofusquirrel was recognized on Little Chimp Society for her National Portfolio Day poster! I had Fish's NPD poster hanging up in my high school locker for two years - I'm sure her piece will inspire tons of aspiring artists looking to make it into art school. Check it out!

©Elizabeth Siegel 2011

Working on a few things

Quagaår the Lion Serpent
9" x 9", blue pencil

Hey guys! Just wanted to give you an update on what I've been up to recently :


I've been doing a lot of drawing, sketching, branding, and graphic-making. I'm working with a very good friend of mine on my website (bamcatart.com), so we're in beginning stages on that. I'm so excited to truly have a website!

I'm trying to organize myself better as being a brand. There are a lot of things I'm doing alright with and a lot of things I need to work on. I've been surrounded by so many wonderful professionals lately with positive reinforcement. It's really pushed me to try harder and get the ball rolling on a lot of things.


Things in the works : New paintings, new post cards, a book for sale at conferences/fairs, more gallery shows, my website, merchandise, prints, apparel, and working on creating a vinyl toy!!


I'm excited about so much - can't wait to show you guys!