Posted by: roger (41 posts)
March 25, 201011:51 PM

Here's a composite shot of the interior of the Florian Cafe. We were there a couple of weeks ago when no one else was. I had the whole place to myself to shoot for a few minutes. It's across from the Doge's palace and just down the arcade a bit. After 3 or 4 cups of expresso a day, you don't have to sleep anymore and are invincible.... kinda.
I recommend.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
February 18, 201011:25 PM

Here's a new book I just finished and online at www.blurb.com . I love blurb and you can do an on demand book in just a week. Quality is excellent, and both the hardbound and soft cover are excellent. Not cheap, but good. Works for me. Take a look: http://www.blurb.com/books/1191786

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
August 27, 200912:02 AM

I've been working on a series of 32 water color paintings and now about half way through the series. I do a tight pencil sketch, then ink the drawing with waterproof sepia ink, then do the painting over everything. Take a look at the series when you get a chance. http://art2go-rtdm.blogspot.com/

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
August 15, 200911:47 AM

Here's the title page and cover from my newest book - Dinner for Eight.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
11:38 AM

Here's the cover from my newest book "Dinner for Eight".
It's about an Octopus's Dinner Party.
Let me know if you would like an auto-graphed copy.
It takes my car awhile to sign them. Ha, Ha....
Roger.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
July 9, 2009 9:29 AM

Here's a detail of my "Dead Squirrel Water Color Kit" from my summer ceramics class. Brushes rest on the top of each of the upended feet. There's nothing like a dead squirrel to warm the heart is there?

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
9:21 AM

Whenever I take a ceramics class I don't do anything else. Here's one of 2 tables of work that I completed during my 6 week class. I worked everyday for as long as I could without passing out. In the foreground are a couple of "Dead squirrel water color kits".
The brushes rest between the upended feet. Most students complete about 6 to 8 pieces during the class. I worked on over 250 pieces. There are a number of white watercolor mixing dishes on this table.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
May 24, 200911:21 AM

I have decided to completely revive the American economy with my ART STIMULUS PLAN. My $1 dollar off art coupon will help sales and not cost the taxpayer a single dime.

You may use this coupon online at http://www.demuthdesign.com or at the Chameleon Gallery, Cazenovia, NY. One coupon per customer please.

You may also use the Dollar Off Art coupon in ALL STORES IN MANHATTAN! Bring in your dollar off coupon and tell them you want a DOLLAR OFF ART! It works... try it! Tell them "Roger sent me."

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
May 23, 2009 9:33 PM

I am taking a ceramics class this summer for six weeks. When this happens, I totally get involved in my class and nothing else matters. It's great. Anyway, I am devoted to depicting evil squirrels and making lots of squirrel things. stay tuned. you'll see what I'm taking about shortly.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
May 12, 2009 9:17 AM

I try to make everything as complicated as possible. Here's an example of my method. This is an 11x17 inch printed sheet. The red line denotes the marks where a die is to be made. Once the die is made, I take the printed sheets, die, to a die stamper and he punches them out of the paper, one by one. I use Die Max in Rochester, NY for the die, 4over.com for the printing (16pt stock) and precision Die Stamping in Port Byron, NY for the stamping. All good people, & I recommend.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
April 7, 2009 7:30 PM

About this print :

A week or so before my Mom passed away,
she spoke with me about going into an assisted
living facility. I thought this was odd because
she resisted the idea of going into a home for
so long. She prized her independence so much.

Mom felt there was too much for her to
handle and one of things she mentioned
was the squirrel on her porch.

She was most annoyed by the man who
fed the birds on the floor above her as
he attracted so many squirrels.

This is my memorial print to my Mother and her
annoyance with squirrels and what to do about
them.

I only wish I could have purchased a rifle
for her now. She would have enjoyed shooting
at the squirrels from her comfortable chair in
the living room. I can just imagine her sitting
in the chair with the rifle and her glass sliding-
doors with large holes in them where she shot
at them. Now that I think of it, there might
have been holes in the ceiling too.

I dedicated my first children’s book to my
Mother. After I sent her my book “Messy Bessie,
Where’s My Homework? she said: “You know I
hate mice !”

Mom kept every drawing, postcard, print, news-
paper article and painting I ever did. When we
cleaned out her apartment, they were all there.
Every one of them! She would have kept this
print even though there were squirrels in it.

My Mom loved her family and loved birds.

I’ll make a bird print next.
I will miss her dearly.

Roger De Muth

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
January 22, 200910:19 AM

Here's a drawing from the top of Giralda Cathedral. The view from the top is spectacular, and overlooks a couple of domes with stone roofs.

I've decided to build a stone dome over my house. If you see some rocks that would look good on my roof, please let me know.

On another note, the rocks used for stonehenge were moved 250 miles to the site. I've got an idea! let's move some giant rocks 250 miles today!

This drawing was done with a fountain pen, and then smeared with coffee. It was drawn in a new micro size Moleskin Book which I bought in Barcelona.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
9:50 AM

Here's a quick sketch from the Cathedral in Sevilla. We climbed to the top a few weeks ago. The tower has a ramp instead of steps to reach the top. I recommend. The Giralda Cathedral is the largest gothic church in Europe.
Sevilla is a beautiful city lost somewhere in time. Ancient moorish buildings mixed in with great shops and restaurants. We took the train to Granada and spent a day at the Alhambra.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
December 28, 2008 6:26 PM

I've been shooting Panorama photos for a number of years but have never had more fun than the new stitching factor in Photoshop CS3. In fact, it has taken over my life.
I try to go out every day and shoot.

There are some drawbacks with storage, cameras, printing etc. but most have been overcome. I have 13 terrabytes of storage here in the studio and more CF flash cards than most Best Buy Stores.

If you haven't tried it yet, try this: CS3 photoshop> File> Automate> photomerge> choose open files> Voila!
Then I tone map the images using Photomatix to bring out the lights and darks a bit more.

Take a look at http://www.mrpanoramaman.com
The long image above is about 48 inches wide and nearly a gig in size. It's made up of 34 individual photos.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
December 14, 2008 9:05 PM

Well here's the finished gazebo that my helper and I finished a few weeks ago. It's made of Cedar, so it will last a long long time. We built the roof of Cedar too.

We made a couple of test arbors to figure out the joining of the logs and cut everything with a band saw. After awhile we were able to "guess" the angles and rough test fit the logs together. Then retrim the logs to fit.

In the spring, I plan to put the rest of the trees in and the vines on the arbors and trellises. My goal is to get the property to look more like a park. Besides, it's a good hobby working in the fireswamp. I'm going to start work on large R.O.U.S.'s made out of topiary next. ( Rodents of unusual size.) Stay tuned.

This photo is made of 4 photos stitched together, then tone mapped in Photomatix.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
November 23, 200812:18 PM

This is a character and book concept that I recently developed. When you get a chance please visit http://www.antedna.com and drop me a note. Isn't Edna pretty?
Roger De Muth

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
August 17, 2008 4:19 PM

For the birds.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
10:41 AM

When you look at something long enough, eventually the plan becomes so obvious that you wonder why you didn't see it earlier. "What the hell does that mean?"

Ideas and plan for arbors and Chinese Pagoda to be built in the Fire Swamp.
See earlier post for an explanation.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
9:54 AM

About 5 years ago, we purchased the property across the street from our home.
Someone before us bulldozed all the trees and left them in a huge clump and then tried to burn them. Dirt and stumps don't burn well.

Anyway, we cleaned it up and took 16 dump truck loads of stumps away.
Here is one of the dozens of drawings I've done and the plan. It is turned 90 degrees from the panoramic photo below of the site.

In the drawing on the top right is a R.O.U.S. (rodent of unusual size) as my homage to the 'Princess Bride' -one of my favorite movies. I'd like to make large topiary rats and place them thoughout the woods some day.

After I do a million drawings of something, I know it intimately, and can proceed with the construction. I culled cedar trees from the property to build the chinese pagoda and arbors. Fall is a good time to start Chinese Pagodas in New York State. Good Feng Shui.

I must have a lot of time on my hands, or forgotten how to sleep. Sleep is for wimps anyway. Stay tuned.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
August 1, 200812:29 PM

Here's my newest book that should be on the shelves in September. It's won the Wacky Award from Publisher's Weekly!

Here's a clip from the publisher's Weekly: Most Impassioned Plea to Embrace Vegetarianism:
Please Don't Eat Me by Roger DeMuth, in which a fish begs not to become an entreé (Blue Apple)

For autographed copies, please email me, or check your local book store.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
July 25, 200811:15 AM

I shot 1500 pictures of Joan Green's Garden recently for a book project I've been working on. This is an oak on her property. I stole the neighbors views to shoot this image. It's a composite photograph made up of dozens of images stitched together.

The garden is incredible, and was recently on the Open Days Garden Conservancy tour along with my own garden. She sets a new standard in garden care.

Try this when you get a chance: Photoshop CS3> file> automate> photomerge , you'll like it. It changed the way I shoot photos. Take a look: www.mrpanoramaman.com

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
July 3, 2008 4:37 PM

I like Old San Juan. It's old. This is in the town square where the taxi drivers sit waiting for their next fare.

The fort has been around since the 1600's and everything else around it was ancient too. I did some paintings on the bus that are some of my favorites.

On a painting... I take notes on the back of the art, note colors, details etc, and then paint it in the hotel room or when I get home. I use a dip pen, and sepia india ink. Sometimes with a pencil sketch underneath or if I feel confident, then right to ink.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
June 25, 200810:43 PM

Here's a drawing with overpainting of writer Lewis Beale from a photo in the NY Times.

It looks like a thousand cat scratch brush strokes forming the face. I thought I stumbled onto something and that if I did thousands of cat scatch portraits they would all look as nice as this one. It was going to be wonderful, and every drawing I did would look incredible, and it was a formula that was going to work... every time. All my drawings would be incredible. Life was SOLVED!

Oh, well. you know the ending. A happy accident. Life has returned to normal. Each good drawing is a struggle. A fluke in the sketchbook of life.

Anyway, if you see this drawing and like it Lewis, let me know. It's a favorite of mine.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
June 19, 2008 9:57 AM

Every now and then you get a good drawing. I like this one. Keep drawing, everyday. It makes your brain work better. Smear your drawings with coffee, orange juice, sparkling water, or soda. You'll like them better.

If you're hungry in the desert someday, you can eat them too. They'll taste good. Who says art isn't functional?

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
June 15, 2008 7:45 AM

I take my moleskin with me everywhere. Here's a page with drawings from a lecture by Tracy Kidder. A few members of the audience are in the circles around the page.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
June 12, 200811:38 PM

I did this drawing of Kanzi the Bonobo Ape who was part of an article on intelligence in National Geographic. Kanzi can speak several languages, type 60 words a minute, uses Photoshop CS3, and works on a Mac. Hey..................... just kidding and wanted to see if you are paying attention. He really writes code on a PC.......... now STOP it, Roger.

I devised a clever method of doing drawings to illustrate what I was talking about while in Portugal at the top of this sketchbook page. Pictionary was my way of talking in Pictures. Unfortunately, the only person I met that spoke English, was a Chinese Man working in a Chinese restaurant in Evora. I'm not sure whether the words he told me were in Chinese, or Portuguese.

Kanzi wherefore art thou?

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
12:54 PM

I like Moleskin Sketchbooks because they have a small pocket in the back, where you can put your train tickets. I put all of my notes on the last two pages of my moleskin books because I can find things instantly. Not that I can read the small type though.

On the right page is a great quote from Matt Caserta, a former student- " How come you attract all the crazy ones?" Oh, animal magnetism Matt.

There's a drawing of Ray Beale on the right page at the Chocolate Shop in Cazenovia.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
1:08 AM

We drove down highway 1 from San Francisco to San Luis Obispo this past year. It was nervewracking travelling south on Highway 1 because we were on the ocean side of the road. I compensated for the scary view by driving on the mountain side of the road until traffic came along.

San Simeon is William Randolf Hearst's house that he bought in Europe and then reassembled on top of a California Mountain. At one time he owned a piece of property 300 miles square. The house was up on top of a mountain, cold, and lifeless. The bus ride to the top was equally scary.

This drawing was done of the woodwork in the large front Cathedral room. I felt trapped on the tour and couldn't wait to leave. One second of listening to a prepared speech leaves me gasping for air. No more tours for me.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
June 11, 200812:58 AM

This is a drawing of Thomas Edison I finished recently. I went to his creative workshop when I was a kid a million years ago. He's an inspiration to all of us. A workaholic that produced hundreds of patents, inventions, and clever things.

His workshop was in East Orange, New Jersey. I'd like to go back and see what I missed.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
12:47 AM

This is a drawing I did from the obits page of the New York Times. They always have the best picture of a person on the Obituary Page. Nice stories too. Elizabeth Tashjian owned a giant gothic house in Connecticut, and ran the "Nut" museum from it. Admission was one "nut".

Eventually, power of attorney was used to evict her from the home. Anyway, here's to Elizabeth Tashjian. She emigrated from Eastern Europe, and didn't understand that a "Nut" could also be a person too. Oh, well, nobody's perfect.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
June 6, 2008 9:54 AM

This is a drawing I did of Victor Yushenko after he was poisoned by the KGB by putting Dioxin in his Vichysoisse.

I think I ate in that restaurant once, and I'm not going back.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
June 5, 200810:46 AM

John Soane was an architect and collectiholic and lived just down the street from Sotheby's auction house in 1790. He loved Greece, Rome, and once in awhile Egypt.
We can appreciate it today thanks to him, because he bought everything.

In fact, he filled his house with so much stuff that it's hard to walk inside. When the giant alabaster sarcophagus from Egypt arrived they had a party that lasted 3 days.

I have modeled my house around his. Except, I'm an Uncle Wiggly fan.

Stop by his house in London when you're there next. You'll be glad you did.
This is a drawing of a Roman Schard from inside his house. Well done, John.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
9:07 AM

Valerie Holzworth is one tough lady. She's British, and made a statement about the poor dental care she was receiving. In retaliation to British Health Care, she extracted 8 teeth with a pair of pliers and one strong glass of spirits. Well, she showed British Health care, didn't she?

I'll have a beer thank you. No spirits for me.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
June 4, 200810:05 PM

This is a drawing in my moleskin of my friend Ray Beale who is one of the best portrait photographers I've ever met. He also taught me more about color than anyone else. Interesting, since most of his work is black & white. Ray recently went on vacation in New Orleans. He flew over 2,000 miles and stayed a day and a half and then returned.

So much for vacations. Here's the quote about being an artist: "It's very interesting being legendary when you can't even make a living & the public has never heard of you" Florine Stettheimer.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
9:48 PM

I like Lisbon, because nobody speaks English there. It's more fun that way. How great to have 2 hotels named the "Metropole"! Isn't that great?, and one is like miles away in a totally different direction. Isn't that great? Anyway, once you figure it out, it's even more fun. The "Real" Metropole has a neat marble bathroom and located in the old section downtown. Everything is still in the stores from a 100 years ago. I was able to get Rotring pens that haven't been sold here in 20 years. I love Lisbon. Go there.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
9:32 PM

This is a spread from my moleskin sketchbook of a small shop in Cazenovia. I've shot some interesting panorama photos inside the store. Amanda finds "Objects D'art" for my Museum of Art Supplies. My studio is filled with ancient tubes of dried up paint, brushes that nobody can use anymore, and paint trays made for the Queen of England.
Well, maybe I exaggerated a bit. Hey, wait a minute... I forgot my pen point collection.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
8:24 AM

While in Philadelphia last March I had only a couple of hours to spend at the Mutter Museum. Perhaps one of the scariest museums I've ever been in. Each turn is filled with medical abnomalies, jars filled with grotesque oddities, deformaties, dusty, sepia-toned formaldehyde jars from two centuries ago with sliced faces, dangling eyeballs and double bodied heads. How does a jar filled with formaldehyde with the label "Moist gangrene of the hand sound to you? The museum is an artist's paradise.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
8:10 AM

Zoetrope Studios and Francis Ford Coppola owns this great building in San Francisco. Most of the outside of the building has a beautiful copper green patina. The Iron frame of the building was standing during the 1906 earthquake and survived intact.

I did this drawing in my moleskin sketchbook while at the MacWorld convention.

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
8:00 AM

This is a spread from my moleskin which I carry with me everywhere. It's the small size Moleskin book with heavy paper. I draw each page with a Lamy Fountain Pen, and then smear the ink with a wad of napkin dipped in coffee, water, or whatever I'm drinking.

This page was finished while waiting for tickets to "O" in the cancellation line at the Bellagio. Incidentally, the show is incredible, I'd go again in a minute.

Viva Las Vegas!

Posted by: roger (41 posts)
1:26 AM

I just wanted to thank Jon Keegan and the Invisible Man for allowing me to be a guest artist. I'm thrilled, and hope my birthplace of Passaic, New Jersey will be proud of me.
( I was in a street gang in 2nd grade, and the only member brave enough to lick rocks, but that's a story for another day.)

I've been teaching Illustration at Syracuse University for 29 years ( wow, that was quick.) and been a freelancer forever.

I'm currently working on my 3rd children's book "Dinner for Eight" about an Octopus's dinner party which I wrote and Illustrated. My 2nd book is due in from China in July. "Please don't eat me" which is about a fish that doesn't want to be eaten. It is dedicated to the city of Passaic.

Posted by: paulo (32 posts)
May 27, 2008 9:40 AM

...I think this one seems like a shrimp

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May 20, 2008 9:55 AM

Posted by: paulo (32 posts)
May 6, 200810:52 AM

This is the second version of the art posted previously, but now I painted it on canvas. I haven't bought a wood panel yet, so i tried to do a similar effect with sandpaper and modeling paste

Posted by: paulo (32 posts)
April 29, 2008 9:57 AM

I want to try painting something like this on wood, but as I just make painting on canvas, I did this draft to understand the effects that I can create and how to take advantage of all tones of wood...

Posted by: paulo (32 posts)
April 22, 200811:02 AM

Posted by: paulo (32 posts)
April 1, 200810:27 AM

This is another drawing that I did with Marcelo Delamanha, is one of the series "Faces" that we are doing together.

Posted by: paulo (32 posts)
March 25, 200810:33 AM

Yesterday I started creating my own letter type...till now, I only created from "A" to "F" but I also intent to create the numbers and symbols like "! @ # $", somethings like this...

Posted by: paulo (32 posts)
March 11, 200810:50 AM

I have just finished this acrylic paint. I really liked but unintentionally I did a "tear" on the canvas... =/

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March 4, 2008 9:03 AM

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February 26, 200810:01 AM

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February 19, 200810:13 AM

I'm working on my virtual portifolio and i hope to be done soon...
This artwork will be cover of this website.

Posted by: paulo (32 posts)
February 4, 2008 2:14 PM

The title of this illustration is in portuguese because it is an expression that loses all the sense if I translate, but literally means "the casings heart."

. . .

I always tried to create some abstract illustration ... but I never came to a satisfactory result. In these last days I started to read a book about Gustav Klimt works. This illustration is a reference of his paintings.

I hope that here for a while I start to release my works without a tablet and do more things with acrylic and oil... I hope that until the end of this year I already have some paintings =)

Posted by: paulo (32 posts)
January 28, 2008 2:27 PM

These are some "faces" that I drawn with my friend Marcelo Delamanha.
To make these, each one drawing a part of the face (for example: 1 eye, half of the nose, etc).

Posted by: paulo (32 posts)
January 21, 2008 2:05 PM

He received the glory. Now his soul is purified and flowers are borning of your body.

Posted by: paulo (32 posts)
January 11, 2008 2:26 PM

Hello,my name is Paulo Quirino, I’m from Brazil, and I’m the invisibleman guest this month.

This is the last illustration in a series of tree that I started a time ago (the other two illustrations are on my flickr).

Not only on this illustration but in all my works I always start without knowing what the drawing will be. I make some forms, put some colors; I make something completely abstract....After that I try to make something “real”.

In this drawing I did the eyes, a lot of strips, background, everything…After that I just choose the animal that could turn =)

Posted by: stuart (45 posts)
December 17, 200711:56 AM

More snippets from my solo exhibition "Never Been"; a Summer scene with a Pig farmer crossing a river (I don't know why, but pigs are my favorite thing to draw at the moment, I think it's because they're so fat and stodgy with no real structure that you can draw them however you like. As long as it has a snout, it will look like a pig.) and a Summer night's party scene.

The show got some excellent press in this week's MEN's City Life Magazine Supplement, which you can read here.

Posted by: stuart (45 posts)
December 13, 2007 8:10 AM

So the show, "Never Been" at Projekts MCR, is finally up, and the opening night was last Friday.

Posted by: stuart (45 posts)
December 3, 2007 8:36 AM

Less than four days before the opening of my show in Manchester and I'm still doing artwork- surely not a good sign. Luckily I've saved the fun stuff 'till last- another wee baby A6 full colour mini comic. This page here might look a bit different to the other work I've posted here on Invisibleman, but there's a good reason for it; because the book is going to be printed so small, I have to make sure the images inside will be as clear and legible as possible. The story (again set somewhere in pre-WWII Yugoslavia) is about a little boy trying to convince his Dad to let him keep a Gosling he found in the wheat fields. The mini-comic is going to be dispensed from a home-made vending machine for £2, which providing I'm still alive, I'll post some pics of next week.

Posted by: stuart (45 posts)
November 26, 200711:05 AM

Here's some sample crops taken from the giant image that's going to form the main part of my show here in sunny Manchester.

I'm really hoping people are going to look at it and make up their own little stories about what the hell these characters are up to and how they relate to each other. Also, a lovely chap from the BBC interviewed me about the upcoming show last week, you can read it here..

Posted by: stuart (45 posts)
November 21, 2007 2:35 PM

Hi, my name is Stuart Kolakovic and I'm a fledgling illustrator from the Midlands (home to Black Sabbath and industrial pollution) in the U.K. I've kindly been invited as a guest artist here on invisibleman for the next month, so I'm pretty stoked. This here is a flyer for my first solo show here in Manchester (home to The Smiths and industrial pollution) that opens this December. It's getting pretty hectic so close to the opening, and I'm still doing work for it! The main "piece" for the exhibition is going to be one long drawing that wraps around the back wall of the gallery space- not a comic strip as such, more of a panoramic illustration of a year in the life of a fictional eastern european village set somewhere in the early 20th century. This is basically me being really self indulgent after doing one too many bland illustration jobs.