Batman feels the Breese

 

A little behind on posting this piece.  I actually started "Batman" the Monday before the film's opening and was just getting to painting it when the news of the tragedy in Colorado reached me.  

I was in the process of designing/painting the red lettering... I stared at it for a while... the questions began to flood into my mind: Was the piece in poor taste? Was continuing disrespectful to those who were injured or lost their lives?  The red paint just sat there, and so did I. 

I am first and foremost a Coloradan - blood and bone.  The Rockies are my calling and I dream of the Mile High City often.  I, like so many others, was there for the Columbine tragedy and with them, I hoped it would be the last.  It wasn't - we just don't seem to learn from these events anymore.

A few days passed and then it hit me: Batman hates guns.  Recalling this fact gave me some momentum and I ultimately finished the painting some days later.

"Batman" (temporary title) is ink and gouache on paper.  

My heart goes out to those who were murdered/injured and to all my fellow Coloradans. 

  

---> Kinda has a weird Atari game cover feel doesn't it?     

WIN A PRINT!!!

Want to win a "Kitty Kat" screen print??
How about a "Motor City Sirens" print??

Well, if you have a Facebook account, you're half way there...  

All you have to do:

Go to Peter Breese Neon Lights and click "LIKE"...

That's it?  Yup, that's it.

Click "Like" and BOOM you're in the drawing.  There will be only three winners.  The contest will run for only one week (ending at midnight Monday July 2nd, 2012).  One grand prize winner will receive a "Kitty Kat" print.  Two second place winners will each receive one "Motor City Sirens" print!

Very exciting stuff.

Prints!

 

"Kitty Kat" by Peter Breese - 18x24" - open edition 

"Atomic K.O." by Peter Breese - 18x24" - limited edition (50)

"Icarus Supersonic" by Peter Breese - 18x24" - limited edition (50)

"Motor City Sirens" by Peter Breese - 12x18" - open edition

Two limited edition and two open edition prints are now available!  These are gorgeous screen prints with bright neon colors.  The limited editions are hand signed and numbers - hurry, only 50 prints of each.  All are hand embossed.  Very cool to finally have some prints up.  Thanks to all for waiting.  To link to the shop you can either click on the image or follow here: www.etsy.com/shop/artofpeterbreese

Late Night Letters

 

  

It's been wild of late (good things coming down the pipe), but I've managed to steal some shots of a piece I am working on these past few days.  I'll also toss a few vids on my Facebook profile.

Lettering is relatively straight forward, but it can be time consuming in practice - at least for me.  The time depends a lot of factors (style of the letters, size, etc...) and whether or not you can lay them down by hand without any assistance.   In this particular instance, I'm battling a lot of big block letters (~ 6" tall), so I'm using contact paper.   For this particular piece, I probably put in a few hours on the letters alone - may sound like a lot, but I'm very very picky when it comes to lines.

Creative Quarterly 25

Tremendous honor to be both selected (TRON 2010) and a runner-up (Black Swan) for the current issue of Creative Quarterly - No. 25. Click on the screen shots above to jump to the CQ site.