Rolando Street Fair 2013

No Rain.  I repeat, no rain.  Not a cloud in the sky.  This event is notorious for foul weather and subsequent foul moods.  2012's event ended with tents blowing down the street as wind gusts and rain closed out the show early.  Not this year my friend.  Gorgeous weather and wonderful sales for DBG.
Billy Martinez of Neko Press was with us this year doing live art.

Everyone had a great time.  Family and friends and dogs all came by to say hello.  For awhile 2 pugs parked their wagon in our shade.
Boba, our pug, usually makes an appearance but not this time.  Boba is Billy's first son, fur son that is.  We adopted Boba when he started going through his teenage years.






We tried out our new t-shirt display rack and it worked great.  Dan worked on sketch cards in between sales.

Oliver, Sammy, Yvonne, Sherm, Sofia, Sydney, Mario, Sara's mom and sister, Emma, Marissa, and Robin, thanks for lending your support.

"The back or business side of art"

Dan Art Doing Well at The Mission

Dan hung art at The Mission right after Rolando Street Fair ended this year. In case you've never been, The Mission boasts the very best rosemary potatoes you will ever eat. It is always packed and now Dan's art is hanging up for all to enjoy.
"Lava Larry" and "Sydney and Seymour" have already went to new homes.
The Mission*North Park
2801 University Ave. SD 92104. 220-8992. Open daily 7am-3pm

Rolando Street Fair, Part 4

This year's local, home-grown street fair was blessed with no rain. Yeah! This is important to us artist-types whose wares suffer from unexpected moisture. As usual, Boba-meister, Pug-de-irrestible (or terrible depending on who you talk to), made a signing appearance. Strangely, no one asked for his autograph.

Both awesome Val(s) came with kids in tow. Thanks Val(s)! Cal and Jessica and Liz all came by to say Hi. (And they were hungry and we had food).

Bonus! We avoided the land of cactus once more thereby earning 20 bonus points.

Hanging with Dave at Marcella's...

Dan was very excited to have his robot troupe and spaceships hover at Marcella June's Coffee Shop this month. Proprietor, Dave, is a friendly host and master barista. Dave's coffee shop pays tribute in name to his lovely mom, Marcella, who will actually come out some time this year to christian his friendly abode.

Many locals walk in daily to this hidden jewel and get their caffeine fix or pastry indulgence. Dan is partial to the unique red tea lattes. No "fast food, hand over your money' vibe here. You will most likely have to remind Dave to settle your account as he will be busy chatting someone up on the comfy couch.

Dan's space art looks awesome amongst Dave's custom restored lighting fixtures. A homey glow is cast over all that enter... Hurry in!

Marcella June's Coffee Shop, 8513 La Mesa Blvd, La Mesa, CA 91942, 619-564-4703.

SD Art Department: "Bots and Babes"

Dan along side his vinyl window creations for the exhibit at SDAD

Rockets announcing each artist

the Mermaid panel...

Lobby signage for the show

Dan's Bots & Babes, 23 in all

Flying Saucer Artist tags inside courtesy of Dan

Matt and Elizabeth

Alex's Robot

Liz, Matt & Marissa with Billy's art in background

On the right we have Aunt Carol and my Mom

The artist and Val

Matt and my Parents

Amy, Marissa and Liz

Aunt Carol

The "Bots and Babes" exhibit opened last Saturday night and was a huge success. Everyone oohed and ahhed at Dan's vinyl creations that danced along the window panes, greeting everyone as they entered the exhibit.
Billy and Alex painted in opposite corners and the crowd was happily entertained.
Family and friends gave us a lot of support to which we are deeply grateful.
Aforementioned family and friends then dined on Italian around the corner from SDAD.
Come by and check it out. The closing reception is September 11th, during "Ray at Night", from 6-10 PM.

Quote about "Bots & Babes" from San Diego City Beat: "Martinez will show work from his Girls series, Chiu will share his dreamy robot worlds and Bois will exhibit his pop-culture imagery."

San Diego Art Department
3830 Ray Street
sdartdept.com
619-299-4278

Last day of the Con 7/25

Filming in progress...

Signage keeping the public away

This is where Dan was interviewed/had makeup applied/and was photographed for a movie

Dan and his G, "O. P."

Me and my transformer

Optimus strikes a pose outside the Marriott

Spaceman from Planet Troma

Our great booth neighbor, Louie Del Carmen

Teri and Bob as Black Canary and Dr. Who

Pat and Amy

We bid adieu until next year. Thanks to all DBG's fans, new and old. Congratulations to all the giveaway winners this year! It was fun to have Pat and Amy come by and see what all the fuss is about every July.
Dan and I were on our own, both kids at work. We walked over to the Marriott before the Con opened and I shot photos of where he was photographed for the documentary. Optimus stopped us on our way back to the Con.
Breakdown was the longest ever with just the 2 of us. Hours.... did I mention it took hours?
Congratulations to the winner of the "Pig and Lolli Prize Package" (not pictured because she had already left the Con) Jaclyn Kimble.
See you next year!

Comic Con 7/24 Saturday

Kato

Edward

A bunch of Harley's (note Doctor version in center)

Harley's joined by PI's and Jokers

The artist and the happy messenger bag owner

Greg, Marissa and Dan

The Queen of Hearts

Zorro (Scott), Cat Nun (Vicki), Mary (Terri), Shazam (Bob)

Wonder Women

Tinkerbell and Jasmine

the proud owner of our "Pigs are Friends not Food" tote

Rokbot Prize Package Winner: David Breaux

Lila and Zap Brannigan in the flesh

Dan had a lot of fun today. He did an original commissioned "Rokbot" on a fan's messenger bag. Not only did he pull that off, he did it alone (running the booth and drawing, because I had gone upstairs to listen to author China Mieville's panel) on a Saturday, one of the busiest days of the con.
This was also the day a producer from Go Gamma Gamma, Nickelodeon Jr fame, came by, bought some art and gave Dan his business card and mentioned they have a segment on featured artists they may contact him about.
We had Marissa and her boyfriend Greg with us as well, rounding out our merry group. Pasta later and "watch out for that stop sign Aunt Wendy!"