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Jenny

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EASTMANartist Releases Jackson Tribute

 

 

 

On June 25, 2009 Michael Jackson died. The King of Pop music is gone but he will never be forgotten and neither will all the great music he gave us. I am deeply saddened by this.

I have taken time out of my busy schedule and designed a special edition shirt and poster in memory of the late great MJ.   This design is an early release from my clothing line set to debut in mid-late fall. I hope you enjoy and my heart goes out to all of you…                                             

                                                              -Jenny Eastman

           (click photos to go directly to the store)

Limited Number of Posters  Available

 

 

       

Addressing some issues, making some updates

I decided today would be the day I sit down and do some updates despite my heavy heartedness. This morning after finishing a design for the new site , there was a freak accident and I some how deleted ALL of my picture files! This may not have been the first time… and yet I still haven’t learned the lesson. I am confident I’ll make the April 25 new site debut, with the Unearthly Covenant, Live Simple site debuts to follow along with the opening of the store.

The new site was set to debut March 25 but I’ve since been asked to star in a gallery show with an April 1st deadline so It was kind of a hang up. It was an honor being asked and I am excited to do it even though it’s a bit of a touchy subject. Um… here’s what I’ve got so far (I hope my father doesn’t see this) ...

Now on to the nitty gritty, The new site is going to be quite cool. A lot more of my personality will be involved in the design because I designed it. Here’s a little sneak peak of the unfinished welcoming page.

A lot of work went into that, and that’s only the opening page that you’ll see once during the visit… but it looks cool and they say the first impression is most important. I like it, it’s very 1960’s rock concert poster which speaks to me.

Unearthly Covenant has unfortunately been put on the back burner but I have been fitting things in like this snipperoo from a poster…

And this hero line up for the new UC site

My book is going smashingly! I have a great start on it, really good subjects lined up to go in and I have really high hopes for nothing short of a success! The artwork going into the book is a lot more diverse. I have subjects lined up from wild life to architecture, a lot of music inspired pieces and my favorite and the always popular portraits. I do have some new experimental type stuff going in there which should be cool… I’m really, very excited.

Live Simple is one of my newest ventures. Live Simple is charity line I’ve started. It’s something that I can focus more of my cartoony, silly energy into projects and the best part is it’s all for charity! There’s a lot of clothing, toys, prints and other goodies. Most of them are designed with their designated charity in mind. There is going to be pet/ animal calendars and posters, with contests! People who send in the funniest/cutest animal picture will get a spot in the calendar and probably another little prize I’m not sure, I have a lot of kinks to work out but if you’re reading this now and you want to just send the pictures in before the home site is designed and everything’s worked out send them to jenny@eastmanartist.com and I’ll make sure you’re counted. Otherwise stay tuned.



And the newest addition to the EASTMANartist Production Company is….
Well I’m going to keep this one under wraps for a bit but it’s something that I’m ecstatic about, I can’t wait! Again stay tuned and you’ll see it in a bit… alright it’s the store BUT not only that it’ll be an entire clothing line designed by me! Just wait. I’m very excited.

As always I’ve got a lot of projects lined up and I’m stretched to get them done. Check back around April for the new site and the other little offspring sites to come soon after.

A Proud Moment!

It's about that time I check in with you kids. I've been REALLY busy these past couple months getting ready for the Dow Museum art competition/ exhibition. So far so good... I've got only one of the three things done that I was trying for and. I’ve decided to put Jimi Hendrix in there with my entry too just because as we all know two's better than one but three would've been great, ah there's always next year.

And here for the first time is the still untitled thing I miraculously pulled off! I'm pretty happy with it. It's background is soft pastel, mid-ground is colored pencil and ink and the foreground is oil. I was trying for a three dimensional look with the three layers of different material, which actually turned out well. Unfortunately you can only see the effect in person. Well anyway it's on it's way to the museum and I’m hoping for the best obviously.

This drawing is also going to be featured on the site in a kind of demonstration type thing. It wasn’t my idea but it should turn out pretty cool. It’s mainly to show how I break everything down and layer it in, to do what I do. I don’t know if it’s the best idea because people will find out that I don’t know what I’m doing and that I suck at this job but oh well.


It's been pointed out to me that the new store has no items. I already knew this... the thing is you weren't supposed to see it yet. I got it all hooked up and I’m still getting samples and things
to show on the site, little did I know you can't hide a store link. It turns out building a website ALL by yourself is harder than it looks! My little internet helper recently decided he needed to take on a real form of employment, one that pays… pssht! So, I’ve taken over everything and he fills in the blanks. Items are coming soon even though I have a 5 item limit so I’m trying to work around that and get all the other work done. I'll put a notice up in various places when it's done and shopable.

THIS JUST IN! (july 12 late night add on)

Alright forget all that, the store is officially set up! I only have one thing in there so far but it's coiming along. The new jimi hendrix tee shirt is coming soon.

Since I last wrote here, I came up with and started a line/brand type thing called Live Simple. and that's all i'm going to tell you for right now. And i just started putting together my new book! I know! It's called EASTMANartist: the art book, It's a professionally printed hard cover with a jacket and everything! i'm so excited about this ,you have no idea! This is the cover image which i love! (even with my creepy little eyes on it!) It's an all white cover which i normally wouldn't like but with that image there aren't many chioces. I still love it!

Other than that i've been wandering around aimlessly waiting for august 29th to hear if i'm in the museum or not. We're still deep into the heart of show season and it's a little stressfull and i HATE waiting!

Now to the best news of... well the year! One morning while perusing myspace I stumbled across a delightful message written to me from none other than Drew Hastings pointing me to his myspace blog. There I found this…




Which was AMAZING! I, believe it or not, approved this message!

Ya know, most people would see this written about themselves and be like, “What a jerk, he just called me a psycho.” Not me, I think it’s great. I LOVE it! It’s completely silly. But I guess I should probably try and defend myself, especially after some of the messages I’ve received. Like maybe people think the words are too big for me, and I don’t understand what it means.

Now, if I was looking at this for the first time I wouldn’t necessarily say the picture embodies a schizophrenic psycho. I would think of it as more of a Newport cigarette magazine ad with all the really happy people smoking, laughing having a great time on boats and at picnics, eating jelly beans! Like maybe If I smoked these cigarettes I’d be this happy.

Look at the mug on that kid… who wouldn’t want some of that happiness?! That is absolute unadulterated joy the kind of joy that only comes from watching Drew’s Irked &Miffed dvd. I mean it must be good if I’m still backing it despite the plethora of seemingly offensive remarks made by Mr. Hastings!

The truth is I pretty much feel like I’ve humiliated myself and others which it’s not the first time but I think in the end it’ll be for the betterment of all man kind! That’s just the way I feel!

you can see the real thing and buy the dvd at: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=46459577&blogID=409173577 AND
www.DrewHastings.com


That’s about all I have to report for now I wound up leaving the entry shipping, cd booklet stapling and check writing to my mother. Listen… she wanted to be my manager! I think that pretty much comprises managerial duties! I’m actually more of my own manager until I don’t have enough in the bank to cover a entry fee (at least I can admit it!). I got to go get started on some other projects and get the character illustrations up while I bite my nails and pace through the house until August 29th when I hear if my stuff has been accepted for the preliminaries or not… ugh!

Final note and word to the wise… DON’T LET YOUR MOTHER BE YOUR MANAGER!

Infotainment

Sorry for the lack of infotainment lately, I’ve been busy trying to get EASTMANartist Productions straightened back out and organized again after the big move! Do you see how great that sounded? In that one sentence I made it sound like I run a huge corporation where in reality it’s a home-made office stationed in a basement! Gotta love the English language! Anyway we’ve been busy here regardless of the company’s size and I figured I’d check in.

I'm going to say it here first, I’m not going to be taking any of your projects for a bit, I’ve got a lot of things piling up on my desk and I can’t take on any more stuff right now. Unless of course you’re willing to pay large sums of money, somebody has to pay for all the pencils I go through! If you do have a project for me and you think I’ll accept it; email me with the basics and I’ll get back to you.

Now, on to business!

This week starts my two week vacation. I know many of you think I should probably use the term “vacation” loosely because yes, I in fact, work for myself at home. I’m not going to lie and say I don’t have it easy because I do but whether you accept it or not what I do IS real work! And on the brighter side I don’t have to worry about gas prices… Now what kind of smart comment do you have for me, hmmmm?!? No offense to you, my readers but I’ve been ridiculed a lot lately by people with these so called real jobs who have to answer to bosses and such whereas I don’t. I also don’t have to concern myself with taxes, wages and whatnot. Attack me again though, I mean really!

Anyway, aside from being mocked lately I did indeed start my vacation. I’m not really one to just out of nowhere go on vacation much less take a break of any kind but I’ve got some pretty big projects coming up in the next two months and I’m taking this break to get ready for them. These big projects happen to be three brand new things to be submitted to the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art for the 48th annual Greater Michigan Art Exhibition. This show is one of the last statewide shows in Michigan and it’s kind of a big deal and if I do it right I could win. This break is basically me running around till I figure out what on Earth to do and how I’m going to do it the night before the deadline.

But this being the second maybe third day of my vacation I’ve realized some things. Now, I should preface this by saying, it’s been a while since I’ve had some real human contact. And generally when this sort of thing happens to me… my mind starts to wander. My mind wandering can be construed as both a good and bad thing as it could become material for future cartoons, comic strips, whatever or a click or two closer to my being committed, either way it serves a purpose.

I've realized that a lot of my friends that are younger than me are starting to have children and get married where as my main concern is may hair...

I've also realized that televison is just ridiculous anymore.

Now I’m not one for a lot of television, obviously I have my cartoons that I watch frequent, Seinfeld and a movie or two here and there but tv lately has just become one train wreck after the other. I don’t know if any of you have had the pleasure of seeing some of these vh1 reality shows or not but let me ruin it for you… It’s not reality or anything resembling reality for that matter. Since on my break I have had the opportunity to watch some of these bits of reality like middle aged rock stars trying to find true love by gathering a bunch of young money grubbing girls together, or watching has been television stars try and cope with everyday life. It’s horrible I think every time I watch these things I can almost feel my I.Q. dropping. And we wonder why Al Qaeda wants to kill us…

To demonstrate how well I am at taking breaks I’d like you all to see this. This is the start of one of my entries for the Alden B Dow Art show. I did this the first maybe second night of my vacation. And not only is it this far done and I have till mid-July to finish it, it’s that I stayed up until 4 in the morning doing it… there’s something wrong with that! I do like the coloring so far though... i'm not gonna lie it's pretty.







I’d like to take this time and thank the good people and Google.com! Whoever invented, set up or runs these google alerts… deserves a raise. This is the greatest tool I’ve ever seen. I don’t know if you know what this is, It is a program or something and you sign up to get emails when somebody google’s your keywords. So every time somebody types in something like your website, name, or various projects you’re affiliated with, you get an email and they tell you what they clicked. It’s amazing! So, THANK YOU GOOGLE!

Unearthly Covenant is semi-rapidly progressing! I’d show you but remember, I just started my vacation! But you all will just have to sit tight and wait it out! In the mean time why don’t you subscribe to my mailing list, I’d love to email you all with answers to your questions but I really don’t have the time. But I swear when everything’s up and going I’ll send out updates. I have put the entire UC project up on the shelf for now because all my energy is going into this Dow Art Show. But I’m going to try and at least get a quick cover sneak up here soon.

Alright, in fact in the heat of the moment , I will say right now, by July… at least August I will have some major updates. Since I said it here, I’ll have to stick with it. We’ll just pretend this is a legally binding document. Now, remember I didn’t say EVERYTHING would be updated I just said some! As of right now it’s just me running the website with everything else so it’s hard to juggle everything, and I can barely cheak my email but I’m working on it.

It’s been suggested to me that I try and increase the communication between myself and you people. I know I’ve mentioned on here before that I hate a writing theses things so it’s much easier just to put it off and forget about it. Then I realize it’s kind of important, some times I go off and wrap myself up in things so well it’s like I up and left the country! I’ll think about it, because I have to keep my legions of fans well informed to what I’m up to and where my stuff is. Like they’d drop everything they’re doing to truck across country just to see a picture I did! Anyway, ill try and something here and there, Maybe I’ll report something on how my vacation’s going with Vh1 celebreality drivel , crates of unwatched DVDs, the adventures of living in boon dock city, or maybe even some of my infamous shallow and neurotic exploration into meaningless detail. I don’t know, I’ll figure something out. I don't think you all realize how long one of these takes to write!

Anyway, until I get another free times slot…










Speaking of DVD’s run out and pick up a copy of Drew Hastings’ Irked and Miffed! (in stores now) I know I’ll be watching mine over the break! The truth is the guy owes me $50 and I’m just trying to get my money back!

"I Love it, i'm still hopping about and squealing with delight! "- Jenny Eastman