Artomatic 2017

Here’s a little change from our usual shows. Artomatic is one of my favorite recurring art events in the DC area. Every couple of years, they take over a vacant office building. The space is first come first serve to artists for whatever they want to create and share. It is a great opportunity to meet other artists and jump start your creativity.

This year Artomatic came back to Crystal City, and we managed to get a three person room. We split it between the two of us and another gamer artist friend, Kat, who does lovely comic style art. Doing a room together made us seem like a small, curated gallery. People loved stopping by and seeing our work over the month the show was running. So here’s what we displayed in our awesome room.

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My big project for the winter was to make a leather dragon. I made her head first, which means scaled up she was 13 feet long. Final assembly had to happen in place… so here she is while I am still adding scales.
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Up close on the dragon’s face. So many pieces of leather!
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And done! Ahdraga drew many people to our lovely gallery room.
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My additional leather work, these shadow boxes were all inspired by vintage lace patterns.
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Kat’s wall! Wonderful and fun ink and watercolor pieces.
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Another view for Kat.
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Nathaniel made weapons of modern gods. These got a lot of chuckles as people read the snarky captions.
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Hard to tell from the photo, but this sword is huge!