Duckenstein Goes Ice Skating at Night...

Band Logo for "The Texas Diablos"

Here's another one of the fun projects I've finished recently, a logo design for the band "The Texas Diablos". Now you're job is to get out there and make them a huge success, so that I can see this thing blown up on the side of their tour bus, and hanging behind them at major concerts, and on all the usual rock-n-roll bric-a-brac! They're starting out local here in Texas, so you'll have to check out info on their myspace page for now. But, with such a spiffy-keen (spiffy-keeno?) new logo, they have to be on their way to the top!

Here's the cover art I did for the second collection of short stories my writer pal Rhonda Eudaly has put together. She has eight short pieces in this collection, and gave me the choice of which one to use for the cover. Hands down there was no way I was going to pass up a tale about a planet of dinosaurs that had evolved linto Elvis imitators. And now you have the answer to the questions that were running through your head as soon as you saw the above image.


I also felt this would make a nice follow-up / companion to the piece I did for her first collection, shown below. You can go to Rhonda's website and pickup on these if you like. Just let her know that, while you are an appreicator of the written word, it's those funky Foster covers that got you in the door!

Artfest at CityArts

I exhibited my work at Artsfest this past weekend, as part of the annual CityArts celebration in Dallas. All the events are spread around Fair Park, the big fairgrounds area south of downtown that is home of the Cotton Bowl, and the big State Fair of Texas every fall. What I thought was particularly cool was the art portion of the show stretched the 150 or so artist's tents along one side of the pathway that goes around the big man-made lagoon there, which has two wonderfully bizarre massive earth-art sculpture pieces. To quote from the Fair Park site:

"Federal WPA (Work Progress Administration) funds constructed The Leonhardt Lagoon in 1936 at the site of the Texas Centennial Exposition. The site takes its name from philanthropist Dorothea Leonhardt. In the 1980s, workers drained the lagoon, cleaned out excess vegetation, and introduced native Texas plants to restore the lagoon’s ecological balance.

In 1986, artist Pat Johanson fashioned two serpentine sculptures for the lagoon. Made of gunite and steel, the sculptures resemble large plant forms that entwine at the center of the lagoon to create a bridge visitors can traverse."

(Yes, the word there was "gunite". It's a dry mixture of cement and aggregate that is combined with water at the nozzle of a spray gun. blasted out at high pressure. It is the perfect medium for sculpting artificial rock because it does not sag or slump like concrete. )

I just thought it was way too cool to walk around, on, and over those undulating curves which seemed to float on, and rise above, the waters of the lagoon. With their odd pinkish color, it was like strolling along the tongue of some bizarre sea monster that had passed out just below the surface. Or, is that just how I see it?

Argent Park Shrub with Golden Fruit

Moon Dog