A Thank You Comic!
Posted on September 6, 2010
What’s exciting about having so many artistic friends is that we are typically very artistic in helping each other out. For example, a great friend, Kelly Gannon did some tremendous things for me when he invited me to Canada for a week.
We recorded music, thanks to his brother’s recording studio. He introduced me to a TON of other creative artists from Canada. And we drew. Boy did we draw!
And when I returned home, I wanted to find a way to say thanks and remind him of all the great times he helped to arrange. So what better way to thank an artist than with art! This is a print I made for him and sent. Some are very inside jokes, so if you’re left wondering… just know there’s a Canadian up there who gets it!
Thanks again, Kelly!
Junior Idol 2 Singing Competition!
Posted on January 12, 2010
Our local mall is having their 2nd Junior Idol show, starting in February. Last year we had 66 kids try out for the first night that we had each sing their song for 2 minutes. This year, we may extend into another try-out night, if we receive a large turn out again.
Once again, Scott and I are booked for this special event. He is our great MC and I am judge, along with creating the poster designs and more.
I wanted to create a design (digital) that will catch the attention of mall shoppers. 
Here are the dates of the shows, but they could change, due to weather.
Feb 2, Feb 9, Feb 16, Feb 23, winner announced Mar 1st
6pm, center court at the Frackville Mall
NEW! Plexy Glass Cartoon Designs!
Posted on November 13, 2009
Lately, I created 2 designs and I’m working on a 3rd design of my idea for my plexy glass/cell cartoon designs.
Have you ever run into a person that is hard to buy a gift for Christmas, retirement, birthday or other?
THIS is THAT PERFECT GIFT for THAT person who has everything!
This type of design takes a little bit longer than creating a caricature image and involves more materials and art media.
As you can see below in the photos, the person is first created into my fun, award winning cartoon style, then the background theme is created for the theme and printed onto canvas, the top layer of the person is printed and painted carefully on plexy glass and/or mylar. All images are carefully aligned, and matted separately into a frame.
Pat Harringto has pink skin and he is an artist who draws very loose with scribbly lines. I kept my design pink with crazy designs and set my opacity low to make it lense dense so his front image can pop out.
The image of Obama is 3 layers, the backdrop with newpaper articles made into a colleague image, along with white house (for his teeth). Obama was painted on mylar and Obama’s teleprompter was painted faintly on the front glass and aligned and framed.
Please contact me, if interested in this unique creation at ajtoons@gmail.com or call my studio at (215) 948-ARTS (2787) for information and price.
Featuring my October Favorite Facebook Fan!
Posted on October 17, 2009
David Pepka was the winner of my October drawing give-away on my Facebook Fanpage.
David is a professional magician, loves comics, the Simpsons and he is always upbeat and laughing when you are around him.
I created a fun colorful comic style image to fit the character of David. He LOVED it!
Thanks David!
