Firstly, I have moved my blogging experience over to Tumblr: http://thisisnigel.tumblr.com
Follow me over there won't you?
Also, I have an inspiration blog at http://nigelsanders.tumblr.com
It's fun, you'll like it.
Also, new website finished! Head on over to Http://www.NothingRhymesWithNigel.com and it should be live.
Gracias, Nigel.
Will try to post more consistently, be it inspiration or work (hopefully work).
Finished this last night, tried to stay loose:
Still here, here's what I've been up to in the last couple months;
built a screenprinting lab: 
first print, for the girlfriend, who saw the Hepburn canvases at Ikea and wanted one, this is better. Still working on the timing, but it's pretty much fully functional.
and finally finished off a painting, this one was a commission, pretty happy with it, mostly. There were some parts that really stumped me in terms of how to make it work, and totally would have benefitted with being in school and getting that teaching, but got through as I'm gonna have to. This will probably be the last all the way super-rendered painting for awhile, got some tricks up my sleeves ready for takeoff.
So I know I've been slack on posting here, but it's not for a lack on being busy, just it's been busy doing other things than artwork, unfortunately. Between a dayjob for most of the summer, moving into a new house, a new puppy, doing some fixes on my old house, working on some big things for the future, and some general laziness, my general output has diminished. But now things have calmed down, I should have a silkscreening lab built very soon, and maybe some big announcements about upcoming projects.
For now though, I busted out a entry for Shout Factory's Small Wonder fan art contest, mostly cause a friend put me up to it, but also because the winning artwork goes on the box, which would be cool. So here's mine (though I'm not exactly thrilled with it, felt good to be back in it though), an homage to the Metropolis poster, I need to work on getting my outlines back into the final:
So this would be my mock-up for a print that may or may not ever happen. It's based on the book Dirty Havana Trilogy" by Pedro Juan Gutierrez and was intended for a friend's show, and even though I am working as a Printmaker, for reasons within my control but out my grasp I didn't think I would be able to produce it on time, or in the foreseeable future given my current home setup...or maybe not. I go in today to find that it may be possible. But this will probably be my last print for awhile, at least til some other factors are resolved.
In other art-making news, work and friends and obligations and situation changes have kept me on the sideline, but I've got a painting in progress and lots, nay many more than a lot gestating ideas. all in due time as they say. I'll be back when the skies clear.
RIP MiJac.
Whatever your personal feelings on the man (and believe me I could say a few) He was an icon, a hell of an entertainer, and had a 20 year stretch when he couldn't be messed with in the music biz.
From "Liner Notes", my series of musician portraits which can be seen here
American Illustration 28 comes out in November, but they've already selected the images for the book and the web gallery, and Otis got it's representation in.
There's some 1,000 images available to preview (out of over 8 thousand submitted), so I didn't go through them all, but I paged through the thumbnails to see if I could recognize anyone and while I'm not sure if any Otis alums made the book, the web gallery did.
Recent grads Julian Callos, Jessica Cooper, Mylan Nguyen, and Nigel Sanders (hey that's me), along with sometime ago grad Calef Brown all got in on the web gallery side.
you can view all the images in the two galleries here: http://www.ai-ap.com/cfe/AIss/
also big up to Nathan, Bob, Daniel, JT and of course Jim for getting so many students in.
