Free Comic Book Day Mural!

The Rust Belt Monsters could not have had more fun this weekend and Carol and John's Comic shop in Cleveland, Ohio.  Tasked with creating a mural depicting the Marvel universe in the 1970's, we dove in head first and never looked back.  A big thank you to John Dudas for bringing us into the fold and we really can't wait for next year.

Searching The Thesaurus For Pirate Treasure

For the past two years I've been drawing every damn day, and I didn't see too much improvement until I directly compared it to past work.  This piece is the same gag as something I did on our Ingenuity Mural in 2012.  It wasn't intentional as I didn't put that together during the conceptual sketches, I try not to repeat myself too much. Apparently my interests remain the same despite my skill level. 

I'll post the final once It's all shaded.  

Your Pal, 

Randy Crider 

Great Lakes Brewing Company's 25th Anniversary Block Party

This past Friday, the RBMC assembled outside of Cleveland's famous Great Lakes Brewing Company to create this GLBC themed action painting during the brewery's 25th anniversary block party celebration!

For eleven hours we slung, splattered, and sprayed the paint, pulverizing what was to start with, 12 feet of pristine white masonite, and had a (expletive deleted)  blast doing it!

If you weren't one of the hundreds of people to stop by and see us painting, never fear, now through the magic of the interwebs, you too can gorge your eyes on all this gooey art goodness!

Many thanks (and happy 25th birthday) to everyone at the GLBC for having us, it was awesome!

BAYarts 2013

The 2013 BAYarts Art & Music Festival was a few weeks back. There the Rust Belt Monster Collective painted this mural, with the help of our monster squad of interns: Grace Harms, Emily Neroni, and Nate Overlow.  Like our other murals, prints are on the way, and video of the event over at the main site soon! 

Monster Internship: Day 1

Our first ever collaboration with young artists got off to an amazing start this weekend.  The Rust Belt Monsters were joined by 3 students in the creation of a new mural.  Each artist added their own special flair to the mural which will be completed June 15th at Bay Arts's Annual Art and Music Festival.  Scroll down for more photos.

Ingenuity Fest '12 Live Draw Montage

While the Rust Belt Monsters would love for people to sit and watch us paint for 15 hours straight, we understand that bathroom breaks and general cramping make it prohibitive.  Luckily, Ron Caruso was nice enough to produce a nice little 4 minute montage of the Monsters creating their mural for Ingenuity Fest 2012.  Please sit back and enjoy our labor of love served up to you in a delightful 4 minute chunk.

Also, be sure to stop by blip.tv for Ron Caruso's show "The Other Section": Watch as Ron subjects himself to some of the most obscure pieces of cinema known to man.

Link: The Other Section

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Ingenuity Fest Cleveland 2012 Live Draw

Now that the Monsters are starting to get feeling back in their collective drawing hand, we can show off what 14 hours over 2 days can accomplish.  The entire mural was a completely organic process with each of us constantly feeding off of the artist next to us.  The time was spent laughing, joking, and learning as the 6 of us banded together to create what is surely our best mural yet.  Check out the photos below for some close up shots of the piece as well as some tired monsters.

Scene Magazine Boxes!

Seeing as how our boxes are being prominently displayed outside of Ingenuity Fest, now would probably be a good time to reveal the work we did for Scene Magazine.  To promote the upcoming art fest, the Rust Belt Monsters spent roughly 10 hours painting a mural across 16 boxes which were later spread across Cleveland.  It was a great honor to be included in the promotion of Cleveland's Ingenuity Fest and we could not be more excited for our live draw at the event.  Scroll down to see better pictures of each project as well as some WIP shots.  We hope to see you this weekend!

BAYarts Live Draw!

Last Saturday, a (rustbelt) collective of (art) monsters descended on a sleepy little art festival at BAYarts, and for the next 7 hours preceded to lay waste to 12 feet of pristine white canvas (masonite)! 

Now dear reader, from the relative safety of your computer monitor, feast your eyes on the awesome arty mayhem that ensued!

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