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Texas Chainsaw Astronaut!
02/25/10
Did a wild and crazy general submission on Threadless for this round:
Rocky Mountain Globe Trotters
02/15/10
Submission to the "One Day Without" contest on Threadless:
Submission for Valentines Day up for scoring: Commando Cupid
02/09/10
A little submission for Valentines Day is up for scoring, my first 100% Vector Work submission
Threadless Loves 2K10 Sub #3:
Night Class
01/28/10
Completed my Threadless Loves 2K10 trifecta!!! Sub #3 is up: Night Class. The Owl loves teaching his classes, but they are SOOOOO late!!!
See a larger view here (there's lots of details on this one).
Threadless Loves 2K10 Sub #2: Awesome Hat Club
01/20/10
SECOND submission for the new year! Up for scoring. Threadless Loves 2K10 sub #2! The Awesome Hat Club. Frank's Hat isn't awesome enough (sorry frank).
Threadless Loves 2K10: Bad Hair Day
01/09/10
First submission for the new year! Up for scoring. Threadless Loves 2K10! This totally happened to me one time. PS, I altered the fleshtone a touch for my portfolio, if you notice the difference.
Vote for me HERE!
Threadless Loves Throwback: Trucker Hats, Sock Monkeys and Red Wagons
12/04/09
A throwback to the days when Trucker Hats, sock monkeys, and red wagons ruled my world. Check my submission to Threadless Loves Throwback!
Vote for me HERE!
Blog Feature
12/03/09
Kelly Egger, a friend of mine from my NIU MFA days, was kind enough to feature me in her blog titled "Mixed Media Obssions"
See a post about my attempts to get printed at Threadless
See post #2 about some of my fine art work
Threadless Loves Throwback: Big Wheelers
11/25/09
Remember riding your big wheel as a kid? The crackle of gravel under those plastic tires? Well I do, and nothing compares with it in my opnion. Check my submission to Threadless Loves Throwback!
Vote for me HERE!
Demons demons demons
11/18/09
First submission to Design By Humans. Apparently it resembles Abe Lincoln, to me it was more Vincent Price, in any case hopefully you can get past that and dig on my design
Vote for me HERE!
Time Flies
11/17/09
Like literally. Be sure to vote for my most recent Threadless Submission
Score me HERE!
Love and Snowballs
11/10/09
Another Threadless Submission, be sure to vote for me
Score me HERE!
Lumbermancer
11/10/09
This Friday the 13th (11/13/09), come grab yourself a "Lumbermancer" tee I designed for Artpentry, 1827 S Halsted, Chicago, IL
Sizes S-XL available $15, only 12 available so be sure to contact me if you want one!
Love some Geeks
10/07/09
My submission "protect your harddrive" has two days left of scoring, sign in and give me a $5!
Vote here!
Beard of Birds still for sale
09/04/09
Shirts of my "Beard of Birds" shirts still available at Artpentry,
Chicago, IL. Drop Floyd a line and tell him which size you'd like. Men's sizes
XL, L, and M for sale, Women's sizes available upon request.
Crowberus up for scoring!
09/04/09
Threadless Loves Horror part DEUCE. This is my submission to the contest called "Crowberus". Do me a favor and vote!
See me online
06/18/09
This is a project I completed a while ago, nonetheless, I discovered the
work on the Glenview Park District Website. See the Flick Pool online
here. Then check out the Roosevelt Pool here. See details of these works
and larger versions here.
TEE section added
06/15/09
I added a section with all my recent tee-shirt designs. Check it out here.
GCWF Site Refresh
06/12/09
My GCWF (the comic strip I used to draw) got a much needed facelift. Check it out here.
Do you love ZOMBIES?
05/28/09
If so, go vote for my current Threadless! tee, now up for scoring. Give
me a $5 HERE.
Powerpoint Samples UP
05/16/09
Five is a magic number: Five powerpoint samples that are five slides each. Check em out here.
Vote for my Illinoisjevich Tee!
05/9/09
I submitted my FIRST tee design to threadless.com and it's finally up for voting!
Create an account, and give my tee a $5 and say that you want to buy it!
It'll help me out a ton!!!
Color a Potbelly
03/11/09
So I go to Potbelly's website (the awesome sandwich place) and low and behold the activity sheets I illustrated are up
for downloaad! Check
em out! Color em in!
Fine Art Mini-site is up and running!
02/25/09
All of my Fine Art, all in one spot. My
fine art portfolio site is now live! I have full views of all my work, and links to my print store if
you like what you see you can pick up a copy. Also, I listed suggested
prices if you want to own the real deal. There are still works up in
the fine art section of my portfolio, but if you want to see all my paintings,
drawings, and digital fine arts, you'll have to visit
here.
Site Redesign
01/26/09
A new year, and a new portfolio! Be sure to browse the site as a whole
to find new work and old.
I updated my Illustration section and featured some new vector works, as well as a section called "rendered" that has illustration that is a combo of traditional hand-drawn work and digital media.
My web section also has new works, and lots of new web pages to look at.
So be sure to browse around!
Thursday Treat, just in time for Fall!
10/02/08
It's baaaaaack. Yup, the good ol' Thursday Treat has returned with new weekly installments. The inaugural comic is about NIU's mascot, Victor E. Huskie. Who is the man behind the mask? Learn all about it here.
Gone Clean, Wholesome Fun
10/01/08
I made a little comic when I was attending NIU called "Gone Clean, Wholesome Fun" that appeared in the pages of the Northern Star. Then two years after I graduated with my Masters Degree in Fine Art I made a website archiving all of those cartoons. Check them out here. Start at the Fall 2004 semester to get the full story. Or get to your favorites by category. Tell your friends!
Franktrankina.com
09/29/08
I'm pleased to announce that Franktrankina.com is up and live! I created this site for my professor who was my advisor during my time at NIU in pursuit of my Masters Degree. He designed it, I coded it and put it together. Check it out!
All that howl
08/19/08
This has been up for a while, but check out some unflattering cartoons I did of some certain politicians and their campaign eating habits on the blog All that Howl. I did four toons. Here's 1, Here's 2, Here's 3, and of course, Here's 4. Check em out.
Photos
06/01/08
Check out more photos from the Bowler Hat Party here.
Bowler Hat Party
04/25/08
I displayed work at En-Vent Gallery in Chicago as a part of Factio Magazine's Artropolis Post Party. Check out the article here. Check out an addtional article (with more event photos) here.
A tribute to those at NIU 02.14.08
02/17/08
As a two-time alumnus of Northern Illinois University the recent shootings that occured on 02.14.08 deeply shook and disturbed me. To address this, for my part, I made a small design piece in tribute to the wounded, witness, and the fallen victims of this horrific tragedy. View it here.
Decomp
02/02/08
My piece "The Villain" is featured in the February edition of Decomp, an online literary magazine. Be sure to check it out!
Re-Introducing the Thursday Treat
01/05/08
Like people need to breathe, I need to do cartoons. So I'm creating the Thursday Treat once again, now appearing as a weekly web comic. Check it out here. Tell your friends.
Heading to the Orange Alert
01/05/08
The editor of the web-blog "What to wear during an orange alert", Jason Behrends, hit me up to re-design the header for his blog, check it out here. I should be up for the next couple of months so be sure to check it out, and read his excellent art blog. I designed a few other headers, see the ones he didn't pick, click here.
Gone Clean Wholesome Fun
01/01/08
I created a little comic a while ago called Gone Clean Wholesome fun. I've accrued some ideas for the 2008 year and will be hitting it once again and busting out comics on a weekly basis. Here's to that and here's to hoping I get syndicated! Check out the teaser site here.
Merry Xmas!
12/24/07
Merry Xmas! I've compiled all of my Christmas and Holiday related works in this little mini-site: www.nickvolkert.com/xmas. This site is best viewed in pretty much any browser other than Internet Explorer.
New work
11/10/07
New works posted. Check out "Alone with the Sea", "The Villain", "The Color of Passion", and "Running with the Devil",
A small show...
11/04/07
I have a small gallery opening at the House Cafe on November 14th. Featuring some new work, some old work, me, and maybe you.
On the Orange Alert...
10/17/07
I'm featured in the "artist of the week" section of this week's "What to wear during an orange alert" an art and music blog. In my interview I mention Karen Jacobs as an influence in my career as a painter, she mentions me in her blog, how cool is that?
Deamon Tweak...
08/20/07
Here's a cd insert/comic I created some illustrations for. My friend Rich Pulfer wrote the script. It's seven pages of sequential joy (plus the sketches n' stuff). ROCK IT OUT.
Website pages that are really popular...
07/25/07
Check out some pages I did for Banco Popular's gift card and credit cards on their website:
• Banco's credit card intro page.
• The Classic Card and the FAQ page.
• The Platinum Card.
Also check out the Gift card pages, the intro, and learn more page.
Two new paintings...
06/23/07
Check out Dusk and Split.
Yet another weblisting for yours truly...
06/02/07
Check my Design Firm Listing! You want me to do some work for you. You do. C'mon. C'mon...
They Love Dreams...
06/01/07
I'm Currently Working on site at Banco Popular as a Web Production Artists. Check out what I'm working on here.
The last art show(for college)...
Northern Illinois University
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
"Proximity"
ARC Gallery
May 2nd - May 26th
Opening Reception: Friday, May 4th from 6-9 PM
Gallery Hours: Wed - Sat 12-6, Sun 12-4, and by appointment.
For more information click here.
