Jack Bauer Interrogates Santa Claus

Well it's that time of the year again. And we just love this video! Hilarious! This is a battle of wits fit for the ages! Jack Bauer vs Santa Claus!

Sequential Imaging and First Postings of Art Work

Well, I (me, McLean) have officially been accepted into Broadview University in their Bachelor of Fine Arts in the Sequential Imaging degree. Now you may be asking yourself, "what the crap is sequential imaging?" Sequential imaging is the ability to tell a story with pictures. So, I will be learning to do illustrations for books, storyboards for movies, character/vehicle/background design for movies and video games, and learn how to write, pencil, ink, color and layout comic books and graphic novels. And that's just a few things. It will definitely make me a better artist and get into a field I love. Mary also thinks I should start to show off a little bit. I normally don't show off my work too often. Mainly because I never think it's good enough to show. But, Mary thinks I should start since my art will be seen more. So, I'll just start with a few right now and more will soon follow.


This first one is a self portrait. This one was long and grueling, because it is made up of small squares that each have a different shade of gray in them. So up close it just looks like distorted shades of gray, but when you stand back you see the image. Distorted Me.














This one is a drawing of my beautiful wife Mary on our wedding day. I love the original picture that was taken by Luke Hansen. I just had to try and draw it. When I scanned it however, it doesn't really show the full value level because it's a little light. I did the best I could to make it stand out more just so you could see the title of it, Love.













I wanted to do something for Halloween, so I drew a zombie in a graveyard. After I penciled it something was still missing. I then decided to ink it. I've only done inking a few times before and I'm starting to really enjoy it.

















This last one it was not suppose to look like this. It started out as a picture of a young woman and I'm not sure what happened next. Maybe I saw a story about how more women are going under the knife to acheve beauty. Maybe I had just watched Terminator 2 and was inspired by the moving, hefty thumbs up as the terminator is destroyed. Maybe I dug deep into that creepy part of my imagination. Maybe it was a combination of all three. In the end it turned out like this. An Artificial Beauty.

Halloween 2010

So, another Halloween has come and gone. Mary and I had a lot of fun at the Harman Great Pumpkin Carving Contest on 10/30. We had good fun with family, sparklers, pizza, pumpkins and the destroying of one said pumpkin. Mary didn't care how hers turned out so her brother Matt threw it into the field in the back of his house. It took two attempts, but he got it in the field.

(Last years pumpkin by Mary -Iron Man)

(McLean's pumpkin this year)

Also that same day I helped my Mom set up her garage for her trick or treaters to come through. Every year my parents set up there yard or garage in some sort of theme. We've done everything from pirates, to dead hunters, to zombie auto mechanics, to killer farmers. This year we did a spooky restaurant called, The Full Moon Cafe. Later that evening the boys, Spencer and Ross, go on their traditional Trick or Treating garb and went around the block. I'm sure they startled some folks by how scary they looked.

ARCHES!!!

The time has come and past, where the Harman family goes to the Arches National Park. The road was long, yet the scenery, once you get into southern Utah, was nice. But, when you get into Arches, you are met with awe inspiring landscapes that are both eerie and beautiful at the same time. It's like an alien world! And with my imagination, it was an alien world... Either that or I was in the wild west... I did play with some toy dinosaurs with our little niece Sophi. But, it was all about her entertainment, I swear! Anyway we did a bunch of hiking to various arches. I even went on my own walkabout in the wilderness. When I got back to camp Mary was a little mad and worried. I did apologized very quickly after seeing her. Mary and I did go to Skyline Arch and looked down on the rock that I proposed to her on and watched the sun set from there too. At the end of the trip when we packing up our tent, we came to find that we had been sleeping on a little lizard. Thinking it dead, we carried on with packing up. Then it moved... not very well, but it moved. With a limp. We had maimed a poor little lizard in our sleep. Now it's going to be easy meal for some predator. But, that is the cirle of life. As we drove away we thought that it's only 364 days till the next trip back to arches.


Delicate Arch

In Skyline Arch and nervous. Very nervous.

"There can only be one true king of the dinosaurs!"

So excited!

Farting Arch-The most mysterious arch of all the arches

Goodbye, Farewell and Amen

So, today 10/09/2010, is my last day working for Eyemasters. It seems that my time there has flown by so fast. I have worked there for just under 7 years. I made some good friends, allies, memories, some I would like to keep and others I would like to forget. And of course I met my beautiful wife, Mary, while working at Eyemasters. That's the best thing that Eyemasters had given me. And perhaps why I stayed so long. But, now it is time for a change. A time for something new. Abyssinia Eyemasters!