Tasty Jotunheim Frost Giants T-Shirt Design

I've recently made a T-Shirt design for the Marvel Villains contest over at WeLoveFine.com and it's up for rating until august 10th, so any votes I could get would be awesome!

Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is one of the judges!

https://www.welovefine.com/vote.php?id_contest=17&id_submit=5566

Last paintings for sale

I only have 3 paintings left for sale on ebay, the big sale in july helped a lot of older paintings to get new homes. I also have the large Avatar painting, which is not on ebay, but whoever is interested can email me.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DARTH-MAUL-STAR-WARS-PAINTING-ART-PHANTOM-MENACE-ELI-RUTTEN-/380379737001?pt=Art_Paintings&hash=item5890662ba9#ht_1030wt_1396

Contemporary Pinups preview

My preview for the upcoming set Contemporary Pinups of which I did 15 cards.

Working on new sketch card sets

Been kinda busy on a lot of different sketch card sets, probably the most I've ever done at the same time. New sets from Breygent, Galans Sketch Art Productions, Versicolor, ...

Hope to have them all ready soon so I can begin to show them.

Star Wars Galaxy 7 Returns available for sale!

Just a little image of the last time all of my Star Wars Galaxy 7 sketches were all together, now they're scattered all over the globe, mostly in the States I guess.

I have still 2 Return Sketch Cards available for sale: those are the Darth Maul and Endor Leia, you can find them on ebay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/380415308121?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649#ht_729wt_1396

http://www.ebay.com/itm/380415307920?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649#ht_729wt_1396

STAR WARS GALAXY 7 CARDS

Here are my cards for Topps' Star Wars Galaxy 7 series.

Most are done with acrylic paint, some with pencil due to shortage of time.

STAR WARS GALAXY 7 RETURNS

Here are my returns for Galaxy 7, all are painted with acrylics, I will add the rest of the cards in the next days.

Facebook Page Eli Rutten Art

I've created a public Facebook page for my Art: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Eli-Rutten-Art/255997777807325?sk=wall

STAR WARS GALAXY 7

First post of 2012, and first one in a while.

I've finished my cards for the Galaxy 7 cards not too long ago, in a few weeks I can post them once they've been approved. Second set I've done with acrylics on sketch cards, first Star Wars set in paint, I'm really happy how they turned out, it's not easy painting on little cards, the card stock soaks up the paint extremely fast, so I have to work extra fast when I want to work in the same layer.

But none the less, getting better with each card I paint, so that's good for future card sets.

Iron Man and Avatar

A couple of new large paintings. Acrylic on canvas.

F.A.C.T.S. 2011 GHENT, BELGIUM

Last weekend was F.A.C.T.S. 2011 in Ghent, Belgium. Our very own 'small' Comic Con. This was my second year going and first time having a table at the Artist Alley. I was selling my paintings and a couple of sketch cards. http://www.facts.be/

And as a bonus, there were some great guest actors, Kenny Baker, Jeremy Bulloch, Edward Furlong, Dirk Benedict and... Julian Glover and Tom Felton, two actors I thought, hey, why not make a painting and have it signed to own a unique keepsake, so I did.

Tom Felton said quote: "I've seen a lot of art and this one is fantastic! Absolutely great."

He signed it : "To Eli, Great Work Muggle!"

And of course Julian Glover, a real classic actor. He loved the painting and was pleasantly surprised. He signed it with: "To Eli, With Thanks and Admiration"

A lot of paintings added

Alright, here are my latest paintings I made over the last couple of months, I do have a very large Avatar and Iron Man that I need to take a photograph of, so I'll post that in the next couple of days.

Most of them are 8"x8" and 12"x12", some are larger up to 26". Enjoy.

The Number 23 and Sin City

A while back I was commissioned a bunch of large paintings, here are my two favorites:

Coco Moca Comic Con

Okay for my next post I would like to say was privileged to be part of the exhibit Coco Moca at San Diego Comic con this summer, the art had one theme: make it about Conan O'Brien's alter ego The Flaming C, so I did, I made a 16"x16" painting of how the flaming c would look like in real life.

I send over a print to the good people of Team Coco and they framed the print up lovely (I have that frame hanging in my workshop by the way).

As you can see they displayed it right above Conan's hand.

Marvel Dangerous Divas Commissions

This one I almost forgot to post, it's from the previous Marvel set, Dangerous Divas, I got 4 Artist Proofs, 2 of which I already commissioned, the other two I have started on, but don't seem to find time to finish them.