December 26th, 2009 admin
Here I found myself today standing in the park.
It’s funny the 3 coasters I painted about 3 years ago and they were originally intended to hang as christmas tree ornaments. I removed the hooks and shipped them off to Spain to be a part of this ongoing exhibition. Poke around you’ll see some quality work from artists all over globe, very creative. This was a great project, and there are a lot more coasters in this project than what’s listed on the site. Actually I’m curious to know how many have been collected over the years.
James MARR is a great guy to work with, respectful and friendly. I encourage any artist w/ the least bit of interest in participating in a quality international collaborative albeit low brow exhibition to run to your nearest bar and start collecting coasters while downing a pint or two.
When the project began I recall seeing photographs online of all these coasters plastered on the walls throughout a Pub and I wish I could locate it but some reason they’ve pulled it off line.


I’ve recently started in on another bar napkin doodle series.
More to come.
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Tags: Chad Mount, creatures, tribalbot

Bears hard at work.

best use for my new scanner yet!!!
This has been sitting around for months and while cleaning today rediscovered it.
I think I remember cracking this in the panda express on a a lunch break w/ JP. We were scarfing down yumm yumms before back to opening doors.


I was approached by SPIN to illustrate this piece for an album review of, non other than our home town favorites “The Flaming Lips” (small world) for SPIN’s Oct. Issue which hit stands this week.
I just picked up my copies tonight!!
Looking forward to more editorial commissions like this, it was a lot fun!
Tags: Chad Mount, Flaming Lips, illustration, SPIN Magazine, tribalbot



I was part of an interactive painting activity on the 12th called September Fest held every year in OKC at the Governor’s mansion. The kids came in waves, one minute I was alone then a wave of eager painters rolled up. I think it was educational for all involved myself included and it was definitely creative.
It’s always neat to see children run off inspired. I also found it an extremely interesting time to watch parents, parent in all the different ways one can do so. From really helping their child to relax pick up a brush and just express themselves to the parents who obliviously shut their kids down by barking too many limiting rules or ideas at them. This observation of watching a few children shut down and not paint at all, due to comments made by the parent then followed by the parent stating something along the lines of “but little Suzy don’t you want to paint?” directly affected how I went about mentoring the rest of the day.
I didn’t anticipate this opportunity of societal observation when taking the job, but it was a nice bonus as far as I’m concerned.
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