Michael Shapcott
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  • January26th

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    PRISMA Artist CollectivePRISMA is a bad ass artist collective of 25 international creatives who have gathered to engage in active discussion and collaboration. PRISMA brings together artists of all ages and at all stages of their career – some established; others up-and-coming and just beginning to break through. It is the group’s ambition to encourage collaborations and friendship, and to make the collective a place to foster and inspire each other.

    The PRISMA Artist Collective is currently planning its first annual group show The Animal In Me in 2013, as well as two “warm-up” shows with a handful of select artists in 2012.

    I am honored and excited to be part of this group. All of the artists are incredibly talented, amazing (and just plain nice!) and it feels great to be in such good company. A special thanks goes to group founder Kaspian Shore for rounding us all up and working so hard to make things happen.

    Here’s a list of who’s in the club…

    (Hover over an image to see an artist’s name & click to be taken to their website)
    Rod LuffMary Jane AnsellHsiao-Ron Cheng
    Bec WinnelMichael ShapcottTom Bagshaw
    Sarah JoncasCasey WeldonKelly McKernan
    Ruben IrelandKaspian ShoreNom Kinnear King
    Kelly VivancoNicole GustafssonAlex Louisa
    Lindsey CarrAudrey PongraczAllison Sommers
    Daria HlazatovaLeontine GreenbergJen Mann
    Lady OrlandoLilly PiriKit Lane
    Caitlin Hackett

    The website just launched so be sure to check it out at www.prismacollective.com. There are artist profiles, interviews, a store to purchase work from your favorite artists, and much more. You can keep up-to-date by liking our Facebook page, following the Tumblr blog, or hitting up the Twitter account.

    ALSO – there are collabs in the works between me and fellow PRISMA artists that you are not going to want to miss. Seriously. More on that later.

  • November2nd

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    Happy belated Halloween everyone! This year’s festivities were pretty great… made witches finger cookies with my girl, went to a party dressed as a half man/half woman, painted my first scary Halloween painting and took part in a local group show called “Totally Terror” at Madison Art Cinemas. The show opened on the 28th and is up until the beginning of December. The theme is 80′s horror flicks and features frighteningly good art by my awesome artist friends including Heidi Alamanda, Osiris Orion, Matthew Fletcher, Chris Uminga, Dave Estes, Thomas Drew, Craig Medeiros, Rick Beaupre, Yosiell Lorenzo and more. The show was a lot of fun and brought back memories of all those “old” movies and the feelings that went along with them. My 80′s horror film was Steven King’s Pet Sematary so I decided to paint the zombie 2-year-old Gage and Church, the cat…

    Gage and Church the Undead (Pet Sematary) by Michael Shapcott

    Gage and Church: the Undead (Pet Sematary)
    18″ x 24″
    Graphite, Acrylic, and Oil on Canvas

    And, as I mentioned earlier, my fiancee Melissa and I tried our hand at Witches’ Finger Cookies and dressed up in some pretty hilarious homemade outfits. Thought it might be fun to share some pics:

    Our delicious peanut butter cookies…
    Witches Finger Cookies

    And our crazy costumes…
    Michael & Melissa_Halloween2010
    (Click on photos to enlarge)

    Muahahaha!! Happy Halloween!! :)