ART, Movies, TV, Music...typical I know...watching sports..GO CUBS!! someday...maybe..it could happen. Playing softball. Going to Basketball games, men and women...Talking shop with fellow artists. Having a great time with friends and loved ones..chatting on the computer when I should be working.
Music
Anything from the 70's..Earth, Wind and Fire to Charlie Daniels Band...Bee Gees to Kiss.. I mean ANYTHING..80's, new wave, british invasion, punk,pop you know..the stuff that made MTV so good) up to 1985 then it gets kinda..."I wanna dance with somebodyish"..Cyndi Lauper, Go Go's, The Who, Blondie, Elton John,Techno Music that makes you dance your ass off untill 4 AM. Robbie Williams; the Killers; Franz Ferdinand; 5,6,7,8's; Daft Punk;
Movies
hmm..lemme think..um..Star Wars, Blade Runner, JAWS, Bond movies, Bourne movies, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Ferris Buller, Weird Science, Lord of the Rings, John Waters Films, Tommy, Spinal Tap, Best in Show, Amelie, Poltergiest, Tron, Close Encounters of the Third Kind; American Werewolf in London, Baseball movies(Bull Durham, League of Their Own,Bad News Bears,ect), Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Life Aquatic, Almost Famous, Kill Bill 1 and 2, The Exorsist 1 and 3, The Goonies, A Christmas Story, Akira, Princess Mononokee, Casshern, Sin City, Batman Begins, Spider-man, Superman, II, Returns, Fire and Ice(Bakshi), Yellow Submarine, Silence of the Lambs, The Omen, Planet of the Apes series, Run Lola Run, Flash Gordon, Indiana Jones series, Sean of the Dead, The Quest for the Holy Grail and the Meaning of Life and anything else Python, Anchorman, Meatballs, AIRPLANE!!, RENT, Moulin Rouge, Bound, Hedwig and the Angry Inch Grease and Grease II (sue me)Victor/Victoria(!!),Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (wanna make something of it?), Xanadu..ok.. I think you may have an idea.
TNT-They know drama.Law and Order, any version; Without a Trace; CSI; CSI:Miami(gotta love Caruso one-liners) Saturday Night Live; Family Guy; Futurama; Daily Show; Weeds; the L-Word(duh);Dexter; Heroes; Cubs games...I can't help myself; sports in general; oh and I have an amazing addiction to BRAVO(can you say Workout..*sigh), TLC(oh Stacie London, please tell me What Not To Wear), and BBC America(There has to be Cash in my Attic somewhere),Boomerang(bringing Saturday Morning back everyday!), VH1 Classic..love it but it makes me feel old.
Books
Oh I wish I had the time to read more often, but when I do it is a nice forensic mystery.. Cornwell mostly. Stephen King, Anaïs Nin, some comics here and there.
Heroes
My Mom and Billie Jean King. Art wise.. Michelalngelo, Caravaggio, Da Vinci, Mary Cassatt, Tamara De Lempicka, Norman Rockwell, Georgia O' Keefe, Frank Frazetta, Ralph Bakshi, Chuck Jones, Charles Schultz, Hanna/Barbara, Drew Struzan.
Graduating in 1994 with a Bachelors degree in Fine Art from the University of Texas, San Antonio, Cats specialty was in portraits. She put these skills to the test in late 2004 illustrating over 130 cards for the Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith project. Staggs says she loves the fact that all fans have a chance to be mini-art collectors thanks to Topps. Many fans that collect the Topps Artist Sketch Cards may recognize Staggs' uniquely realistic style from her portraits of such characters as Darth Vader, General Grievous, Chewbacca, Yoda and her favorite Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi.
The highly-collectible artist sketch cards brought Staggs into the Star Wars fan forefront and she quickly took on other projects including a Celebration III Convention exclusive print, drawing tutorials, and Halloween masks for the kids section of starwars.com.
Last fall, Topps returned with another sketch card project, this too for a large franchise, The Lord of the Rings:Evolution. This time, Cat completed over 500 mini masterpieces, each one as unique as the last. She also ventured out into color with a good portion of the total in full color. She was pleased to join the other forty-eight artists involved in one of the best selling sets, having sold out of the hobby edition in its first week.
Spring 2006, Cat again was asked to work on another sketch card project for Breygent. This set would be for the classic Wizard of Oz. She completed 250 cards, including 50 full-color, large format cards. While working on this project, another came to her desk: X-Men: The Last Stand for Rittenhouse(page 1 and 2). Cat completed 300 cards. Both sets released in the summer of 2006.
In between card projects, Cat has also worked on cover work, including two covers for Mortal World entertainment as well as a collector's edition program cover for the Dallas Comic Con featuring Karen Allen.
The end of 2006 included sketch card projects featuring 200 5" x 7" cards for the Complete Marvel Avengers, 231 cards forThe Lord Of the Rings Masterpieces and 300 cards for Universal Monsters: Frankenstein.
Upcoming projects include Hellboy: Sword of Storms sketch card set another exclusive print for Lucas Film and Celebration IV as well as a project for DC Comics and various other sketch card sets.
Lord of the Rings Masterpieces will be updated regularly until the cards release in October 2006
The 2006 Sketchbook "Can I borrow your underpants for ten minutes?" is available through airbrushcat.com web store
Who I'd like to meet: Friends and Relations..oh and people who just want to quote movies ad nauseum
I hope your birthday was great ... and for today... Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!! Wear your green and have some fun ... (Spilled Green Beer does NOT count as something green) .... or does it ....
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