At a New Flying Trilobite Dig Site

Day 1. Here we see a Flying Trilobite fossil still encased in the rocky matrix. Careful clearing of the mineral around it will be necessary using synthetic Filbert brushes and large amounts of Quinacradone Burnt Orange and Naples Yellow.

Delicate work ahead in what at least one deluded paleo artist is calling "THE FIND OF THE CENTURY-URY-URY-ury-ury....".

Hold on to your beehive hairdos and cravats - we will have more on this incredible discovery as it is forged.

Pew-Pew! The Flying Trilobite Army in Action

Last week I launched this new site + blog on my 40th birthday. Continuing in my celebrations/mid-life crisis, my amazing wife Michelle arranged for 18 of my friends & family to play laser tag. Little did I know all of them had been inducted into THE FLYING TRILOBITE ARMY.

Michelle had conspired with my excellent friend and fellow illustrator Chris Zenga to have the whole party outfitted in tees with my Flying Trilobite Army design, printed by Champion Print Studio! 

Thanks everyone for for all the dynamic poses. I'll be sure to use these in future paintings.

After strutting around Laser Quest like we owned the place and promising Marshal Huntress that we wouldn't swear (ok - we mumbled that part), we played three rounds of laser tag, the third in teams which was the BEST. 

After my stats-obsessed friend John had a look at my nephew C's scorecard, we realized that ratio of accurate shots mattered less than firing often. But we still couldn't top the teenagers' whopping 800+ beams per round. 

More pics from the day:  

Michelle completed the theme with camouflage cupcakes.

The Flying Trilobite Army in the airlock. Music was a nice blend of 90's electronica and dubstep so I felt like I was home.

Being photobombed by one of my nephews in the airlock. Damn I look bad ass. 

Finally brought together two of my best illustrator friends. From left to right,:Chris Zenga @chriszenga, Glendon Mellow @FlyingTrilobite, Eric Orchard @inkybat.

Michelle, my action hero.

I am so lucky to have such a great family and fantastic friends. Thanks to Jennifer, Derek, Emily, Grace, Jamie, Chris, Michele, Tim, John, Eric, Julie, Nora, David, Meghan and Eric for the laser beams and memories and special thanks to my wingman Christian. I never could have believed I would see the day with 18 people in a room wearing winged trilobite t-shirts. Utmost thanks and a pew-pew to Michelle for a perfect party, and for disobeying Laser Quest rules and kissing me under the black light and dubstep.

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If you'd like a Flying Trilobite Army tee, rocker shirt, hoodie or smartphone case of your very own, you can get them in my Redbubble store!

Welcome to the New glendonmellow.com

Welcome to my new website!  

Finally now you can find all of my artwork, Trilobite Boy, tattoo designs and The Flying Trilobite blog all in one place. The Flying Trilobite blog has been going for over 7 years on Google's Blogger platform, and for the first time, I have decided to continue my blog on an integrated site with my portfolio, here on Squarespace. At the moment I have the native commenting system enabled, though I may switch to Disqus. 

Why the change from the free Blogger to a subscription to Squarespace? It really came down to  revitalization. Today is my 40th birthday and now, as a father of 2 with a stable and cool job, I really want to make sure I recommit to my artwork. Too many projects the past few years have lingered. I'm feeling charged up and ready to advance my skill and portfolio. 

Explore, give me feedback, and let me know what you think about the art. Hopefully you'll find some that are new to you, and there are more coming - I think there are at least half a dozen you haven't seen yet, so make sure you join The Flying Trilobite Army and keep up with me via RSS. 

Blogging can be important: when I started blogging 7 years ago, I never imagined it would lead to giving talks about illustration & social media, blogging for Scientific American, promoting community with other sciartists, working for INVIVO and meeting so many people who help my work matter. 

In case glendonmellow.com has not propagated through the internet yet, you can get here by going to http://glendon-mellow.squarespace.com . 

Thanks to my friends for their opinions while this site was being built, including Eric, Nevin, Paul, Scicurious, Katie, Kalliopi and especially my wife Michelle and all of my art fans. 

Expect some more big projects to be announced here soon!