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Michael Bielaczyc has been making art his whole life, in various media and subjects.

He has been selling and showing work since 1995, when he self published a comic book written and illustrated by himself. Going back to college at 23, he decided that art was going to be his main focus in life.

In 2001, he started his own art company, Aradani Studios, which is owned by both him and his brother. Together they have shown and worked in shows across America selling both their artwork and costuming. Michael has worked for such popular roleplaying franchises such as Dragonlance and Castlemourn, but his real passion is in his personal work. He works in mediums from oil paint to latex prosthetics, video to graphite.

Artist's Statement:
How can I claim to make art about myth when it has been killed by us. We have found light in the darkness, and with it shut the door to true belief in the unbelievable.We are left only with personal mythologies, views which can only really be understood by our solitary self.

All that is left is to share my myths and hope it sparks a little bit of belief in something beyond ourselves.

Whats new at Aradani – 7.2.08

So Hypericon is over and man did we have a blast. Our room party was a big success with dancing all night long and no hot dogs this time (ask Camacho). We had a great turnout in the dealer’s room and I even sold quite a few of my dwarven dice bowl ceramic pieces. If you didn’t make it to Hypericon this year, be sure to put it on your schedule next year!

Also me and Laura won best in show in the Hypericon Masquarade for our entry – Assassin’s Creed – Altair.

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As for new products, our most anticipated project, our Giant Night elf style ear is getting close to complete. Each time we think we have it we run into a new little snag. That’s the great thing about sculpture, you never know what’s going to frak up .

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As for completed projects, we just got in and dyed the fabric to make Screen accurate BSG undershirts, so we have added the option to buy them in the dark brown/olive color instead of the black. We even got a collectors card with a piece of Starbucks fabric so we could make sure we matched fabric and color!

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Sweeney Todd vest and belt! We have added a Sweeney Todd style Victorian vest and barber belt to our custom costumes page. These are based on my award winning design (Best Duo Chattacon 2008) and can be made to any ones size.

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High Elf Ear Tips – And finally – New Ears! We have added a new style of elf ear, a high elf style to our website. These just went into production and will be in full swing production for Dragoncon (we can fulfill any order from the website in a reasonable timeframe). These would also make great dark elf ears!

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