We will be selling at Launch this year on Saturday, July 23!
Sorry for the short notice, but better late than never. Last year we had some success there, and it was fun too. There will be an art bazaar and a lot of bands will play. If you are interested in the event check out this website:
http://5432launch.wordpress.com/
Also, I posted a new page to my blog featuring ridiculous cute pets flying through horribly photoshopped geocities reminiscent landscapes — just for fun. Now go check it out!
This sculpture was made with paper-mâché, chicken feathers, acrylic paint, hot glue, glass doll eyes, and painted plastic googly-eyes for the wart texture. I actually glued every feather onto this thing one at a time — I am still impressed with myself for that.
I would like to eventually post more pictures, but the sculpture is a bit dusty now, and my camera is malfunctioning. Above is a nice photo taken at the unveiling exhibition of the chicken-frog back in 2005.
This work was originally envisioned by a video artist friend of mine who gave me permission to use his idea. Sometimes collaboration is the secret ingredient for that delicious artistic treat.
When I made this painting, I was just a few months away from graduation. I was more than a little worried to take that next step in life, as you can see!
Unfortunately, this painting is in horrible condition now. The paint is chipping, the canvas is warped, and somebody spilled some paint solvent on its edges. Ah well, at least we have some photos to remember it by.
I thought I'd take a break from the art and share another interest of mine: orchids.
So, I'm a total amateur at growing orchids, but I have a few plants that are willing to work with me and my space. One such plant is my Mystacidium Capense. From what I can remember, this plant is native to South Africa, and is often found growing on citrus trees. It is pollinated at night by moths with long curly noses, hence the long spurs growing off the backs of the flowers.
The flowers are pretty cool. Each is roughly 3/4" wide with a 2" spur hanging off the back. They take a long time to develop (a few months), and then all pop open at once.
They have an incredibly strong floral-coconut fragrance at night.
This is a real product that we received as a gag gift last year.
There's a market for just about every crazy idea out there —
now go out and sell yours!
The idea for this painting was not my own, but I received permission and went ahead with it. To have been completely true to the original idea, the skeletons would've had to be playing poker in an obvious underground setting. It could still happen one day — I would like to get it right.
A nice lady offered a fair price to buy this back in 2006, but I decided to hang onto it. I'm so glad I did!
We have a show!
Also, two of my artworks were recently published in the Suisun Valley Review: "Bat Forest," and "Mad Scientist." Never heard of this publication? Stop by their page sometime and take a look. Great stuff!
http://suisunvalleyreview.blogspot.com/
