The Bird

Finished! Come to see this and 6 other new pieces at the C.A.V.E. Gallery in Venice. (Opening October 2nd from 7pm-11pm)

http://www.cavegallery.net/

Coisas Esquisitas: Show opening Oct. 2nd

Thank you to everyone who sent me emails and messages to let me know when I was featured on alternate sites, and a very VERY special thank you to those responsible!


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If you are in the Los Angeles area, come out and see my new work in the show "Coisas Esquisitas" at the C.A.V.E. Gallery October 2nd! Also featured: Danni Shinya Luo, Kendra Binney, Tatiana Suarez, Tina Darling.

Society 6

Click here to see my new profile on Society 6!

Also, here is an old design I redrew to silkscreen on a shirt. Recently I've been really wanting make all my own shirts... I just need to find a good place to emulsify, burn, and clean my screens since I no longer have open access to the lab at OTIS.

Suggestions?

Color study

A quick digital color study... I take photos with color schemes I like and pixelate them so I can select color swatches to refer to later.

Success!

Round two of transferring and mounting "The Bird" went perfectly. Photos of the progress to come soon.

P.S. I want you all to know the exciting news... I'm getting married! To Matte Medium! We're in love.

Note to self... stop fucking up.

Fuck. I've made this mistake before and I don't want to make it again. When mounting paper onto museum board or wood, there IS NO REPLACEMENT for matte medium.

I was almost out of matte medium so I used a mix of matte medium and clear gesso instead. F-. Two days of transferring down the drain. The problem with clear gesso is that it's grainy texture just doesn't cement paper to other substrates the way matte medium does, leaving large bubbles that appear when the front of the paper gets wet.

Learn from my mistake. Clear gesso is fine for the front, but only matte medium does the trick on the back.

Alright, time to re-transfer "The Bird" all over again. FML.

Time crunch

I have only a couple weeks until I have to turn in 5-7 new pieces for my group show at C.A.V.E. Gallery in Venice. Time to buckle down. I have two paintings done, one big one in progress, and for the remaining 2-4 I think I'll do a some small sketches and quick paintings on paper mounted on cradled panel. The top priority right now is the large "Bird" painting because it will need to be custom framed which takes about a week off the time I can work on it.

Here is the arduous transferring process for "The Bird" captured by some friends who were over at the time. I blew up the original sketch at Kinko's and used a homemade light-box to lightly trace it onto the large piece of stonehenge paper. Now I am in the process of going back over all my lines to make them more considered and graceful. The final size of the piece is 22" by 40" and it completely takes up my coffee table.

I hold my pencil in the least ergonomic way possible... it's given me mad calluses.




See how blindingly white I am? This is what happens when you work at home all day and only venture out at night to bike and get groceries.

The Bird (sketch)

Because sometimes you just have to flip it.