madame pigeon.

I'm pretty bad at updating this, even worse at updating my flickr account, and virtualnao.com has yet to see any construction. Oh dear.

Classes have been keeping me busy and it will crazy until the end of the semester. Gallery show in August is off, since Gnosis had to close it's doors; however, I'm pursuing some other locations.

Something I was working on earlier today:

playing with stone slabs.

Uni started up again last week, so I've been pretty busy with studio work. Lithography will be the most time consuming class this semester. Last night I was graining stones:



It looks a bit tedious, right? Well it is! Graining a stone takes several hours.

In the video I'm pouring corundum grit on to a wet limestone slab. Then I use another piece of wet limestone and pass it over the bottom stone in various patterns to remove the previous image off the stone.

I will explain more about processes in lithography at another time, since I have an essay that I should finish tonight.

One more thing: my next solo show will be opening Friday, 14 August 2009, at Gnosis. More details and flyer later.

squish factor

I just came home from dropping eight cute little guys at Gnosis for tonight's opening of the Squish Factor group show. You should go and buy soft and cute plushes! I will take some pictures later tonight at the gallery.

The fall semester is about to end! I'm pretty pleased with all the paintings I did and you'll be able to find pictures of them on my flickr pretty soon. Even though I will be going to Chile for a couple weeks, I will be working on putting up more work and getting the website in order...finally.

I've already started planning out the show calendar for 2009. I know that I will be doing at least one solo show and a couple group shows. Information will be posted as the dates and locations are decided.

(un)lucky - $200

I forgot to post photos of this diptych. It's from a few months back. $200 for sale at Gnosis.

Victims of Victoria

So my entry for Art vs. Art didn't get into the top 32, but it was sold almost immediately, so that's not too bad.

My show, Victims of Victoria opened on the 3rd at Gnosis and I was not even present for it. I sort of ran myself into the ground getting things ready for the show plus my studio and academic work for school. One of my friends hung my paintings for me while I feebly wrote out titles and prices. They then drove me home and I crawled into bed and died for the weekend. Photos of work will come later.

I'm not crazy about the work I did for the show. I know it was my first solo show and only had a month to make everything, but I feel like the pieces are bare. I was experimenting with some new techniques and learned a lot about planning and executing an entire show based around one theme. I will try to have my next solo show be a mix of prints and paintings, but I have no idea when that would be. Next week I will start working on pieces for a soft form/plush group show that opens in December.

Side note: I really need to make a new header illustration for this blog. My hair is much longer and that hamster is no more. And I need to update flickr, deviant art, cloroflot, etc. and finally finish my website...