art, contests, and events.

Friday 25 October was the final showdown of Art vs. Art. This was my third year competing, but my first year making it into the top 32! It was a little disappointing that I didn't make it into the final 16, but it might be a good thing, considering the number of times the Wheel of Death landed on Instant Death.

This weekend is the 2009 Fall INDIEana Handicraft Exchange at the Harrison Center for the Arts. I will be a vendor this year! You'll be able to find me at booth #50, which will be in either Gallery 1 or perhaps the basement (the vendor map doesn't make it clear), wherever it is, I'll be across the aisle from A Squared Industries. The Exchange runs from 6pm - 9pm on Friday 2 October and 10am - 6pm on Saturday 3 October.
I'll have a few extra chairs at my booth, so stop by and hang out!

I'll post videos of destruction from Art vs. Art and photos of what I'm selling on Thursday!

Oh and I've been uploading art to flickr! Go check it out. I'm slowly getting a little better about taking photos and getting them up, but I'm still behind, hahah.

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.

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...