Brutus - without the fruit hat as seen in my house

I hope everyone is having a fun state of the union party, I know I'm having a blast! I have replaced pretty much every word with "bacon" and it's making for a very convincing and inspiring speech.

Here's a portrait of Brutus who lives on the mantle in my living room. I'll be making him a lady friend to keep him company soon.

Art fair shenanigans.

Hey kids!

I've been busy preparing for an art fair downtown, as well as helping my roommate prepare for a completely different one the same day. A word of advice, don't try and make a booth out of PVC when you have never done anything like that before and are too short to put it together anyway.
In short, it's been a little hectic. I'm still trying to get things done though. For example, I'm getting out the paint and brushes and actually painting!

Sorry for the bad scan and terrible photo, but I am only left with a bad scanner and an apartment devoid of a place to take a decent photo. I'll have better versions soon though, I hope.

Put another one on

I was listening to records the other day while I was cleaning and the rain was pouring, it was a good day. Kitties to pet, couches to nap on, I had to doodle a bit.



I decided to take the advice of a few cool people and start playing with textures again. Expect to see more in the future.

Now available as a print.

But can they tell me the lotto numbers?

It's March! I'm moving in two weeks, that's pretty scary. I technically started packing, but I only have a box filled with 23 garden gnomes, a cement Virgin Mary, and a Bust of Spock that doubles as a decanter. I wish I was kidding, but I bet you wish you were as awesome as the contents of that box.

I decided that I should stay up all night in order to reset my sleep schedule, for the past few months I've accidentally been going to sleep at about 6am. Night shifts do goofy things to me and I should probably return to the land of the living and conscious. To occupy my time I finished a set of fortune teller ladies I have been working on off and on. They used to have about five times as many colors and more detail but I just don't think I'm good at those type of things. I find it more fun to pick an extremely small amount of colors and go to work figuring out how to make it work.

Car is the Cathedral of the 20th Century

For a little bit there I was in an idea block, I think I'm out of it. However unless I'm actively working on things, I feel like I'm not productive. So I dug out the first piece I ever did with a shape oriented design a few years ago in order to maybe mess with it:

I think I did this for an Illustrator based project, I don't quite remember. The whole idea was from a quote I learned in my Beat Lit class "The car is the cathedral of the 20th Century" or something similar to that.



I remade all the shapes then did a little color change. Decided I was not done and messed with color more.





Then more color messing.



I figure I'm finished with it for now. I like it all three ways, but not sure which I like best. If anything, it was fun to revisit a piece I forgot about.

Two and a half weeks until I move to Indianapolis, I'm kind of pooping myself. I have a lot of crap to pack.

Sexy Zombie Ass

I finally watched Zombieland last week, there's nobody around to watch movies with so I tend to chicken out about going to the movies alone so I waited until it came out on DVD to see. Mao is an amazing secret keeper, I had no idea Bill Murray was in it and I pretty much pooped while watching it. I said, quite loud, "holy crap that is Bill Fucking Murray" while watching it with headphones on. Pretty sure someone heard me yell/say that at 4am and they probably thought I was the most awesome person ever or a nutcase.

I'm rooting for awesome.



I then played a bunch of zombie themed games so I didn't accidentally go out and kill someone with a crowbar. Am I the only one who gets really pumped after movies like that?

Whatever. Soon I'll be running around thinking I'm a Big Daddy, these things come in phases, you see.