aw snap, new website design!

Aw man, first post while using my new design! The blog now matches up with my brand spankin' new website. I still have my eye out for mistakes or broken links, if you find one, let me know!

I also have up some painted jars on etsy. The vases seem to be a hit, I want to do tons more.


Chirp Chirp - $25

I also learned a valuable lesson on shipping costs this week. I think the biggest lesson is that it makes no sense to me whatsoever.

Bits and Bobs, This and That

I've said it once, and I'll say it again. Get that bitch a container. Bitches love containers. At least, I know for me it's one-hundred percent true. I've collected jars and cigar boxes as a child to keep things in. It's gotten no better as I get older, I tend to get cigar boxes and cool containers for keeping art fair display stuff and to keep who knows what around the house. Growing up where I did let me have four different IKEAs within 30 minutes no matter what direction you drove. I got. SO. MANY. BOXES.

I still love containers and boxes, so when I'm out and about at garage sales and goodwills, I tend to pick up boxes, vases, containers of all sorts to paint at a later date. I keep putting them aside, but I finally got my ass in gear and started painting them and playing. Now I have a few in my shop, expect more!

These two sets are originally IKEA, I wanted to keep them for my own use but I already have a disturbing number of containers in my kitchen, bathroom, and studio. So instead I'm letting you people have these lovely containters.

Meet This and That:



and Bits and Bobs:



You can find them on Etsy, where I just put them up this afternoon.

The idea behind them is that you can china-marker, dry-erase, or whatever marker the contents in the little frames. I hate when my household items boss me around. I'd rather take charge and label them myself.

More of these kind of things to come, keep your eyes peeled.

new texture, new season

I've been playing with a few new textures I've made and think they look pretty neat. I'd love to hear some feedback on them. Here are some old pieces I messed with, like how they look this way?

You can catch them in my shop.

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.

Pistols at Dawn

If you follow a few of my friends from school, you should know that we're all participating in Drawgasmic! Everyone else seems to have sent their stuff in and showed what they made for it, so I might as well too. If you're interested, I'm 99% sure they're till taking applications. it looks like it should be pretty rad. I'm even considering driving the many hours just to go. Possible road trip, hell yes.



Here is what I made, I call it "Pistols at Dawn"





I would stop drawing siamese twins because I do it a lot, but they are waaaaay too much fun.

Also I put my "Put Another One On" piece up for sale. I dig him lots.



I have another few actual paintings to show, but this post is far too image heavy as it is. I'll save them for later.

Oh man oh man oh man oh man

I bought a drawing from Grant Gilliand as a gift to myself for my birthday, it came in the mail yesterday! I am very excited about it. I interviewed him for a project for my first illustration class a few years ago and I still can't get over his work. Master of Sharpie's, that man is. Now I have to decide where it's going to go.



Speaking of stuff on the wall, while trying to get some good photos for etsy, which is apparently near impossible in my light sucking cave house, I took this while testing the light. It made me laugh, I figured I should share.






I put these notebooks up for sale the other day too, they're pretty rad and I had fun making them. I really dig the paper I used in them, it has some delicious tooth to it.

Now for some painting and a few hours of The Golden Girls.

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.

Eh, still on a sexy ladies kick

So I drew that lady ass with the zombies, now I'm drawing sexy TOS Star Trek ladies. Honestly their uniforms and hyper-sexualization of uterus folk on there just beg for some crazy shapes. I like making fun shapes. I'll probably do an alien/astro/cosmonaut set too. People out there seem to like the ladies. Maybe all men, maybe all women, maybe both. Who knows?!

Alien seduction, oh my!

Bone Daddy

While doing research for this I came to the conclusion that If I were to marry an inanimate object to make many non-babies, it would probably be a 1952 olive-gold Gibson Les Paul. Either that or a suhweet Velvet Elvis painting.

Something about that Spark

We got a new lightbulb for above the mirror in the bathroom. It's so bright I am pretty sure I can see through my own forehead and into an alternate dimension. It's great for doing your eyebrows though.

The Fox and the Phonograph

I was trying to think of things I could draw and make into prints for my Etsy. I have heard rumors around the internets that foxes just may be the cool animal of 2010. However in my opinion, foxes have always been pretty rad.

So here we go, phonographs, a fox, a chicken, and some liquid music.