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mermaids, minotaurs, neptunes, griffins, gorgons, and water nymphs!




Take one home.

griffin

Thanks everyone who came to the opening last Saturday! Here's a griffin:



Life is pretty busy in my little corner of the world right now. Lots of wedding planning stuff is happening. There's less than a month left til the big day! Plus APE is coming up, so I've got more than enough to keep me occupied.

I'm a busy little bee!

Opening! This Saturday! Come out and play, Los Angeles folk!

I'm having a little opening at Occidental College this weekend! Saturday night!




+there will be cupcakes
+there will be drinks
+there will be me
+it is in a LIBRARY


How often to you get to hang out in a library and drink? I'm going to guess not that often. I'll have framed, signed, large versions of all those mythological creatures I've done lately for sale. Plus, the library at Occidental is really pretty! It's worth checking out. Even if you can't come on Saturday, you can go look at the stuff later: the show will be up aaaaaalll semester (until December).

The details:

where: Mary Norton Clapp Library, at Occidental College
when: 7pm - 10pm
why: eat cupcake, hang out in library with mythological creatures


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heartbeat underwater

I have been wanting to do these pieces for sooooooooooo long! Like, years.


I love mermaids. My inner 7 year old is singing right now.

gorgon lady

A gorgon is like, the generic term for a Medusa type lady. They are fierce and scary creatures, with snake hair! Except for when they are wearing fancy flowery robes and sitting on urns.

Something about this bugs me but I haven't figured out what it is yet. I'll come back to it later.

mr. minotaur

He likes apples, but don't get too close or he'll bop you one with his club.

mythological

I have a show at Occidental College later this month. Can you guess the theme? Did you say "mythological creatures"? If you did then you're right!


I don't usually put up rough, ugly, crazy sketches like this, but I feel guilty for not updating in forever, so you get a sneak peak at my process...whatever that may be.



Right now I'm focused on creatures of the mostly Greek in origin. Later there will be fairies! I like to delight and indulge my inner seven year old with the skills of my outer 24 year old sometimes.



There's a lot of mental static on these pages. I do a lot of thinking/drawing/scribbling when I figure stuff out for pieces. I know a lot of it probably doesn't make sense to you, but that's okay. I'm the only one who sees it most of the time anyway.



I've had a lot of these guys rattling around in my brains for a while. Like Mr. Poseidon.



Mermaids! Yes!



More soon.

sketch bits

Arrrgh I can't believe it's Sunday already! What! Here are some sketches for you. Just stuff from my sketchbook, really. Like this 18th century lady with trees for hair, and this 30's bathing beauty...



I haven't drawn from life much recently, because honestly, it bores me. How many images of people in a coffee shop do I ever want to look at? Not very many. Animals in a zoo mostly just stand around. I do love Sean to pieces though, so drawing him lying in the grass reading Walter Benjamin (a smart person book of some kind) is pretty fun.



I've been thinking about mythology a lot lately.



I tried to personify Hollywood, but I don't think she'd really be this trashy/stupid.



I'm gonna color this in and it's going to be pretty. These girls are from "Les Demoiselles de Rochefort", a very beautiful and melancholy French movie with Catherine Deneuve and her sister, whose name escapes me. The art direction is soooo cool!



Check back for it later this week!