friday paintings

Some odds and ends for my show at Pehrspace next month. I wanted to take pictures, but because my camera has decided to suck no matter how many new batteries I put in it, I had to cram them into my scanner instead. Sorry about that. They're all real for real paintings, done with gouache and acrylic and brushes and water.

Pijon!




The scanner messed this one up pretty badly...



Coyote in the roses, drinking a strawberry crush.



More soon!

more yuki sketches + friday already? seriously?

I'm trying not to procrastinate. So far, so good!

I think this is what my Yuki poster is going to look like, roughly of course: pink skeletons, birthday cake hat villain, lots of roses and pink because I'm a girl and I like those things. Don't look for the pink yet cause it's not there.



I know my sketches are really rough and sometimes indecipherable, but it's all I got right now! Isn't there a movie or something with a skull that has jewels in its eyes? Where am I lifting this idea from?? I couldn't figure it out, but I know I've seen it somewhere.



Little thumbnail sketches...



At a CalArts Halloween party one year I saw some guys (more than one, like three I think) dressed in suits and sunglasses with hats shaped like birthday cakes with illuminated candles. Obviously, the image stuck with me. What kind of villian wears pastries as headgear? I leave that to your imagination.



This week went by really fast. I seriously am having a hard time believing that it's Friday. What have I been doing??

doodles + unique pics

I don't have any pretty pictures for you today, AND on top of that I DB'd last week and only posted once. Bad show, very bad show. But I did manage to get in some doodle time while sitting behind tables the last couple weekends!

Hip girl rocking the shorts/tights/Tom's shoes combo. Her hair reminded me of when my hair was really short, and her big Ray Bans reminded me of how I almost spent a grip of cash on awesome limited edition Ray Bans like six months ago.



Doodles...I still have a really hard time drawing roses. Whenever I feel discouraged I like to write "note to self: I am a genius" on a post it note and stick it to my desk. Strangely, it forces you to be both confident and not take yourself very seriously at the same time.



This guy was lurping around the GOOD local world's fair...



Sketches of cats with many legs and booties and knitted hats. Mom has a cat that had to have his leg amputated a few months back and I guess I was thinking about cats with odd numbers of appendages...he's fine, by the way. I don't think he even misses his leg.



...the BIRDS!



A girl I saw last Saturday with amazing hair (the amazing part doesn't really come across well in the sketch), some unfortunate looking girls, and Brigitte Bardot (I copied you Jo! Sorry.)



And now here's some pics of the Unique LA show!

Setting up on Friday...

I made that "brigette b" sign, and those wood panel dealies with the paintings hanging off them. I wanted to make a really elaborate table cloth by sewing together like a hundred doilies but I ran out of time.

...waiting oh so patiently.


INTENSE!


It really was a good weekend. I sold lots of prints and buttons, and some framed stuff too. I met some super duper nice folks too, and some blog readers, and even some people who recognized my work from etsy! I discovered lots of cool people/art/stuff too, but I'm saving them for another post. This one's long enough already.

Oh yeah, and I'm having a little special in my shop right now: buy something and I'll throw in a 4x6" 'baby' print to go with it, your choice. It's a little X-mas bonus for you!

rose red, rose white + movies

I bought these really cute, very small wooden plaques at Michael's a few weeks ago. I could spend a LOT of time in Michael's, being tantalized by big jars of glitter and pondering the possibilities of paper mache boxes, fabric paint and all those other crafty objects who potential is usually squandered. I busted out my gouache for these, and realized that I am REALLY rusty with it.




They didn't turn out the way I had planned. I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about them. I had never painted on a tiny little wooden plaque before, and the surface was pretty bumply and course and most of the time the paint just did whatever it wanted to. I don't know why Rose Red's hair is all crackly like that. I can't exactly remember what the Rose Red and Rose White fairy tale is all about...something like, there are two sisters and they befriend a bear, and then he turns out to be a prince, and then one gets all the princess type glory and one gets nothing. So it's like Beauty and the Beast except with a weird sibling rivalry angle. I don't know. I should Wikipedia it but it's Friday night and I just ate like a LOT of vegan ice cream from Scoops (strawberry lavender!) so I think I'll go drape myself over the couch like a big cat now.

Oh, speaking of cats, the cats are based on kitties that I have known that have since gone to pussycat heaven: Jerry was my favorite grey cat who used to sleep on my pillow next to my head every night, and Milo was our goofy ginger tabby that would sit on the back of the couch and attack your head when you sat down to watch TV.

Hey, Thanksgiving is next week! If you're in Los Angeles, you should go see some movies at the Egyptian Theater or the Aero! West Side Story, The Sound of Music, and Singin' in the Rain are all playing next weekend. Go look at something totally beautiful while you digest all those cranberries.