A Long Walk Home

Here are some full shots of my piece for the Busted Art Auction, which is still up until 10.11.11! 

Get it before the bidding ends, HERE!

Lunacy!

OH duh I just realized, although I announced that this piece is now finally for sale through La Luz de Jesus,

I never put up the full view of it! So here is my piece for the 25th Anniversary show, "Lunacy"

 

for more information contact the gallery director at 323.666.7667

or email info@laluzdejesus.com

 

Busted piece Available soon! and other news!

Coming up is Art in Support of the Busted Foundation :

 As you can see, there are a lot of great artists supporting this cause; 100% of the proceeds go to women fighting breast cancer, to help pay for their treatments and bills. 

This year the pieces that will be auctioned on eBay starting Oct. 1st will be on display in Chinatown at the opening of the 

Mirror Gallery!

963 Chung King Road, Los Angeles

come check it out and support another great cause!

here is a preview shot of my piece:

for more information go to www.artinsupportofbusted.com and www.bustedfoundation.org

So I missed an announcement: 

my Pig Footed Bandicoot is available now for sale through the Echo Park Time Travel Mart! 

this place, if you haven't been to it, is great and amazing: the store front is filled with amazing trinkets and novelties, such as Caveman's Toolkits (a box filled with different sized rocks), Famous Last Words, funky hats and costumes, toys, books and lots of fun gifties, all in beautifully and cleverly designed packaging. Behind the store is the real gem- a free (supported by donations and the store's sales), volunteer-based tutoring center for local kids, offering help, creative writing and thinking workshops, books and a quiet friendly space to work. SO- go check it out, buy some awesome art (50% of the sales go to the tutoring center!) by my lovely friends (Allison Reimold, Jessica Cooper, Zach Schoenbaum, Sinae Park, Jay Doronio and David Ra!)check out their amazing products, and be happy to support a wonderous idea! 

also a HUGE thank you to Shannon Losorelli for putting it all together! 

<3 

excitement!

SoooOOooooOoo i am extremely excited about this show that i am participating in in November- 

La Luz de Jesus's 25th Anniversary Show! 

the group of artists that will have pieces at this show is unbelievable and i am so honored to be on the same walls as the likes of Liz McGrath, Tim Biskup, Mark Ryden, Nathan Ota, Shag, Robert Williams, Bob Dob, Daniel Lim, Eric White, Jessica Joslin, Danni Shinya Luo, AHHH and so many others...i could go on...but i won't. 

check out the preview HERE

there are so many people showing (200+ artists) that there are two weekends, 

 October 7 and November 4, 2011  

- i am in the November 4th show. 

please take a look online and come to the show if you are in the los angeles area! it'll be an amazing party.

Septembering

soo here are some things i've been working on, finishing and fiddling with:

 this is a work in progress that needs a few more details done. this piece is more flat and  textile-y than most of what I've done. It was pretty fun to do this way...we'll see.

 this is my Pig-Footed Bandicoot "taxidermy" - for the Echo Park Time Travel Mart's upcoming "Extinction" show, coming September 24th! more info soon.

he plays music! 

 this is my "Girl with the Green Ribbon"- it is for sale through WWA Gallery's "cabinet of curiosities" - check it out!

And also Julian Callos' AMAZing show is on right now there, don't miss it!

thats all for now.

maggie

here's the drawing for a poster i'm working on for a play about Mary Magdelene.

not my usual realm of subject matter, but it was nice to just draw a little bit.
i'll show more as it progresses!and thanks to Sara Kumar for asking me to do this!

old lady status

sooo i made a quilt.
i am an old lady.
i am really pleased with it, i didn't think it would turn out as satisfyingly quilty as it did.
i used a lot of old tshirts and bits of fabric that i have loved or were given to me by those that i love.


also, pocket looooves it. she blends in sort of, for she too is patchwork.

Red Engine

Helloo!
the lovely people at Red Engine Studios put some of my classwork in the "Student Gallery" section of their website, woohoo!
If anyone is looking to take some amazing entertainment-related and traditional classes, its the place to go!
Also here is my last painting from that class, as well as my finished Prince portrait!

he will make sweet, sweet love to you with his eyes. watch out.

hours and hours

way after the fact, here is my piece , "Hours" from the Upper 600s show a few weekends ago.it is reversible, like an hourglass.



for purchasing inquires, please send me an email!



also this is my little experiment in banners. i still have lots to work out.
i'm going to sell these two for cheap, since they are my first attempt, if anyone is interested.
they have bamboo at the top, strung with embroidery thread for hanging. they are backed with white fancy fabric. the "now what?" is hand stitched onto the velvet and cotton.
please email me if you are interested in purchasing one! or both!

cats n paintings n ideas

it was real warm today and pocket decided she LOVES the little fan i had going.
look at that face of bliss!

a portrait of prince that i am working on. still need to do more...i'll be done by the end of the week, as this is my last week of classes at Red Engine Studios! wah! : ( it went by so quickly...

(pocket also loves the pincushion. i intervened before she ate any pins.)

well i made another dreamcatcher, this one is more normal so far.
not sure what to do with it now.

we got to paint sarah last saturday, which is always fun. i wish the face turned out better...

i'm trying to improve my sewing skills. i have ideas but they never turn out nice enough. also i think i tend to try to use the wrong materials because i think they will work, or at least i pretend they will, when really i should be using something more suited to the project.


what project, you ask?
below is my first attempt.
i'll get better. im still not really sure what im doing. so i won't tell you yet.



and finally some random drawing, because its too hot for shirts.