Ink.Pencil.Paint

I completed the first half of this piece over the span of three weeks. But I took a long break, then procrastinated until I only had three days left to finish and frame it. So here is a take by take of the last few days and minutes of finishing the top half to make it in time for hanging it at the Ink Pencil Paint art show at the L Street Fine Art gallery downtown. These last photos were taken about six hours apart, between friday to sunday. It was a delirious and strange time for me, sitting in my room staring at this large piece of paper, trying so hard to think of anything, drawing it, and then coloring (using watercolors and markers) it on the spot. I am very happy with the finished piece. 

Monday July 14th 1:00am
(only one week left to finish it)

Friday July 18th 10:30pm
(not even close to being done..)

Sunday July 20th 3:00pm

Sunday July 20th 10:00pm

Monday July 21st 1:00AM!

Monday July 21st 5:00pm – FINISHED!

Besides the art, the musical performances of Christmas Island and Wild Weekend were, as always, super rad and added so much to the event. I must say that Mr. Lee Lavy did a fine job curating this show, from organizing the artists, music acts, finding a great DJ for outside (DJ Mane One!), and passing out hundreds of flyers…all for a really great friday night post-Comic-Con art show! After hibernating in my house for days and days trying to finish the piece, I found it a great release to be around people that enjoyed staring at it for minutes at a time. Almost overwhelming, I think my piece provides some entertainment, and I think that is my favorite part of it – making people feel that same thing I feel when I see an inanimate object ‘doing’ something funny. Maybe my head works a little different then others, or perhaps, I’m on imagination overdrive all the time, but I like to think that just for a few seconds other people were able to understand why a fire hydrant, or a paint roller are pretty cute little things if you think about them being ‘alive’ and doing what they do. The finished piece is titled “831 Characters”, because it does actually contain 831 characters all drawn and imagined by my strange brain. Yes, I sat down and counted every single one. 

friends and mates

My friend Trista was just recently interviewed on a fashion blog, and I just think it’s great. Not only is she intelligent, but her fashion sense and lifestyle and musical tastes are so refined and lovely and this interview tells all. Oh and you should read her blog
too, because it’s really great also.
Please meet Ms. Trista.

In other news my bandmates attacked eachother at our last show, so it seems we are on somewhat of a hiatus until our Tower Bar show on 7/11 with the Widows. I think the last few practices have been so tense that someone was bound to explode sometime…I just didn’t think it would happen the way it did. My string broke after only playing two songs and chaos ensued. Drums were thrown, bodies were cut, words were yelled. I’d rather skip the details. Despite this, the three other bands that played before were excellent. Christmas Island started the set off, then The Widows (always great), and The DeepSea Goes (a brother/sister combo out of LA that is well worth seeing) finished off the greatness. That is, unless, one counts our two songs and mini-push-shove-fight that ensued.
It may be better this way since I need some serious time to spend on my piece of the upcoming Comic Con weekend art show. I have a huge piece of paper, with not enough art on it. Until next time…

<3gubba