Juxtapoz 15th Anniversary Art Auction

Juxtapoz 15th Anniversary Art Auction

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The Juxtapoz charity auction is in full swing and will be up until
November 20th. You can see (and bid!) on my piece here: www.charitybuzz.com/catalog_items/1052060

A special thanks to the awesome folks at Thinkspace for making my participation in this event possible!

Remember the Pay it Forward thing?

Well, I haven't forgotten! I have 5 quick little square paintings (in
the costume-y theme of Halloween) goin' out in random fashion to the
verified players from that post. A little peek at these 2...

Time Investment is a Pulsating Blob in the Corner

From my first memories I was into drawing, painting and doing whatever I could get my hands on creatively. Crayons, pencils, stamps, stickers, beads, sewing, construction paper collage, mobiles... you name it, I made a creative nest of it, hung it on my wall or gave to my family. A few of my favorite books to get from the local library were Ed Emberly's how to draw books, a book on making structures both large and small out of cardboard boxes , rainy day projects, how to draw animals and creative designs for bulletin boards. I remember checking out tons of books on crafts to make with wax paper, pipe cleaners, foil and paper mache. If it involved making things, I would get in to it.

I do the same thing now that I am older (body years, not mind years I guess), only I have considerably less time to experiment. It's experimentation that is essential if you are going to pick up something new. I don't know if this happens to other creative types but I will get a book or a material that I know will take a little chunk of time to figure out. Then when I don't have the proper time to invest in doing that, the project gathers dust. Sure, I may play around with thinking about the project but I feel quite resistant to actually starting it if I don't have that crucial block of time.

At the moment I have a new digital camera that begs time investment to make proper use of it, an over-lock machine that dauntingly needs the manual read and to be re-threaded, a book on making a garden that isn't reading itself and the psychologically chilling prospect of getting back into oil paints.

So what gives? What is your hurdle project? Something you fully intend on getting into once you have the time?

"The Stowaway"

"The Stowaway"
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8"ø handmade porthole, 5"ø painting. Available at
Halogen Gallery

"The Steward"

"The Steward"
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8"ø handmade porthole, 5"ø painting. Available at
Halogen Gallery

New Painting: "Offshore"

New Painting: Offshore
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10.5" ø acrylic on panel for my solo show opening October 9th at Halogen Gallery.

A slow leak of show peeks. Sometimes I want to post it all at once, but that would ruin the fun.

This flickr set will have more as they roll out, just in case I forget to post them on here.

'A Murder of Crows' show

A show at Meltdown Gallery themed around the terms of venery which are the strange names given to groups of animals


'A Murder of Crows' show
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My piece for the show, titled "A Husk of Hares", will be hanging alongside loads of other cool artists!

A MURDER OF CROWS: A Children’s Primer

New Works Based on Terms of Venery

Collected by Linda Pine

Curated by Linda Pine & Nicole Bruckman

Opens October 3, 2009 at Gallery Meltdown: 7522 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90046

323.851.7223

Love snails. Love stop motion.

Scuttle Snails on Vimeo

edit: Also just watched the following video via booooooom and was entranced.