I figure might as well

Well, the open studios is coming up soon and since i'll be dropping off cards at various galleries, I felt I might as well plug it in here.
I'm not sure if anyone would be interested in driving all the way out to claremont, but what the hell, it couldn't hurt right?

Guess I'm not City Hall Material

I was asked a few days ago if I would be willing to loan out one of my paintings to hang on the walls of Claremont's city hall. It happened to be the one with the nude in the desert with the 'thing' in the background that was a few posts earlier. This surprised me, considering this is city property and they were cool with blurry-looking nudes. Turns out, they weren't cool with it, when one of the council members toured through our studios to give approvals and said the painting wasn't 'neutral' enough. It would have been a kick to see that hanging in the entrance hall and have it be the first thing you see upon entering, but I guess it doesn't compare to this:

Yay I'm a student again!

It's been close to two years since I've been a full time student, and finally my time has come for a second chance at even more school and more debt. Unfortunately, my time has been divided between moving in to my new studio, building stuff, and job searching to pay for life things. So I guess not as much time for painting as I thought. Still, if you see me at any given time, you may see me grinning ear to ear like a moron. It'll probably wear off as the semester rolls on. Unfortunately, all I have done so far is a painting of Gengis Khan with a french mustache and portraits that I painted off of dvds...

Shanghai byebye.

I'm gonna be touring around Beijing and xian tommorow to give Billiam a bit more of a historical context to his first visit to china. Shanghai's quite cosmopolitan compared to Los angeles in a worldly cultural sense, but doesnt really represent the rest of the country, because it feels so modern and integrated with foreigners. Shanghainese are also really rude and cant give directions worth crap. That's my two cents on shang hai so far. I don't have much internet access other than leeching off my brother's labtop so I'll have to make this rather quick. He was nice enough to put my midterm animation project up on youtube, so here it is, with flaws and all. Still, I like the concept and experimental approach.





After the tour, next is camping in hawaii. Very excite. gotta paint as much as I can in between.

out of loop

man, when I figure out how to post videos on this, I will show you all my labor on this terrible thing called 'after effects' that I have been struggling on.


In the meantime, enjoy a still or two.. or three.

Life-Dracula.

It's pretty sad that I don't have much of an inspiring life to paint, so I must live vicariously through other people's excursions for inspiration. Stole the pics off of rox's adventures in Burning Man 2007. I liked the idea of a thing on the horizon and the naked guy wearing shoes in the desert next to it, so decided to combine them both. I actually photoshoped the texted in because I haven't figured out how I wanted to do that yet.

... almost....

So just one more of these to go and I'll be done with this blasted self-imposed project. I wanted to see if I could do four paintings of similar theme, in this case, a photo booth, without becoming so sick of the repetitivness that I would scrap the whole thing... I think I'll take leo's advice and make the fourth painting a person leaving the booth.