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Erotic etchings 1, 2, and 3

2008-05-15T20:45:00.001-07:00

I have not updated this specifically in a while. I apologize. I have been working on other things. I am excited about the other things.

There should be an explosion of updates to come. I need to work in my sketchbook more.

Erotic etchings 1, 2, and 3
Acid etching on zinc plate, ink on paper
12.5"x11.5", April 2008

Saturday

2008-05-10T22:02:00.001-07:00

My summer art project
Mixed media, May 2008

Thursday

2008-05-08T21:37:00.000-07:00

Still taking it easy. The infection has caused my Vestibular neuronitis to flare up, which has been a little debilitating.

In the meantime, here are some more coloring pages.

I also made a new wallpaper for my computer desktop. You can have it too, but the largest it comes in is 1024x768.

Wednesday

2008-05-07T11:33:00.000-07:00

I have fallen quite ill with a kidney infection. I need to drink more water.

My partner has confined me to the couch and watching episodes of Seinfeld on DVD all day, and I am to do nothing but drink water and rest. This would be a good time to get some work done in my sketchbook.

I have also decided to make available coloring pages of some of my sketches, just in case you too are stuck at home for some reason. Color it anyway you like and send me your work so I can show it off.

Thank you and stay healthy!

Monday

2008-05-05T11:11:00.000-07:00

I entered a design to the OBEY t-shirt contest with Metropark. Please take a moment to register and vote for my design here. Thank you tremendously.

A beautiful thing in a beautiful way, I want to tear this drawing up

2008-05-04T11:53:00.000-07:00

My last day of classes as an undergrad was Friday. Now finals and the Real World. I am apprehensive about it all. I do not know what I will do for work. I guess I will start by making some of my work available to purchase. I will add more things later.

A beautiful thing in a beautiful way
Pastel on paper
April 2008

I just want to tear this drawing up
Prepared paper on paper, mixed media
March 2008

Sketchbook April 29

2008-04-29T18:41:00.000-07:00

It has been a long time since I have shown you my sketchbook.

I drew this because I saw it in a dream once. I was at a Natural History Museum and it was very dark inside and they had one of these creatures in an aquarium.

My partner told me it sounded like H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu. I have never read any of Lovecraft's books or seen any film adaptations of them. At least that I can remember....

You never know what memories lurk beneath the murky waters of your subconscious, which resurface only in the shadows of your dreams.

Sketchbook April 29 2008

Monday

2008-04-28T21:24:00.000-07:00

Out of the five pieces I submitted to the Annual Student Show, one was accepted. It was the piece I most expected them to select because it is the most tame. They took Body.

It will be funny to see my little work in an actual gallery space.

I really love my final drawing. I will show it to you when I have regained my energy.

Sunday

2008-04-27T22:12:00.000-07:00

I finished my final photography project and my final drawing project this weekend. Both turned out beautifully. My hard work paid off.

I entered the aniBoom Radiohead In Rainbows Contest. Will you please vote for me?

Watch more cool animation and creative cartoons at aniBoom

Thank you. Wish me luck.

Thursday

2008-04-24T22:38:00.000-07:00

School is done very very soon.

Until then, my posts here might be quite scarce.

Tuesday

2008-04-22T22:35:00.001-07:00

Color photo printing is such long, tedious work. I spent three hours in the lab tonight with almost nothing to show, wrestling with used and cantankerous equipment. I love photography, but it's been consuming all my time for about a month now. And I have other classes with other projects!

I submitted five pieces to the Annual Student Show here. I'll find out Friday. I find out about the Wonderland Contest on the 30th.

Sunday

2008-04-20T23:16:00.000-07:00

I hope everyone's holiday went well today. I had the pleasure of spending it in Silver Lake, where I dreamed on a sunny patio and ate a homemade Croque Madame. In the evening I attended a sort of happening - I guess you could call it - entitled Public Release!!* in Echo Park. I decided to set up a gallery in my station wagon. I sold two (reject) prints for $5.00 each, and I traded another for a button (and friendship, as ephemeral as it may have been). I only wish I weren't so tremendously shy - I could have been much more involved.

Next time.

Friday

2008-04-18T21:14:00.000-07:00

Tonight I am going into the printshop to print black flats for the second image in my Female nude by female artist series. Late night at the shop. The place often sounds as if it is haunted.

Thursday

2008-04-17T19:56:00.001-07:00

Today I worked and worked and worked on my photo project.

It is very slow work.

Work in progress

2008-04-17T01:00:00.000-07:00

Real quick, because I really should be in bed, but don't want to fall out of my momentum here.

It is only a very very rough idea.

Work in progress

Sketchbook April 15 2008

2008-04-16T00:07:00.000-07:00

Tonight I attended a discussion about conceptual photography between John Divola, Shannon Ebner, and Sarah Charlesworth. It was a little difficult to follow because I don't fully understand exactly what conceptual art is. If anyone can offer some insight, please do.

The Wonderland Contest called me today because they were really interested in somehow seeing the rest of the project I submitted a photo to them from. I told them I would scan my contact sheets and send a schematic of the project to them. I am secretly a little thrilled.

My sketchbook is like a camera. I document my days through drawings. It is good practice.

Sketchbook April 15 2008

Drawings from San Francisco

2008-04-14T21:29:00.000-07:00

San Francisco was beautiful. The San Francisco Women's Film Festival was very good, but I need to get better at talking about myself (Don't I talk about myself enough with my work? Hah!). I saw a program of experimental short films, punctuated with a "projector performance piece" by Kerry Laitala at a very interesting space called Oddball Film+Video. I went to the SFMOMA and dared to be a part of Vito Acconci's Command Piece. I sat on a hill at Delores Park surrounded by hipsters indulging in the freak eighty-degrees-plus weather. Though I have been to San Francisco a few times before, this is the first time I left my heart there - as they say. Which is fine because I would like to relocate there...one day, if I can ever afford it.

I kept my sketchbook under my arm the whole time, off and on the BART, up and down Powell Street. A sketchbook is a good companion on an adventure.

Drawings from San Francisco
Sketchbook April 11 2008, Sketchbook April 12 2008, Sketchbook April 13 2008

Obstruction

2008-04-08T21:25:00.000-07:00

My goodness - three days is a long time to be away. I have been tremendously busy putting together final projects in all my various artistic endeavors. This weekend I will be out of town. Tonight I attended the opening reception for Art in the Village - it was a pleasure to see the elation on the kids' faces as they went up to the stage to receive their awards. I hope they were inspired to continue making art.

My work has been good to me lately.

If you can make it out this Thursday night to Little Tokyo you will see some of my work. I think it will be a lot of fun.

Obstruction, April 2008
35mm, 4"x6" prints

Friday/Saturday

2008-04-05T00:36:00.000-07:00

I went into the printshop tonight to make the prints mentioned previously on good paper. I had some problems with registration, but overall I am pleased. I think it will be an edition of four - three with an artist's proof. At this point I don't see any need to make more than just a couple good ones. I cannot wait for them to be dry.

Work in progress

2008-04-03T21:27:00.000-07:00

Today I made my first 30"x40" print. It was amazing. I am in love.

Work in progress

This is not a very faithful reproduction at all.

Work in progress

2008-04-02T21:57:00.001-07:00

I am so excited about this linocut I am working on that I brought it home from the shop to post on here even though it is still very wet. I want a black line but did not want to have to carve out everything but the line from the linoleum. So I carved out the line, printed flat blacks, and then printed the image in white. I wasn't sure how well it was going to work. I had my doubts.

Work in progress

As you can see, it looks very very nice and I am tremendously pleased. I think the texture suits the image quite well.

Work in progress

2008-04-01T21:15:00.000-07:00

I am sorry if my blog becomes sparse in the coming days. School is drawing to a close and I have been and will be very very busy.

I got my negatives and contact sheets today.

Work in progress

There are some things I need to re-shoot this weekend.

I finished carving my linocut. Tomorrow I will pull some proofs.

Wish me luck.

Sketchbook Mar 31 2008

2008-03-31T21:23:00.000-07:00

This weekend was very busy. I prepared and shot my final photo project for class. There are still some pieces missing. I am nervous because some of the shots contained "special effects" that required a great deal of precision and timing. I get my negatives and contact sheets first thing tomorrow morning. Wish me luck.

Tonight I skipped class to come home and work on another linocut for the Female Nude by Female Artist series. I imagine a triptych. I carved for three hours. I had to stop because my neck began to hurt. I also had to come write in this blog.

Sketchbook Mar 31 2008

I don't know how I feel about this drawing.

Friday

2008-03-28T22:19:00.000-07:00

Today I bought paper for the prints I am working on. I hoped to get into the printshop tonight, but it did not happen.

Some days you only get very little done.

Sketchbook Mar 26 2008, Work in progress

2008-03-27T22:12:00.001-07:00

Sketchbook Mar 26 2008

I think I will make this into a linocut.

Work in progress

Just a proof on newsprint. I wanted to see how the lines were reading once they were inked.