Ali's Art Adventures

Even Though Brown Is All the Colors, I Use Brown Less Than All the Colors

2010-01-07T12:02:00.004-05:00

i decided to give these guys a sepia treatment. my brown tube of paint was excited cause it's the most neglected of all my colors. i still have the same tube i bought in high school.

A Knife That Cuts By Itself Could Be Great/Terrible

2010-01-06T14:42:00.003-05:00

looks like it's a self propelled knife. must be battery powered.

Radiation by Spagnola on The Nexus One Phone

2010-01-05T23:16:00.007-05:00

today, Google released its newest phone, the Nexus One. it comes with 13 preloaded songs in its music player. Radiation from my album, Free of Style, is one of them! the Nexus One also allows you to set "Radiation by Spagnola" as your ringtone. which you should. cause it's awesome. also because it's appropriate...the song's beat is created with the sound you hear when a cell phone call is interfering with speakers.

if you don't happen to have one of the coolest phones on the planet yet, you can get the ringtone here. or download the song here:

Conversation Hearts are the Only Type of Conversation Allowed in the LH Libaries

2010-01-05T12:40:00.004-05:00

the requester didn't care to be accurate about what conversation hearts actually say. i don't know what LHL means to him. i'm guessing it's not Linda Hall Library, LHL Construction, Inc., Lister Hill Library or Lawrence H. Landweber as google told me it means. funny that two libraries use LHL. i wonder if they're rivals. their librarians meet every third sunday of the month to have shush offs and dewey decimal challenges.

And the Blue One Behind Her

2010-01-04T15:24:00.003-05:00

i left out the star of the photo: the yellow frisbee.

Two Chubby Things

2010-01-03T21:14:00.004-05:00

i've forgotten to post every other day this entire year!

this image is titled "bass2.jpg". "bass.jpg" is a bass guitar hee hee.

the first venus of willendorf i painted was for a gallery show. i thought it wouldn't even get taken off the wall let alone requested again. cool. i'd love to have the original sculpture.

One of These Paintings Has Time Traveled Here from Last Year

2010-01-01T11:45:00.004-05:00

happy new year! i forgot to post yesterday so the new year's eve and new year's day paintings get to hang out together. that is actually perfect because they were commissioned together! what i usually would have considered to be a mistake ended up being advantageous. i think that's a good sign for the new year.

beverage. mostly blue with a touch of yellow.

breakfast. mostly yellow with a touch of blue.

Still Have Christmas on My Mind

2009-12-30T20:01:00.003-05:00

normally i use a black outline with a white stroke around it. i wanted this forest painting to be monochromatic so i gave the outline and stroke a slight green hue. if these were pine trees this would have made a good gift wrap pattern.

I Thought They Were Purple

2009-12-29T18:33:00.003-05:00

this hardly looks like an iris to me. maybe i'm just bad at painting flowers.

A-Thank You Very Much

2009-12-28T14:31:00.002-05:00

should i have went with fat elvis? i could have bedazzled the initials into his sequined suit.

A New Concoction and The Last Greek Character

2009-12-27T22:19:00.004-05:00

all the holiday excitement made me forget to post. here are yesterday's and today's. not in that order.

quacking, not stirred.

i dunno why but the requester wanted a superhero character with a dark red omega on his chest. if the alpha male is the highest ranked, this superhero must not be very super.

Maybe Those Horns Could Pass as Antlers for the Holiday

2009-12-25T18:46:00.001-05:00

kind of an unconventional mascot but pretty cool. he'd look better with a santa hat.

Would You Hang a Hat on a Monet?

2009-12-25T18:32:00.006-05:00

happy holidays! this series is what i gave my mom for christmas. she has some paintings of mine hanging in her house and for christmas she likes to put santa hats on them. i told her it was lame and insulting to my precious artwork to turn it into christmas decorations. she told me i was lame. so this year i gave her some paintings and accessories to decorate them all she wanted.

maybe next year the tree will get a santa hat and the snowman will grow antlers.

Giraffe Day

2009-12-24T14:40:00.005-05:00

i've got four giraffes to post today! this is purely coincidence. one is today's free painting and the other three are a commissioned series i just finished.

the patron wanted three giraffe paintings similar to my three penguins series.

and the fourth giraffe. much freer than the other three.

Less Guitar Strumming. More Dance Beats!

2009-12-23T22:24:00.008-05:00

i just redesigned my MySpace profile to match my new music website. i've also...(drum roll please)...officially changed my genre from "Pop/Acoustic/Rock" to "Pop/Club/Electro". how exciting! check out my profile to hear a sample of this momentous change. i've uploaded three new songs that will be available soon when my newest album, The Ego, is released.

Both Are Orange and Stripey

2009-12-23T10:38:00.002-05:00

one has a pointy face and one has a fuzzy face.

Making Presents. Does That Make Me an Elf?

2009-12-22T11:12:00.004-05:00

this is a last minute christmas present commission i just finished. on Dec. 17th i was asked to paint this house before the holiday. i'm happy to help someone that put off her holiday shopping. especially since i haven't started mine yet.

For Your Wall Not Your Website

2009-12-22T10:54:00.004-05:00

this guy wanted a painting for his production company. he said he didn't have a logo and wanted something to represent 3D motion graphics and "go forth/forward thinking". i hesitated to paint this one because logo design and reproduction rights are much different than asking for a free painting. but since the request was ambiguous and he didn't actually say he wanted it to use repeatedly as a logo, i didn't say no and tell him my logo design price haha. oh no, now this is going to inspire other people to ambiguously request free logos.

Except for Painting #1,000. It Still Thinks Very Highly of Itself.

2009-12-21T17:15:00.004-05:00

all the other paintings are jealous cause this one's a tv star.

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A Toyota. Race fast, safe car. A Toyota.

2009-12-20T10:58:00.005-05:00

this painting is for mason from his mom. mason likes his mom and race cars. aha! based on this information i have deduced that mason likes palindromes.

Shih Tzu Was a Much Poorer Choice

2009-12-19T22:33:00.003-05:00

poodle is the perfect name for this kind of dog. it sounds exactly like they look.

Here's a Painting

2009-12-18T10:45:00.003-05:00

i can't think of anything i want to say about this painting. normally i would put time and effort into coming up with something interesting but it's my birthday and i don't wanna. so yeah. here it is. i'm going to have cake.

Old New Logo

2009-12-17T12:22:00.003-05:00

this is the retro version of the pens logo. actually, this one seems like the updated version to me because i remember it was the new design in the 90s. the one they use now is the retro throwback.

The Betta and the Koala. Sounds Like a Saturday Morning Cartoon.

2009-12-16T15:25:00.004-05:00

this betta actually goes with the koala before it as a two painting commission. i wouldn't have thought put a fish and a marsupial together but my patron was happy!

Back from LA and a New Site Design

2009-12-16T15:13:00.005-05:00

i've returned from LA. i spent the weekend at The Mastering Lab and checking out the city. it was quite awesome. i'm one step closer to releasing The Ego. i've also just launched a new design for my music site. you can hear a preview of three tracks from the album!