surrealist games

thanks to: patrick, ash, cyppie, adrian, jess, breanna, amy, and lars

oh bloggy. one day i'll update you.

sorry no new posts for a while. i've been very busy with

• school
• grad application
• art projects
• drinking beers
• eating donuts
• looking at webcomics
• not cleaning my room
• feeling really sad/stressed
• wanting a dog
• worrying about bikey
  
• reading laura's blog

however, in other, better news, one of my drawings got chosen for the art expo! hooray! i really can't believe it and i'm very excited. my friend casa also got in, and my friend jess got THREE pieces in (what a badass)! man. so proud of my friends and my self. congrats everyone, we deserved it! here is my piece that was chosen:


i have a lot of new things to show you, including some collaborative works, comics, postcards, and MUCH MUCH MORE! only three easy payments of $19.99!!!! just need some free time to scan stuff. ugh.

attention everyone!!

hey! i'm entering stuff in the ASU art expo this semester! ima bout to ride over there and help casa install our pieces and check out all of the awesome art everyone's been working on this year. i can't wait to see what people have been doing. it is really easy to get wrapped up in my own little world; the tiny still lifes and miniature portraits, the simple pen line drawings...hands, faces, hands, cups, hands, phones, coffee and spit and purple and cross-hatches and contour lines and (more recently) comics. gonna be really refreshing and inspirational (hopefully) to get a look at some new stuff my peers are producing.
in other news, i have noticed that a big difference between my way of creating art and my friend, Laura's is that i tend to translate images into lines intersecting and separating space, whereas i think laura understands shapes and patterns a lot better than i do. she is really good at allowing a shape or a smudge or a shadow to represent important details, and it TOTALLY works. she did this really rad portrait of her and myself, based a picture of the two of us. she eventually used it as a wheatpasting (great stuff). i wish we had taken a picture of it! i would put it up here! do you have it laura? anyway i have the original...


trust me, it was rad.

anyway. come check out the art work at Wey Hall, tonight or tomorrow. or saturday? i think they are doing the voting either tomorrow night or saturday night. look at some beautiful works, vote on your favs, giggle a little. whatever you want to do.
i am really really hoping i will get some stuff chosen. i entered five drawings from my journals that i got blown up and printed on nice paper (sooooo stoked! i can't comprehend my little journies lookin so sexy in poster form), and also that embroidered portrait of my friend, casa, that i made on a stretched canvas. i think the drawings are on the third floor, and fibers are on the second!! hoooraaaaay!! i'm so excited.

samoa comix

these are pretty old. and silly. but i like making lists in comics! they are fun you should try it. the easiest way to fill up a space thats for sure.
(i like my haircut a lot better, now. i mean, i don't regret it anymore.)

peoples

these two ladies were sleeping so symmetrically i couldn't help myself

darwin series lecture-panel scientists (and historians)

check this out, dude

so i've been working on this new art project...actually it is more than one project! i got this awesome postcard collection from goodwill (thanks, tyler! he hooked me up), and some friends and i have been painting on the original images. i tend to cover the image completely and add in stuff here and there, while others like to highlight certain parts of the picture. they are fun and awesome and colorful and i love them. i keep them near me all the time and don't want to stop looking at them, so i won't.

i'm not sure yet what i would like to do with them. i was thinking about selling some at art crawl, particularly at the Boone Bike Initiative. i think part of the proceeds would go toward the initiative...either that or toward the boone skid marks chapter (fingers crossed!!). man. bike gang. how rad.
i KNOW right???

anyway. i have no idea if i want to sell them or not. i also have no idea how to display them other than to put them up here, but for now i am just enjoying taking them out of my pockets and showing them to everyone.
special thanks to alex, ash, lydia, and tyler for helping make these bad boys. you guys rock.


lydia

lydia

alex

(i like to call this one "$ea Mon$ter")

me

lydia

ash

me
this one's my fav (i like the mermaid boobs)

me

ash

another one i did, but i gave it to frank for his birthday before i got a chance to scan it. OH WELL
on the back, it said, "dear folks, having a lovely time in DC..."