Daily Studio #6
Posted on 7 March 2010 | No responses
My large drawing is finished (at least the drawing part). Still deciding whether to add color.
Carpal Tunnel Monster.
A detail:
Am I done yet? Maybe not...
My two other projects:
This is the image my print will be based on.
New series of gouache paintings.
Enough to keep me busy, plus I started four more small paintings. Jeez…
Walk in the Park, Again.
Posted on 7 March 2010 | No responses
The ever changing Freeway Park. The grounds crew does an amazing job keeping the park looking good. Spring is on the way it seems, blooms abound.
Pretty in pink.
Look, petals.
The ever changing pots.
Once out of the park, the next thing to catch my eye was this:
Cool cotton.
A little dose of urban reality.
Michael Schall and Dan Webb.
Posted on 2 March 2010 | No responses
Michael Schall at Platform. Makes you want to put down your pencil, this guy is that good. Not just little drawings, either. Case in point:
Battle at Sea, graphite on paper, 70 x 94 inches, 2008
The detail is crazy, plus he gets some serious shadow:
Hoover Dam, graphite on paper, 36 x 60 inches, 2010
Then, when you are finished with THAT pile of rigor and dedication, check out Dan Webb’s show at Greg Kucera Gallery. Get another dose, this time the sculptural equivalent.
FORTRESS, 2009 Carved wood (Cedar) 44 X 28 X 29 inches
Check out this beauty:
WOODYLION, 2009 Carved Redwood 32 x 14 x 11 inches
Now it’s time to go back to the studio and get to work. Or, if you’re a collector – get out the checkbook.
Sidereal Press
Posted on 28 February 2010 | No responses
Yeah – I haven’t posted for a while. Not because I’m lazy (maybe a little) just busy. I have this grant to make a print. Thanks 4Culture! (Go here to learn how you can help 4Culture keep their funding source.)
So I get to work with Sheila Coppola at Sidereal Press to make a suite of etchings. She has this amazing new shop in Tukwila.
Sidereal Press' new digs in Tukwila.
Wow!
This place is very spacious!
I’m a wee bit jealous at this point. Great light, high ceilings, elbow room. Studio envy?
The lovely proprietress, Sheila Coppola!
I can’t wait until next week – perhaps by then we’ll have pulled a proof. I’ll have evidence that I’ve been productive. In the meantime I leave you to contemplate the Putz!
Hey Putz!
Cigs and The Studio
Posted on 23 January 2010 | No responses
My Latest doorstep offering:
Wow, thanks!
I think this was the studio doorbell, but I’m not sure:
Uh, what are you?
And finally, some work gets done:
The drawing that goes on forever, coffee in hand.
Another View from The Studio
Posted on 11 January 2010 | No responses
The view from the studio's loft "office". I don't do windows.
Daily Studio #5
Posted on 10 January 2010 | No responses
Here’s one of the 5 x 7″ pieces from my Telephone Room show. You can find 8 more on my Small Work 2009 page.
Good Enough, 7 x 5 inches, gouache and graphite on rag board, 2009
Vic Chesnutt
Posted on 7 January 2010 | No responses
UPDATE 1/10/10:
My friend Neal shared this quote from Vic Chesnutt:
“Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that’s beautiful.” — Vic Chesnutt
Vic Chesnutt died on December 25th, 2009. He was (and still is)one of my favorite musicians.
Vic Chesnutt, 1964-2009
He was one of the few people I would still see in concert – but he didn’t come to Seattle often. I saw him three times, once each at Bumbershoot, The Showbox and The Tractor. Sadly, Rebecca and I were out of town when he was here in November. I’ve been thinking a lot about Vic and why I connected with his music so intensely. It didn’t hurt that we had grown up not many miles apart in Middle Georgia. His accent felt so familiar. But I think it was his songwriting which veered between poetic goofiness, scathing observations, and self deprecating humor. He could be grumpy, funny, sad, sentimental and odd. The words he used, and the way he sang them always made me smile. We’ll miss you Vic.
Here is Vic singing Cobbham Blues via creepyaskudzu:
For more info go here and here.
Goodbye Telephone Room
Posted on 6 January 2010 | No responses
It was fun while it lasted.
I took my show Is You Is? down this Sunday. I got to hang out a bit with Heide Fernandez-Llamazares and Ellen Ito, two of the three that make the Telephone Room run (Marty Gengenbach being the third). We talked about yurts, snowboarding and football. And other things. Before and after pictures below.
Before:
Is You Is? installation shot
Is You Is? through the door
After:
Sorry Telephone Room! I took part of the ceiling when I removed my drawing.
Thanks Telephone Room!
Their next show is For the Birds by Elise Richman January 8 – 31, 2010.
Check it out.
Marc Dombrosky at Platform
Posted on 6 January 2010 | No responses
I’m excited to see Marc’s show Neverland at Platform Gallery tomorrow at First Thursday.
FOR SALE 2009, Embroidery on found cardboard box. 12 x 13 x 19.5 inches
He’s back from Las Vegas where he and Shannon Eakins are living while she gets her MFA. We miss ‘em and look forward to catching up tomorrow night.
There are many other good shows including Yuki Nakamura and Gretchen Bennett at Howard House. For more complete coverage hit Best Of, Another Bouncing Ball and Jen Graves.
Congrats Marc! I’ll see you there.