Real Painters Use Paint.

#35 Get off the Couch

Yes, so I'm in the real studio today cleaning my real painting table off and have another painter coming over to take a look at the pool paintings-the real ones that smell like oil paint.

I'm stymied by my lack of interest in making abstract work on the iPhone. It just doesn't hold my interest right now. I think it has to do with it being virtually impossible to make an honest abstract mark on the iPhone. It LOOKS like a painterly blob, but it's not created the same way as a painterly blob. The abstract painting on the iPhone is simply a image of what an abstract painting would look like, not what it actually is. That, and I'm really into the the banal images representing my life right now.

Wait a second....

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I'm so hooked on this.

I just discovered digital printmaking Nirvana. They're gorgeous-absolutely stellar, drop-dead lovely.

I dusted off my PictureMate, cleaned the head about 20 times, and have printed out two test prints on matte photo paper. It's like the digital art equivalent of a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.

#25 Clock Radio

iPhone sketch #25

ARTRA at T-Lofts this weekend: 332

If you're in Los Angeles, stop by. We're in Loft 332*
ARTRA at T-Lofts
Nov 14th, Nov 15th, 12-5pm
11500 Tennessee Avenue
Los Angeles, 90064

Catalog available

*I'm pretty sure it's 332, but if not, it's a variation of that number such as 322 or 329. Based on my memory and the floorplan, I'm going with 332.

I'm back from installing paintings. It looks good. I'm showing with Mike Vegas, an artist who I had not previously met, but we have mutual friends.

It's an event-food, drinks, music, DJ's somewhere. I'm tempted to set up a print corner and pass the time by making sketches of my paintings using Brushes and then print them out as 4" x 6" prints.

Speaking of which...
I think this is obvious-but in case you need to buy a vowel, those are German Shepherd ears silhouetted against the bedroom window.

Clock Radio coming up. I'm being prolific again.

Collated and Mailed.

I want a prize.

The grant was deceptively simple, yet unnecessarily complex. TWENTY-SIX pages to wade through. For real. And— AND, there was conflicting information about what to include and how to include it. I mean, if it was a 1-page grant app, sure, I can think outside the box and wing it, but I'm thinking with 26 pages and explicit directions, perhaps a little proofreading might have been a good idea.

The good news is that I'm set to whip it out in no time at all next year. I'm also really pleased about my project proposal and how it ties back in to some work I did about 15 years ago. Unfortunately it's not exactly big happy art-it deals with my mom's memory loss and um, you know, that inevitable thing other than taxes, but I'm hoping my wicked sense of inappropriate humor will lighten it up.

My next scheduled administrative task MUST be completed this weekend and then I swear I'm going to do nothing but paint.

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Oooooh, but wait! I've printed out a hi-rez image of my Brushes iphone sketch, #25 clock radio. OMG, I'm in love with my iPhone. Okay, paint, and make iphone sketches- that's all I'm going to do.

Stay tuned for affordable prints!

Dharma Zen Center Silent Auction Nov. 7th

Curated and organized by David McDonald. Online preview and bidding available through November 7th.

Please come to our live auction/sale to benefit the Dharma Zen Center this Saturday the 7^th from 6-9 p.m. To view all the items to be auctioned go to www.dharmazen.com and click on the auction link. Over a 100 items are available with over 50 works of original art included. Items being auctioned include guitar lessons, reiki treatments, trips, gift certificates, jewelry, and art lessons.

The artworks on view will be sold for $108 except for works by Steve Roden, Lecia Dole-Recio, Joanne Greenbaum, and Laura Owens which will be auctioned with bids starting at $108 and increasing in increments of $50.

Artists: Kim Abeles, Lisa Adams, Maura Bendett, Cherie Benner Davis, Leonardo Bravo, Lynne Berman, Dove Bradshaw, Annie Buckley, Jamison Carter, Cole Case, Katy Crowe, David D’Andrade, Caryl Davis, Steve DeGroodt, Lecia Dole-Recio, Sam Erenberg, Nancy Evans, Joanne Greenbaum, Phyllis Green, Margaret Griffith, Mary Addison Hackett, Ruth Hardinger, Sarah Hinckley, Mary Jones, Dion Johnson, Virginia Katz, Barbara Kerwin, Mara Lonner, David McDonald, Robin Mitchell, Timothy Nolan, Laura Owens, Carolie Parker, Jeanne Patterson, Joan Perlman, Katie Phillips, Michael Pierzynski, Pam Posey, Max Presneill, Jessica Rath, Lucas Reiner, Rebecca Ripple, Steve Roden, Kate Savage, Fran Siegel, Carol Silverstein, Kathryn Spence, Maggie Tennesen, Devon Tsuno, Cheryl Walker, Alexandra Wisenfield, Megan Williams, and Andre Yi