Sif

Acrylic on canvas

Rick

acrylic on panel

some post-valentines kitchening

A little slightly irreverent baking can help prevent the crazies on a snowy day. 

(i.e. apparently im a 15 year old boy today.)

15 minutes of fun

putting paint on your face and taking pictures can pass the time

i saw a picture on a blog and i drew it.

even though i have probably only met him twice, sometimes i read brigham's blog. i like that he takes pictures of his food, sometimes i do that too (when no one's looking).

part of my 'keeping busy' is drawing more portraits, so im trying to draw people's pictures from their blogs and facebook. more to come.

(p.s... i.e. PROJECT: it's more fun to ask forgiveness that ask permission)


oh yeah and i also drew this...

a rambling

quote of the moment:

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
(Kenji Miyazawa)

it seems only fitting to use a favorite Japanese quote since i am currently wrapping up a Japanese themed piece for Lily Culver. My grandma passed away two weeks ago, and i had a wonderful time with family in California reminiscing and celebrating her life. now that the 'festivities' are over im still having a hard time with it, and somehow i can not admit that to anyone in person but have no problem announcing it over the internet? I grew up in her house until i was 12 so in a way it feels like losing a mother as well.... BUT im trying to focus on Miyazawa's quote, and it's not that i have a problem with being sad, it's that i need to keep reminding myself to do something with it.

so... i haven't been posting much but hopefully i will try and get more up here.

my only larger painting i finished in '09

more divine

I'm giving away paintings. Actually I'm completely out of ideas for the moment, so if you have an idea and I like it, i'll make it and give it to you. Sound good?
(a friend of rick's liked the last Divine painting so I made him this one.)

Damien to the future

I'm trying to paint more on cardboard. Meet Divine, I'm sure you'll be seeing more of her. (and there may be a John Waters in the near future)

After seeing this one, Rick told me it looked really 80's. and then i was sad. then ambivalent. at least now it's worth a smirk. Maybe since I painted half of this in the dark by only the glow of sweet sweet television, i didn't realize the potential nostalgic effect of the acid-wash sherbet-y background.

in February I baked:

1. A birthday cake for Judah.
2. Friday the 13th sugar cookies
3. some Friday the 13th cookies that turned into valentines

practice portraits

and to continue missing deadlines

i don't actually make new years resolutions ever but ok. i have been doing a lot of figure drawing lately, and every time i think i like what i drew i come back 10 minutes later and realize it is not even half as good as i thought...

meet rody

a thirsty mess

what my desk looked like half an hour ago (i.e. before i cleaned)
and yes that is a lindt **dark chocolate** truffle (i.e. delicious)

inspiration, and where are you swoon?

I spent FOREVER today going through everything i own looking for a photo i took in... 2003 maybe (?) of a door in an alley that had art by Swoon on it. I didn't know who made it until recently when a friend showed me her work. So. I must have lost it. Which makes me sad, because it was beautiful!!!!

I literally found every photo i have ever taken except the one i wanted. so here are a few i like the most taken during the same summer:

in new jersey you don't pump gas, ok!

yesterday i brewed my first cup of coffee. yes, that's right, i am 24 years old. the mysteries of the coffee pot are unfurled. all i can say is it was a similar feeling to being 18 years old and borrowing my grandmother's car in california, only to realize, at the gas station, that i had never before pumped gas myself and (either unfortunately or hilariously) it took me 5 minutes to figure it out. yes, that's right, i looked at the little stick figures...

what i want for christmas

rick thinks my joke is a little obscure for the masses, and i guess it obviously would be if you don't know what a CHUD is. (what have you been doing with your life?)

assignment: heaven

i can't seem to create a sentence involving "Fabio," "butter," and "muffin" that doesn't sound completely wrong.
wink wink, say no more.

topic: hell