No Time To Be Creative
This is the most creative thing I’ve done in the past 2 weeks. It is an illustration drawn for a coworker of a massage technique that bruised the shit out of my neck. My poor cat is having a really hard time since her surgery and I’ve been taking care of her full-time.
A Day of Work
Had my first day of working in my studio. I know every artist goes this but it’s always humbling and worrisome when the thing in your head turns out to be a turd in the studio. I didn’t have quite that experience but using a little hyperbole helps to place it a little more clearly [...]
Ready to Work
I Photoshopped the the wall in there for now. I really can’t wait to build it but I wanna get some stuff started. I don’t actually need it yet anyway. Soon though.
I’m also going to build a new table as this one is on it’s last leg (none intended). I built it in 1999 and [...]
The Floor
Spent the day rolling on polyurethane with Brant today. What a back-breaker that is. We got about halfway done and we’re high as hell from the oil base fumes, and not a good high I might add. We decided to finish up on Wednesday. Soon, soon, soon this place will be ready. After the floor [...]
Putting Things In Place
I’m finally out of my old studio and getting things arranged in the new space. It has been slow because of a couple of busy work weeks. Still some work to do before I can start making.
Drilling for water. The building manager says we can drill through the floor to plumb into the water pipe [...]
Studio Move
Moved into a new studio this weekend with a guy named Brant Lavalla that I met via craigslist.org. I’m really excited and exhausted (long work week as well). The guy in the picture is the building manager, Mark. He’s standing on the side I chose, divided by the 2 pillars in the center.
The place looks [...]
A Visit To LACMA
E and I visited the Los Angeles County Museum of Art this past weekend and I shot a few pictures of pieces that had an impact on me. Of course, the collection was so large that I had no time to record the credits/captions of each piece, much less spend time with everything that piqued my interest.
It’s Not Much, But It’ll Do…
Took me and E a few days to get the old studio packed up and moved in. The hardest part was/is figuring out the most logical way to cram a bunch of sh*t into a small space and still have easy access to what I need without having to move everything around each time.
UTD/Southside Artist Residency
A lot of my current direction was facilitated by the University of Texas at Dallas/Southside residency program I was in right after grad school (2004-2005). I was accepted with the ceramic sculpture that was completed for my graduate thesis.
After the Scrape-down
The scape-down was necessary after a thick application a couple of weeks before. I’m more responsive to this now. The color still isn’t quite right (I liked it better before, more muted) but the effect is closer. I’ve cut out an outline as to where the main form will be moving.