42 posts tagged “painting”
Made a new little painting, all within 3 hours. This was due to an overall cluster-fuck of coffee, candy, steak, seltzer water and who knows what else...
1. waste of time
2. super expensive conferences and seminars
3. they hate mannerists
4. they bow to the altar of Sergent, hence why all the work looks the same.
5. member work featured -- simply hideous.
6. the president calling me to tell me the Smithsonian will sue me for my show title, despite not knowing the the hell she was talking about or having done any research on the matter. Not to mention she sounded like an overall moron (other countries have portrait galleries too besides the US-- duh!) and if that's whose in charge I want no part in it.
7. did I mention it wasted my time?
8. a hideous newsletter that my husband would throw out because he couldn't stand the art in it. Having it sit on the coffee table was offensive to his eyesight.
9. did I mention it all looked the same? Cheeseball is what it was.
10. south western inspired art or portraits of children with ugly toothy grins in predictable poses - 'nuff said.
11. I SO didn't fit in with the whole thing.
Mrs. Turner, 11x14" oil on canvas
I'll be doing some large fun giclee prints with Mahan Gallery next week, but in the meantime all my prints on Etsy are now $15 until April 30th.
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and finished a commission based off my Space Is The Place painting...
I never really paint cats, but being that Milkshake is popular why not do one of him for practice? I've been told, by more than one person who has met him, that between the eyes and overall expression that it totally is Milkshake...
You can purchase this little 6x8 inch painting for only $65 over at www.bellavendetta.etsy.com. Milkshake is after all an internet sensation! He's been on CuteOverload, ICanHasCheezburger and even Gawker! So I was thinking to myself, maybe since he is so popular that i should start a little fanzine about him the way you had in the 70's with the teeny bopper idols. I actually had one dedicated to Depeche Mode that my now-husband brought back from England once for me when I was about 12 years old; I totally cut out the pictures to put on my walls and loved it. I also remember finding one dedicated to Shaun Cassidy at a thrift store, and it was hilarious! Just pictures of him on set of the Hardy Boys and crap about his favorites foods and stuff. Shaun liked popcorn best if you were wondering.
I don't really have money to do a mini print Milkshake Fanzine, but that would be so awesome. I'd probably sell more copies of those than all of my art prints put together. Well, maybe I should just let you in on some of his favorite things...
You may or may not know, his favorite food is Mayonnaise. No lie! A close second is cheddar cheese. He also has two favorite bands; The Libertines (maybe because he is a little punk) and anything with Rod Stewart on vocals. Again, no lie, as we have run experiments to determine this. You're probably wondering if he has a girlfriend? Sorry ladies but yes he does, but she's more of a Real Doll type than anything. She's a stuffed monkey named Snowflake.
Tune in next time for more fun facts about Milkshake.
Once upon a time when I worked at Herbert Palmer Gallery, I finally got some cash together to buy a silkscreen by Gerald Laing (since I didn't have the money for an Albrect Durer woodcut that may have been a fake). I bought a great piece from the Baby Baby Wild Things series he did in the 60s...
It is my favorite thing in my home. I don't even care about Bridget Bardot, but I like the image. Little did I know that he was STILL making kick ass pop art images, even of today's celebrity train wrecks...
do yourself a favor and grab one if you can.
Steve from "Artwork by Steve" also does pop art style oil paintings; girls with colored sunglasses and always with food, or bubbles, or both...
You can also buy prints from his site.
My parents started collecting the work of David Miretsky in the 70s. In fact he did a huge painting they bought to celebrate the birth of moi. He does a lot of social and family scenes that reflect the Brighton Beach circles of Russians and Ukrainians, but also nudes and political satire paintings. His work is either soft and pretty, or very surreal and bizarre. The men in his work are always in fact, very ugly. Though I guess the women can come off like cheap whores or well-to-do depending how you look at it. I grew up with both types of his work hung around the house, and I'm sure it made an impression on me on top of all the other eastern European artists my parents collected. In fact, many visitors to the house always asked how my family could live with so many large, bizarre, and somewhat disturbing images. I thought they were awesome, and thought it was normal. But here is one of his more subdued works...
I am not really a fan of vector art or digital painting, mostly because it looks digital and has the potential to appear very dated in the long run. But, I do like Tom Bagshaw, aka www.mostlywanted.com.
His work has a painterly figurative, anime, and comic book-like quality that for some reason I really dig. You can see some of his process on his blog: http://tombagshaw.blogspot.com/
This is for the space themed show coming up over at Art Whino Gallery. 11x14" oil on board.
One of these days I'll either get a better camera, or a sweet large format scanner to better capture image quality...one day.
Looks like I'll be showing in a lot of places around N. America the next two months. I'm glad I got it together enough to do some pieces specifically for the themed shows -- I've been lazy since October. So here, mark your calendars if you are in any of these cities...
Friday, March 7th
“All Girl Show” @ Anxiety
Gallery in Madison WI. I'll have two mixed media pieces in this one, wish I could go.
Saturday,
March 8th
The 2nd Annual 'Ladies
First' art event in Vancouver, BC. As part of the Indie
Music Video Festival
This show will also be traveling to Chicago, IL in May and Portland,
OR in July and possibly more.
Many hot artist chicks involved in this one. Here's some work you'll find And I'll probably be attending the Chicago event.
Saturday,
April 5th - 26th
"Isn't It Romantic" group show @ Mahan
Gallery, Columbus OH. I'll be attending this with my posse -- watch out!
Saturday,
April 12th
"World Space Party" group show. Space themed art in honor
of Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
@ Art Whino Gallery, Alexandria
VA. I'll have a painting I made just for this on display. Wish I could go to this.
Apirl
14th - 20th
"Attack of the B Movie Show" @ Space
Gallery 1141 Polk St (at Sutter) San Francisco. CA.
Curated by The Creep Machine. Opening Reception Friday, April 18th,
8pm - whenever. My "Switchblade Sue" series will be on display. A lot of awesome people involved in this show too, damn I wish I could attend.
You can also find my stuff at Boxheart Gallery in Pittsburgh, Gina's Gallery in Cleveland and well as on display at Velvet Tango Room in Cleveland.
I don't remember when I first became aware of Louie Metz. Maybe it was the old Onyx Cafe, maybe it was through artist Stacy Lande or maybe some other L.A. gallery like Circle Elephant (now Bert Green Fine Art). Either way, we started showing together at Cannibal Flower around 2002, and I've loved his stuff ever since. He captures sordid situations and the L.A. vibe so well. I found him again through Flickr, and I'm happy he has a website now.
Little Robot is a gal living in Scotland that does such great drawings; I'm normally not a fan of this kind of work, but her stuff I like enough that it has inspired some tattoo designs for myself...
Amy Abshier-Reyes does wonderful little portraits, the bulk of which sort of look like gals from Edwardian era up to the 1930s. She's selling original tiny paintings for cheap too...
"Switchblade Sue Will Cut You" 8x10 inches, oil on board.
This is for the B Movie group show at Space Gallery in SF coming up in April. I've watched a lot of teen exploitation flicks from the 1950s involving girl gangs, or sorority girls who are just bad, so this character was just sort of inspired by those as a whole.
