Arty Farty

Art Farting Toots

nobody@vox.com(ArtyFarty) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:49:39 -0700

Nice write-up about my Switchblade Sue series. Go buy those girls! I need gas money honey.

Over the weekend was the Wilmington Skate Project benefit art show. Go take a looky if you are in the Philly/DE area...

WSP_Art_Show_flyer_2008

I'm working on a comic book character tribute for a show coming up next month. Can you guess who it might be based on this?

Boobies

I made a new drawing of horses, because they rock; also went and got my super limited edition 11x14" giclees done of "Varcua, Duchess of Scovelica". Please email me for details. Here's some pictures of that whole shebang...

Yep.

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New Images and Stuff

nobody@vox.com(ArtyFarty) — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:42:58 -0700

New graphite chicky-poo "Lara", 7x5"

Also Greg Holston down at Mahan Gallery was nice enough to take some more accurate photos of these two pieces...

"Baron Luca and Baroness Elizabetta of Moravic, 18x24"

"Galliano Corset" 18x24"

I also still have this tiny gal for sale, I lowered the price since she isn't framed. Please help fund my desire to see both The Boss Martians and The Bellrays this week here in Cleveland.

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Recent Art Picks

nobody@vox.com(ArtyFarty) — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:00:51 -0700

Bill Presing is a comic artist and story artist at Pixar. I'm in love with some of the images from his book Belle de Jour, and may have to get myself a copy...

Ben Walker is an artist out of Sacramento, he really likes cowboys and bears. I just ordered his book and can't wait to get my hands on it...

Hey, you know besides being a comic, film actor, and having a distinct mustache -- Martin Mull is a damn fine artist. I've actually known this for about a decade, but every time he had a show in L.A. I was unable to go for some reason, kinda ticked me off really. He uses a lot of imagery that is sort of 1950s meeting paint by numbers. Me likey. He is in several museums which is quite a feat for anyone, let alone this guy.

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New Poo

nobody@vox.com(ArtyFarty) — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:33:34 -0700

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...

Varya

In other news, I am no longer a member of the Portrait Society of America. Why? Hmm, well let us see here...

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.

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Art Reception Photos

nobody@vox.com(ArtyFarty) — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:42:59 -0700

I wasn't able to get to the Attack of the B Movie show in San Francisco, but Josh from Creep Machine has put up some photos from the reception here.

You can also still purchase many works through the new Creep Machine Store here.

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New Portrait

nobody@vox.com(ArtyFarty) — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:36:15 -0700

Mrs. Turner, 11x14" oil on canvas

Mrs. Turner

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Art Fart Overload

nobody@vox.com(ArtyFarty) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:45:36 -0700

I painted two new gals...

Dinara of Terra

Thomasina

and finished a commission based off my Space Is The Place painting...

Orangespace

This is on top of me doing a painting for the Comic Book Art Show in Connecticut, some design work for both Stitch Cleveland and a few other corporate clients. I really don't know how I get anything done at all, let alone on time; I take so many "breaks" and watch Judge Judy during the day it is amazing I don't sit around like a beached whale. I hear a lot about artists that supposedly work 8-10 hours on their art -- I tried that once and injured my back and neck. Y'all are crazy! Eat a cupcake and take a load off, stuff gets done eventually.

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Just Another Milkshake Monday

nobody@vox.com(ArtyFarty) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:54:50 -0700

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...

Little Man

~~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.

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Artists n' Stuff

nobody@vox.com(ArtyFarty) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:46:45 -0700

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/

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Space is the Place

nobody@vox.com(ArtyFarty) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:18:00 -0700

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.

SpaceisthePlace

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