Gawker

Hey my art is on Gawker. Well indirectly, thru YouTube. I did some illos for Rob Kutner's new book "Apocalypse How" and he did a YouTube promo using them. Does this mean I am hip? Heck YEAH! I am particularly fond of the human shirt illo. Borderline genius. Ha.

New York / ICON5

Hey I am going to be in NYC from June 30 - July 8 for the Illustration Conference. If you are going Angela Edwards, who is going to the conference, but has never been to NYC, set up a forum for people attending the conference to touch base and share tips etc. Click here if you want to sign up and share.

It is an unofficial forum. Yeehaw!

Oh yes, I have decided to collect the best of my Chemistry matches. I don't know what I'll do with them but it is giving me hours of amusement.

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Martha

MY perfect Chemistry match.

I apologize in advance for all the swearing.

OK. I think I am a pretty nice not so gross person, but goddamn it I can't take it anymore. I tried online dating one more time and for the love of god what the hell is going on in the world??? JEEZ USSSS. I need to swear. What the FUCK!!!!!????

Read the profile below that was sent to me today. It was sent to me because the questionnaire I took says we are a perfect match. The camel's back done be broke. This is not the first of these I have received. There's plenty more where it came from. This is the one that pushed me over the goddamn edge. It seems Los Angeles is jam-packed with single middle-aged sally TOOL men. I know. I am being so mean, but "sweetie" here has cracked.

So now I don't give a shit if I never go on another date EVER AGAIN for infinity. MOther F-ING G-D C-SUCKing SHIT CRAP Son of a BITCH. I am going to hell. Somebody put me out of my misery. PLEEZE! I give up. I am not bitter REALLY just gonna never go on a date again. This guy ruined it for me forever. Some booby renaissance milady needs to smack him HARD in his charming prince ASS libation.

Your Wish = My Command
Hi Sweetie, please allow me to introduce myself. I'm Prince Charming! Certainly, you be the judge.

May I have the next dance? But of course, coffee, tea - a libation - would be lovely. Now, did I mention that I'm extra funny & extra smart & extra handsome? Oh, yes, extra modest too. Downright self-effacing if you must know.

I have many sides - please allow me to introduce myself. I'm a renaissance man. I'm a seasoned actor of the stage transitioning to film and TV, happen to have an MA in Philosophy, graduated from Berkeley. I'm also a very successful advertising sales executive by day.

Right now my heart goes out to a certain dog in my life, but is poised for the companionship of a woman who is serene. As she cherishes, adores, and brightens my day with her smile I shall give likewise. Smart shall she be. With a sense of humor or I'll have none. Values her health and beauty. Likes movies, cooking together, dogs, music, the beach, exercise, the smell of eucalyptus in the forest, and her hair shall be of what color it please God.

Pictures from the Grasshut Show!

Please check out the Grasshut website and buy some art. There are some amazing Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson arts in the show. Do it now man!

Portland is FAB

Portland is an excellent place, I am here right now. The people are groovy and nice and they make you feel comfortable and at home. Please check out Grass Hut to see the art from the show tonight. I'll add pics of the nice people of Portland when I get back on Saturday.

Don't you need some cake and lobster art? I know I need it. That's why I paint it. Gol' dang it. You should totally buy these.

One-painting-a-day Revisited

Howdy peeps! I have decided to go back to doing my one painting a day thing. Doing the one painting a week wasn't working for me.

For some reason it is freeing having to come up with something new every day. Maybe because there is no time to think too much or to self censor and it appeals to my inner ADD. So please go to freedomwig on June 1st to see what's going down. Heck yes.

This art you see here is for a lovely job I did for the July issue of Bon Appetit magazine. Excellent people to work with!

Back in LALAdenarockville

Hey back home after a fabulous two weeks in Pittsburgh visiting my family with a side trip to Chicago for the show at DVA Gallery. Here is a picture of all of us artsy farts at a bar called Proust right next to the gallery.

We ate spaeztel and weird sour meatballs and I drank skunked wine from a dirty glass. I am so hardcore, man. Enjoy the weener plate picture, please. There were some sloshed frat and sorority types drinking brew from a very large glass boot across the room providing us with some lovely free entertainment. I feel that Chicago is a boozy place.

Speaking of brew, my brother's beer won a Silver Medal at the World Cup of Beer (check out category #74). This is a very cool thing. If you ever get a chance to drink any beer from Penn Brewery, do it cause it is real good. The Pilsner is my favorite. My brother is the Head Brewer over there. I wish they sold the beer in Pasadena. It is pretty much the only beer I drink. Here is a picture of the winning beer.

Backtracking. I wanted to go to the Carnegie International when I was in Pittsburgh but didn't get a chance. It looks groovy-- Doug Aitken, Barry McGee among others have stuff in it. I'll see it when I go back to the 'burgh in August. Also when I was in Chicago I saw the Karen Kilimnik show at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Her art rocks my world (I am embarrassed to use that phrase but I mean it). I got a little choked up when I saw it.

OK talk to you yinzers later.

Spring Cleaning Sale!

Howdy people. I decided to extend my Spring Cleaning sale on freedomwig.com until May 31. Some people emailed me asking to extend it so I am gonna do it! I'll update the website and my one-a-weeks when I get back to Cally next week.

Thanks!
Martha

I am in Chicago

I am in Chicago today until Sunday for the Billy Shire Fine Arts show at the DvA Gallery. A lot of the artists who show at Billy Shire and La Luz de Jesus will be in attendance. Cool beans! I'll be signing my book there too. This painting is in the show. Click here to get more details. YAY!

Longisland Track Suit

Here be another excellent track suit. This one is by Scott Bakal all the way from NY. I hope I get more. They make me happy. In the next few days I am going to do a little triathlon training journal with drawings and stuff. Please check back!

California Dreaming

Yo peeps I have two pieces o' art in this show up yonder in San Fran. You can see them on freedomwig.com. Would like to go up there cause I am feeling bored, but I'm working on a bunch o' stuff. Maybe if I get stuff finished I'll head to SFO.

Chicago Tracksuit

This beautiful track suit drawing was done by Julie Murphy, a former L.A. person who went back home to Chicago cause she couldn't stand 72 and sunny and palm trees anymore.

I will do my own tracksuit this week for sure. In the meantime check out freedomwig.com. I started doing a painting a week. Yeehaw.

Balls Out Grass Hut

Howday Thar Peeps! I collaborated with Esther Pearl Watson on these suckas. They are for the "Balls Out" show at Grass Hut in Portland on March 7th. The show is curated by Bwana Spoons and should be groovy. If you are in Portland you must go. Yeehaw!

To buy these:
click here for the Stripper Pole piece
click here for the Cherry Pie piece

I am working on a job right now so I will get to my tracksuit art after I am done with that. Also working on another newsletter, trying something different. Hopefully it'll look good.

Track Suite Heaven

YAY more track suit love come to you thanks to Jim Bradshaw. Fab!

Guess I better do a track suit of my own. Still cannot explain my fascination with this topic right now. Maybe it is because I have been spending so much time on the couch avoiding anything that has to do with running.

I have another Triathlon coming up in June and must get up off the cushions and move it. Must buy a purple matching velour tracksuit with something written on the butt in gothic lettering. Then I will be COOL.

I have officially replaced Diet Coke with Latte's with no sugar and have been taste testing. Here is the order of what I like best so far.
1. Intelligentsia
2. Peet's
3. Coffee Bean
4. Starbuck's

I think I have an addictive personality. Actually I know I do. It is nice to have a routine thing to do in the mornings. Missing the fizziness though.

For real! Please email me your track suit drawrings. Pleeeese!

Please more track suits

This track suit is by Mark Todd. The Italian horn is quite the lovely added touch, don'tcha think? Won't you please send me more tracksuit drawings? Ask your friends. Pleeeeeeze.

I am on the brink of a creative burst of frenzy. March 1st will be my first painting-a-week. Kind of like my one-a-day, the one-a-week's will also be on found paper but a bit larger and more detailed. I am excited. For some reason I want to start talking in a british accent like Britney Spears, but I refrain as that might be interpreted improperly. Do stop by for some tea though.

Esther and I are collaborating on two paintings right now for the BAlls Out show in Portland on March 7th curated by Bwana Spoons. Later on chaps, must have a sip of fancy red wine and get back to painting.

Track suit CRACK!

Hidey Ho! Here is another track suit drawing by Frieda Gossett Clayton, Jr. III, Esq. Don't you love the crack? I certainly do. I need more track suits. I guess I should drawr one myself.

Lately I haven't been creating mucho arto. January was drab so I am taking a letterpress class to knock some creativity into my ass. Below the track suit is my first foray into pressing those letters on one of them printing contraptions. Dig it man. Seth Drenner is the teacher.

I had a very good cup of coffee the other day and I don't drink coffee. I know it was good because it didn't give me stinky bitter coffee mouth. It didn't even need sugar. It was at Intelligentsia Coffee at Sunset Junction. There were quite few hip-looking people milling about, but I will go back despite that. It may cause me to take up coffee drinking to replace the diet coke, of which, I stopped drinking last Wednesday. I am not putting that nutra sweet in my mouth anymore. OK gotta stop. No one really cares what I have to say anyhow, except myself. Hell yes.

Joe Rocco Track Suit

I love this one too. I should go out and buy a tracksuit. Zo zexy.

Bragging on Brown

I have to brag on my good friend Calef Brown. Check out the number one spot on the New York Frickin Times Children's Best Seller List. YAY CAlef! So everyone go out an buy Flamingo's on the Roof for all the kids you know to keep his book at numero uno.

More Track Suits

Here is another fabulous track suit drawing submitted by Jason Dominguez. Love the camel toe! Thank you Jason.

Track suit ART

Please send me more track suit art. I want MORE! Thank you.