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.

Track suits RULE!

A person who shall remain nameless is currently wearing a matching track suit. I love it! Please email me your matching track suit art.

Spotted Cans with Smoking Beaver

"Spotted Cans with Smoking Beaver" has become available for purchase. To purchase this collaboration between myself and Esther Pearl Watson click on the "buy now" button below or contact me at 626.399.4394.

24" x 25"
Mixed media on paper
Unframed
$1800

I have the SCOOP!

Martha is bored of writing about me me me, so now Martha is going to write about Esther Pearl Watson. Martha likes being creepy and writing in the third person. Eww just creeped myself out. Stopping now.

So the scoop is that Fantagraphics is going to publish a book version of Esther's super popular Unlovable comic. This is groovy news! Hells yeah.

You can see Unlovable in every issue of Bust Magazine. It was also chosen by Harvey Pekar (American Splendor) and Anne Elizabeth Moore the "The Best American Comics" anthology released by Houghton Mifflin. It is a smart, funny, sweet and sour comic. If you don't know about it you might be slightly uncool, but now you do so that makes you slightly cool again. Lucky for you.

This is a picture of Esther working hard (or hardly working heh heh heh) gathering up all her genius into piles. Look for the book to come out the end o' 2008. There will be old and brand new Unlovable antics in the book so it'll be worth your while. To get you up to speed, you can pick up some past issues of unlovable on Funchicken.com. OK? Do it. So enough about Esther, have you bought some of my art yet? Well get on that, please. La Luz de Jesus.

Thanks Non-Rain Pusses

Thanks to all you not-scared-of-rain people who came to my opening on Friday. It turned out pretty dang good. Those who didn't come because of the rain, we decided to call "rain pusses." Living in L.A. you know when it rains people stay home, but it still amazes me how rain sends people into panties-in-a-wad freak-out mode. Hey just dishing out some shizz to yous pusses. The philly-girl in me that causes me to do that.

So anyway I took a terrible, shaky video of the room before it got too crowded so you can see how the show looked. I am not a cinematographer OK? Sorry in advance if you get queezy.

Lemon Fresh Pretty

Here is a picture from the preview last night. These are my friends contemplating the deep meaning behind my art. Did they figure it out?

L.A. people, please brave the rain and cold tonight and come to the opening. A little rain never hurt anyone right? It is dry and warm in the gallery. 8pm - 11pm. 4633 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027. 323-666-7667

Out of town people, please check out the show online at the La Luz de Jesus website. You don't have to be there in person to buy a little art. Woohoo! Look at David Sandlin's stuff too. He is cool!

Invitation

This is an invitation for the opening reception for my show at La Luz de Jesus Gallery on January 4th. Woohoo. If you are in the Los Angeles area, please come by and say hello.

I'll be the one hanging out being internally neurotic and trying not to care if people like my art or not and acting all cool and stuff. You know, it is possible to be confident and nervous at the same time. I don't think you are supposed to admit this. You are supposed to act like you know whats going on. Do you dig what I am saying?

Anyway, the reception's at La Luz are very laid back, so bring your friends. Oh yes, feel free to buy some art too. That is a good thing to do. It will make you a better person.

Sneak Peak

Right now I am writing you from Pittsburgh, PA! I am cold and wimpy and full of bad-for-you food. My stomach hurts. This morning we had sticky buns made by Amish peeps. YUMMY. I am here visiting my family for the holidays.

So here is a sneak peak of one o' the big paintings (5 feet by 4 feet, dang!) I did for my show at La Luz de Jesus on January 4th. It is called "Lemon Fresh Pretty." It has changed a bunch from the earlier picture I took (see below). It is inspired by all the ads we see during our lives informing us of the bad smells we make, our lack of prettiness, that we are too fat, and all our flaws that will cause others to like us less. Who knew? The good news is there are many products that will save us from an empty life of likelessness! YAY.

Actually I shouldn't be too hard on the advertising industry. I like to have fresh breath and white teeth and to smell good and I truly appreciate this in others. Without advertising, I do believe we would all be hairy and smelly people with rotting teeth. ANYWAY.... The photo isn't that great, not sure why, because I had it professionally shot. You can't really see the details and the color is off. I guess you'll have to come see it in person!! Anyway blah blah blah. I'll be blah blah blahing about my show for the next week so watch out.

OK one more thing. Check out this blog. She wrote the nicest things about my art that I have ever had anyone say about it before. It made my day.

Imitation Snakeskin Superstore

Down to my last week for working on my show. Stressing out. Working on a show is amazing and terrible at the same time. I feel like a crazy person every day. If you could be inside my head you'd be nauseous. The show is called "Imitation Snakeskin Superstore" and it is about trying to fit in and being cranky. I also extended my one-a-day paintings for the month of December for this show. You can see these at freedomwig.com.

Here is an in-progress picture of another piece I am working on called "Comfort and Support." It will look a lot different in the end. I don't want to give too much away. It is 3 feet by 4 feet on canvas.

You are invited to the opening on January 4, 2008. Groovy! Don't forget to sign up for my mailing list. You'll get a preview.

Anyway gotta stop and get back to work. I am off to Philly and Pittsburgh for the holidays next week. There is no time to lose.

Freedomwig Part Deux

Hey Peeps wanted to let you know I will be starting my one-a-days up again especially for La Luz de Jesus Gallery on December 1st. I'll be posting brand new one-a-days on Freedomwig.com. They will be available for purchase (and will be on display) at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in January 2008. So check it out on Saturday.

Also here is a picture of one of my paintings I am working on for the show in the very beginning stages of development. This one is 5 feet by 4 feet. This show is going to be a mixture of big, medium and small paintings on wood, canvas and paper.

Sign up for my art waiting list here. Enter your email address, submit and then arrow down and check the box with my name. Thanks!!!

Collab!!!

These pictures are some new art I did with Esther Pearl Watson for a show this weekend curated by Mark Murphy at the Robert Berman Gallery. It opens Saturday. They are 24 x 24, mixed media on paper. Collaborating is awesome when it works!! SMF (so much fun).

YAY ART! Come check out the show and buy one of these strange and fabu pieces of art. They look better in person. My camera work isn't the best. Here is a link for more info.

Also make sure you get to La Luz de Jesus Gallery to see Mark Todd's show before it comes down in two weeks. It is pretty dang awesome too. Mark is married to Esther and I share a studio with both of them.

I am a nerd

The reason I am a nerd is that I am posting this picture of Pasadena City Hall. Today when I went to the bank, for some reason I stopped and looked around and was struck by how pretty Pasadena is and what an ideal place it is to live (except for the frickin expensive home prices). I love Pasadena. I can't believe I live here. So after depositing my moola, I took a minute and stood around watching Pasadenans go about their business in this pretty little city and it made me dang happy. If that isn't nerdy I don't know what is. It is even more nerdy that I am sharing this. Blogging is nerdy very nerdy.

To change the subject, here is a bit of art news. Tomorrow is the last day of one-painting-a-day for a whole frickin year! I can't believe I did 365 different arts. Check it out. Buy one for a holiday present for someone. That will make you a cool person. Ha ha ha.

Lobsterland

Hey peeps. I'll probably do more on my blog after the 31st. I am thinking of documenting the process of getting ready for a gallery show. I have one coming up in January.

Anyway here is a book cover I did. I got it in the mail yesterday. I pretty much forgot about it because I did this illustration so long ago.

I truly love painting and eating lobsters. OK gotta run and teach a class!