At Least We Have Unicorns

I got these wonderful sparkly horses from this website.

Neo Ultraman Escapism

Everyday I get some sort of bad news about the frickin' son of bitch economy. Friends and family being laid off or having their pay cut, magazines closing, big businesses trying to get artists to give them their work for free, all around suckiness. I am normally a very optimistic upbeat person, but each piece of news just makes me more pissed off and cranky.

I have to nip it in the bud before I become a solid bitter crotchity old lady. I am sick of all the crappy stinky shit so I am going to frickin' paint ridiculousness and the economy can suck it. I am escaping into my own ultraman laser art movement. Neo Ultraman Escapism. Whatever. It makes me feel better. Anyway these two paintings represent the sweet laser love between Ultraman and Marcia Brady. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Smile Through the Panic

I have been working on paintings by myself this past rainy gloomy week and not being my super social self cause I have so much work to do. When you are alone with yourself too long listening to NPR, reading the paper, checking out the news online, it is not a good thing. I am turning all Stuart Smalley. "I'm going to die homeless and penniless, twenty-five pounds overweight and no one will ever love me." I should probably go outside and talk to real people. Smile through the panic!

Someone should do something

I used to think that maybe I was an interesting and different type person, but when I delve into the world of blogs and facebook and computerness in general, I find that I am not all that original. Sucks. Anyway this economy is bad right now. Someone should do something about it.

Nice Droppings

I haven't been all that good on doing my drawings. Shame on me. Trying harder. I am a busy person. So this is a bird. Everyone draws birds. This bird is dropping some nice.

I posted a lot of new stuff in my Etsy store. Stuff for $20 bucks! I found a whole bunch of art I did for the Giant Robot Post It show a couple of years ago. Crazy.

Yesterday n' Today

Here are two drawrings for today and yesterday. I forgot to post the Obama drawring yesterday. Hey if you feel like buying some of these drawrings, I am posting them on Etsy. Trying it out, you dig? On another note, not that you care, I have anxiety and feel blah and blue. I'd rather feel free and pretty, but there is no way my boobs would work in this cocktail bra. Why bother anyhow? You might as well go braless. They are still flapping around. You know? Random.

This Summer Things Will Be Better

I am going to be optimistic and say that things will be better this summer. It is like what my mom used to do when we went on our summer vacations. We would drive to Edisto Island from Philadelphia, a long drive for a kid. Every time we asked how much farther she would say 20 minutes. For some reason it made the 12 hours drive much easier to take.

Join

OK I am back to doing a drawing almost everyday. Please check back often! You should join for sure.

Jam On It

This drawring is inspired by a playing card that I found while cleaning my studio. Jam on it sister. Wikki wikki wikki! Shake your booty and scream "Oh Yeah!"

I must! I must!

Going to try and post a quick drawing everyday, keeps me on my toes. This is the first one. I must, I must, I must improve my bust. The bigger the better, the tighter the sweater. I must, I must! Truth be told I don't need to improve my bust. It is already big and needs no improvement. WOO!

Last Day on Freedomwig

Monday, December 15 is the last day of Buy One Get One Free before Christmas. I am leaving town on Tuesday and won't be able to ship art until I get back January 7th. Woohoo. So if you want art for a gift now's the time to get it. YAY!

Really Cheap Good Art!

Hey here is a chance to buy some SUPER reasonably priced art. Collect a bunch! Giant Robot is hosting the next Post-it show. All art is done on post it notes and they start at $30 each. Art makes really good Christmas gifts.

ICON6 / Illustration Conference

Howdy. Here is a picture I did recently for freedomig.com. Groovy. Lots o' stuff going on. Top of my list is working on paintings for my La Luz de Jesus Show in April 2009. It is going to be GOOD! I'll keep you posted on that.

Secondly, I am heading up the transition team for ICON6! The new board was just announced too, so start saving for 2010. Location and dates to be announced later. It will be a FANTASTIC conference if I have anything to do with it and since I am on the board I WILL have something to do with it. Here is the new Board:

Alex Bostic
Soojin Buzelli
Fernanda Cohen
Troy Doolittle
Michael Fleishman
Andy Hayes
John Hendrix
Melanie Reim
Mark Todd
Jaime Zollars
and moi

Fernanda Cohen, Mark Heflin and I make up the Transition Team. Mark Heflin is going to be the new permanent Director of ICON. Check the ICON website for updates and info.

Lastly, I am traveling fool. Going to Pittsburgh (10/28 - 11/1) next week and then NYC for the American Illustration Party (11/11 - 11/15). Yeehaw! Call me if you want to meet up.

SALE! Art makes a great gift!

It's time to clear out some inventory, so I am offering a special deal on FREEDOMWIG. Buy two pieces of art by December 10, 2008 and get one FREE! Holiday shopping! Support the arts! Yeehaw! Email me if you are interested.

826 LA / Poketo Fundraising!

Hey I did two wallets for Poketo that are being used to raise funds for 826LA. The wallets are only $20 bucks!!! Your purchase of this wallet will support current and future 826LA programming. Other artists who designed wallets are Mark Todd, Esther Pearl Watson, Tim Biskup, John Pham, Rama Hughes, Christine Castro, Leah Chun, Chris Bettig and Keith Kneuven.

To purchase the above wallet just click here!

Perfect is Boring

This is some art I did today for my freedomwig website. I am trying to figure out why being perfect is so desirable? Why do the magazines correct the naturally beautiful women they hire to model and make them look fake and weird? The touching up of women has gotten more extreme and unnatural. It is wrong.

Don't you get annoyed with people who are always trying to be perfect. They make you feel bad about not being perfect. How about Eva Longoria telling everyone she is still a size 0 even though she has gotten "fatter." Annoying. Jeez, size 0 shouldn't even exist. Invisible is size 0. Zero equals NOTHING!!!

Frankly I don't trust "perfect" people. That striving for perfection is usually a cover for some serious character flaws.

I prefer people who mess up, get back up, dust themselves off, learn from the mess up and keep going. I prefer people who accept their lack of perfection and get on with life. You know? Maybe this is stupid to be talking about in the middle of all this bank crap and insanity. OK I'll stop.

Road Trip New Art

Here is some art that will be in a show at Jonathan Levine gallery in September. Jordin Isip put together another one of his Panorama Projects. The opening is September 6, 2008 from 7 - 9 pm. Coolness.

So I am still on my road trip. Tomorrow we leave for Paris. I uploaded a fews things on freedomwig.com today too. YAY. Hopefully I can write some stuff while in Paris.

Later!

New blog

Howdy. I set up a new blog just for our trip.

Can't wait!

Cool News! ROAD TRIP

Esther Pearl Watson and I applied for a research & development grant and we got it! Starting on August 15 we are driving across the country to interview people about their personal ideas of beauty. We are going to let what people tell us drive the images and direction of the project, trying to not have too many preconceived notions. This came about because living in L.A. can warp your sense of what is beautiful. You can lose your idea of what is "real" here.

We'll be taping, filming, writing, drawing and painting for a month from Los Angeles to Maine thru the middle of the country, then down the east coast to Atlanta and back across the country via the southern route and ending up at home in September. When we get back we plan to produce a multi-media exhibit about what we found.

If you are interested in being interviewed, let us know and if we come thru your town we'll look you up. We want to talk to men, women, teens, kids, from all nationalities, artists, business people, student...as many different people as we can. Cool beans!!!

Palm trees and foolish shoes

Even though I have lived here for almost 13 years, there are days when I am shocked to realize that I live in frickin' California. What the hell? There is a dang lemon tree in my yard. Free damn lemons! When you grow up in Philly this is a big deal.

Yesterday was one of those days. Somehow Robert Festino (recent ditcher of the east coast) got me to go running with him at the freakin' beach and he got me to run faster and farther. How he do dat? It must have been his crazy yeller shoes. So very coolio. After running, we grabbed brunch in Venice beach, sat outside on the breezy sunny patio, watched the hipsters (including Tom Hanks) walk down the palm tree lined street and (nerd alert!) critiqued the use of arial on a gallery sign.

AND right now I am dog sitting for Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson. I'm using their house studio to work so the dogs will have some company. The window of their studio overlooks their POOL and a bunch of banana trees and there is a flock of wild parakeets flying around so I am still freakin' out a little. Sometimes life is very good. You dig?