called it macaroni
07.01.06 02:27
Barbeque + blowing stuff up + potato salad + icy beer + sprinkler in the front yard + watermelon + cousins = 4th of July good times!!
Have a fantastico and safe holiday everybody.
What's New Monday
07.10.06 19:29
Haunted Kettle
Hey Friends..happy Monday!
I hope you are all having a nice July.
I've posted some new paintings for sale on the artwork page and on the etsy store. I've been painting more and more ghostly spooky things these days, when real life has been far from creepy. In fact, I've spent the last week doing some amazingly fun summerish things. Gabe and I spent the weekend at the Oregon Country Fair and not only ate our weight in crepes, smoothies, monster cookies, empanadas, burritos and Nancy's ice cream..but got to see a lot of old friends in the middle of the shady summer forest. I had my portrait drawn by a little boy at a booth called, "Portraits, by a Boy." A very fitting name, I thought. There are so many fantastic crafts and foods and people at the OCF, but these brooms are my all time favorite.
We also spent a good amount of time with family, camping out in tall grass, eating raspberries, and swimming in a little bitty river with a surprisingly strong current. Ahh, could this summer BE any more awesome....? Well, I didn't think so, but I just found out that I got accepted into the Chicago Renegade Craft Fair in September!! Yippededo! I'll have more details about that in the next month or so. I'm so excited! I had so much fun with Wendy at the Brooklyn Renegade, that I can't wait to do it again. Speaking of Wendy..she's on a road trip right this minute and headed straight for our little house here in P-town. Soon I will inflict the barbecuing mania on her that has swept up my summer with an unstoppable force. The unstoppable force of, FLAVOR.
What's New Tuesday
07.18.06 12:34
Tuesday! Yipes, I guess I dropped the ball on the Monday update yesterday. Which is weird because this week has been very un-busy. I've spent a lot of time getting organized. Cleaning out menacing closets and drawers. We painted the living room. I did about three thousand pounds of laundry. Stuff like that. I know I haven't really mentioned it, because there is isn't much to share about it...but I've been working on a young adult novel for about a year now and it's finally starting to get somewhere. It has offically taken over my brain like one of those things, that you know, take over your brain. All I want to do is work on it, so it's been taking a lot of effort for me to do other stuff, like shower and paint. But I'm heading back into the studio today and plan on finishing a few of the half baked paintings that I started a couple of weeks ago. I'll post them on Thursday. Oh! And I just found out that I got into the Santa Barbara Arts Festival in October. So I had better get in my rear in gear and all that.
Stay cool everybody! I just looked at the weather and it looks like parts of this country are about to burst into flames...
New Paintings
07.20.06 21:05
A Much Better Castle 24" x 24"
Hey All,
Well, as promised I've been hiding out in the basement the past few days finishing a few paintings. Hurrah! I posted them on the store page, but haven't gotten around to updating the artwork page. Will someone please send me some kind of magic pill to make me paint and work a little faster? Wait, scratch that, I know about those little pills and they're illegal. Guess I'll just have to start doing a little more a workin and little less swimming and spitting watermelon seeds.
And when I say I've been hiding in the basement..does it make you think of a painty Egor?...Because that's exactly how I feel. The sun..it burns! It burns!!
Ciao!
What's New Monday
07.24.06 20:55
"Roll With It" 10" x 20"
Happy Monday everyone!
The painting above is cropped, but you can see the whole enchilada on the store page*
I would write more about how the week is going and how my weekend was and everything, but my brain is busy melting into my skull. It’s about 200 degrees outside and I think lava just started bubbling up through the grates. What are you doing reading this? Run! Save yourselves! To the wave pool!!