i heart art

preview: she said, she said

2012-01-30T02:39:00.000-05:00

hello. hey. some buds and i are putting together an art show in the dc/nova area, and boy are we excited!!
the show is scheduled for the first weekend in march, at a space still tba although it'll most likely be at label's exchange , (not to be confused with label sex change), and the adjoining gallery. please let me assure you that it is going to be pretty sssssssiiiiiick. there's gonna be around 10 artists in the show...."she said, she said" is the name of it. oh and did i mention that it is a lady art show?? ah yeah girl(s). here's some links to some of the other ladies' websites, and also a couple shitty photos of paintings i've been working on for the show. i hope you guys come back!

"she said, she said" lineup so far:
casa, angel, doris, brenna, emma, leticia, kelly, julie, laura, maggie. i'm annoyed that neither laura nor leticia have art on the Net but WHAT CAN YA DO. you can check out these other sites if you want, thats whut. i also feel like a total dbag because cassandra and i started a co-operative blog but i have only posted it on it a handful of times since we started it last year. what. an asshole. ANYWAY. keeping my fingers crossed for the show. hopefully we can get all the details figured out pretty soon, but so far i am super pumped that all my buds were into it. all of us do such different stuff, it is going to be so cool seeing everything in the same place. aaaauguagsdfasldkj im so pumped. OK SO here's a peek at some of my arts that will be in the show! hope you dont hate it?

shrinky dinks duuuuhhh

2012-01-03T16:02:00.002-05:00

i recently realized that my true artistic medium is the shrinky dink. after baking at 350 degrees for 2 minutes, shitty drawings become weird-as-shit keychains to give to my buds. <3

2012-01-03T15:51:00.005-05:00

one part of a christmas card series i was working on since halloween. i never got around to making them into actual cards, though. :( sigh. theres always next year i guess.

i know this is incredibly dorky

2011-12-12T22:13:00.003-05:00

...but i was totally blown away today by the christmas exhibit at the botanical garden!! all of the monuments and famous buildings in dc were recreated in miniature, except with all natural materials, including the adhesive used to put it all together. DANG. that is so rad. the fountain ladies were my favorite. there were also a million fairy houses and abby was practically drooling about it.

mmm...i chomped that

2011-12-12T21:49:00.000-05:00

this is the best thing to eat when youre feeling sick and a little sad. black bean soup from a can with a shitload of cheese and greek yogurt on it. and srirachaaaaa. and onions and like 5 cloves of garlic because im sick and its good for you and i dont foresee any smooching in my immediate future anyway. spicy, and garlicy, and perfect for me to CHOMP.

downer

2011-12-12T21:45:00.000-05:00

i drew this at 3 in the morning the other night. since then things are a little better. me and my bud are fine. the last part remains unresolved however. meh. i'm pretty much over it.

this sounds like something i would maybe say

2011-12-11T22:48:00.000-05:00

sense of self?

2011-11-10T16:47:00.001-05:00

wicker man does not rule. im sorry.

2011-11-10T16:35:00.001-05:00

big boy

2011-11-10T16:34:00.005-05:00

rva landscape

2011-11-10T16:34:00.003-05:00

oni dude

2011-11-10T16:34:00.001-05:00

2011-11-10T16:33:00.001-05:00

i drew this a while ago. i'm kind of embarrassed about it but here it is regardless. no one looks at this shit anyway

nope sho doesnt

2011-11-10T16:32:00.001-05:00

i see what you did there

2011-11-10T16:30:00.003-05:00

....hhhhey

2011-11-10T16:30:00.001-05:00

big wup

2011-11-10T16:29:00.001-05:00

not sure

2011-11-10T16:28:00.001-05:00

yep

2011-10-02T15:49:00.002-04:00

SICK

2011-10-02T15:35:00.003-04:00

this is actually the worst plan

mrow

2011-10-02T15:20:00.003-04:00

made a quilt

2011-08-17T00:36:00.000-04:00

in retrospect, i should have: measured properly, pressed before i measured, pressed as i went along, BASTED (what a goddamn chore. but essential, really), not put that black/yellow/white daisy fabric in there, bought every last yard of that fabric i used as the backing because it is so beautiful, and more batting. it could be cuddlier but i'm not complaining. also a chevron or a ziggyzag over the squares to hide all the puckering. i give this quilt a 6 out of 10, strictly because the patterns are so cool together. it is pretty fuckin sloppy though. but i made it yaaaaaay!!! first quilt ever. in the process of drawing a step-by-step comic for it. <3's

naaaaapkins

2011-06-28T23:48:00.001-04:00

i made these napkins for my friend josh who just got married. josh, if you're reading this, stop. josh, you probably don't read my blog, so i feel ok about posting pictures of these. i am SUUUUUPER proud. i've never sewn anything by myself before, so when my friend sabrina gave me the pattern and taught me how to make them, i was really amazed at my own enthusiasm. i made 8 of these bad boys, two of each kind of the four different fabrics i chose. josh is pretty crafty, and he likes being in the kitchen. although i haven't met his wife sarah yet, i can just bet she's probably a crafty, cooky kind of lady, too. the colors are nice and summery and farmhousey. I'M REALLY PROUD OF THESE IS BASICALLY WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET ACROSS HERE. i really hope they like them. i wanted to give them something they can use that didn't come in a box. it made me so happy to make something for my sweet friends, especially when the something i made is something that i'm proud of. which doesn't happen too often.
next project: banana bandanas for the baltards. i <3 baltards so hard

2011-05-03T02:46:00.001-04:00

i dreamed i had two or three sisters; one was possessed by an evil spirit but no one knew about it except me or maybe i was outside of the story. we were getting on ski lifts and i didnt want to go because i dont know how to ski but i saw that they were going to be in danger so i got on the chair after them and started skiing. it was terrifying but of course as often in dreams it was easy to ski and i felt weightless. i was skiing very fast over hills and eventually through a snowy brushland, avoiding trees and such. i had the feeling there was someone skiing closely behind me because i could hear them, but i never turned around to look. it seemed unimportant. i was following ski tracks of what i thought to be my sisters' but there were many paths i could have taken i dont know why i chose the ones i was following. my movements and the path i took seemed to be compelled and i did not fight that; i just went along. i came upon a clearing with three trees that had holes large enough for me to ski through. i noticed there were ski tracks going through all three holes, but i was coming up fast and that compelling force took me through the middle hole. i entered and saw nothing but blackness. it was too dark to see even my body but i felt like i was soaring down a long drop through space so i positioned my body as if i were doing a ski jump. when i came out of the blackness i was in a building full of doors and passageways. there was a travel agency though one of the doors and it turns out it was a fairy travel agency because i went through the hole that takes you to ireland. ??? i was signed up to take some dude to georgia even though i insisted i wasnt a fairy and could not fly. but they sent me along anyway and said of course you can fly or else how could you have found this place? eventually i either found or did not find the girls who were my sisters but we are being chased by bounty hunters. there were several of them and they were all very ugly and alienlike. they were wearing armor and looked like just men in monster suits. they all came in pairs or twins and they were slow moving and easily defeated. we were running from them through the halls and all the doors are locked except we see an old man returning to his room and we go in after them. some little kids are having a slumber party and all start screaming but we tell them to shut up. we turn off the lights and the bigscreen tv and wait for the monsters to go by. i notice the kids are watching the scene from the disney animated peter pan movie where the lost boys and john and michael are singing "following the leader". the door will not lock and one of the little girls starts talking and making noise so the monsters are at the door and know we are here. i want to slap the girl for making noise and i keep telling her to shut up but she ignores me. at this point i wake up, realize i'm having sleep paralysis, and it is the most intense and terrifying episode of it i have ever experienced.

cant top wont top

2011-04-13T01:30:00.001-04:00

i havent been doing very much artwise lately. i think it's because i've only been drawing pictures of gene shalit. i also have this weird paranoia-driven fantasy/nightmare that the gene shalit genre is going to blow up in "popular" or "hipster" culture or whatever, and urban outfitters is going to make gene shalit tshirts and PVC wallets or some shit. or gene shalit wine glasses or something i dont fucking know. YOU GUYS, I AM LITERALLY TERRIFIED OF THIS. i have a lot more gene shalit in me and i'm not done developing this yet. just. just bear with me. dont tell anyone about it. nobody knows who he is but everyone recognizes him when they see him. the idea of gene shalit is somehow very appealing to me. he puns a lot or something i dont know. enjoy these pictures of geneshalit on crossword puzzle book pages for crying out loud. i cant not draw him so you cant not look at my drawings of him on my blog.

i'm completely debilitated by fear and my computer is broken :(

2011-03-08T14:34:00.000-05:00

you guys i am trying to go to art school and i am terrified of it. i'm terrified of what you think of that idea. i'm terrified of a portfolio. i'm terrified of scary art school committees that are going to look at the portfolio. i'm terrified of making anything because whatever i make is TERRIBLE NOW. I DONT KNOW WHAT WENT WRONG OR IF ANY OF IT WAS EVER RIGHT. i'm in a horrible awful state of mind

BUT I'M GONNA DO IT ANYWAY.

this is where you come in. please help me. for the love of god. please. i need some...............ASSIGNMENTS? EMOTIONAL SUPPORT??? TECHNICAL ADVICE?!?!?!? all of the above. i love you all. tell me what to make. i'll just make it. i'm frozen by my fear and unable to perform. (maybe some viagra...??)

new hat yaaaaay!

2011-02-14T22:09:00.000-05:00

looky

[oh btw friends: if any of you guys ever want me to knit you a hat i will totally do it. nice yarn is kind of expensive, but i also like to trade things.]

hats hats

2011-02-09T15:52:00.000-05:00

etsyyyyyyyyyyyyy shop

2011-02-09T15:49:00.002-05:00

hey y'all

i finally got my etsy shop going! go check it out: HERE
oh yeah. hey guys i have been making a lot of hats and pining for an etsy shop for a long time so i opened one and now i'm happy.

i have a best friend

2011-01-17T16:45:00.000-05:00

she's pretty awesome. we make cool stuff when we're together

mine

hers

We <3 GLITTERRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!

bizarro-world theory

2010-11-11T13:10:00.002-05:00

i was going to write a comic about bizarro world, maybe do myself and friends or family as bizarro-world versions of ourselves. but then i started thinking about it and i couldn't decide whether to make everyone the opposite of what they are now or take their negative qualities and push them to the extreme. if i did the former, would they just look opposite on the outside but still contain the essence of their real world versions or would they look the same but be complete opposites within? if i did the latter, how truly evil would the people become? would they be that much different from how i perceive them already? or would it be comical the way the people i know and love exhibit their own traits MULTIPLIED EXPONENTIALLY? what does that even mean? does bizzaro-tim fart exponentially more in bizarro world? or do his bizarro-farts, although same in quantity as regular-world farts, smell exponentially worse than in the real world? are some of the people i know in real life and can't stand being around even more intolerable, or will they be a pleasure to interact with? how does my perception of bizarro-world affect the grand scale of things? does each individual have his or her own perception of bizarro-world based on how well he or she knows him/herself and others around him/her? does each individual have his or her own personal bizarro-world, or does everyone perceive what goes on in bizarro-world on an individual basis? how similar would another person's perception of my bizarro-world self be from my own? how different would it be between a person that knows me and a person that does not? how would those perceptions affect my perception of myself?

i'm batman.

2010-11-04T21:13:00.000-04:00

you get the idea

2010-11-02T01:36:00.001-04:00

i made this baby book

god these pictures are terrible. cassandra taught me how to make books. she taught me 75% of the steps before it was time to go get drinks. this is the first one i made solo. it is 75% good.

illustrious paper people

2010-09-30T20:25:00.000-04:00

i read Everything Is Illuminated this summer and watched the movie and all that junk. so so great. i made these paper dolls based on the characters from the movie. i'd like to make a short film with them one day. all the joints are moveable woohoo! great job! Jake and Abby made some paper dolls, too:

Jake made a ninja/i made it for him and Abby threw hers away.

UKE BETTER BELIEVE IT!!

2010-07-31T14:26:00.000-04:00

I just got a ukelele this week and I'm goin caaaararazy with it!!! Oh, how I love to jam out 90's breakup songs on this sweet precious little baby. (This is the only video of me playing it I will post ever, I promise. I'm not tryin to be that girl.)

same ol', same ol'...

2010-07-27T20:35:00.000-04:00

chomp chomp

2010-07-24T22:13:00.002-04:00

patchy's letter

2010-07-20T19:05:00.000-04:00

choose your side to battle

2010-07-18T00:45:00.000-04:00

me and bryan

me and Jake again

me and Alex again

me and Jake again (again)

i can't validate that

2010-07-18T00:34:00.002-04:00

drinkin beers

2010-07-18T00:17:00.000-04:00

the saddest glass in history

2010-07-18T00:14:00.001-04:00

collaboration station

2010-07-18T00:01:00.000-04:00

here's some things cassander and i did together. each person had 2 minutes to draw, then we switched journals. hopefully she will post the ones from her journal, too HINT HINT WINK WINK NOD NOD

battle drawings

2010-07-13T21:00:00.002-04:00

me and alex

me and jake (7 yr old)

yarnbike: yarn on a bike

2010-06-30T15:06:00.001-04:00

so i can knit while i ride

sorry for the delay, dear readers.

2010-06-17T22:57:00.006-04:00

these are both very kochalka-like i think. i can't really tell anymore if i am emanating his style or if i'm just using his layout as a jumping off point and evolving on my own. i'm ok with either option. in a way, its nice to having an artist you can admire and appreciate so much that it affects your own artwork. i think having a mentor is really helpful; it pushes me to create! mainly because i know i'm capable and partially because squiggly style is so beautiful and appealing to me. i have a lot of artists like that in my life. jess, cassander, laura, christian....
i've been a little busy lately: datin boys and then not datin boys, babysitting a lot, jammin out, gardening, having pity parties for stupid reasons... but i'm back now! i have been playing around with miniature things and scenes of things. i'll try to post some pictures up once i get stuff a little more figured out. i'm also working on a pinata for ricky bamboo's birthday party in a couple weeks and there will DEFINITELY be posts about that so look out!
special thanks to daniel for encouraging me to post some more things. thanks for stalking daniel! love you

potrait of the plant party

2010-06-17T22:52:00.003-04:00

look at us. we look great. be on the lookout for a new blog by the two of us, she & i, concerning a collaborative art project.

snot that bad, actually

2010-06-17T22:51:00.000-04:00

new haircut

2010-04-23T09:44:00.002-04:00

just do something crazy!!

2010-03-30T21:54:00.000-04:00

the craziest thing we can think of

astroboy

holga

2010-03-13T20:52:00.004-05:00

(foto by ash taylor)

(foto by Ash Taylor)

i'm supremely proud of these fotos. many many thanks to ash for turning me on to holga and also for letting me use her camera. we did some great stuff ashie!!

we are Dancetastic

2010-03-10T00:38:00.001-05:00

is it in bad taste to copy stuff from etsy? im just gonna do it anyway.

2010-03-01T22:26:00.003-05:00

i found this really sweet glasses case on etsy that looks like an old-school nintendo controller, and thought i'd try to make one. here is my version (with much crappier photo resolution and sewing abilities).

i'm pretty happy with it, although i wish i had some velcro for the back.

don't bitch it; stitch it!

2010-02-28T15:53:00.002-05:00

Sugar High Gang, do yo thang!!

2010-02-27T19:58:00.002-05:00

just thinkin about stuff

2010-02-27T12:32:00.003-05:00

ink practice with my new baby brushes on some butcher paper and thinkin about stuff

scaredy-cat

2010-02-27T10:48:00.004-05:00

poor wentworth. he was only taking a bath. dug hates baths, though...wentworth should've known better not to bathe in dug's presence.

accordion to me

2010-02-24T21:42:00.002-05:00

had my first accordion lesson today. needless to say, i'm extremely excited.

collography!!

2010-02-17T19:31:00.005-05:00

the prints (acrylic paint on different papers)

the plates (cardboard on cardboard with with labels from a label-maker)

look at this amazing thing i did with my bff!!! they are so easy and fun. here is the video we watched to figure out how to do it. they are so cool and could have a billion applications! you can use found objects or just any material you have around the house. i love that they are so simple and easy to make, plus they take no time at all. i really enjoy making beautiful art out of ugly or overlooked materials; its like making something wonderful out of practically nothing at all.

another tiny thing

2010-02-12T08:53:00.003-05:00

tiny bike patch embroidery. again, sorry about the picture quality. i gotta work on that.

tiny things

2010-02-10T18:33:00.003-05:00

sorry for the poor picture quality. i dont have a digital camera other than on my phone. i crocheted this little mouse last night as a gift for a friend.

computer mouse!! get it? get it? cuuuuute

must...knit...the curtain

2010-02-10T18:30:00.001-05:00

snowday

2010-02-08T15:52:00.002-05:00

look at this desk. why? why do i do this to myself?

cuties

2010-02-01T20:16:00.000-05:00

drawing is hereditary

2010-01-31T21:49:00.003-05:00

these are some very serious images drawn by my dad during a very serious drawing contest at the pancake house last summer. please note how angry that goat looks. he is so very angry. or sad? the upside down birdcage with fleas jumping off of it is actually an igloo (i think).

t.m.i.?

2010-01-31T20:38:00.002-05:00

please refer to the chart

2010-01-20T20:36:00.002-05:00

coming soon: the adventures of cornelius pumperdink and king crab as told by patrick as illustrated by me

last christmas post i promise

2010-01-19T21:09:00.003-05:00

this comic is a blatant rip-off of kochalka's christmas present comics and i am completely okay with that. (i hope he is, too)

conversation with a six-year-old

2010-01-19T21:03:00.002-05:00

testing out the goods

2010-01-19T20:41:00.003-05:00

got some nice india inks for christmas. all different colors. they are a little bit more runny than i am used to. i normally use just black speedball ink and these are liquitex. the colors are really nice, though. i used to do lots of watercolor with my drawings, but i treated it more like ink or just didn't use enough water so it would be more like a matte or thick paint, so i think these inks were just what i was looking for all along.

christmas present

2010-01-11T16:20:00.006-05:00

from my homegirl. she MADE it!! amazing.

this is what we do

2010-01-11T16:12:00.003-05:00

shout out

bizarro-kitty

2009-12-19T18:27:00.002-05:00

her meow isn't really that annoying; its actually pretty cute.

boone buds

2009-12-16T14:17:00.002-05:00

squintsy on the motorbike

galactic warriors

2009-12-15T19:57:00.005-05:00

this isn't really a comic so much as a tribute to two of the greatest galactic warriors in history. when jake saw the picture of boba fett, he looked directly into my eyes and yelled "MAGGIE! I JUST LOVE YOU!"

i love the internet and the internet loves me

2009-12-10T21:55:00.001-05:00

Looking forward to looking back

2009-12-10T21:53:00.000-05:00

bffs

2009-12-05T14:22:00.007-05:00

p.s. -- this actually happened.

New Spock

2009-12-04T11:30:00.001-05:00

cat trap

2009-11-23T12:22:00.003-05:00

injustice

2009-11-19T00:10:00.006-05:00

I was downstairs eating breakfast when I heard a loud YELLING from upstairs. I run to the source of the noise in the upstairs bathroom where I discover Jake hanging out of the window, SCREAMING at the yard workmen to stop blowing away all the leaves because he needs them all there so he can jump in them because that is WHAT YOU DO in the fall. No artistic license has been taken. Fists were literally shaken at the offending yardmen. Threats were rained down upon them from above like the very leaves they were so efficiently blowing away. This kid's sense of injustice is so finely tuned Mozart would be like, "That guy is a GENIUS."

kitty komic

2009-11-17T21:10:00.010-05:00

buddy the kat (also known as "ricky bamboo" but not by me)

things on my desk

2009-11-17T12:29:00.004-05:00

postcard

2009-11-05T22:56:00.002-05:00

Underwater Sea Friends

2009-11-05T00:02:00.005-05:00

blurry

2009-11-02T22:53:00.003-05:00

Sleepy Panda dreams of Underwater Sea Friends

2009-10-30T17:05:00.006-04:00

dont bite your friends!!

2009-10-30T13:07:00.002-04:00

long time no see

2009-09-14T21:47:00.005-04:00

this is what a bear would look like on his way to work.
(but i doubt he'd get very far considering he's missing the fork on his bike. whoops!)

ash thinks this is how my blog works

2009-08-21T22:25:00.002-04:00

it isn't. but thats ok.
(actually, this is the one that works like that)

sketches from the Home Place

2009-08-11T14:44:00.003-04:00

thanks dover!

quickie

2009-07-20T19:14:00.003-04:00

quick update of whats going on with me the past few weeks:

birds
comix (but no scanner so nothing to show for it)
moved home to winston to live with the folks for a while (bye-bye bent street!)
greensboro
computer broke
saw this
aaand this
getting way too excited about this
contra
facebook
tv (especially)
also, here is this thing to look at. been loving on some drug rug, feist, grizzly bear, and iron horse lately. getting mentally prepared for DC, petting the dogs, annoying my dad, visiting my grammas, missing boone friends (AND boone. boone summers are so amazing), looking at webcomix, and not updating my blog. i haven't been drawing and i haven't been crafting. but i feel some creativity coming or at least thats what i keep telling myself. going to see some friends get married on saturday (IN BOONE!!!) and it should be a blast! friends watching friends getting married to other friends!!

yay for friends

casting spells

2009-06-06T15:45:00.005-04:00

i'm not gonna lie. i haven't posted anything in a while because i haven't drawn anything in a while. i think i'm in some kind of "dry" spell or "too-busy" spell or "i-just-want-to-relax-and-not-have-to-scan- things-after-i-get-done-at-the-farm" spell or "i'm-trying-to-get-into-sewing-recently" spell. also, i don't have a scanner anymore.
i went to an opening last night at the nth and there were about a hundred or so of these little paintings and they were really awesome. there were a bunch based on people the artist knows in boone, professors from the art department, colors, music, etc. it was really interesting looking at paintings about both people i do and don't know; artistic interpretations of people and friends from a different perspective. i would love to be able to devote myself to making works for a show one day. man. it is getting me so excited just thinking about it. i will have to work on my presentation for sure. a few friends and i have thrown around some ideas about having a collaborative show at some point, and now that i'm not in school anymore, this seems both totally feasible and impossible at the same time.
lately, i have been either at the farm working with the birds, or hanging out at long street with the roomies, learning how to sew and craft with casa-bear. not much time left for drawing after that. don't give up hope, however, dear readers, for one of these days i may surprise all of us.

tall bikes

2009-05-27T16:52:00.003-04:00

Boone Friends

2009-04-20T11:21:00.009-04:00

collectible trading cards! of my boone friends

various pens and artists on pokemon card-sized bristol paper procured from the school store.
they have profiles on the backs, too. talk to me if you want to see them in real life. or be on one.

gotta catch'em all!!

(thanks to: cassandra, alex, colby, russ, julia, emily, oyster catchers restaurant, boone saloon, df)

easter bunny nests

2009-04-11T20:58:00.007-04:00

he flies in and leaves candy and eggs in there!

so here's this thing

2009-04-08T19:51:00.005-04:00

updated hooraaaay!!

updated TWICE! hooraaaaaaay!!!!!!

whoa, miss lippy

2009-04-06T00:45:00.000-04:00

liberry bought my piece from the art expo, yo.

surrealist games

2009-03-01T22:26:00.007-05:00

thanks to: patrick, ash, cyppie, adrian, jess, breanna, amy, and lars

oh bloggy. one day i'll update you.

2009-02-26T11:04:00.003-05:00

sorry no new posts for a while. i've been very busy with

school
grad application
art projects
drinking beers
eating donuts
looking at webcomics
not cleaning my room
feeling really sad/stressed
wanting a dog
worrying about bikey
reading laura's blog

however, in other, better news, one of my drawings got chosen for the art expo! hooray! i really can't believe it and i'm very excited. my friend casa also got in, and my friend jess got THREE pieces in (what a badass)! man. so proud of my friends and my self. congrats everyone, we deserved it! here is my piece that was chosen:

i have a lot of new things to show you, including some collaborative works, comics, postcards, and MUCH MUCH MORE! only three easy payments of $19.99!!!! just need some free time to scan stuff. ugh.