it's getting hot in here.

weather in SD is hot. too humid to do this wacom thing today, but i gave it a shot since i don't have too much time to post this month.



be seeing you.

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wanted dead or alive

i was going to give it a rest tonight and play some warcrack before ted told me,

"hey, make sure to bring something cool (art) to work tomorrow."

i can rarely say no to ted's weekly creative meetings, so i did one more of these to bring in tomorrow.

i wish i had something clever or funny to say tonight. lemme think back through the day...

Ok.

Frys.

I went to Frys today at lunch.

It's a place that sells things like computers, plastic robots, thousands of DVDs, and impulse buys up to and including wireless light switches, battery operated plastic hand held fans, scotch tape (not from the same place scotch comes from mind you), and sewing kits.

My friends and I ate at the cafeteria where a Fry Employee was feeding fish in the floor to ceiling fish tanks.

First of all, i'm going to have to break to say that the brunette cashier at Frys with the itty bitty waste and the (pardon my lack of creativity) ENORMOUS RACK was absolutely awesome. Although ted said that she was jail bait. And while she sat one table length away, munching on a sandwich in the most jiggly manner possible (thank god), i kept one eye on her collar line and the other on the fish tank, where another impressively endowed employee climbed a ladder to dump cups full of shredded wheat into the murky fish tank waters.

This Frys is themed like Atlantis. It's insane.

Fishtanks - check
Metal dive suit sculpture in tank of water next to steampunk pipes on the ceiling line - check
Weird photoshop tile ocean themed wallpaper - check
large marble ball in clam shapes waterless fountain (out of comission) - check
For all intents and purposes, they even had super hot mermaids - mind you without fish tails. [(the throngs of cute girls working there) extreme exaggeration]

I had never lunched in Frys. It's not really the best idea for the menu there. Though today was the best time possible due our friends - the fish feeder and the checkout girl hot enough to make me want to tip her the way you see gangsters tip strippers in movies;You know the move - the one where you fold up money into a little vertical taco shape and then slide it right up to the naughty bits while the girl manages to wrap her entire leg around your head like it's a boa constrictor and your face is a mouse.

At any rate, i got all worked up and had forgotten until just about now, but i figured that it could make for entertaining blogness.

If you're in a Frys that looks like the lost undersea city of Atlantis - take an extra look around, there are yet undiscovered beauties trapped in those waters.



have a good evening.

&Rew.

Zzzzzz

i'm really really tired and this is all i got!

G'nite.


( -_-) - Zzzzzz

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tunnel vision

it's sunday; time for you to go to sleep, have a few dreams, and reset your brain.

tomorrow is monday, just in time for the cycle to start all over again.


tonight's musical selection was "escaflowne". i worked all day until somebody came in and i played about 20 rounds of super puzzle fighter 2 turbo edition HD on our 360 dev kits. that game is awes. then i came home about an hour ago and started listening to that soundtrack. it's all about ken. damn is that game good.

i hope that you enjoyed your weekend.

see ya tomorrow.

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what to do when it gets hard.

Sometimes it gets hard. It gets really really hard.

That is a fact of life.

That happens.

Just like that.

You sit down to handle your business thinking that this is going to be a smooth ride, but it's not. It's doesn't always go down like that. Sometimes, the going down is just not that simple.

What you've got to do, when it gets hard, is this:

You gotta push through it. You've got to push through. Just stick it out, keep on riding - pace yourself - and push through.

You'll come around. If you try your best and keep your eyes on the prize, you can stick it.

I didn't have a pose in mind tonight, i was just painting blobs as usual, and then i this came out - it was really hard, but i pushed through and the piece looks decent. i think it's good to not shy away from something just because it's a little rough.

art is usually fun, but that doesn't mean that art is usually easy.


be seeing you,
number six

right down to the wire

i BARELY had time to watch an ep of the wire and paint tonight.

lucky for me - barely tonight meant - can, would, and did.

i've really been out of practice with these post-it pets cause this one wasn't easy to do at all.

have a good evening.

&Rew.

totally spaced.

i forgot to mention on the blog that i'm in an art show at gallery 1988 in LA called "the guys guys". It's 10 male artists from all over the place and there are a ton of cool pieces there.

-here's the link-

i chose to paint pointy angel and devil girls with skull ghosts on wood.

here are two of the pics:


If you come by - say hi to me. I'll be the white kid with jeans and an offwhite shirt with a burgundy skull with wings and snake heads on it. And be nice to me if you see me since i'll probably be A.) tipsy and B.) vulnerable to bouts of confusion

^____^

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sink and swim

i'm listening to the band of brother's soundtrack and painting more naked girls swimming in blobs of black.

go figure.

i went to the frame shop yesterday to deliver some sketches to a guy who works there.

after i willed myself in, past the locked-closed doors, i ended up hanging out with three of the framers there - including "the little girl from the frame store", whom is less "little" than the name implies, yet tiny enough to justify the title; additionally she is very cute.

she visited my blog some time ago and expressed in the back room, whilst finishing up some orders and getting ready to close, that she liked the "naked chicks" that i painted.

artists do need an occasional push in any particular direction. much like rocks, we will let gravity hold us in the same spot, because it is comfortable. much like rocks, we will wait until we are kicked or plucked up and rolled, because of an inertia.

now i find myself craving the next DVD episode of "the wire" and while i am delaying the pleasure of popping in the disc, i decided to finish this piece to share with all of you (anybody who is watching) and perhaps even the little girl from the frame store. you (and she) are very welcome to let slip what you're interested in seeing, and i, to the best of my free time and abilities, will try to see it through.

be seeing you.
&Rew.

no red bull and certainly, no wings...

i did this character to use somewhere on a page i'm going to build to try to sell my new book, but by the time i finished painting it, i no longer had the energy to finish the rest. so it's going to have to wait.

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k_ss m_ bl_ck ass

that comment PROBABLY doesn't apply to you.

...and if that doesn't apply to you, please do enjoy the image, even if it is in poor taste.

more of the same.


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For heaven's snake

early to bed and early to rise, keeps a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

i'm back to feeling reasonable. well, well and good enough to waste time arranging black and white pixels on a canvas.


do have a good friday.

&Rew.

keep on rolling.

today i feel really really sick.

it all begun with that awful hangover following my drunken exploits on monday night. then i work up this morning with a bit of a cold.

now everything is a little "spinny" and i don't feel like arting, but those are the kinds of times that make good artists from bad ones. i'm hoping to be one of the good ones, so today is practice as usual.

the pose that sort of fell out of shadow on this one was really rough and unnatural. i wanted to dump it, but why run from challenge? that aint my style.

love it or leave it, here's another silhouette painting:


thanks for stopping by!

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