Tonight and Various Ramblings.

Tonight!

 

It's been a busy week with friends, work, and I even squeezed in a tiny bit of time to paint Wednesday night. I got a rejection for a craft show I applied to which is a bummer, but I can't get in to every single thing I apply for. Gotta keep chugging along! I'm really happy and confident in the work I've been making recently and my goal is to show in more galleries and more consistently in the next few years. I've been playing around with the thought of grad school too so I'm not sure how I would balance everything, but one thing at a time right now...  

Photos by Derek Fulmer


My friend Derek and I spent a recent morning and afternoon together hanging out in my studio and around Logan Square where I live. I had a great time doing the photo shoot and typically I have an awful forced smile when I'm having posed shots taken but he was a great photographer and made me feel super comfortable. We also had some good talks about what art and our work means to us; since I typically am a hermit and work by myself it was nice to sit and paint and have this discussion. It made me realize that I need to reach out more to my creative friends for these sorts of discussions, I typically work by myself and don't look for critique before I move on to the next piece. Definitely time to change that!

Check out more photos here

Around the Studio

What I've been listening to:

Dead Ringer: I fell in love with this band about 5 seconds into the first song. From their last.fm page:
"Dead Ringer are a band from Bergen County, NJ that openly admits to missing the '90s. And when they say that, they're referring not to overwrought, flannel-laden grunge, boy bands or even the third wave of ska, but to the days of fast, catchy, melodic skatepunk. Back when labels still routinely released compilations on CD and had mailorder catalogs"

Check out their music for free here!

No Enemy: Chicago pop punk! What else do you need? Check out the new album here for free as well!







Studio Reorganization

Two roomies are moving out so I took the chance before the new guys moved in to completely take over the back room in our apartment (muhaha!). There's plenty of room elsewhere in the apartment for books so now I have a lot of shelving for my crap! Us artists tend to collect a lot of stuff, I don't understand people who live light. Here are some photos of where I work! Not pictured is my laptop streaming Law & Order on Netflix.