Nafsa live painting

I got invited a few weeks ago to do a live painting to be auctioned off at the NAFSA conference that was held at the wonderful Hotel Murano in Tacoma ( which I got to stay at over night-highly recommend it if your looking to stay in Tacoma anytime soon).  Well, the whole thing went down this Friday. I've done three of these now so I pretty much knew how this was going to go.  I had a blast! Knocked the painting out in about an hour or so. I meet some really awesome people and just generally had a good time and hammed it up pretty good. There was some video taken which ill post as soon as I get a copy. I also took a few pics the night of as well as the process of preparing the piece.

The bare wood cradle. I general don't buy backing boards or painting services, but i made a exception in this case.

Since my work generally has nothing to do contextually with the organization I was generating the piece for I decide to work their logo into the painting. I got online and printed out dozens of the NAFSA logo. using wheat paste I attached them to the wood. I then laid a few layers of Titanium White braking up the field.

Then I laid down the bare bones of the image in graphite

Here we are just getting ready to start in the main ball room of the hotel

And a little over an hour latter. I pulled a Basquiat and painted in a suit and managed not to get anything on myself.

The thing went for a c-note. I personal think the 1000 kisses Should have won

Bemis Building Preview

Got my hanging done for the Bemis Building  Fall Group show Monday night.  Ended up hanging 7 Pieces total. Most in the 5' X 3' range but was able to get a couple of the 7' + pieces up. All acrylic on cardboard. All are  new or haven't been publicly hung  before( with the exception of  1 piece from the Spring Show) . Details of the show can be found Here or Here

More Bemis Photos

Images from the BEmis SHow

Upcoming art shows

When it rains it pours! I have no less than 4 art related shows coming up! At the end April I Will be part of the Bemis Group show in the SODO neighborhood. show is only on for two days: Saturday, April 28th & Sunday, April 29th. Around 30 or so artist will being showing a variety of work ( sculpture, paint, ready mades, and installations).

May is going to be a busy month. first off Fragments ( Seattle University lit/art magazine) is doing a meet and greet/reading at Elliot bay books up in capital hill. I did the cover and several illustrations for this issue. There will be copies for sale and Ill be there possible selling some stuff. It all goes down at 5pm MAY 3rd.

ITS SARZINES TIME! Issue 5 is coming out with a bang! They are doing a reading/ coming out party at the Ghost Gallery. I'm pretty stoked! I will be in attendance selling my personal work and some illustrative work from the upcoming issue. Well have lots of issue 5s for sale as well as the last few issues as well. The whole thing will go down May 12th from 6:30-9:30 Sat MAY 12th. Here is the event page .


And Last but not least I have a piece in this year Seattle Erotic Arts Festival. Pretty major group show and the highest profile art gig I have ever landed. Major international and national galleries, collectors, and fans of the arts will be in attendance. When I got the email I had to show to a couple of people take make sure I wasn't seeing things. The festival runs from June 16-24 at Fremont Studios in Seattle.