ABM: painting

Sunday, November 11, 2012

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

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Been a while

I know I haven't posted in a while. Life has been *life* . I have been busy working on a bunch of different illustration projects. I just finish my sar'zine insert. 120 or so different variation on a theme. Lots of great writing and each issue will have a slightly different insert so buy as many as possible! They will be on sale in all sorts of fine bookstores very soon. Also the IIWII blog is still rocking hard!check it out. Might have some gallery shows coming up in as well as a line of T's. stay tuned! The band is also back up-check it out here