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Only five more days…

To buy your tickets under my name online!
If you’re in the Seattle area, please come – it’s going to be so much fun! – And even if you can’t make it, please consider buying a ticket to support me.
To buy tickets, click this link: http://www.rawartists.org/seattle/radiate
In a green box in the upper right corner it will read: BUY TICKETS, and a window will pop open. At the top of the box it will have a scroll down box that says, “Pick the artist you are supporting!”…scroll down and choose my name. Fill in the rest of the information and click “register”, then it will take you to paypal to pay for the ticket. You can pay by credit card through paypal so you don’t even need a paypal account. It starts at 8pm and goes until 11pm Saturday, August 18, 2012.
From what I know so far and from the artists I’ve already met, there will be a great mix of performance and art – a magic show, fashion show, leather masks, ladies and dragons, landscape and portrait photography, and my flowery girly drawings – among so much more! – All housed in the Trinity nightclub in Pioneer Square – 111 Yesler Way – if you haven’t been, go just to see the three separate areas they have (hence -”Trinity” – took me a moment), and the beautiful Chinese-inspired bar.
I hope to see you there!!

Cuts, blood, hair and flowers

We went into Il Corvo Pasta this morning to hang work for the Pike Hike Art Walk this Thursday, which runs from 5-8pm, to hang work and to watch the pasta master himself, Mike – bang out an army of artichoke raviolinis, some of which we were treated to for lunch, and they were amazing. I eat homemade pasta so rarely that I forget what a comforted, happy tummy it makes. The raviolini were served with fresh marjoram, roasted red peppers and garlic oil. Yum! We were also able to try the sage parpadelle, with lemon, cream and parmesan… so … my day has been fantastic! Thank you Mike!

I was able to get in some good drawing time today, so here they are:

Shaking flowers from her hair

Many little wounds

Separation (drawn after seeing a photo of an amputated hand)

Thursday! Come see Mike make more pasta! And SEAF  is this weekend – if you’ve never been, you should definitely consider it. I’ll be there Friday night at least, mostly for people-watching, and you should be, too.

New Fabric Work

I’m working on a number of larger pieces for an upcoming show at the Rooster Down Tattoo Gallery, Seattle, WA. I haven’t done any fabric work for… a couple of years now, this despite my piles of fabric laying around waiting to be used. Here is piece #1:

The first step: cutting flowers out of quilting fabric. This involves watching [listening to] lots of documentaries, nerdy podcasts, coffee and sore fingers. This pile is the result of about ten hours of cutting. Note the huge pile of blue flowers lined up for future pieces!

Ready to glue down! The drawing was done with pencil and ink, from a reference photo, on lightweight drawing paper, taped down to a board to prevent curling.

Next comes arranging. Only about five flowers are actually glued down at this stage, while I fiddle and move others around to reach something I’m happy with.

When I first started doing this kind of work, I went to the fabric store and bought fancy “fabric glue” which turned out to be pretty much Elmers rebranded, so now I stick with gluesticks. Hah, get it? Stick – with – oh, nevermind. Your could also pool elmers in a dish, and paint it on with a brush, but the gluesticks are much quicker and easier if you don’t mind getting your hands sticky.

Some details of the finished piece: