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painting, painting.

Aaaah! What am I doing?? I’ve never been comfortable painting, and here I am, simultaneously working on 30 8×10″ canvas boards, to be finished by the end of October, eventually to wind up in the TK Artist Lofts in Pioneer Square for the 30 Day Art Challenge show on December 6th. Pfhh, why not? 30 days, 30 paintings, no problem – right? Entries are now closed, but I invite you to join me on your own – get yourself 30 little canvases, or 30 pieces of paper, or take a photo every day for a month.

^ Two in-progress pieces.

Originally conceived as an exercise to combat procrastination, the 30 Day Art Challenge (formerly the Forgotten Works 30 Day Art Challenge) has been going on in Seattle for 10 years, and this year I hear 110 artists have signed up. Providing we all finish our pieces, that means the gallery space will house 3300 paintings at once! How cool is that? Sign-up was open to artists of all levels, and pieces will be hung with all information on the back, so while up for sale you technically won’t know who did what. Andrew Buckles, the coordinator, tells me that last year an 8-year old and her professional-artist mother both entered, and the daughter sold more pieces than her mom! Awesome!

I agonized for a few days over what my attack plan for this project was going to be. Blank canvases are so scary! I knew I had to give myself some parameters – a framework – in order to stay focused. I began by covering up that terrible brand-spankin-new-gesso-white, with a range of blue-grey-greens. Today I finished painting in the white “ghosts” which I will begin to fill in, probably jumping back and forth between pieces till the 30th of the month when I’ll have to go drop them off.

So, how about it, artist friends? Join me in fighting proctrastination! Ok, go!!

On an unrelated note, voting is still open for this year’s RAW Awards. You can vote once-per-category-per-day, so you can still vote for me – if you feel like it. Or not. Just throwing it out there. :) Okay, now have a fun, creative day!!

Radiate: Raw Artists Presents – photos from the show

So! Here are some photos taken at the Trinity last month for the RAW artists “Radiate” art show, taken by their media crew. To see more photos, you can see the whole set on Flickr, taken by Erik Simkins, here.

Here’s how I set up my little corner: 2D artists weren’t allowed to use nails, screws, tape, or anything to attach their work to the walls, so I snagged a wall with a horizontal pipe running along the ceiling, over which we looped fishing line to hang artwork.

Here N and I look over the space, trying to see if our plan will work.

Me!

And, because I love you, I will let you see this video interview of which I am quite embarrassed, not to mention unprepared. At the time I didn’t know getting interviewed was part of the deal. I would have put on a fancy dress and done my hair if I knew (only half kidding)! Anyways, enjoy:

Eraser stamps!

Daiso, how I love you. Down in the International District across from Uwajimaya on the corner of 6th Ave S and S Lane St, it’s the local Japanese “100 yen” store. Like our dollar stores, it’s packed full of knicknacks and I can never leave without something little that I didn’t plan on getting… like this pack of erasers, for example, at which yesterday during the First Thursday artwalk I sat in my booth carving away to create new little stamps to decorate my envelopes. I think I need to go back and stock up!

I needed a “do not bend” stamp so I no longer have to write it out on everything. I also needed a centipede, housefly, flower, paintbrush/pencil, little girl and heart, planet, coffee cup, Kiki (the black cat) and Momo.

Here I am working on them at the show – photo taken by an awesome marketer of First Thursday Seattle.

Now to find other things I can stamp. Any of you create your own stamps? What have you decorated with them?

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!!

The Burlesque Troupe

All 16″x20″, except for Clementine, who is 12″x36.” :)