Hello everyone!
So, I didn’t end up making it down to Southern California last night for the art show. I was really upset about that for a while, but it ended up being the best course of action with our financial and emotional situations right now.

We did, however, get a lot of really good food shopping done. I am attempting to take some inspiration from Gala Darling and incorporate more fruits, vegetables, whole grains and water into my life. Which is making me really happy. Though I must admit, when we ventured into the local health food store to buy more L-Theanine supplements to help level out our moods, the staff at the health food store was not very appreciative of my leather jacket. I apologize greatly, but I do love my leather jacket.
After the health food store we ventured over to Trader Joe’s a store that many of us know and love. We found all kinds of really amazing looking, healthy food there. I am quite excited to start making smoothies again (that was one of my first jobs, making smoothies in a place named after an African dance).

In other art news I will be posting pictures (and perhaps some video) from the Art Show as it is available to me. Also, I am working on a very bright, cheeky painting right now. I love the idea.

Have a fantastic day.

For the past month or so I have been posting interviews and features on other artists at the livejournal community Addmyartjournal (which is run by a friend of mine). The interviews have been a blast to do and the response has been quite positive.
I just posted an interview with myself there today along with pictures of my work. You can check that out here.

This weekend is the Greasers, Ghouls & Gals show at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles, California. My husband and I will be making the 6+ hour drive down there for the show early Saturday morning. If you would like more information on the show check out Motor City Comic’s Official Blog.

I just added two new items to the Etsy Store. The first is an original watercolor painting Bug Lady Revisited, the other is a tote bag that I’ve spent the last few years trying to convince myself to part with The Little Black Sheep. You can see pictures of these pieces behind the cut.
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Several weeks ago I came to the realization that if I was going to make paintings for an art show, drive seven hours across the state to attend said art show and expect any sort of promotion to come from this art show, I should have some form of business cards. I toyed with the idea of getting business cards made by one of the random sites online where you only have to pay shipping (and have someone else’s domain on the back of your card). I thought about designing my own cards and having them made up by a close friend of mine. I quickly realized that I don’t know anything about designing business cards and have no idea what sort of look I wanted them to have. Then I remembered MOO cards a site where you can upload your own pictures (up to 100) or your own custom done graphics and have them print out unique business cards for you.
A few days later I had all of my work scanned and cropped, I began sorting through it all to decide which pieces I wanted to have on my business cards. I uploaded about ten images to MOO’s site and began to narrow down my choices by seeing which pieces worked the best for the shape of the cards. After cropping, choosing one of their pre-made logos for the back and adding all of my contact information I sent the $20.00 to them and began waiting for them to arrive.
They took about ten days to travel from London to Northern California, which was on the outside edge of their estimated time (a friend of mine waited several weeks for hers to arrive). They came in a padded, recycled plastic envelope. The cards come in their own white, hard plastic box (also made from recycled materials, they try very hard to use only recycled materials).
The cards are smaller than I thought they would be, I knew going in to this that they would be smaller and would be shaped differently from normal business cards. I must say that they quality is fabulous, as was the printing and lettering. For such a tiny card, you can still read the lettering on the back (at least I can). Also in the envelope was a sample version of their custom sticker books. I am so looking forward to slapping these tiny little stickers on things. I will definitely be buying some custom stickers in the future.
Overall, I am very happy and looking forward to passing these suckers out like there is no tomorrow. I can’t wait to toss these in with artwork I sell.
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I finished both of my paintings for the upcoming Greasers, Ghouls & Gals show in LA. I mailed them a week ago and can I just say that I am so glad they are gone. Don’t get me wrong, I love them, I’m just really tired of working on them right now. I want to work on new things and I have so many new ideas, I just need the time to work on them.
The picture to the right here is a shot of both paintings after I had, finally, finished them. I love them both and, of course, they look much better in person. I wish I had taken more time to work on the Greaser guy though, but that’s okay I am really happy with the way he turned out anyway.
I am still waiting on the MOO Cards that I ordered weekend before last. I am super excited as they are supposed to be here in the next day or so. Expect a full review and pictures when they do arrive. I have heard really incredible things about these cards. I know I was incredibly impressed with the ease with which you can design your cards and number of possibilities. I greatly look forward to passing these out at the art show and chucking a few of them into boxes of artwork when I ship them out.
I have one more idea for a painting at the moment, but I can’t decide if I want to do it in acrylic (and risk losing some of the detail that I want) or doing it in watercolor and going over the paint with black pen to show the detail. I’m also going to work on more basic drawings as I haven’t done that in months and I really miss it.
Anyway, I leave you with a closer picture of the latest paintings’ neck tattoos:

I finished both galleries (Drawings & Paintings) today. There’s about 29 pieces all together? I also added a few more bits to the About page.

I have to get back to painting now. I need to finish the second painting before Tuesday so I can ship it to SoCal. Crunch time for the show.