Back to the hardware store today to get more spraypaint. My color palette is growing. The cans runneth over their box. Now I have 2 boxes filled with cans. Most have lost their lids. How come the can can’t just be the color of the paint is what I want to know? I only intended to stock up on black, but ended up with all sorts of new shades to try.
Then I came home and went at those book covers. I had an idea I wanted to try. These aren’t finished. And the backs are hopelessly unlike the fronts. No matter I can’t let a little matter of coordinating fronts and backs get in the way of a perfectly good idea can I?
More news tomorrow from the stencil portrait front. I’m cutting a few new ones tonight. Ideas are racing down my neural pathways. My neuro transmitters are itching. My brain stem is humming. I need a drink. Someone’s not getting any sleep tonight and it isn’t the cat posse.
Here’s that collection of earth & water I’ve mentioned before. Pieces of places I’ve visited. Here’s that beautiful white sand beach of Carmel. There’s the fountain water from San Miguel. Look, the Aegean Sea is in that bottle right there. I’m constantly staring at my bottles and dreaming of trips to far away places.
Today I read a poem about Venice that I loved over on Soul Humming’s BLOG . Anyone who can see the beauty in the grittier parts of LA is a person after my own heart. I don’t think I’ve been to this blog before. Go take a look I think you’ll enjoy it as much as I did.
I sort of feel like I’m blowing my own trombone by pointing you over here, but it isn’t everyday that someone like Judy captures my alter ego in a stencil. Giddyup on over HERE and see what you’ve been missing!
Recently I came across THIS artist – Amanda Sears. Her work is over the top. Way over. I can’t figure out if she’s using stencils or silkscreen or something else…? Zip on over and prepare to be dazzled. Patterns, numbers, texture, and color. Oh Muchachos, I’m feeling feverish! Someone get me a cold compress.
I went to see one of Blaine Fontana’s shows at a Silverlake gallery earlier this year. His work induces a trance state.
Oh wait. Let me get my trombone back out. I added more Mailart to the photo album up there somewhere.
Your sunrays are much better than what you could have gotten in photoshop…your work is insanely wonderful!!
Love all the links of more and more and more inspiration!
We’d all like to see photos of the entire cat posse please!
Thank you!
Hey, My hands are sticky from my first stencil with spray paint. It would take too long to tell you the events that led up to today’s project but I thought you’d like to know these 2 things.. I just discovered you blog…. I love it.. very inspirational… and…… Out local dump/landfill has a place where people czn bring their toxic paints, bug spray, or chemicals… the good news is it cost them a lot of money to dispose of it.. so they let you take what you want…. botom line… I have dozens of free cans of spray paint in my aresenal…. maybe you could check your local landfill…
I love it! How wonderful, book covers? Fab. Amanda Sears, very interesting work, I think it might be stencils and airbrush???
I am so loving those covers!!
I look like a super hero comic book character! Are you going to write about the adventures of super sister? It looks superb and spectacular. I am going to go out now and leap tall buildings in a single bound and rescue the downtrodden! (after I finish whacking back all my nearly wild roses and insanely growing dogwoods that is). Garden first then the saving of the distressed. oh and I will have to have coffee and pound cake after the whacking and before the saving. Even a superhero needs to keep up her strength.