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2014
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| Glittergasm - Blue Lucy Gallery, St Pete FL |
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| Ouroboros - Station Numberthree, St Pete FL |
Divina Pavalaguna - Blue Lucy Gallery, St Pete FL
Darwin Brewing, Bradenton FL
Tigresa - Bloom Gallery, St Pete FL
Octave, St Pete FL
404 - Local 662, St Pete FL
Sly Bar, St Pete FL
Bloom Gallery, St Pete FL
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| Octave, St Pete FL |
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| Bastet - Blue Lucy, St Pete FL |
HAIR // Show Up and Throw Up Art Show - Oleson Gallery (2014)
Final shot of "Hair" for Oleson Gallery's (now moved to Bloom Art Center!) Show Up and Throw Up Art Show from back in February 2014.
The show was a blast and had also had great concept, there were no restrictions and it was open to anyone that wanted to get involved. Basically you just "Show up and Throw up" you art on the walls.
The doors opened at 1 pm, hanging supplies were provided, and within a few hours the walls were full of great art from artists from all over! It was a great way to grow the art community and invite people who had never shown in galleries before.
Here's an article about the show from Examiner.com and also found a video walkthrough!
Anyways on to the process!
The idea was a concept I've wanted to play around with for a while, I even have some recent pieces that'll be working on the same theme. I wanted the figure to be nestled snugly within the frame of the piece, kinda just lounging and relaxed, and mostly just filling the space as much as possible.
Also possibly life size, which is why the board is 4 x 4 feet. Also I was having a lot of fun rendering hair back then, and since I was only sticking to black and white it was the best spot to really play around with the design and just go at it.
But, I also wanted to play it safe so during one of the St Pete Art Meetups, which back then used to take place in side the Oleson Gallery, I started a practice piece on a 1 x 2 feet board.
Just to play with a few ideas without worrying about ruining the whole piece.
I don't remember if I actually learned anything specific from the practice piece, but it was a really good warm up to help finish the final. There's a lot less pressure on how to finish a painting when you've already done it once before.
And finally here's a shot of the lady hanging at the Oleson Gallery during the show!
I'll be updating the site little by little with in depth process write ups of all the gallery pieces I've done so far, until I catch up with all the recent work.
Until then if you want to keep up with the work real time the best bet is my Facebook page and Instagram!
Skunk Ape - Dark Arts St Pete
This was an older gallery piece for DARK ARTS, a Halloween art show and entertainment event on October 26, 2013 at stationnumber3 in St. Pete.
The theme was basically anything dark and Halloween themed. I decided I wanted my piece to be local to St. Pete and Florida as well. So I chose to go with the legend of the Myakka Skunk Ape.
Think of a swamp version of Bigfoot, That's our Skunk Ape.
The original sketch was just a bunch of scribbles in Photoshop to get a basic composition and shape down. I wanted to make this piece as organic and fresh as I could, so I went with minimal planning.
The one thing I did plan out is the overall style and look I wanted. So I zoomed in on a small part of the digital sketch and pushed as far towards finished as I could.
From there it was just a matter of transferring the sketch onto a 2 x 4 foot whiteboard by grid and then lots and lots of time detailing.
More detailing. The whole piece was done in sharpies of all sizes, and even red sharpie for the trees. I wanted to see if I could stick to one material for the whole piece.
And finally all done!
And here's some close ups.
In the end it was a really fun piece and a great show with over 60 other local artists, plus food vendors and live music.
The main pupose was the challenge of sticking to one material the whole way through, I might have to do a digital updated version as a print eventually and clean up the lines and color.
Abstract Expressions - Artspace Anna Maria
Recently, I had my show at Artspace Anna Maria, which is an amazing space right on the beach on Anna Maria Island, run by the amazing artist Deborah Webster. I'd say it's pretty much like a fusion between an art gallery and beach paradise.
The show was a lot of fun and a real challenge. I had a lot of ideas and concepts of things I wanted to try out, but these things never go as expected, so you have to go with the flow and see what comes out.
I wanted the abstract pieces to be a bit of an appetizer to help get people into the mind frame and feeling of what I wanted the show to be. It's more about playing with colors and forms and shapes and having fun.
I wanted to show a little behind the scenes into the creative process before they got to the main show.
And the ladies, well they're the ladies, the main attraction. I played with different techniques on each of them, trying to capture different feelings with each one.
Each one was a bit of a different journey, never really coming out how I expected. But since one of my main focuses was trying something new, I wouldn't have wanted it any other way.
I did have a blast with the technique, it does get a little stressful because there isn't much control. But that might be one of my favorite things about it.
So, it's definitely a style I'm going to stick with and keep developing and pushing. The only trick will be finding space to fit all of them down the line, at 2x4 feet each these ladies are not small...