Archive for January, 2009
Dr. Sketchy’s OKC Was Awesome
Ilsa Reclined, from Dr. Sketchy’s OKC, January 2009, ink sketch by Sarah Atlee.
Thanks to Marylin, Ashley, and everyone who attended or helped to organize the first Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School session in Oklahoma City.
Ilsa in a beach hat, from Dr. Sketchy’s OKC, January 2009, ink sketch.
And thank you to the lovely Ilsa The Wolf for working so hard and making it look easy.
Ilsa in profile, from Dr. Sketchy’s OKC, January 2009, ink sketch on cardboard.
Can’t wait for February!
Sketch Series: Water (Flickr Set)
Water: Wavelets, ink on 3×5 index card, 2009. Click image to see full-size.
I’ve uploaded a new set of sketches to Flickr: Eight ways of looking at water. Each drawing is made with a Pigma Micron #1 pen on a 3×5 index card. I love index cards.
Dr. Sketchy’s Starts in OKC Sunday 01.25.2009
Dr. Sketchy’s has come to Oklahoma City! Marilyn Artus, co-founder of The Girlie Show, has organized a leg of the burlesque life-drawing group which will meet at AKA Gallery (Google Maps link) one Sunday a month. The first meeting will be this Sunday, January 25th, from 6 – 10 pm. You must be 21 to attend, and there is a $10 cover. Ilsa the Wolf will be our first model. And I am so there.
From the press release:
Dr. Sketchy’s is a life drawing class meets cabaret experience. Started in Brooklyn by artist and burlesque girl Molly Crabapple, Dr. Sketchy’s now has 60+ branches around the globe, including Hollywood, London, Berlin, Edinburgh and NOW Oklahoma City. We will have gorgeous women, musclemen, freaks, and geeks. Bring a chair and your art supples, drink some booze. Tip your model and bartender, listen to some tunes and draw draw draw!!! We have great give-aways from local retailors like Blue 7. There will be contests made up on the spot! Visit http://www.drsketchy.com for more information.
Amanda Palmer: Creep (Radiohead Cover)
Update: video link corrected.
Illustration Friday: Pale
Anonymous Niece, acrylic and colored pencil on Rives BFK, 2009. Click image to see full-size.
To learn more about Illustration Friday, click here.
Anonymous Niece was created for Seeing Other People, a show of contemporary portraiture by Oklahoma Artists. The show hangs in the OKC Underground Invited Artists Gallery from January to April 2009. There will be an opening reception this coming Thursday, January 22, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Please join us!
To create this fictional portrait, I worked from several photographic sources. My primary source was a picture I found in a stack of old family photos. There is no information on the photograph identifying the subject, just the name of the portrait studio: Jamiesons Studios, 3A High Street, Wrexham. (A quick search tells me that Wrexham is in northeast Wales, the country my family came from two generations ago. So it is likely the girl in the photograph is a distant relative.)
Following is a list of movies I listened to (on headphones, from my portable dvd player) while I worked on Anonymous Niece.
Pride and Prejudice (episode 1)
Seeing Other People in OKC, 01.22.2009
Click image to see full-size.
Seeing Other People, featuring contemporary portraits by 12 Oklahoma artists, will open with a reception on Thursday, January 22 (5:30-7:30pm) in the Invited Artist Gallery (OKC Underground). Please join us!
Participating artists represent photographers, printmakers, painters, and mixed media artists. They are: MJ Alexander, Sarah Atlee, Josh Buss, Eleanor Davy Carmack, Sam Echols, Nick Hermes, Jackie Jones, JP Morrison, Jason Pawley, Liz Roth, Sara Scribner, and Alexis Winslow.
The artists in Seeing Other People have created artwork portraying friends, celebrities, and complete strangers using a wide array of styles and motives. The result is a broad, varied, and engaging exploration into this genre, and into the very different ways we all see other people.
The Invited Artist Gallery, located in The Underground, is made possible through a sponsorship by Devon Energy Corporation Entrances to the gallery are located at the corner of Robert S. Kerr Blvd and Robinson, and inside Leadership Square. The Invited Artists Gallery sits underneath the intersection of Robinson and Robert S. Kerr with entrances from all adjacent buildings. The Invited Artist Gallery is produced by Downtown Oklahoma Inc.
For more information on the Underground or Downtown OKC, Inc, please visit downtownokc.com or call 405-235-3500.
Liz Roth: Expert
Arizona, oil painting by Liz Roth, from the series America 101. Click image to visit the artist’s site.
Liz Roth is one of my fellow artists from Art 365. Her installation of paintings, titled America 101, is a comment on consumerism versus the preservation of the American landscape. For her project, Liz travelled to all 50 states (yes, all) and painted two small landscapes from each state. These 100 paintings were hung along with one billboard-sized painting of one of America’s most ubiquitous disposable commodities — a water bottle.
Liz teaches at OSU in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In this video, Liz exemplifies the qualities I think every good art studio professor has. Her students learn from her about three important disciplines in art: technical, conceptual, and professional practices. I hope prospective art students see this video and enroll!
Speaking of prospective art students, OVAC is gathering information about opportunities for high school age artists. Read more about that here.
Pluparfait at Goodwin Law, OKC, 1.22.2009
I am having a solo show of paintings at the Goodwin Law Firm, 617 N. Broadway Ave in OKC’s historic Automobile Alley. The show, titled Pluparfait, features my signature portraits of unusual characters, expressed with vibrant colors and detailed brush and pen strokes. Pluparfait will be on display at Goodwin Law through June 2009. Hours are by appointment; please call 232-2400.
A reception for Pluparfait will be held Thursday, January 22 from 6:30 to 9:00 pm. Refreshments will be served.
Visitors to my solo show can also go next door to 611 Creative and see works by local artists Ruth Ann Borum, David Bruehl, and Fernando Casillas.
I am also in a group show opening the same night just down the street. Seeing Other People, a show of contemporary portraiture by Oklahoma artists, is now on display in the OKC Underground Invited Artists Gallery. Read more about that here.
Pluparfait is a mostly made-up word that comes from two grammatical terms. Pluperfect is the past perfect tense. Its opposite is the future perfect tense. My made-up word alludes to my pertpetual attempt to make the “perfect” paintings I see in my head. The day after tomorrow is perpetually frozen in possibility, unattainable in the present. In working toward an ideal, I may achieve more than I thought possible.