bread pudding @ satura cakes in palo alto

bread pudding & crispy brioche cupcake, both fantastic

carolina saw my drawing & asked if she could put it up! yes, of course, so this is up in

satura cakes in palo alto - please visit, view the art, eat some cake

also, i've invited carolina to submit to 2 buck tuesday @ kaleid

she does wonderful marker drawings (loves sharpies)

outer space animal hillbilly adventure dinner

in response to

"I think I wanna design an outer space animal hillbilly adventure dinner. Any takers?"

http://twitter.com/pelletfactory

people of Peet's coffee

as said in previous post, draw people in public setting, get their chins wrong, noses funny, and some weird monster like results emerge - I'm willing to do this to strangers, not to friends & family

Dogs and Demons and Vicki

Dogs and Demons

Tales From The Dark Side OF Japan

by Alex Kerr

Worth reading for the darker issues facing Japan, written when the whole world considered Japan an economic miracle. Crime, environmental issues, social problems, destruction of their architectural and art heritage is what is revealed here.  The flip side of what was making the mainstream press.

All his books worth reading. And I follow his work to preserve traditional homes.

What does that have to do with this drawing of Vicki?

The title Dogs and Demons is from an Chinese old tale, about which is easier to draw: Dogs or Demons. The answer is Demons, because we can make it look like anything as nobody knows what a demon looks like. We all know what a dog looks like.

I'd take it further, a human is harder. And a human we know is the most difficult. Or to go the other direction, a rock is easier than a demon.

I know Vicki, so if I get a tiny detail, wrong, only a millimeter, she will look wrong.  I'll know it, her friends will know it and she will know it. Might make her look really weird, which she does not. I'll post again this week, with an example of people I draw whom I don't know. They look weird.

So for people I know, I'm going for the essential, the essence, the minimum I can get away with. And so far, making for more interesting art.

make sure that your undergarments are clean

a new body of work

cupcakes for you & you & you

new 3 hot cupcakes @ kaleid

SFMOMA CAFFÉ MUSEO

drawings of people, some real, some not so real

while in san francisco for open gallery thursday

more fun creating art than looking

collaborative art while eating donuts

i painted 5 paintings (sketches, drawings, doodles?)

he painted 5 paintings (sketches, drawings, doodles?)

then we traded & i painted on his & he painted on mine

oh, this sounds weird, never mind

results above

if kyle told you to jump off a cliff, would you?

if kyle told you to jump off a cliff, would you?

no, maybe, i don't know, why?

but if he TOLD you to draw 10 drawings that have something to do with faces, you might

shown here, snap partial preview of just 1 of the 10 currently in progress face drawings

bonus points if you recognize the celebrity

AFRAIDY CAT

inspired by friend who was perhaps afraid, or confused, as we all are at times

so created this for $2 buck tuesday

with specific objective to do something with color, animal & still within guidelines of "wittzle"

& it was purchased! woman who bought it said it reminded her of a friend of hers who was similar

Peet's provided paper & pencil!

ordered a pot of decaffeinated english breakfast, considering purchasing, wanted to give it a try

already there sitting on windowsill, partly started, with a nice little yellow pencil next to it, just begging to become something else

the tea, eeh, should have known, decaffeinated tea, even from Peet's, just does not hold up to milk as the real thing, maybe go back to the real thing

there must be an answer

budding

cupcakes in a time of CHAOS

house brand

i did not submit any of these 3 into the melt yo face off show, but in hindsight, perhaps the 1 above should have been... eh. nonetheless, these 3 will b on sale @ the kaleid gallery this week, unless of course u contact me b4 i hang them there for 1st fri. c u there if u r local...

what is house? what is that little "h" logo? House Foods America

quaternary kuro kirishima

i did not set out to create 4 versions of "kuro kirishima," but i was not satisfied w/ (submitting to the melt yo' face off show) the 1st 3 i created, even though i think they r all aesthetically strong & pleasing. i'm looking @ all of them again, as eddie (flores) recently mentioned he liked the (above) piece i submitted. the other 3 r below.

black vertical writing & 750ml loosely sketched from kuro kirishima soju bottle. legibility not intent, rather forms of writing over other textural script.

•sold!

more than 15 min o fame

okay, it's feb, so it must b warhol?

he is @the sjma from yesterday, valentine's day through sun, 31 may 2009.

he is also @the de young (w/similar dates, 2: 14 feb through sun, 17 may 2009).

& last but not least, he is @the canter (through 19 apr 2009).

so far, i've only casually checked out the 60 prints @the sjma. i'm not sure if i'm underwhelmed or it's because i grew up w/all his images/influence. in any case, i'm going back 2 c them again.

it's great that he is @3 locations... although something seems weird about premanufactured presold shows (& in 3 locations)–like the hidden body or titanic or da vinci or vivienne westwood–put in metreon or tech museum, but not a "real museum"—curate something new. i'm going anyway, & i guess they know that.

btw, above is a what the sjma lower galleries looked like in prep last week. funny thing, i thought it was an actual sculpture, like the weird leaning guy at the canter.

d-day h-19

okay, today's the day. but not the time. so while we are all? waiting for the melt yo face off! opening at 7pm pst, here's two other non entries. this time they are from one my late night drawing sessions with kyle at donut wheel, down the street from apple hq.

d-1

that is, 1 day prior to the melt yo' face off show opening. so in that vein, here's another non entry piece (the wellington star inn menu was the other). that is, a piece that i decided not to submit to the show. i created dozens of work during the holidays b4 submitting the allowed 10. tanks for looking.

install yo' face off

well, i'm beat. spent most of my tue helpin kyle (above, the curator of melt yo' face off), wei, maria & eddie hang ±200 pieces of art from all over the country. above is what the show looked like around 1pm pst. & below just b4 8pm pst. i must say my 10 pieces r in good company.