Juxtapoz exhibition and my YouTube Channel

I forgot in my last post to tell you about another huge show going on.  20 YEARS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF JUXTAPOZ is happening right now, alongside the SLANG AESTHETICS! exhibit by Robert Williams at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Tons of great artists showing.  You can check out the line up below...
 

Today at 2pm they will be hosting a free special talk with Andrew Hosner (exhibition co-curator / Thinkspace Gallery), Gary Pressman (exhibition co-curator / Copro Gallery), Greg Escalante (Juxtapoz co-founder / Copro Gallery owner), Robert Williams (Juxtapoz co-founder / featured artist), Gwynn Vitello (Juxtapoz’s current President + Publisher).

I also wanted to share that I've started a YouTube channel.  I really love watching other artists' process videos.  Whether it's a time lapse of them working on a piece or a tutorial with tips on certain techniques...I'm a bona fide YouTube art nerd.  I figured I'd share some videos of my own with anyone who wants to learn more about my process.  I'm still working out the kinks, so please subscribe and the filming will get better along the way ; )  

You can check out my first process video below...


Feel free to comment or message me with anything specific you might like to see in my YouTube videos. 

~ eye should figure out a better recording set up...my collapsible easel rigged with my iPhone is seeming just a bit ridiculous, ha!

new year's goals and progress on a colored pencil series

It's a new year and I have tons of new ideas to try to implement to progress further with my art.  I'm sure a lot of you also have that beginning-of-the-year-I'm-going-to-finally-get-my-shit-together-and-work-quickly-toward-my-goals kind of attitude.  Well, it's nice that the new year prompts that kind of thinking, but it's so easily forgotten by February, haha.  I'm making a month-by-month type of action plan and I'm pretty confident that it will hold me accountable a bit more throughout the year.  This month I'm focused on simply putting the action plan together...yeah, I know, maybe that should have happened before January, but hey it's better late than never.

Life is so fast-paced, it's kind of strange that most of us have to make an effort to stay focused on what we truly love to do or we might not make the time for it.  Regardless of how busy things are, I figure even if you can only find 15 minutes a day...all those minutes add up in the end and get you closer to where you want to be.

I'm determined to make some quicker progress on this colored pencil series I'm working on.  I have 4 girls sketched out and have started on paper with the first.  Yesterday I spent a whole 15 or 20 minutes drawing...but at least I picked her up and made a bit of progress. 

Today I'll commit to at least 15 minutes again, and hopefully I'll get in a flow that makes me forget to stop and take care of everything else for a while longer.  It's too easy to get sucked into the whole mindset of having to get all of the day to day stuff done that we put off the things that feed our soul.  But you know what, my house can be 15 minutes less clean, so I can spend that time doing what I love.  Eff it ; )  Happy New Year!

~ eye should put on some Pandora, light my sweet aloha orchid candle and work on this chick's face some more. 

some new girls

Been making more time for art and less time for blogging, haha.  I'm determined to get better at this one day soon...but for now, it's a little sporadic.

Here are some new finished works...

Windflowers - colored pencil on paper, 11" x 14"

Lucky - pastels and colored pencil on wood, 11" x 14"

Walls - pastels on wood, 8" x 8"

Six of Swords - acrylic and ink on wood, 11" x 14"

and a work in progress...

I'm just allowing myself to go with the flow on this new one.  Have a few different ideas for the background at this point.  Pretty sure I'm going to leave some exposed panel though.  I've been using colored pencil so far, but have a feeling I'm going to add some pastel and charcoal...we'll see.

I've just added a bunch more prints to my Society6 shop.  Click here for $5 off each item and free shipping worldwide through midnight pst on March 9th.

~ eye should be a better blogger...I'm sure I'll get more consistent soon ; )