Pushing On

We had a great, but long, holiday. Got a chance to see all the parents and half of the state on a cold snowy christmas day. Overall it was great.

So, moving forward. I have a good iron in the fire on the art side right now. There is this salon that's opening in about a week and a half and the owner, Jade, is this awesome lady that digs some cool art. I am going to be hanging a total of 7 or 8 peices in her salon. This actually has some hope of making some sales. It sounds like she is pushing hard for her salon to be this upscale cool place, and she is making some good moves towards that.

The peice to the right is one I'm workin on for this place. I am also working on a great peice that is 6' long and will be in this little nook above an awesome red leather couch.

2007 is almost gone, I'm looking forward to my first full year as a Portland resident. Pretty soon, I'm going to have to do some goal setting for where I want to be at the end of '08.

Let it be known, once the first big art peice is sold... It will be party time, all will be invited!

Love Portland

Hello my two readers; I think I'm up to two.

I'm told I need to keep these short so people will read them. Imagine that, me, longwinded. Weird.

Try to make this quick:

Art: Met with a Fine Arts dealer, got great feedback; I need to study Color. I got turned down for the show I applied to, but in February at the Kingstad Center there is going to be an "Icons" show inspired by my Colors Of Music series. That's pretty exciting, she said if I have more done in this format that would be great! I have bought 3 new canvases, if you have suggestions fire away!

I'm trying to scale down on the SPEC work, money is nice but I don't like working for people all the much.

Also, got hooked up with a tattoo parlor that wants to trade straight billing costs for one of my paintings. I have the canvas, and just need approval and then I'm getting hooked up with probably a $600 tattoo credit. Expect to see new ink on me and kim with in a year.

Music:

Recorded a new song, I'm pretty proud of it. I still need the drum kit, but we'll see how it all comes together. At least I'm getting bass layers into the music now. I'm meeting a guy tomorrow night for a potential Jam session/band start up. I'm nervous but we'll take it slow. He says he totally loves my lead guitar songs and what not, can't complain about that!!

I'm still waitin on the melodica song from Chris, can't wait!! That one will be fun to work with.

Also, I applied to a local venue in attempts to hook up an acoustic set. Who knows what is going to happen, but that's the fun isn't it!!!

Thanks for reading, stay tuned. The idea is to keep shorter more frequent posts. Who knows if that will happen.

Cheers all.