Spur of the moment

Yesterday and today marked great days. When I came back from my week long beach adventure with Kim to Florida, I won't lie I was stressing for the fretboard. There were no guitars in florida that I could play, and it was brutal. I came home to very old strings, on both the Mistress and Redwood. A busy catch up from vacation/birthday celebrations/parents in town weekend did not allow for restringing. While I took the few spare minutes I could gather to break my fingers back in, my real urge had not been fulfilled. Until Yesterday and today. I love new strings.

I got a small off the cuff looped jam session, with myself. Don't have much to do? Listen to Wagon.

June Art show plans

So I believe I had two shows lined up for June.

Graffiti art and hip hop show at the Bamboo Grove Salon has been moved to June 20th. There will be graffiti artists, a DJ, calligraphy artists and more TBD. I plan on doing a live graffiti peice for the event as well. Some of the graffiti canvases I have will be on display for about a month or so. Give it up to Arianna Ninneman for hooking me up with the line on the show! It sounds like me and John Graeter will be the main artists. It's been a while since I have shown with John, but he is sure to steal the show... he is an amazing artist!!!

The Gladstone Coffee and Gallery is the other June show, and it's a short notice cancellation fill that seems like a pretty good opportunity. I don't know much about the space, I have a chance to check it out today. Sounds like they have big walls where big paintings look good. That's convenient because I love big paintings! There is a possibility of a first friday event on the 6th, but due to short notice of the show and the potential lack of interest generated it may not happen. We will see!

It's nice out, this is all for now.

New graff Peices!

Two in a row, Go me. May will be a good month.

New happenings don't stop just because I'm thousands of miles from home. What a great tool the internet is. The graffiti show at the Bamboo Grove seems like it's going to be a big hit. John Graeter is dialin' in for the show from what I hear and I can't wait to show with him again. There also will be a live performance aspect to the show, and I'm hoping to get in as a featured artist for a live installation segment. The show is on June 6, and regardless it'll be fun to go to so if you are reading this -> mark down June 6th as taken.

Also, I finished up a pencil drawing of a new graffiti peice. I have lately felt the need to get back to the roots that inspired and started my passion for art. "Mister" is new as of today, "Hustle" is one that I dug out of the sketchbook from a few months back. These aren't the best versions of sketches I have drawn, but what do you want from me I'm on vacation! Let me know your thoughts on the new works!

Vacation

As I sit under a fan in a small bedroom holed up just south of West Palm Beach, I can't help but be amused that I'm watching t.v. and writing in a blog. I'm not crazy, it's just that my skin is scorched, I'm exauhsted, and I have had so much fun this last week I need to chill for minute. For this past week I have been living in Del Boca Vista being amazed that Seinfeld nailed all the Floridian jokes as well as they did. I really can't complain becuase I have been hanging out at the beaches in boynton, del ray, lantana and west palm. I got to take the reigns of an airplane for the very first time as we flew in gramps private plane for a one of a kind lunch adventure. This has been quite the vacation, and when I get back to Oregon I will be sure to post a ton of pictures.

I'm told, by my highly professional internet council, that I'm supposed to write in the Blog a few times a week as opposed to once in a few weeks. I'm also finding that the reader base has grown from one or two people to apparently 5 or 6. That's a growth rate of like 600% depending on how you skew the data! I'm also told I'm supposed to keep this short - That's really the hard part.

For a quick update I want to share a couple things. I still have paintings up at the Kelly's Olympian downtown. I haven't had any sales, or any interest really however as the coordinator got extremly busy days before we were supposed to change out art, I wiggled my way into another month of showing. I also changed out some of the paintings hanging over at EastBurn. I have had a pretty good response from the EastBurn, and I must say I love the bar, the food and the people. If you haven't checked out EastBurn at 1800 E Burnside, do it. Lastly, there is a graff art show in the works at the Bamboo Grove Salon that I am really excited about. I believe it's in June but I will keep you posted!