Shows
*NOW*
For Us By Us
Stained Skin
Columbus OH
Feb4-?

This is a group show of artwork by tattoo artists. I am the wife of a tattoo artist who knows the owner so I was lucky enough to join this show. The whole family went to the opening the other night and it was pretty fun. There was some awesome work on the walls. Some of it was traditional tattoo style art and some of it was not very tattooey at all. Lil' Lukey entertained everyone with his constant butt wiggling. He loves to dance!
Here is my entry. It is done in watercolor inks. My husband does these amazing watercolor paintings so I wanted to try out his medium of choice to be part of the tattoo show. It was fun but I have a lot to learn. I haven't painted with watercolor inks in years. I love the bright saturated colors that you can get as a result of layering wash after wash. I hope I'll find time to do more painting like this. I need practice drawing too! Seems all I ever do is sew anymore.


*NOW*
Plush Week!
Gallery 1988
LA CA
Feb 7-14

Did anyone go to the Plush Week opening? If you took any pics or saw any online anywhere, will you share with me please?
Here is one link my friend sent to me.
More pics in Tsai Fi's journal!

Pics of the dolls I sent can be found here, one entry back.

*NEXT WEEK*
Swear to Save
CBGB's 313 Gallery
NYC

This is my bear for the Swearbear custom figure show that starts next week.


I took some pictures of the process of making him. First I took the figure apart by putting it in a bag and boiling it for a short while like a frozen dinner. They explained to us how to do this on the website for the show. It softens the vinyl and makes it easy to pull apart. Then I painted each piece with absorbent ground. This makes it so it can absorb paint like paper.


Then I made some watercolor ink washes and dipped his parts like easter eggs. I am not sure what I was trying to acheive but I kind of liked the results. Inbetween dips I painted some clouds on and after it was all dry I coated it with some irridescent acrylic paint. Mark said it looked hippie-like tie dye style. It's supposed to look like sky because his name is Thundy, God of Thunder.


Then I cut off his ears and painted half of the head black. It looked like a half moon cookie! Yum! It was hard to get the pieces back together so I softened them with a hair dryer.


That's as far as I got with the process pics. Next I made a mask for him to wear and snake for him to hold. I needed a place to put the mask down so I put it on this nearby jug of pennies.


Here's a closeup.

The snake is made from a felted sweater that was sent to me from herownlagoon. I've been getting great mileage out that felt! Thanks again Emily!!

Mark made an awesome bear too! He just started a live journal. Maybe he will post pictures of his soon. </a></b></a>twinmelvis