PSYCHEDELIA up

my two psychedelia pieces are officially up on etsy! check 'em out here!!!!

banana head

i started this painting months ago. it's inspired by RTX. weird thing is now their name's been changed to Black Bananas. yep. creepy coincidence. so yesterday i darkened the banana.


i've been re-inspired to finish it-already! taking it slow because i really like it, trying to come up with ideas for a background, or perhaps no background at all. i definitely want to keep that part simple. because there's going to be a lot of intricate pen and ink detailing around the figure and maybe more on the car. trying to hold back on pen and ink because it's too easy.
here are some inspiration ideas:



i didn't realize they're all skate pictures! i guess i like that high horizon. i'm pretty sure that i want some sky in there. a real nice cerulean blue maybe even watercolor ink.
reminds me of the triad buick special '65 homage i did of Emily back in freshmen or sophomore year...
dang i was painting her too small. oh please art gawds-don't make me paint over 9" x 11"!!!!
hahaha

stardustfuzz etsy shop + go-go news!

for any of you who may have dreamed of owning a piece of mine, i just set up an etsy shop yesterday! still a pink infant raisin, for now there's only 1 piece for sale: the Gogol Bordello portrait I did nearly 2 years ago for the Far West Almanac. On Wednesday you can probably expect 2 more pieces (unless I sell them in real life first).
i'm pretty excited about this!
To set up a shop Etsy runs a $1.01 credit card/bank account check thing, charges $0.20 per listing and takes a 3.5% sales fee. I chose Etsy over Ebay because Ebay stresses me out! And I like the community on Etsy. Etsy is also impenetrable by corporations or companies that sell masses of the same product, so there's a lot less crap to scroll through.

in go-go related news, check out this baby!
hopefully the dj's of The Secret Affair will follow up with me about being an official go-go girl.


reminds me of one of Uschi Obermaier's stories in her book about winning dance contest after dance contest after dance contest with her dance to Wooly Bully!

Snakerider

this is the newest poster for the Psychedelia Beaters!
heavily digitally edited because of time constraints. i like it okay, though i think i'll take the whole concept further in the next few weeks.

working off of Zuni symbolism
Owls are associated with medicine of sorcery, magical transformation, link between the dark, unseen world and the world of light, communication between spiritual & physical realms, comfort w/the shadow self. they're pulling the girl's hair, guiding her further down the path she has chosen to take.
Because snakes shed their skin, they are a powerful symbol for discarding old ways and transforming the negative into the positive. She's leading the way, the snake is in her reigns.

original finished drawing:



actual finished piece:edited final:

SEE:: Night of Psychedelia60's ::

The final finals of the Psychedelic60's project finally will become postcards and posters!
This project was right in my natural aesthetic understanding. 60's poster art was my first, and still is the strongest, inspiration in my artwork. I'm excited for similar future opportunities! ...climbing back into the swing.
These have also served as great exercises in "letting go." I don't know about abolishing perfectionism, but now I know a less uptight approach is visually evident in my figures.






For an inside look on my creation process, these are some of the bigger inspirations and guides for these pieces. Chosen half by me, half by the Psychedelia Beaters. What I will not post are the 40+ photos of go-go dancers and mod parties I've collected!




old-school groupie "Harlow" (true glamour!), Wes Wilson's fluid layouts and lastly finding a little something I can take from the British scene's work (Jacob and the Coloured Coat).

85% LEOPARD

The colour studies I did precede each finished-ish piece. About 85% there!