VIDEO

me dancing with Farflung in September.
audio is messed up, so turn your sound down (but not off)!


video by Shazzula

ghosts of the old plains

progress on the sketch for serena's tattoo i'm finally getting on my ass to do (because i get off my ass to do everything and anything else). her phone call pushed me to get started and lack of friends and excess of loneliness pushed me to continue. I hope to finish this by the end of the week.


the visual idea is a fantastical archaic buffalo, a new mythological buffalo creature with scales and feathers.
it's helpful to see my sketch on the screen because it objectively shows me where there are problems. when i revisit this sketch i will skew the scales in a way that suggests the form of his body, move the right eye down a bit because his head is slightly tilted, and even out the horn size. everything else is going to evolve naturally.

in a (probably superficial) sense it's coincidentally appropriate that i'm beginning to reread Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. maybe vicariously some vein of depth of connection with this land i cannot wholly rightfully claim, yet still feel, will grace this creation process.

west coast strut that was as sweet as molasses

cheeseball dream i had soon after the car accident in August. going to fill out just a little bit more, then do my special process of
1. scanning
2. printing out on watercolour paper (but this time i'm going to blow up the size
3. painting
4. pen and ink




believe it or not this one's close in on my heart/psyche

electric liquid go-go, SPACE edition

i was invited by Farflung, a Hawkwind-esque space rock acideater group i met 2 Fourth of Julys ago at a Teepee Records party entitled New Weird America Music or something of that nature, to dance while they performed at a Jodorowsky Bacchanal last Friday. 2 Fourth of Julys ago I told them i wanted to do Barbarella go-go for them and they took me up on it!
The following picture was taken by Shazzula, the radass witchbaby frontwoman of Aqua Nebula Oscillator, a dark psychedelic group from France who I met in Holland.



These are taken by Jaimo. Excessive video documentation is promised. This debut was incredibly well documented.





stay in tune for more to come! space-y electric liquid go-go brought to you

things

i've been putting together.

also working on a piece from a dream after the car accident. will possibly scan the progress sometime this week.

aries moon

gettin' there..

mine's in leo

gettin' on it

this one's going to be about bleeding for a month and it feeling like an abstract pregnancy
and this one's my grandpa's birthday card

kinda

for my mama's birthday card

aliens' abduction, cat's amazement

card for a friend

raccoon skull

i found in a eucalyptus grove by the train tracks two thursdays ago in orange county.

riot rock on

the birthday card for my grandma
based upon the ever-evolving car series

the new highway hymnal

very close to final digital sketches for the new highway hymnal album cover/inside/back-cover

the new highway hymnal

second sketch for The New Highway Hymnal


it's been really hard to find time to play around with this lately.

album covers

first digital sketch for the album cover for my friends in The New Highway Hymnal.

sea green eyeshadow dork chick

a music video i was in that my friend Samantha made.

"Lupton Pittman" - Magic Treason from Samantha Cornwell on Vimeo.

progression

BERLIN KELPIE nymphette silent siren
breastsuckerblowsmokerbabyhexsexmagiceyeshadowblacknailhairrider

In the order I sketched.
For as long as I can remember I've been very afraid of the way I sketch figures from my mind. I think they're creepy and deformed and strangely sexualized. But I can never get realistic enough anyway. In art school I always had little issues with figurative drawing. When I doodle I revert to shapes and lines because of how much the figures in my mind freak me out.
This is the first time I drew something really honest that I can accept and like a little. I'm pretty excited--maybe if I can let go I can enjoy drawing.