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!

leopard sounds colour studies

i think this top left is my favourite. probably because i love green.




will later replace photos with scans.

leopard sounds in colour

ready for paint but still need some colour studies before i get in too deep!

leopard sounds

the about 80% done drawings for the Psychedelia60s dj night at Fern's.

psychedelia60's

Initial sketch for the postcard and poster for Psychedelia60's dj'd by the Psychedelia Beaters @ Long Beach's Fern's Cocktails every other Wednesday!



More to come!

white mane

for my Mama's Mother's day card

on a gold kick

height of shirt is accidental.

currents

what i've been listening to

the things playlist.com didn't have:
SOUL the temptations' cover of "ain't no sunshine"
70s HARD ROCK Thin Lizzie's cover of Bob Seger's "rosalie," + "for those who love to live"
COUNTRY Marty Robbins' follow-up to "el paso," almost 2 decades years later, written in the same manner of the first: on a plane, in as long as it takes to sing it "el paso city"
EARLY TEXAS PSYCH the 13th floor elevators'"reverberation"

lounger

orange sun

second sketch

mermaid

1st phase sketch inspired by beluga whales and the following daydream:

i want to be a mermaid in seafoam green i want my hair to bleach until it’s nearly translucent. i want my eyelashes so light and thick that if i close my eyes your depth perception gets mucked. i want to feel good slipping into the cold and murky tirade of our moon’s patterns, i want to wash my heart, sun myself on slick rocks. i want to be half mermaid and half oranges-eating changeling. if i am a changeling then my energy and efforts and the lack of requital makes sense. then also i will have some invisible armor, woven from myth and vague playful memories. i can choose to be hard with justification because i am something that must be protected, something that must be respected, must be loved unconditionally, madly, like a poison. i am dangerous. i will be a sick siren, a scream so high-pitched that it will relentlessly vibrate against your insides, i will slowly chew and then spew venom that eats at your thickest fibers, i will be the ever-promise of eternal magic that you let go, whose spirit you destroyed almost completely (you will secretly know i have recovered ten-fold and now blossom in the freedom of my half-existence). i will be the thing you almost caught, almost tamed, almost forgot, and then lost.

i will move to my own fairytale cottage and i will get a sewing machine and hole myself up away from all the vampires. i will have a garden of herbs, fennel and basil and cilantro, lavender, and lime and orange and lemon trees,
i want to be a chlorine swimming pool mermaid, i want to be invisible under the dead leaves. i will cover my body with a mud mask and lie in my backyard and then play in the sprinkler to wash it all off.

OUTFITS

i'm going to start posting pictures of outfits i put together.
garage soul dance night outfit: pale pink tights, orange skirt with gold chain, red/white patterned 70s tank top, and silver glitter disco platforms

concert attire for 2/26 RTX show at the Echoplex!! incl. over-sized velvet platforms.

this one's my daily wear for 1/13/11:
i spend a lot of creative energy creating outfits from what i do own, and conceptualizing outfits that i'm not sure exist.. at the end of this month i'm going to buy a sewing machine and start actualizing some of these ideas. tried and true rocker clothing coming soon!