Skip to main content

Art Avalanche! Disastre!

"Mick" acrylic on vinyl record... on view now at The Wine Therapist

It's very strange to have ALL your art out of the house. I kind of feel like I must create more just to put some color and soul back into my studio. Today I'm going to clean the studio and make a list of stuff I am out of and sketch out new ideas for upcoming work. I have a few commissions trickling in and I'm starting to see more OPEN CALLS I want to jump in on so there is lots to do! I've also been invited to contribute some work to a local shop so that's also on my plate...FALL IS THE BUSY SEASON! And it looks like it's already begun!
I dropped off some work to be photographed last week and was pleasantly surprised when the place called me back and asked me to participate in their Fall Gallery Walk on OCT 13. They are a FINE ART and PRINT shop and the clientele definitely seems to have money to spend. It's nice to feel wanted. : ) It's a neat place too, way out in McKinney TX. Very historic and old feeling, makes you feel like you're on vacation with little quaint fudge shops and upscale boutiques and interesting art everywhere. It will be a nice change of pace. 
I almost forgot why I was writing this blog....yesterday I had a DISASTER happen and I wanted to share it so it doesn't happen to you. Not that it would because it's probably highly unlikely you're painting on a record but just in case. At any rate you will know that accidents and disasters DO happen to artists and you just have to learn from your mistakes and don't cry.
So I had just finished this record for an auction, it was paid for and everything and DONE
All it needed was a shiny glossy protective coat...so I took it outside and sprayed it and noticed that one section started bubbling in the blue border. It was kind of hard to tell exactly what it was doing so I thought spraying a little more gloss would smooth it out. No. NOPE. BAD IDEA. It was actually turning the paint into a little "skin" and crinkling away from the record making a bumpy surface. Not cool. Not sleek. Not MOD. BUMPY. Ok there's no way to fix that. I tried taking the skin off and repainting. NO. BAD IDEA. SO what do you do?
YOU START OVER HONEY BUNNIES YOU START ALLLLLLLL OVER!
Yep. Had to recreate that one to a t. And I did. Yes I did. And did I curse? Oh hell yes I did but I did it. When that one was done it got MOD PODGED by hand. Sometimes doing things the long and inconvenient way is the best way to go. So there you have it kids, your science lesson for the day. KRYLON SPRAY VARNISH is a stupid poopy head. It doesn't play well with weird obscure navy blue paint I won't be buying anymore. Have you had some fun disasters? I wanna know!
So this ruined one will now serve as an experiment and reminder...I'm going to try some faux rusting on the messed up spot and try to make this look like a metal sign. Someday. When I have time.
Ok, ciao chilluns- have a great day!


Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Words!

  Hello! I haven't blogged since last year. Even writing the word "blog" felt foreign and weird! I have actually been writing stuff on my Patreon account so if you've missed the updates you can sign up for free over there. There is also an option to pay a few dollars a month to help support me as an artist and get "extra" content- in case you are of that mindset and either way- thank you for caring about the art adventures.  I have missed blogging actually. I guess I like to make words, string them together like a pretty necklace and let them live their own expressive life wrapped around me.  Times are different. Times are weird! But I guess you know that. And also times are the same and as old as time. Is it really more terrible than any other time or are we humans just more "connected" to the propaganda and daily bad trip in a way that is insane and unhealthy? Either way I do my best to keep my sanity and I don't believe about 98% of what I s...

Taming the monster

What started as me deciding to spend 30 minutes picking out clothes to donate from my closet .. Turned into about 2 hours of folding t shirts, jeans and deciding winter was far enough away that all sweaters and coats could be packed away. My closet was a walk-in diaster. My cat had lived in it all winter, knocked stuff down, slept on it, fuzzed up clothes and built forts. No lie.  I had been living in the same two pairs of jeans and 5 shirts off my bedroom floor (closet #2 😂). First things first, all the T shirts from OLD JOBS were the first to get put in donation pile. I don't need memories of "that place" and they were all too small, waaay too large or tan/beige/grey ..all the wrong unhappy colors that just say JOB when you look at them. Bye! So that happened yesterday. Major project that still needs work but for now it is peaceful enough to my brain to leave it alone. I have two large loads of laundry to do because my clothes look like...well like a cat has been sleep...

The Age of Upgrade

BIG BATCH OF HAND PAINTED WAX FOR SAN FRANCISCO I wanted to do a  blog about the upgrade I'm doing and why. Because I am an artist and not a business person I have been lax on so many things I shouldn't have been and caused myself a lot of headaches. This was a year of growing pains for my business and days before my birthday I decided my new age of 39 would be one of grand changes. For starters...I'm typing this on an old Android phone. It's the only equipment I have. My old Mac finally gave up the ghost and I can no longer do any graphic designing in Photoshop or even save files. This will need to be upgraded, I need a computer. Let's talk about vinyl though...I started doing the vinyl about 6 years ago and they were pretty basic novice attempts at painting on vinyl. After many experiments, failures and tons of practice... I have brought them into their own. They started as $30 discs and climbed as I got better. I marked everything DOWN to $50 this year...