Foot in the Door

Photos courtesy of Heather Buscho, 2010

My friends Heather, Jenny, and I met up for MIA's Foot In The Door opening night. It was crazy-crowded, but worth every second. We saw lots of beautiful and wonderful art from many many Minnesotans, and dug the scene.


Detail of my piece.

Aside from materials that could rot or attract vermin, the only rule of the show was that it had to fit in "The Curator" (see picture below), a foot cubed. There were a lot of flat pieces, and a lot of sculpture, and apparently, a lot of videos and film (I didn't see the filmed parts). In total? Probably about 4800 pieces. Maybe 5000. Not sure.


"The Curator," copyright image Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2010

On through June! Got to it, goddangit!

TTYL!

Gorilla Evolution!

Cute, eh?

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Gorilla Painting with Golden

I've been wanting to paint again for a long while, and this last week, I've started this painting. Here's what it's looking like right now. I need to work on the mouth, and of course, add pupils. Still a work in progress, mind you!



I've been painting with Golden™ Open Acrylic®, which is pretty neat. I don't pretend to understand the chemistry behind it, but this stuff takes a lot longer to dry! So I can take my time, and not have the metaphorical gun to my head of a quick drying time that acrylic usually means. (Though I'd never ever use Alizarin Crimson, if I can help it, this is a nice photo)



I've also been using Golden™'s fluid acrylics too. They paint like cream!

I'll take the time to write a better review of Golden™ paint in a later post.



Before I forget: HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

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Graphic Adventure Game?

I've been running a lot of ideas in my head these past few weeks, and this is an old one that needs to be re-examined. The concept is a graphic adventure game like the kind that were popular in the late 80's and early-to-mid 90's. I've been examining how I could make it work through HTML, but the logistics and time might be excruciating. My knowledge of Flash is also pretty weak comparatively.

But I felt like posting these characters as a way of keeping myself on point!

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Block Prints and Foot in Mouth (I mean In The Door!)

This week's comic in the back page of City Pages, the Twin Cities most popular alt-weekly. Fun stuff!



My friend Heather asked me to teach her how to lino-block print, so I brought over my cutter and some linoleum, and we spent the evening working on art. This was one of the two prints I made.



I of course, have been using this Essdee Baren kit. It's pretty neat. Heather used the Speedball kit. Traditional and reliable, but doesn't include the neat baren with it!



The purpose was for her to make her valentine's day cards, so following suite, I made one of my own.



Minneapolis Institute of Art is putting on their once-every-ten-(10)-years show, called Foot In The Door. It was created to show off Minnesota Artists, and allow many to put on their resumes that they've had exhibition experience at a major metropolitan art museum. You read that first sentence right, it only happens every 10 years.



I didn't have time to take a proper scan or better photo, but this is my submission. Seeing as there's about 4500+ pieces going up this show, I figure giving you an idea of what it looks like will be helpful.

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