Ridiculous sleepy kitty and sneak peeks

This guy here, he's ridiculous. Seriously. The cuteness, I can't handle it! He's notoriously hard to photograph with his black fur and ninja-like moves, so I had to get all art-photo-kid with this photo of him.  He's totally knocked out and you'll have to trust me on his cuteness.  Zzzzz :)

I'm in painting mode lately, working on twelve new pieces for my 2011 calendar. I'm super-excited and having fun with them!  I'll share peeks!

Forest Party

If a bear has a party in the woods, does anybody hear? New print available in my shop!

Sometimes things don't work out the way you want

I wanted to share a recent failure I have had in translating my sketch into a finished painting. I know, I know, who wants to see failures? I can't decide whether it's hopeless and I should just give up on it, or if I should try and take it a little further. I was thinking about adding a digital layer (new tablet; I wanna play with it!) over it, adding more detail and interest. Right now it's pretty boring, if I must say, and I dig the original sketch waaay better. Ya live, ya learn.

All Eyes on You

I've been watching a lot of the Olympics lately and thinking about how many eyes are actually watching these athletes. Creepy and scary!

This is All Eyes on You, Interpretation #1.






All Eyes on You-Interpretation #2


prints are available in my shop!

I'm getting sad that the Olympics are nearing their end. Who knew that I would get so excited over women's beach volleyball?!? The Olympics are basically like watching another species of human beings play in their wild.

His goal in life was to be an echo

I have had an excess of yellow and red plums lately, so I made a Pflaumenkuchen. Unbelievably easy and delicious. It's got a great sweet/tart combo going on. I'm going to try this with other fruits!


Pancakes with yellow plum sauce. Mmmm.


Roasted veggie pizza with tofu basil ricotta and homemade golden cherry tomato sauce. Roasted veggies include: radish, onion, garlic, zucchini, banana peppers, and carrots. Crust from VWAV.


I have had a few not so good days lately, but I just got back from seeing Wilco and they made me feel WORLDS better. I love that. I'm hoping for smooth sailing the rest of the week.

Hopefully some new work soon. I'm working on two different paintings right now and a few random doodles.

I always say that I'm going to go to the beach next weekend, but then I never do. Maybe I'll go to the beach next weekend.

New Paintings!

I finished some of my new paintings this weekend! Finally! I get annoyed when I have something that I really want to work on and just don't have the time to do so. This sunday was wiiiiiide open though, so I spent the whole day working on these.

First up, are the new burlesque girls series. Meet Ms. Lickety Sweets!

And Ms. Orange Bottom!

And the sweetheart sisters with their mesmerizing hula show!


And then there are the two random paintings. Meet Ms. Cici at the beach!

And uh, don't piss these guys off anymore!


Originals are up in my shop!

Hooray for productive weekends!

cutiepants paintings!

So here are those mini-paintings I was yapping about a few weeks ago. I am pretty happy with how they came out. There were ten originally, but Mister Banana got cut. Maybe he'll make the team in the future, but not right now. I think that my favorite is Señor Cinnabun. He will eat your (cutie)pants! These are 4"x4" and 4"x6" and prints are up in my shop!

okay-I lied!

I was able to make prints of a few of my new paintings sooner than I anticipated, so I'm gonna post two of them here. I'm really happy with how they came out. I painted these with watercolor/pigment inks on a gessoed wooden board. 12x12. the rest of the girls will finished up next week. 8 1/2 x 11 prints are available on my Etsy shop!

TGIF! have a lovely weekend!

you wouldn't believe me if I told you

New paintings! prints available in my etsy shop.

wishful thinking
watercolor with gouache


you wouldn't believe me if i told you
watercolor with pen/ink

A whole lot to say/see

The month of april! It's the best really; Aries unite! It's funny making these calendars and marking the holidays and whatnot; It makes me feel prepared or ahead of the game or something. For instance, Easter is in March this year and not April! Now I'm an athiest and don't put much behind holidays other than a)spending time with the family b)good food is made and eaten and c)days off from work! As a child and teenager, Easter and Good Friday were always on the top of my holiday list, since that means that I usually got my birthday off from school during the spring break. Anyways, April looks lonely this year, with only my birthday marked (ha!). I guess that means that you need to pay extra-special attention to it. Hugs and pokes are welcome. See?? I'm getting way ahead of myself, imagining that it is the lovely month of April and not still cold, freezing, dark January.

Speaking of dark, I (nik) just changed the light bulbs in my studio to those energy-saving DAYLIGHT bulbs. They rule! It's a white room now! I'm already energized from it. Maybe the Goldfrapp on repeat is helping with that energizing also. But seriously, it's amazing!

Anyways, here is the month of April for Download (plus all the other months, in case you're lazy. you bum). Again, they are meant to be printed, in color, on 11x17 paper. :

January
February-01-Rose
February-02-Gasmask
March
April



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Here is a glimpse at a new series of mine, watercolor and ink painted on raw wood. I wish I had access to a woodshop, to cut my own wood up, but alas, this is NYC. This series is a cousin to my watercolor on fabric series that I started a long time ago and kinda abandoned, but am picking back up again. I don't have any scans of that up, because they are huuuuuuge (and taking up way too much space), but maybe i'll take a photo someday.

This was fun to do, because I don't get to paint as much as I'd like to anymore (not enough hours in the day? I'm full of excuses.) Plus, anyone can tell, from looking at my work, that I like to play with rough texture and raw wood was an awesome new bleeding experience (i wish it bled more). More to come, you know, when I get to it.







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I'm a chatty cathy tonight, aren't I? Other things that I'm working on/formulating in my head are:
1)sculpey beads/bracelets/necklaces
2)bleach + black dye + fabric + sewing machine=a whole new world (skirts and my bag)
3)that green scarf
4)screenprinting class in LIC so I can get to the bottom of why I can't expose a screen properly.
5)thinking about other crafty ideas for Renegade in the summer.
6)I do have an Etsy shop, with nothing up in it yet of course, but I have to sort out my inventory. I'm anal about the order I do things. Sorry.
7)Kimya Dawson and Karl Blau are playing at Europa tomorrow night!
8)Getting to the fabric store for my painting series
9)making a scary/cute monster cover for my ipod. Priorities people, priorities.
10)Dr. Sketchy's anti-art school rules so so so much. Here are examples of how awesome it is (plus an appearance by me in a few). This coming week is the Addams Family and I canNOT wait! Check out their blog for more fun pictures and info to see schedule.

Okay, that was 10, i'm done now. Ciao!