cuteness overload

i have the cutest kitty ever...enough said.

woes not

so yeah im still working on these every day...havent gotten sick of this subject and find something instructive and revealing every time i paint them...especially the failures, many of which ive done this month...not that anyone looks at these or this blog...have been very busy, lots of stuff coming up that im preparing work for and i feel behind, my wife says i say the same thing every time i have shows and end up doing too much...but i really feel behind, and this whole pace will continue until september....ugh, i hope to get a little break in august. my work is being featured in the magazine modern luxury hawaii, http://www.modernluxury.com/, for their summer issue, and i have to attend their party down in waikiki on thursday....all alone probably. i havent seen the magazine yet, but on the editorial page of the website theres a lovely photo of the actress carrie-anne moss. id buy the magazine just for that.

not so exquisite corpse

so my son picked up this puzzle ball from a vending machine when i was out buying art supplies, he didn't know it was a puzzle just thought it was a little rubber ball...but hes a trooper and broke it apart excited by the challenge...until he tried to put the thing together. as we were driving back he complained about the directions being confusing and i joked that it was probably some weird broken translation of chinese to english. i hadn't looked at them, and later when i did i really had a good laugh. these instructions are really a gem...lets all decompose and have some fun!

clouds

i really love the clouds around where i live, against the mountains, ive been taking pictures of the skies every day for a couple of weeks now, and i dream about ufos made from plant leaves and giant square airplanes....

more good news

so, i havent posted in a bit, again, but have been busy. these are what became of some of my little flower girls...good news for me, the hawaii state foundation on culture and arts is acquiring my cloudeaters painting (the one in the artists of hawaii show) for their art in public places collection. hooray! i should mention that the little woman, Geraldine King Tam, who presented me with the award at the artists of hawaii show is the widow of Rueben Tam, for whom the award is named. she called me a few days later and wanted to send me some old exhibition catalogues of her late husband's work, which tickled me because i had been trying unsuccessfully to find out more about him. he was really a fantastic landscape painter, ive been way impressed with his work, especially the paintings he did when he lived in maine. geraldine king tam is a phenomenal artist too, a botanical illustator, so i feel very lucky with this whole experience.

recognition

http://starbulletin.com/2007/06/10/features/story01.html

http://www.honoluluacademy.org/cmshaa/academy/index.aspx

so no images today, but i have a bunch to put up, but silly in the hole me didnt realize i had made it into the local paper for the artists of hawaii show at the honolulu academy of arts. the first link is for the review, the second is the academy website. i wasnt going to write about going to the opening since i mostly had a dismal time. my wife couldn't be there with me, and alone i was a nervous wreck. the little old lady who presented the award to me was all of two feet high and she shouted up at me "YOU LOOK LIKE YOU PAINTED THAT THING!". funny, not too many people approached me with questions, and one of the women who did looked at me like i was crazy when i tried to explain to her what i had in mind with the work. met a great guy, hal lum, really liked his work, he got one of the bigger awards. it was ok, lots of wealthy folks running around gobbling up the free grub and doing the art shuffle that folks do when they are excited about buying a piece of work. they act like theyve won the lottery when they find a work they want to buy, and seem like they would be very happy announcing to everyone their "discovery". after wandering around i spent most of my time in the collections looking at the medieval and early renaissance paintings, there were also two really large masami taraoka paintings that i hadnt seen before that i spent some time with, and a really stunning collection of german expressionist graphic work in the same gallery. there was this etching by otto dix of a dominatrix which blew me away, pig lady with a whip and pistol in fishnet stockings....she could teach me a thing or two....anyway, enjoy the links

march line

sweat

hammock wanted