Life has been really too out of control for me to keep blogging on any kind of a regular basis, but I will do my best to start up again when I can. In the meantime, I will continue to update my gallery when there are new pieces and will revitalize the blog when I have the time and energy to do it properly. Holy crap, life.

This little doodle made this morning. It’s my birthday, and I kept thinking about Amelia Earhart. She was the best.

I am listening to my favorite mix, which is mostly sad-ish music about the South and West, so here’s some art to accompany that.

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This weekend I was part of a large performance art/dance competition event. There’s some video of the competition here. I made it pretty far, until my prop was stolen and desecrated by my sparkly opponent.

Squid Punk and Commie Zombie, two of the fighters.

Today, I got offered some work doing metal work! I am going to weld like demon. I also finished  a mural! It’s good to be an artist. :)

If you’re in Chicago, and you want to see a gladiatorial style dance-off this weekend, I’m one of the contestants in Collaboraction’s Dome of Doom. Dancing and painting all the time is exhausting!

I, not so secretly, sometimes want to look like this.

I’ve been hired to paint a set for the Chicago Dramatists, so I’m busy busy doing massive Chinese watercolor type things. Finding spare time more and more difficult to come by.

The past few days, I’ve been doing some pretty fun theater related art things. The pictures below are from last night — there was a massive party at the Art Institute and I was one of the performers hired to be Matisse-like. Unfortunately, by the time I thought to take pictures, we had already been working for about four hours so we are sweaty and a little smudged, and many of the performers had removed their makeup. Basically, we did a series of dance movements to represent different Matisse paintings. But at some point, we busted out crazy dance moves and got everyone moving, which was a heck of a lot of fun. But my body feels kind of destroyed from dancing for 4 hours.

Next Saturday, I’m a performer in the DOME of DOOM at Collaboraction’s Carnivale, which means that I will be having gladatorial dance-offs with other performers. I haven’t yet decided on my fighter’s name… If you’re in Chicago, it should be an epic evening.

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Made with lots of gradients.