SPRING 2010 PAINTING EXHIBITION
At the end of the semester, we had a final exhibition in the studios at SDSU to showcase all of the incredible work everyone completed over the course of the past three or four months.
SDSU Graduation
Well, I made it. Five years and several thousand dollars later, I’ve earned a bachelor’s degree in Painting & Printmaking, but not without learning to hate the graphic design and business departments along the way. The decision to get a painting degree was hands down one of the best decisions I made in my life, as I met some of the most creative (and all around best) people in the world. Unfortunately, not all of us graduated at the same time, but I’m certainly looking forward to going back next year to do it all over again with the rest of the group. Here are a few pictures from graduation, feel free to check my Picasa account here for some more pictures and the higher resolution versions of these.
Graffomat – Man, I wish
Call me a skeptic, but there’s no way on earth this thing is real. Anyone that uses spray paint wishes for a store that’s open 24 hours a day. Whether you’re painting on the street or on canvas, for some reason it seems like the majority of our work is done at odd hours of the night. Enter Graffomat, the always-open vending machine for cans, masks, and caps. From their website:
GRAFFOMAT will supply you with all of your favorite state of the art graffiti supplies such as markers, caps, gloves, and everything else that the graffiti writer needs. Including ski masks! Forget about the times where you would run out of paint in the middle of the night and there would be nothing you could do about it. Graffomat is here for you 24 hours a day, located easily accessible on almost every street corner in your neighborhood.
The whole thing smells like an elaborate art piece that took on a life of its own. Even if this is real, I can’t imagine very many properties are going to allow a vending machine like this, and the ones that allow it are going to get complaints from everyone with a wall in a five mile radius. As much as my heart wants this to be real, my brain just keeps shooting me down. Video after the break.
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Top to bottom, this piece is about basic things to find happiness in. When I was in elementary school, my family did a fair amount of driving across the country and simple things like rest stops were a welcome change of pace – I mean, at least it wasn’t a museum, famous canyon, rock formation, or something boring like that, right?
Completed: April 26, 2010
Size: 36 in (w) x 24 in (h)
All work and no play makes – wait, my work IS play
It’s been an insanely busy couple weeks. Between preparing for graduation, solidifying plans for a couple shows, and tying up some business loose ends, there hasn’t been a lot of free time for new paintings. And by that I mean it’s basically all I’ve filled my extra time with. I have 8 paintings currently in various stages of completion, which has to be some kind of an all-time record for me. I’m experimenting with a few new subjects, some of the same, and adding new styles to the mix. Honestly, all I do is play.
Here’s a quick glimpse at 6 of the 8 templates in various stages of completion. I’m teetering between the fear that I’m giving too much information and not enough, so I guess that’s a good place to be.
