Full Color 24 page sketchbook that I had for sale at my first gallery showing!
A collection of my characters, creatures, imaginary places and naked folk that I hold dear to my heart. Hopefully they too will amuse you as much as they did when I created them.
I have about 50 left
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The show was definately an experience that I realize required more people-power and hours than anticipated. Preparation slowed down for a couple emotional months when I started having doubts of putting together a solo show…when half the year, it was in collaboration with (who is now an exboyfriend). Though, it was typical to run into computer errors, printer delays, starvation and Friday traffic, but the artists occupying the space before me were barely packing up! A day late and a few hours before opening! After jumping out of my grubbies in the school restroom, it wasn’t a surprise that my relatives had busted the gallery doors open early. Thanks to all of my friends and family that miraculously helped me tranform a mess of unmounted pieces, semi-sculpted chicken wire, and a room of bare, tacky walls still wreaking of primer into something that could pass as better-than-ordinary critique pinups. All sorts of familiar faces (teachers, friends I haven’t seen in years, my friends’ families, and the latenite Rubio artists trickled in after midnite) crowding around the work that occupied me for the past year and a half at CSUF…munching on crackers and a few, helping themselves to the remainder of the wine. (It almost seemed like people didn’t even notice the oversized pushpins). Many of the characters / environments I created were concepts for my short animation, illustration competitions and my internship with Cathy Jones Comic. My animal portraits were inspired by the animals of my friends and family.
I enjoyed a whole week off from work transforming my space and sculpting new pieces to occupy myself from noon until 1 am. It was a transforming gallery and I did have some frequent visitors seeing what had changed from the previous day! I bonded with my new friend Andrew creating creatures…and racing office chairs down the hallways with Joy and latenight overachieving Maya procrastinators. Mom and Dad checked up on me, occassionally bringing me food. By the end of the week, I had something I could call a “gallery”…complete with a mirror-bottomed zen garden, sculptures of Cathy Jones’ Bovine Baron and the Utter-Tugging Cow, a 10-foot growing wire tree…and a FOG MACHINE that set off the fire alarm for a half hr!
Being the last artist to show for the semester, the Art Department wanted me to extend my show through the weekend for Nickelodeon’s Avatar speakers! In celebration I had a closing reception…and more teachers and friends surprised me! It was so nice to see everyone. I couldn’t have done this show if it wasn’t for the support, inspiration and love from friends, family and especially my parents! And thanks for signing my guestbook…it felt like I was reading through a yearbook again!
