Enough!
werewolf cover-up in progress
bucket list tattoo! her first one.
I made something to wear around my neck that would match what I wear in my ears.
and I stuck things in my hair.
New ear weights- these are AMAZING. Boar tusks and suede, with wood.
I came in way early (for me) today, and I had a little time to spare, so I took some pictures of things from around the shop.
It’s funny how every shop has its walls of sketches- one of my favorite things to do is look at everyone’s rough drawings.
some of my prints at the shop
(you can dig through them in person there if you’re local)
Pig skull tribal mount, hanging among its friends
(she is also for sale)
Lisa’s sketches hanging on her wall
bride portrait
Originally published 12/5/2011
I was looking at the viewing statistics for the site here and noticed that one person among the couple hundred went through every post just about in the space of a day or two. OMG ARCHIVE BINGE! It made me extremely happy and I felt warm, and loved.
Whenever I find a site or an artist I like online I just read EVERYTHING from them, I will binge until I am reading their diary from ten years ago, if it’s posted. Like when I found crimelibrary the first time, or when I started looking at explodingdog. I just went nuts, spent all my internet time following the trail back to the start. I suddenly realized that you guys read my stuff and look at my site the same exact way I look at yours and that made me feel really good. So thank you, anonymous archive binge person, for making me both happy and more educated about what I am trying to do, and how people feel about it.
THEN- I have gotten a slew of emails from total strangers, asking questions, tattoo and art process stuff, and general sort of things. I LOVE talking to you guys. Man, if you’re reading my stuff someplace and suddenly have a question, and you email me that you like my things and want to know the answer, I get sweaty excited about it. It makes me feel good- I love sharing information, and while I am not the most educated or the most knowledgeable about everything the things I DO know I love to share. And sometimes even if I don’t know, I can send the question to someone who does. And that feels great too.
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And also- I spent the last few days interviewing a series of artists for a longer article I’m putting together. I’m working hard to write something useful about it. It’s taking me some time to assemble but I think it’ll be good. Talking to new people who get it, and who are working in smaller ways to affect the world- people who put their hands on the work and make things that have deeper meaning as well as visual aesthetics- that’s been really eye-opening and inspiring to me too.
Oh, and, last of all, I spent a day making paper. That was fun as all fuck, too.
I love talking to people about art. I don’t know how approachable I seem but really, I like talking to new people and I really feel great when I can help someone, give information, or just even see that people are interested in what I’m doing. So thanks guys for reading along.
If you have questions for me to answer, let me know in the comments. Or email me!
(you can find more of me by googling resonanteye, I am literally everywhere online. I talk to all the strangers!)
new prints and shirts ^^^
and some random stuff…vvv
new prints and shirts ^^^
and some random stuff…vvv
This is Cody. He’s teaching me to instagram. (my name there is resonanteye)
this isn’t political or anything, I just have a fetish for eye-water.
simple tulip I colored in.
just some sky.
a gang of doglets.
added on to an older tattoo I did years ago.
how that tattoo looked all healed up before we added the text and sunset colors.
an inch.
apprentices.
This is Cody. He’s teaching me to instagram. (my name there is resonanteye)
this isn’t political or anything, I just have a fetish for eye-water.
simple tulip I colored in.
just some sky.
a gang of doglets.
added on to an older tattoo I did years ago.
how that tattoo looked all healed up before we added the text and sunset colors.
an inch.
apprentices.
Originally published on 12/23/2008.
On painting…
You must have music which is entirely familiar to you playing. Any new thoughts or sounds may intrude upon your own particular vision, worming their way in, showing themselves. You want to have something so familiar that even the unconcsious ignores it. Something with beat that you can waggle the brush to. Something that makes you dance at your work.
You must have no unfamiliar or new scents in the studio. Only the familiar, the comfortable, the usual. Turpentine, coffee, tea. The things that your mind sees as backdrop, not as important, nothing that your mind must process or worry over. Nothing to bring up memories, which will also invade the vision. The mind as blank screen. No alarm bells, either for good or bad.
I’m up formatting. Insomnia has had me slept through the last few days, up all night at the computer, typing, correcting. I am lucky to have an editor friend who has ripped the thing apart enough for me to repair it to a better standard.
I’ll be working like this until it’s done and sent on, then packing for the road. Wish me luck with both.
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