Bonne Annee!

Happy new year friends! 2011 has been amazing.
I went to Scotland.
I moved in with my favorite fella
I got a job at my favorite art shop
I started a apprenticing to become a tattoo artist

So many life goals on the road to achievement.
Thank you everyone.

Here are some little paintings I made my lovely ladies, Brianne and Michelle, for Christmas.

Cheers
xoxo

Save the Date (the date has changed)

Greetings!
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****NOTE: YOU'RE NOT THAT CRAZY, THE DATE HAS BEEN CHANGED TO THE 20TH.****

This scribble pile is the We Hunt Buffalo LP RELEASE PARTY POSTER! The deets for the event are here. Oh, wait, what's that little smudge in the bottom corner? Featuring the artwork of Alison Woodward? Rad! 

The excellent fellas at WHB have invited me to hang work at their LP release show on January 20th and I'm really quite excited. It should be a good time. You can find WHB's music by clicking their name in this post.

xoxo

Birds of Prey

There is a group show coming up called birds of prey. Details will come soon.
Until then, here's a taste:

sketch

We were watching Gangs of New York.

Poison Juice

I painted this little guy up (8x10 wood panel) for a Christmas gift:

Loookit him, all proud of himself.

I like the way this drawing came out, but I would like to relate to you, dear readers, how badly I put this together. I'm typing this out, because I'm sure it's going to happen to someone else, and maybe they can learn from my mistakes. APPARENTLY WINDSOR & NEWTON BLACK INK AND GLOSS MEDIUM DON'T JIVE. As soon as I brushed a layer over my line work to seal it, it disintegrated like a temporary tattoo that was pulled off before it stuck. This lead to me putting way more time into this than I thought I would. Other than destroying my lines, this incompatibility left me without a good medium to redo my lines with. My acrylics are old and gross and not very smooth. I ended up mixing ink and acrylic to get an in-between-sticky ink. It worked mostly, was really inconsistent and still broke off in places. Sos anways, I think the moral of this painting parable is that I need to get a fixative, or some fluid acrylics I can line with, or stick to drawing with ink on paper.

alison ooout.

xox