Watching Paint Dry

and feeling like a loser that I never post. Also, I think because Blogger is Google, and I block most things Google tries to do on my computer, I can never post comments from here (my computer).

so, comment: RONI my faves are the ones that look just a little jargled and not super collaged. I feel they have a more static (like VHS fuzz) and active look about them, which makes them even more vibrant than your already fantastic colours.
Why the tri-coloured bisected background? Thought about just two colours?
But they are mega badass. I'm so excited about your new groove!

I just laid the windows onto this big old painting I've been working on. It takes up the better half of our bedroom floor. It is drying, but I am super excited about the outcome so far.

Still in the middle of two grad school applications. Haven't started one yet. Need to refine my statement for the other one. Grawoel (growl).

ACK I just want the paint to dry so I can hang it up and get a good looksie. THIS is another reason I love studios. I don't drive myself crazy staring at wet paint.

This post sucks. I am anxious and boring.

The renegade craft fair I went to ... a week ago? sucked as well. It seemed to me to be a warehouse filled with owls screen printed onto every imaginable surface. I take that back--normal surfaces. If it had been every imaginable surface, it would have been totally awesome. I am not into screen printing, it turns out. It is far to parsnickety. Too clean, too stable, too flat. Emboss that mother fucker for me.

(I am wild and crazy-writin' tonight. Sorry.)

Ooh, SOON I hope I should have these squares of fabric I ordered off the internet. I don't know what I am going to do with them, but they are from Heather Ross' Mendocino collection and I fell in love with them the first time I saw them. Any ideas?

Alright, so here is my Mermaid Agenda painting I finished about a month ago. I guess I can let it out of the bag now.
ENJOY

Newbies

Took pictures of my new paintings today for grad school applications and figured I should upload them to my website.  This should have been a quick and painless task but I've spent the last couple hours uploading and re-uploading the images.  For some reason, maybe the server used by the web company?, the images come out very gray after the uploading. It's not my screen because then the tones would be messed up no matter where I was viewing them. So, it must be the uploading process. It's frustrating. I have the site paid for through May soooo in the meantime maybe I'll commission someone to make me a new site.

Anywho.  I'll post them here :)  The color has always been pretty good on blogger.  Feedback is welcome, I have a lot more to do and a long way to go.  I've actually finished 6 paintings so far and tossed three because they weren't up to snuff. CUTTHROAT!

Here they are three examples of my newest series of paintings.  The ultimate goal is to have ten finished that I am pleased with...so I'll probably actually paint twenty...in time to have a solo show in April at Third Gallery in Cleveland.  That would be boss. Then I'll be all "I'm mailing images of these all over the country!! Some dumb gallery will think i'm super great and pay me monies to display them!! Wheeeee!"

"Newlyweds"

"Role Models"

"Up & Out"

Love yoouuuuu

Roni!

Hi! It's been a busy past few months.  Operation "stop being a hermit" is moving along quite well.  Here's a bunch of pictures which outline about half of what's been going on.  Add to this Christmas prep (major time suck!!), Graduate school application prep (EVEN BIGGER TIME SUCK!!!), Dr. Sketchy's last Tuesday (at which I won a prize, yay!), first venture to a bar with my younger sister (interesting!), and a smattering of hangouts :)

Here we go:

Baby Riley's first Christmas (old friend Dan's beautiful daughter)

cutie face

Cleaned (emptied) my room...here's some cute dolls I made in school

Photoshopped some eyes on Carmen because she couldn't keep them open :D

Bazaar Bizarre space in Carmen's amazing live work space

Sarah sold her beautiful show piece to this lucky woman!!

I showed some arts and got positive feedback, always exciting!

Made some paper jewelry

Took Emily & Marc's engagement pictures

Bawe

My friend David had his business Grand Opening

and his band played a show

So, yah! Super fun. Looking forward to Christmas festivities.  Tonight is my best gal and her husband's 3rd annual Christmas party, I'm bringing punch!  Then ICE SKATING on Christmas eve, adorable! The family time family time family time, which works out well because I have a wonderful family.

Roni!

quickie

Roni, look at this painting by Jen Mann

It's chilly

willy in my studio. Let's see..it's 25 outside? Oh! Well, then it's 25 in my studio. Yes kids, my heat doesn't work. Time to call the landlord 5000 times until he picks up.  Super duper!

Five happy things:
1. I've been making jewelry the last few days!  The pieces are cute but totally jank, looks like a child's craft project ;)

2. Bazarre Bizarre Sat and Sun (Dec 11 & 12) in cleve-o. Should be great, come on up!

3. Downpour Creative/Engine Room Recording grand opening went very well. The space looks amazing...those boys really worked hard and it payed off.

4. IT WAS ANNA'S BIRTHDAY SUNDAY!! EVERYONE SEND HER PRESENTS!!

5. Got this on my FB wall this morning:  Hey, I was grading today and one of my students wrote about your artwork for her show write-up. (she liked your work a lot by the way) 

Two thumbs up for a confidence boost!

Roni!


Life is like that, beat me up and I’ll fight right back



 

phone dump 2009/2010

goodwill clothes sept 2009 aka homeless ^

sugardrink^

icecream^

fridge^

tubeflower^

st francisco sodapop ^

oldman in trucker hat diner^

ground meat in 5 gallon shape^

what the ladies at work fed me once^

roses^

standards^

5 am waiting the sun only hits one building^

tacobell beach^

friends are fun

Hi! You should come to this! That means you, Anna. Coney said you can sleep in her bed for the weekend.  Everyone else should come too.

ALSO, went to the Akron Art museum with my cute friend Jen Joyce and her boymanfriend Erik who were in town from Pittsburgh.  I had a super fun time and wish she still lived here.  After the museum (which was really nice, Akron!) we went to the new Apple store at Summit mall and jj got a macbook pro. w00t!

Erik playing the role of lonely old man

 

 

face playing the role of superexcitednewmacbookproowner!

Kay bye!

Roni!

Noms

So, i'm really into music again.  It's been a long time since I've taken initiative to decide what I really like and to find new (and new to me) artists to be obsessed with.  I spent  lot of time being worried about what others thought...its so not like me in every other aspect of my life. I think since I'm in no way a musician I thought that I didn't know what I was talking about.  Anywho, I've been listening to Aimee Mann again. She's amazing.

Check out this beautiful reclamation of the wadi hanifa wetlands.

It won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and is 100% deserving. Truly a wonder to look at and a step in the right direction for the reclamation of all of the land that we've destroyed and abandoned.

Anna- Writing the color wheel? Amazing. Thanks for keeping this blog more fine art focused because I'm sure not!  I'll keep writing about obscure kind of artsy things for you if you keep writing about classic art forms for me :)  Also, i'm mailing the 5x7 art board today!


You struck me dumb like radium
Like Peter Pan or Superman
You will come to save me

Modern Artists on Modern Art in Theory: A Complete Text

I've been thinking about writing about art. I've been reading about art. Reading artists writing about art. I've been re-reading Modern Artists on Art copyright 1964. Kandinsky has come to terms with his powers. Mondrian has defined everything that exists in the world. And Klee... Paul Klee says that "...while as a painter I feel that I have in my possession the means of moving others in the direction in which I myself am driven, I doubt whether I can give the same sure lead by the use of words alone."
Strangely, and to my delight, he then takes a full page to "write" a colour wheel. A colour wheel of words. Words. Dah.... er...
Brian has been loosing the line "...dancing about architecture" around me on many occasions as I prepare to send out statements about my work to schools.
To write out a colour wheel is the epitome of writing about art. Simple. So simple. Why didn't I think of it first???? Damn you Klee. And your genius. XOXO.
Anyway, I am going to type it out here, because I love it so much. So now, for you, a colour wheel:

What symbol is now suitable for pure color? In what unit can its properties best be expressed?

In the completed color circle, which is the form best suited for expressing the data necessary to define the relationship between the colors.

Its clear center, the divisibility of its circumference into six arcs, the picture of the three diameters drawn through these six intersections; in this way the outstanding points are shown in their place against the general backcloth of color-relationships.

These relationships are firstly diametrical and, just as there are three diameters, so are there three diametrical relations worthy of mention, namely Red Green Yellow Purple and Blue Orange (i.e. the principal complementary color-pairs).

Along the circumference the main of primary colors alternate with the most important mixed or secondary colors in such a manner that the mixed colors (three in number) lie between their primary components, i.e. green between yellow and blue, purple between red and blue, and orange between yellow and red.

The complementary color pairs connected by the diameters mutually destroy each other since their mixture along the diameter results in grey. That this is true for all three is shown by the fact that all three diameters possess a common point of intersection and of bisection, the grey center of the color circle.

Further, a triangle can be drawn through the points of the three primary colors, yellow, red, and blue. The corners of this triangle are the primary colors themselves and the sides between each represent the mixture of the two primary colors lying at their extremes. Thus the green side lies opposite the red corner, and the purple side opposite the yellow corner, and the orange side opposite the blue corner. There are now three primary and three main secondary colors or six main adjacent colors, or three color pairs.



If you had no concept of "red", this would be meaningless.

Conclusion: artists write for other artists.

Conclusion two: I write for Roni.

Love,
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TURKEYWEEN!

Hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving.  I sure did! Highlight: we were all looking forward to my aunts delicious cranberry sauce that she claimed shes never made before ( How do you forget if you've made something?) and we show up and she says "I found my recipe and made the sauce!" Pulls it out of the fridge and she had not pureed it so it was just a bunch of cut up fruit in strawberry jello!!  Not really worth the time to explain to her that what she made was not sauce but fruit salad.  Haha! It was still delicious!  <3 my family

Going to chill out with some buddies and study tday because tomorrow is full full full.
In order of occurrence:  GRE, set up for HeART of it All, attend art show for a little then lunch with athena, family friend 50th birthday, tear down art show, Dog Days (formally Skies Bleed Black) at the Outpost, home and sleep.

In honor of Dog Days' first appearance under the new name here's Florence + the Machine; Dog Days are Over.  Haha! It seems a little backwards because i certainly don't hope their days are over but it was the only song i could find with the words "Dog Days"

Kay Bye!

My mojo's so dope

Just finished priming the last of my canvases that I hoped to have painted by my self imposed due date of Dec 1st.  Clearly, I will not be finishing all ten on time.  BUT! What is finished has come out better than I could have hoped!  Plus, there's still time, ten days is ten days!  When I originally made the goal I had not expected to switch my grad school aspirations from painting to interior design and with the new path comes new portfolio requirements and the need to take the GRE (Nov 27th, AH!)  So, I've been busy working on some designs, studying, and painting. 

Despite the stress that comes with deadlines and uncharted territory I am very very happy and am honestly don't even feel stressed out. I realized this yesterday, in fact, when I looked down at my hands and noticed my nails are long!? I haven't been biting my nails!  It seems silly but it definitely means something, less overall anxiety perhaps? (Thanks, Yoga!)

NOW! The real reason for this post!  On each of the next three Saturdays I'll be in a group art show :)  They just sort of fell in my lap and it couldn't be more perfect timing. 

Nov 27th- The HeART of it All  (This is a charity show with my younger cousin Meg and some of her friends, I think it's benefiting a few of the kids mission trips to Haiti? Is it bad that I dont know?)

Dec 4th- Downpour Creative/ Engine Room Recording Grand Opening (Super SUPER excited about this)

Dec 11th- Bizarre Bizaar (All women arts and crafts show in Cleveland live/work lofts, curated by the lovely Carmen Navis)

Finally, I learned today that Daniel Day Lewis will be playing Lincoln in Spielberg's upcoming film. A-m-a-z-i-n-g.

-Roni!

Update to my happiness

Um... So Jesse rules, and Dawson rules, and the two cute pooches rule and the two other ladies at Noise Pop rule and my happiness is gigantic.
No, it is literally gigantic.
Look at what they gave me:

5 60x72 canvases.
I love you.

Art&Music

The Art:
I went to kent school of art yesterday thinking it was miss Bakers BFA exhibition opening.  I was mistaken but fortunately she was setting up the installation and so I stopped in to chat with her about it...basically it's great and i cant wait until it's actually her opening next week.

Since I was there already I checked the other galleries and found Andrew Simmons' MFA ceramics candidacy review show.  Anna, you would have flipped for his work...two headed animal ceramic sculptures, including an elephant, birds, unicorns...some gestural ceramic pieces with religious subject matter that were lovely...and small altered book page "drawings" that had impeccable craftsmanship and great detail work. He doesn't have a website that I can find but I will keep looking.

The Music:
This week I got two CDs one new (Kid Cudi: Man on the Moon 2) and one new to me (Mumford & Sons: Sigh No More, 2009).  While they are totally different I love them both, a lot. They each make me feel exactly how I want to feel.

Mumford & Sons: The lyrics are thoughtful and private.  The music itself is generally happy but relaxed. I feel like I am hearing someone talk about me specifically and find comfort in the fact that he absolutely is NOT talking about me and that his topics are universal. Here is the video for "Little Lion Man. I love it.

Kid CuDi: Really really great. I'm pretty sure he was completely stoned during the writing, producing recording, the everything for this album.  And guess what? When I listen to it I feel so relaxed and chilled out that I may as well be too. I think it's rare for a hip hop album to have a soothing effect but that's exactly what happens to me.  I feel like I'm laying on a soft mattress and being completely swallowed by that biggest comforter in the world. Exactly what I need. Here's one that hit the radio already Erase me...definitely not the best song on the CD but it's pritty pritty close.

Alright enough of this, I'm terrible at "reviewing"  but you get the idea.

Here is a tour of MY studio :P

Fort (bedroom)
From left to right: recording studio/Brian's dresser, Shelves, Files, writing workspace
Shaq
stuff I have and things I like
Messy Mess parts
Painting I'm working on about how Mermaids are funding the "War on Terror". I'll elaborate when it is finished...

My desk


TADA workspace multi functional extraordinaire!

NewStudioNewDay

Because my old space sprung a leak I enlisted my pa to help me move the heavy stuff into unit 1. Who knew a flat file weighed a billion pounds? Give or take.  And I have two of them...jealous? Anyway, a painter's studio doesn't need much equipment so the pictures don't show much but, i'm posting a studio tour anyway.  My friend david posted one recently and I enjoyed seeing his. Granted he since has moved to a new, better, space.  Check him out.

After the studio pictures, i'm putting up two figure drawings from the August Dr. Sketchys that I went to.  I had a great time...its a burlesque style open drawing with good people and silly contests. Figure was my thing in school and it had been a long time (2+ years?) since I had drawn a live person. I keep meaning to go again but they sneak up on you. It's not my best work, but for 10 and 20 minute poses I think i still got it! Enjoy!

water cup filled with stained brushes

reference wall

flat file drawers

in progress

<3

opposite side: flat files, lightbox, other in progress pieces, comfy, grandma lamp, and new (dry) place to store art books

work table, mini fridge (necessary), more works in progress, list of potential portrait options

20 minute pose

10 minute pose

-Roni!