short month

hellos.

it is the first day of February! the month know for its shortness, paper hearts, and sad faces. not to mention the fact that i seem to spell it wrong most every time.
i hope you have all been well. i have been pretty okay. i am failing on my NewYrs Resolution with great eagerness. on the bright side i have been slaying away on work for the solo show. i will upload some teasers next time we meet. now here is some news and such.

well i am currently splitting my waking hours between solo show art, other illustration stuff, and renovating my basement!! i have made much too many trips to the hardware store these days. seriously. hours upon hours lost picking out the right toilet, vanity, potlights, dragging laminate flooring and sheets of drywall around... oh death. here is a photo of me taking a picture of a vanity i liked for the sake of deciding. thought i would share because i think its funny. also i dont seem to post pics of myself. however will you know its me when we by chance meet?

Feb.12 . 8pm . You Know What Love IS . Sleeping Giant Gallery

this will be a very awesome show. a very sexxxy show i am thinking. featuring most of the amazing skills that brought you the Villain Show!! also the show is sponsored by MadLove. meaning there will surely be some love-inspired freebies. you would be a not-cool person to miss it. here is the facebook event page! people still use facebook right??

Mar.19 . 3-9pm . Broken Arts Fair . McLaughlin Library . Oshawa

do you like zines? love them maybe? love arts and crafts and baked goods and junk?! well... if you live in Oshawa or if you like drives/GO trains/whatever... you want to go to this! there will be many tables chalk-full of amazing stuff and things to buy and enjoy! not only will i have my SECOND zine available for purchase (copies of the first one "it was the blurst of times" will still be kicking!).... i have been making small drawings on different coloured papers and will have them for peoples at DIRT CHEAP prices!! heres a shot of a bunch of them so far:

i don't have much more to tell i don't think. if anything else comes up be sure you wills be one of the firsts to know. much love.

lemons

the LemonLife article i last did an illustration for just went up.
check it out why don't ya?

i gots 99 problems

for once i have decided to open a blog entry with an image opposed to... words. it looks nice when other ppl and well, maybe it'll look good on me. how y'all been? i'm okay. been trying to keep busy doing my thang. been slacking more than i care to admit. new yr resolutions already going down the crapper. need to redo the website. thinking of using the twins up there as a jumping point. dunno.


this is an illustration i did for LemonLife. i'll let you look at their site and hopefully the article will be up when you do and you can judge for yourself whether its a fair illustration for said article. i decided to throw the initial sketch in there too. sketches are funs!

random sketchbook stuff.
6-page sketches of an... origin story of some character i came up with named Dr.Think... may have mentioned him some months back... may need to change the character's name as i don't think the origin story works with name... or maybe i will make many origins for same character and it'll be a fun gimmick of sorts... ( i realize its hard to follow, decided to post just to show those that might care how scribbly my sketches are at times.)

need to get about a million things done these days. haha maybe thats what i mean by 99 problems... also i was playing the Jay-Z track and couldn't resist. if only i didn't have to sleep... oh but how i love to sleep! to dream!

2010

twenty-ten.

how about that! i don't have to say "thousand" anymore! which is... good? who knows. looking back at past blog entries i am noticing they are more chit-chat rants than anything else. so i will spare you this time. i will sum up my year so far by saying that i am sick and my dog is sick and its cold and boo its sucks.

here is my chester at christmas! poor guy got assulted by the "hey lets make the dog look like an idiot" jerks.


ok so i bought a pound of paper at Wal-Mart the other day and then decided to toss them on drawings. i dont know how i feel about the outcome. most likely i am done. i will end up using the lovely coloured papers for something else... but what?! a diorama you say?!




more playing with wood chips while waiting for train.


ok so i did these two little watercolurs entitled "childhood friend 1" and "childhood friend 2" respectively, because for an xmas get together gift exchange the idea was to make something. so i made these and then framed and wrapped the top one. after being stolen a few times it ended up at the happy hands of Dianne. i am thinking i will make many more little watercolours like this. though they will not all be blogged about as that will defeat the purpose of updating and redoing the ol' website. www.blamethesky.com

ok. now that i got that blogging bug out of my system for the day i need to get on my "serious" art. 2010 huh... already a thorn in my spine... or however the expression goes.

another dollar

hey,

unless something very important and unexpected occurs within the next few hours, this will be the last entry for the mighty year 2009. i guess i am glad to see the year go, for no reason other than the fact that one should always be ready to let go of the past and dive head first into the future.

people tend to make resolutions, promises, pacts with themselves when a year comes to close. i'm no different. its funny how the "noble" ideas and desires i have to improve myself grow in volume when i am riding the bus home on my own, accompanied by the background music and distant voices from my ipod. its funny how the mental list begins with the usual "get in shape" and "eat better", then slowly turns into "be a more understanding brother, be a better friend, speak less/listen more", only to then dip down into "spend less money, make more money, travel, buy this, buy that, achieve fame and fortune". by no means am i suggesting that one shouldn't take the material into account when trying to identify what changes to attempt to make for the sake of the budding new year. we are only "human" after all... which really is another way of saying that we are flawed. we spend so much time thinking about what we want that we forget about what we need. yes i would very much like to do some travelling and buy myself a car and get a six-pack, but what i need is to become more independant, to better prioritze my goals and to be more driven to achieve them. the thing is, some resolutions are better off written in sand then on paper. we are clumsy, fickle creatures that are only capable of self-less thought when we are alone with our own thoughts. the moment a person becomes people everything changes. suddenly goals become focused not on being better for the sake of being a better individual but to be better than the other. i don't know... in time the voices of reasoning and whatnot die down and i'm left thinking about what there is in the fridge to eat.

so what are my resolutions this year?
maybe by making them public i will be that much more determined to see them through? maybe not. haha oh well i'm definitely not the first or last one to do so. ok so... hmmm lets see. in no particular order, without too many details:

- get in shape. being consistent with both cardio and weight training, eating better etc.
- read more books. "smarter" books, readings outside of graphic novels and the usual fare.
- be a better friend. better friend to those i call friends and more of a friend to those i know as acquaintances.
- more art. the more art i make the better art i make. need to be more driven and dedicated in order to succeed at all. also redo website oh snap!
- give in to the 9-5. i need to get a for real job as much as i don't want to. i need the constant money flow, and all that comes with it.
- travel. this means that roadtrip happening. getting my damn passport and visiting family in Cali.

hmmm that about covers it i think. the important ones maybe.... hopefully. either way i can always add more. overall the idea is in with the good and out with the bad. only heaven knows.

come clean

hi,

today my beloved girlfriend and i will be celebrating 5 magical years together. 5. that is an awful lot... in my opinion it is. we're not doing anything overly fancy, much as i would like to, because well, we don't have the extra cash to go all Gatsby on the occasion.

usually when i stay over at the gf's place i choose to use her dad's man shampoo and a bar of soap. for whatever reason i ended up using her "stuff". for reasons unknown to me women enjoy products that leave them smelling like they were just dragged through a field of flowers, followed by an apple orchard, follow by a bakery. stepping out of the shower earlier today i felt like i had just washed myself with a fruit salad. i honestly felt less clean than when i went in. i just don't care for kiwi strawberry blossom hair. nor do i care for leaving a towel smelling like a fruit roll-up. i enjoy "manly" products. products that are named after natural disasters and BMX moves. the bottled scent of a glacier earthquake explosion is really the only way to go. of course i am referring to my preference in regards to my own aroma. i have nothing against my lovely smelling like a grapefruit dipped in honey and... oats.

today i am wearing my Captain America t-shirt. which caused the girlfriend to frown. until i pointed out that Cap's star has 5 points... to represent the 5 wonderful mickey mouse years we have shared. she then smiled and walked away.

yesterday i picked up these 3 movies. hopefully we will watch one of them. but i doubt it.

merry hairy xmas

hello friends,

first of all i would like to wish you all the best of the best that these holidays have to offer! if good happenings could be measured in rice i would wish you all... a lot of rice! tons even! sacks and sacks of delicious rice, brown, wild and brown!

well, my family and i usually do the whole christmas getup on the 24th, making the 25th a more chillaxing day or relaxing adventures. as such i am in my lair writing this blog-o entry. i've been enjoying the last days of the year very much so. nice gifts i have received! i'll tell you about that some other time...

ok so TODAY was odd... it was like no 25th before. i woke up pretty late, after about 3 "breakfasts" i sat down to some tele. which led to sitting while watching MONSTER TRUCKS (no clue whose idea that was), a show on PRIMATES and others on the DISCOVERY network, paired with some wine drinking and empanada eating. here are pictures illustrating such:





here are 2images composed of some sketchbook scanning! sketchbooks are so fun, im so glad i have finally learned the importance of keeping a "book" opposed to scraps of paper that get lost and wrecked.


as i type this i am watching Mike Mignola's THE AMAZING SCREW-ON HEAD. a definite for any Mignola fan! the art is great and although it is very short it is packed with so much of what makes Mignola stuff super amazing fantastic i love it.


much love to all. more rice and best wishes for the new year and the days remaining in this one! xoxo.