Jessica Murrieta

Spring

2011-04-18T21:47:00.000-07:00

I did this quick watercolor painting after finishing some much needed spring cleaning in my art studio. Last week was my birthday and my anniversary and this week I'm starting a new job!

Works in Progress

2011-03-31T19:51:00.000-07:00

Rain and Pencil

2011-02-24T18:51:00.000-08:00

I recently began using pencil for my under drawing instead of colored pencil. I've found myself gravitating toward a more subtle color palette than I use with my colored pencil paintings. I like it and I think I will continue using pencil and seeing what takes shape. The reason I started using pencil is because I recently purchased the most amazing mechanical pencil I've ever used, it's a Koh-I-Noor Mephisto Profi pencil, and I really cannot put it down. The advantage of colored pencil is that the Prismacolor col-erase pencils melt into the watercolor. The lady in the first painting is wearing a Jean Yu triangle bra. After several weeks of sunshine rain has returned to northern California. I don't mind, I get more work done on rainy days.

Leaves and Pencil

2011-02-16T14:21:00.000-08:00

This is a study for a larger painting. Lately I have been using two (warm/cool) sets of primary colors and a color called neutral tint.

Alexander McQueen

2011-02-11T22:27:00.000-08:00

It's hard to believe a year has passed since the death of Alexander McQueen. Both of these pen and ink drawings were done on Legion Iyo handmade Japanese rice paper. February 11, 2010.

Paculla Annia

2011-02-04T00:18:00.000-08:00

Recently I decided to try to using pencil to compose my under drawing. Usually I draw on watercolor paper using Prismacolor erasable color pencils. When I paint over the lines they melt into the paint.

Something about light gray pencil line makes the whole painting feel lighter, which I find really satisfying. I've been painting with two sets of primary color palettes and black. For some reason I find this easier to do with oil paints as opposed to watercolor.

Paculla Annia was an Italian priestess. She led the Bacchus cult and threw wild parties.

Post-Impressionist Masterpieces

2010-12-18T18:17:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I went to San Francisco to the de Young Museum to see an exhibition called Van Gogh, Gaugin, Cezanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musee D’Orsay. I’ve been waiting to see this exhibition since it was announced over a year and a half ago. There were paintings from Claude Monet, John Singer Sargent, Pablo Picasso, Odilon Redon, Pierre Bonnard, Auguste Renoir, Édouard Vuillard, and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. I was blown away, my heart raced, and I was completely speechless.
I admire many artists working today, but the masters treated painting as a craft and that idea is fading. Nothing bothers me more than looking at a great painting and being able to recognize paint colors that were used out of the tube, no mixing of different pigments. Worse than that is photoshopping your art to mislead the viewer into believing they are seeing something that was really painted. For me, loving painting means trying to learn more, always studying. There is always more to learn. I am going to see this exhibition again before it closes.

La Carmencita
John Singer Sargent
1890

What I Wore

2010-12-05T20:37:00.000-08:00

This is what I wore to a weekend at my parent's house in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Northern California.

Death

2010-12-05T20:31:00.000-08:00

You're Going to Die
Jessica Murrieta
December 2010

Sometimes I just need to be reminded. This is colored pencil on paper.

Tedd Vallance

2010-10-19T19:26:00.000-07:00

Tedd Vallance is my step Dad, you may have see his work at United Coffee in Sacramento, Ca. I was finally able to get him to start a blog in which he explains his process and motivation. He spends 40 hours or more on one 8x10 drawing. As a child he made sure I always had plenty of art supplies, everything I could possibly need. I was always in awe of his talent, skill, and patience, and so I am excited that he is finally putting his beautiful trees out there for all to see! Follow him!

Behance

2010-10-13T15:10:00.001-07:00

Hey, check it out friends, I am on the behance network now!

Let's get purse-onal!

2010-10-07T01:37:00.001-07:00

Hey Friends,
Recently I had the honor of illustrating some handbags for Modcloth, please check them out!

Choose your own bag adventure!

Nonverbal Magazine

2010-10-02T15:21:00.000-07:00

I created these images for Nonverbal Magazine!

You're only young but you're gonna die!

2010-09-19T00:34:00.000-07:00

I was watching "Hell's Bells," when I came across this psychologist explaining how to "de-metal" your children an showing off her jewelry. "Hell's Bells" is a christian documentary about the evils of Rock N' Roll.

Freja Beha Erichsen

2010-09-13T23:27:00.000-07:00

I painted this earlier today, it's model Freja Beha Erichsen. Tomorrow my husband Rob is competing in a drum competition. He was chosen out of hundreds of other contestants from the west coast.

2010-09-13T00:46:00.000-07:00

Somehow I found time to paint this today. Lately I have been focusing on trying to paint faster and with less precision. I'm ready for fall and neutral color palettes!

2010-09-09T22:30:00.000-07:00

Hello friends!
I will resume posting to this blog later this week! I have all kinds of news, new works, and other things to share with you. For now check out my other blog http://jessicamurrieta.tumblr.com
<3

Come to our show!

2009-11-18T18:48:00.000-08:00

blue period

2009-10-09T15:27:00.000-07:00

gold leaf detail
mutiple exposure polaroid
my christian dior scarf
blue shoes
La Châtelaine, Henri de Tuolouse Lautrec
French Ultramarine, Marcia Hafif

The Land of Milk and Honey

2009-09-27T14:36:00.000-07:00

As a child I could see the Sutter Buttes from my grandmother's backyard, but over time an orchard grew and now obscures the view. I took this photograph in the Summer 1997 near her house with my Dad's Olympus OM-10. California is the land of milk and honey.

Can you breathe under water?

2009-07-21T16:39:00.001-07:00

In Sacramento, California we are punished with excruciating heat. However, there is ample water here and sometimes all you can do is flock to it and enjoy the cold, cold, cold mountain runoff. That is what I did this Monday. I brought a bottle of Sutter's Home White Zinfandel and I placed it in my purse. At some point the cork came out and filled my bag up with half a bottle of cheap ass dessert wine. My wallet, moleskine, pens, phone, and camera were soaked. The bag is leather so the wine didn't drain out and all of my stuff just marinated in it. My camera is six years old, which for a digital camera is almost abnormal. It's outlived all of my other digital cameras, so of course it was fine. Unfortunately my phone is not, even my sim card smells like wine. I've had a cell phone for at least eight years and this is the first time that one has ever perished because of negligence on my part.

summer

2009-07-13T12:19:00.000-07:00

Living crazy, that's the only way!

2009-06-27T10:20:00.000-07:00

I know everyone is tired of hearing about Michael Jackson, well, I am not! I didn't start my love affair with Mike until a couple of years ago.

I didn't like him growing up, my parents weren't into him, and I was just a little too young to get into the hype. I do remember seeing him on television from time to time. It was Rob who got me into Mike, Rob still has the Thriller vinyl he listened to as a kid. The first album that got me is Off the Wall. It's the perfect culmination of Motown, disco, and everything that the eighties held for Michael, and for music. The production is immaculate, you can't find that anymore. It has real instruments layered together perfectly. Pop music today is made with a workstation!

It kind of breaks my heart to see so many people tire of hearing about him. I feel like people are missing the point. When he died most of the internet slowed to a halt. Millions of people googled him at once, AOL instant messenger crashed for 45 minutes, Wikipedia, Twitter, TMZ, Facebook all experienced problems with crashing. His music took over the top 20 spots on Amazon.com and itunes. The video for Thriler alone has over 40 million hits on youtube. All of his other videos come in around 20 million views.

Enormous pressure is being placed on CD manufacturing plants in various countries as Jackson's work goes back into full scale production to meet the popularity! I saw R5 Records, where Rob works, on the news yesterday. Huge vigils are being held around the world, with people buying his records up all over the world!

The reason this is important to me is because you won't see this again. I strongly doubt that anyone will ever outsell Mike. The music industry has change, so has pop music. The emphasis on albums has been replaced by itunes singles, musicianship replaced with workstations, and vocal skill replaced with auto-tune. Thriller became the best selling record of all time a little over a year after it's release. 7 out of 9 songs became singles! He wanted every song to sound like a single, to be strong enough to stand on it's own.

the annunciation

2009-06-08T21:56:00.000-07:00

Come to my art show and see all of the new paintings I have been working on. It's going to be a tribute to all of my favorite queens and queen consorts. Among the lucky; Marie de' Medici, Catherine of Aragon, Elizabeth I and Mary I, and last but not least, Mary Queen of Scots. Also, I have been working on my own illuminated manuscript. Come check it out June 13th from 6:00pm-8:00pm at the Javalounge, due to unforseen circumstances my art will only be up for about a week and a half. Preview photos coming soon!

Klimt and Demitasse

2009-05-30T01:14:00.000-07:00

Using the square template of my dear friend Richard St. Ofle I compiled a few images of things that inspired me this week.

1. Pierre Bonnard's Montmartre in the Rain was recently acquired by the Van Gogh Museum. I would very much like to see it as this is the first Bonnard I've seen that I really like. This painting is more atmospheric than his usual jarring indoor scenes.

2. This is embroidery from a garment that belonged to King Gustav III of Sweden.

3. I finished Balthus' memoirs this week. He may have been the very last artist to approach painting as a craft. He mixed paint according to Delacroix's formulas. There is more to be said about him later.

4. This is the Revolving Miniatures Faberge Egg, it's my favorite.

5. This was taken by Arthur Elgort. I have twins on both sides of the family. I used to think it would be really wonderful to have a twin, but now I see that it's just creepy.

6. This is a detail from a painting of King Louis XV, of France. It was painted by Justinat Augustin in 1717.

7. This is beautiful, I found it on a website that just had a list of antiques that are for sale. I couldn't figure out where it came from.

8. Another Balthus. Joan Miró et sa fille Dolorès, 1937-1938.

9. I love Demitasse cups, I am starting a collection. They're so delicate and detailed, each one is a little work of art.

10. A detail from Gustave Klimt's Beethoven Frieze. Recently another Klimt was returned to it's rightful owner. Another painting of his, the infamous Portrait of Adele Bloch-Blauer was auctioned off for 135 million dollars. The story of that painting is very interesting, complete with a surprise ending!

The painting was confiscated by Nazis. Somehow it fell into the hands of Austrain government. Adele's niece and nephew, who lived in the United States were the rightful inheritors of her estate. They waged courtroom battles in Austria and America, eventually they won. They displayed the painting for a short time before selling it to a gallery owner, who promptly returned it on the condition that he could hang it in his gallery whenever he wished. His gallery, Neue Galerie, houses recovered art that was seized during the Holocaust. They refer to this painting as their Mona Lisa, I like it much better than the Mona Lisa!

11. It's summer, the heat is horrible. It's time for escape; the ocean, hiking, aimless drives, swimming, and hopefully staying away from sun burns.

sky cam diptych

2009-05-20T01:02:00.000-07:00

April 7, 2009 4:38pm and 7:14pm.

April 23,2009 5:35pm and March 21, 2009 6:44pm.

May 4, 2009 7:14pm and 7:26pm.

April 2, 2009 2:44pm and 3:11pm.

March 23, 2009 6:38pm and April 17, 2009 7:29pm.

May 6, 2009 2:05pm and 4:23pm

May 5, 2009 8:05pm and 8:23pm.

April 4, 2009 7:08pm and April 5, 2009 7:44pm.

April 7, 2009 11:07am and 4:38pm. In the morning the first clouds of a storm begin to move in, by late afternoon you can see rain falling in the distance.

April 4, 2009 10:53pm and May 4, 2009 7:56pm.

May 1, 2009 2:26pm and 6:11pm.

May 5, 2009 11:46am and 11:56am

May 5, 2009 11:58am and 12:58am

May 5, 2009 12:11pm and 12:17pm

I imagine this project will slow down as summer heats up. Even now, every day looks the same. With no rain, clouds, or visible changes in the weather, this becomes a bit boring. Summer is one high pressure ridge after another, a barometer holding steady.

canonize us

2009-05-15T12:51:00.000-07:00

This is my first semi-successful landscape painting. I know it may seem that landscapes have little to do with the work I have already done, but in time the ideas will merge. The geographic space we share is what links us all together. The landscape should be seen as a spiritual bond between all people, it should be exalted. Instead we fuck it up. Whatever. Dead bodies lying in grass fields coming soon.

Mothers Day

2009-05-11T22:03:00.000-07:00

My grandmother Jeanne is very dear to me. She has influenced my tastes and ideas very much. She is Swedish and has visited my family there, I love to hear stories about the home they have there. She grew up in Santa Cruz, married a man who worked undercover doing secret government business(she was only 17), lived in Germany, and had five children. My mother is the youngest.

She has beautiful ettiquette, likes real mail but knows how to use a computer, and has two great grandchildren. Unfortunately we lost my grandfather suddenly before my little sister was born. I feel very lucky to have memories of him. My grandparents were disaster specialists for the Red Cross and have been all over the world on aid missions. She has been involved in the Red Cross for at least 25 years.

She is Jackie Kennedy to me.

So, on mothers day we always visit her. Here are some shitty iphone pictures of my trip. She showed us all of her china and told us stories about our favorite demitasse cups. Our favorites are from Occupied Japan, from the Wedgewood company, and also the Noritake designs from Japan.

This is part of our family tree, were Viking.

This is a spinning wheel my grandmother brought from our family home in Sweden. As a child it frightened my cousins and I, we saw it as the evil things from Sleeping Beauty.

She has beautiful taste in china. This one is from Occupied Japan. She has many from Japan, England, Finland, Germany, and Sweden.

This is the bottom of a demitasse cup from Japan, this is my favorite.

This is the cup, it's very small and lovely.

This is my grandmother's piano, we love it. My sister and I played it together for a long time.

My grandmother is an avid birdwatcher. This bird feeder has always been there, hummingbirds would come up and drink from it all day long and she would tell us neat facts about them.

She recently found this at her house, the only date inside is written and it says 1916. There was no publishers information, so we called it "emersons zine"

She is a wonderful gardner and her backyard has been a magical place for all her grandkids. Every celebration happens in her gardens. She has a gardenia bush right next to her front door. The smell of gardenias reminds me of saying our hello and goodbyes. I painted this for her.

I also painted this for her. Pears are our mutual favorite fruit.

and this is my sister:

2009-04-11T11:39:00.001-07:00

April 11th

2009-04-03T20:06:00.000-07:00

I am having an art show at Artifacts on K street in Sacramento, Ca on April 11th, 2009. Please come to it. My Birthday is the 15th, pay your taxes!

I'll shake off your flesh.

2009-03-21T00:28:00.000-07:00

I have had a very difficult time sleeping lately. I am not sure why, I don't think it's stress. I feel tired, I get into bed, and I don't go to sleep. I lie awake and think. When I finally fall asleep, I have very vivid, lucid dreams.

I've recently purchased a 1987 BMW 325 a few weeks ago. It's bronze. The interior is black leather and in perfect condition. Even the power windows and locks still work. It has barely 100,000 miles on it, with working speedometer and odometer. Obviously it was someone's baby. I started to hear a very slight, quiet, clank sound while shifting gears. The clutch feels great and I can tell the sound isn't coming from inside the transmission. After two weeks of reading and research I've narrowed it down to a few (non-clutch, non-tranny) possibilities. I am confident that I have the know how to replace my clutch all by myself if necessary!!!

Rob and I are having at art show at the Javalounge in July. It's going to be a musical and visual tribute to Giallo Terrore. Giallo films are characterized by extended murder sequences featuring excessive bloodletting, stylish camerawork and sets, and unusual electronic musical arrangements. I would recommend a Dario Argento or Lucio Fulci movie if you are interested in the genre. These movies aren't particularly violent compared to American slashers, but the murder scenes are drawn out, over the top, and have alot of blood. I've seen a good number of these movies, but Suspiria by Argento is still my favorite. I can watch it with the sound off, it's a beautiful visual journey. If you're more into zombies than check out Fulci's movies. He pretty much invented that archetypal Italian zombie.

I finally gave up on my relationship with my scanner. I have attempted to photograph some of my drawings, though I'm not sure if I'm satisfied with the results. I see depth distortion but much better color.

18"x24" Graphite, ink, and gold leaf on paper.

11"x15" watercolor on paper
This one is on loan from an anonymous patron.

2009-03-02T17:41:00.000-08:00

resurrection morning

2009-02-22T21:31:00.001-08:00

meeshatron!

2009-01-27T20:27:00.001-08:00

20090127_dead girls_040

Originally uploaded by Meeshatron!

I was so surprised and excited to see that Michelle and Jessieca took some lovely pictures that look just like one of my watercolors. The most remarkable thing is how much Jessieca resembles the girl in the painting, the makeup is perfect.
Some of the other shots are really beautiful and have inspired me to get to work on some similar paintings and turn this into a series. I would love to see a vector of this by Michelle, I am sure it would be incredible.

gold leaf

2009-01-23T14:49:00.000-08:00

I recently bought liquid gold leaf paint. I loved it so much that I bought a gold leaf pen. I want to bling up everything! These were scanned at a fairly high resolution so you can see the goldeness for yourself.

heartbroken

2008-11-04T20:01:00.000-08:00

Ok, I just saw the projected electoral votes and Barack Obama has won. This is just as the California polls are closing. This an amazing, magical thing.

Im so nervous about Prop 8! I will be heartbroken if it passes. I have always felt that gay people should be allowed to marry. That seems natural to me. I have so many close friends that are gay and truly in love. " What if Richard and Corine couldn't marry? Jackie O and JFK? Michelle and Barack? Heterosexual couples have been fucking up marriage really bad for a very long time, let someone else give it a try!

It still comes down to legal issues, you should be able to enter into a legal agreement with anyone you want.

I cannot believe that any out of state interests would be allowed to have any sway in this matter.

"I throw your dad a fitty, there aint nothin that the catman can't do!"

2008-10-29T19:07:00.000-07:00

A few minutes ago I signed into my gmail account and checked out my dear friend Richard St. Ofle's blog to see that he had posted a Kiss video. I clicked play then fumbled around for the cord to my speakers, plugged it in, and turned up the volume hoping it was my favorite Kiss song "Strutter" and IT WAS!!!

So, in honor of funny costumes and Rock and Roll here is my other favorite Kiss song "Black Diamond" sung by the original Catman!

Look for the funny wig twirling thing Paul always does about 1:20 through the video.

I made you a Rush mixtape.

2008-10-20T21:08:00.000-07:00

I've been pushing myself to paint as much as possible lately, even though I have been excessively busy. I've produced some of my favorite work recently, inspired heavily by Mr. Egon Schiele.
My old computer died suddenly and Rob and I impulsively bought a mac, well, my scanner doesn't work with it. It won't at all.

So, I am joining the iWorld finally, I bought my first ipod. I swore I never would and here I am, waiting anxiously. This is why they are evil. I must be evil too because I can't wait for it to show up!

In other news, I have been sick. Very sick. My ear is hurts so bad. Everything sounds too loud or too quiet.

I am here.

2008-09-28T23:06:00.001-07:00

Twenty five thousand works that are new, coming soon.

acting out fears

2008-08-06T20:50:00.000-07:00

I eat dust.

2008-08-04T20:09:00.000-07:00

I recently spent a week in San Francisco celebrating Rob and my best friend Lupe's birthdays. We managed to buy some Polaroid pack film (3.25x4.25) and give it a try. It's sad that they decided to discontinue the film.

This is Rob on Lupe's "balcony." It's not really a balcony, it's the covered area above her front door and a bad place to play if you are drunk. I've noticed if I push the exposure the photos develop a nice blue cast.

There is amazing potential for tricky multiple exposures.

After a little practice I figured out how to make some lovely mistakes.

This creepy picture was taken by Rob.

Other than that, I have been so tired. We now serve alcohol at the Javalounge, so by all means, come by, get drunk, and leave me a much larger tip than you intended to.

Now, I am going to go paint mermaids and girls with no arms.

emotion revealed as the ocean made a clearer future; morning, evening, nights with you

2008-07-03T11:01:00.000-07:00

http://MisforMurder.etsy.com

Look out for stuff coming as soon as possible!

ok, ok, I put some stuff up!

I have been so busy. This might be the busiest I have ever been in my whole life. I am just dreaming of the moment I can relax and bask in the glory of having nothing to do. I cannot remember anything, so here is a summary of what I have been doing in no particular order:

-Visiting the Lupe in the city. Drinking wine on the beach. Devouring a whole pound of chicken strips. Waking up to tea and freshly baked chocolate croissants. Not ever wanting to leave.
-Work
-Wah Wah Exit Wound played in San Francisco with Times of Desperation at the Hemlock Tavern
-Wah Wah Exit Wound played with Times of Desperation and my pals Iguanadon at On the Y
-Lupe visiting us here, going to the river and the park, putting away wine and Mexican food all weekend
-Going to Tuesday night art party at Skinners and Kristie's, getting to see a sneak peak at what's going down at Upper Playground this month!
-An acidcop show Saturday night in Davis. This will definitely be interesting and scary.
-Times of Desperation lighting off fireworks in my heart tomorrow night at Gilman.
-So much other stuff, everything but a nap.

I've got youth on my side

2008-06-20T16:05:00.000-07:00

Totally starting an etsy and making a website. Time to hustle.

digital=dead

2008-06-13T16:45:00.000-07:00

Corine Sainte Ofle is so lovely. Even though she had to pack and jet away to France, she still came by work to hang out with Rob and I for a while. She took this Polaroid of me next to the drawing Nikki did of me in the bathroom at the J-Lo. It got me thinking of the land camera that I have been meaning to use. I also have a joy cam and a square shooter that I can't find film for.

I read that Polaroid is phasing out their film and so I bought a twin pack from Filco. Rob and I shot three pictures that all came out very dark. We finally realized that it needed a battery to calculate the exposure, although it was odd that we were still allowed to shoot pictures. So, we are now in the process of tracking down a 3 volt alkaline battery. Wish us luck!

I also want to get some of the 600 series film and a Polaroid one-step.

straight low key

2008-06-11T15:17:00.000-07:00

I've been working night and day!!!
Alright, maybe not that much.
I saw a lovely fashion show and my friends have come by to visit me and nothing tops that!
Adjusting to getting up at 4:30 in the morning has really taken it out of me. I have hardly painted a thing! I did buy a huge piece of watercolor paper. I don't know how huge, but definitely larger than 18 x 24 inches.

do not worry my pet...

2008-05-26T00:11:00.000-07:00

someone will save you

Recently someone let me know that they find my drawings of women to be interesting as they feel I might have empathy in my heart for women affected by abuse and domestic violence.

I have been thinking about this subject, and the subject of my art. It's not necessarily about domestic violence, although it certainly could be. For me, it's about women in trouble. It's too simple and I stick to this idea like glue, it's obsessive, I know. A women spattered in blood is more beautiful than a bloodied up man, a woman's look of horror is lovely, a man, not so much. The female figure is probably the most popular subject matter in art history. As a former fashion design student and a current art student, I feel it only natural to choose women over men. Fashion revolves around women, and fashion and aesthetics is the core of what I am all about.

Although, more than anything else I can think of I am completely inspired by this episode of Unsolved Mysteries I saw when I was a little girl. It horrified me in a different way than Halloween or a Nightmare on Elm Street because I knew it had really happened and the man who did it was most likely walking around, living, having a grand time. So....

A women makes friends with a man and brings him into her home. He beats her up and drags her body into the fireplace. He then brings her mattress into the living room and places it on top of her body. She was not dead at the time, but unconscious. He lights the mattress on fire. Naturally, they reenacted the whole event. I saw this episode a while back and of course, it didn't scare me like it did when I was young.

gotta straighten up your act and boogie down

2008-05-21T22:33:00.000-07:00

Rob is play at Inferno Pizza on 16th and Broadway Friday night. If you live in Sacramento and you aren't busy you should come check them out! It's an early show.

Inferno is a wacky place. It looks like this everywhere!

This is a special message from Biaggio of Times of Desperation:
"Please note that this show starts at 6pm and needs to be done by 9pm. So, be sure to come early. Also, as usual, bring tons of weed. Especially for Roanoke. Touring bands need lot’s of weed and of course so do we."

This one of a few things I did last night. No big deal. Ok. Whatevurrrr. Her eyes are messed up. NOOOO! DON'T fucking LOOOK!!!

it's my factory

2008-05-16T21:01:00.000-07:00

Rob and I met up with the St. Ofles at Temple last night. Temple is very nice, we haven't been there in a long time. We can't ever seem to remember where it is! We really had a such a wonderful time with them. We talked about all kinds of funny things. The St. Oh-Fool's are lovely and I can't wait to see them again! I felt especially good giving them my favorite painting ever.
After that, we secured some goods and went home. I hung out in Rob's studio and then went back to my own lair and worked on this:

I think it's my second favorite ever.

I got some dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me?

2008-05-15T13:21:00.000-07:00

I finally got in touch with my scanner, there is a whole mess of new stuff hurrrrr!

So, I am way behind in scanning stuff, I probably painted this two weeks ago.
It's been a long time.

NEXT!

Zombies, naturally. I am going to learn to perfect various levels of fleshly decay via watercolor action.

I love this man, no it's not Rob. It's TOM SAVINI!!! I like him because he doesn't just come in a make a head out of Styrofoam and light it on fire. He actually works with the directors and comes up with different, bruta, ways to totally destroy people. Needless to say, he earns his check. He fought in Vietnam and claims to use his first hand knowledge of carnage in his work.

Yes, I know..... now whatever you do just isn't as cool. Tom is the man.
He is the super special effects awesome make up totally gore master, you can see his work in:

Maniac: A really amazing movie. The head explosion scene is art! Hahaha!

Martin: His first collaboration with George A. Romero. A great movie, just alot of interesting things going on. I won't even tell you about it. George says it's still his favorite.

Dawn of the Dead: I don't have to tell you about this movie right? Nahhh! This is where he claims to have perfected a palette of severed limbs and bites. Funny Tom, I think I am just about to do the same!

Friday the 13th: At the very end of the movie, where Jason pops out and scares you. Tom's idea!

That's a very partial list, but here is his website, just in case you are hooked like I am.

and he voiced himself on the Simpson's in an episode called "Worst Episode Ever" Comic Book Guy has a heart attack while witnessing Tom Savini's work!

Tom Savini also has his own college for special effects arts.... and two books called Grande Illusions!

TEENAGERS listen up: Tom Savini is so much cooler than Tom that started myspace. Now you now.

sticky and sweet

2008-05-13T20:16:00.000-07:00

Robert Rauschenberg:

It is truly sad that you are no longer with us. Thanks for everything.

Hey
you got it
if you want it
you're not taking a chance
with me!

why haven't you noticed that I'm dead?

2008-05-10T13:34:00.000-07:00

NO
hella sick
and no
not SICK
but icky lame gross sick
so here is some stuff I like
as opposed to some stuff I did

How about that lovely square suitcase? Thank you Samsonite.

I love this American Tourister set. The small bag, train case, and hat box are lovely!

If I ever see this on eBay and someone outbids me, I will come to their town and KILL them! No one in whole world wants a Courreges camera more than me!

I love this one even more:

they came in a variety of colors

Oh, and the Lady Argus!

So, OH yeah, images.
I love this one of Sylvie Vartan!

and this illustration from Edith Head's book
if you don't know who she is
look her up
seriously.....I won't tell you! You deserve to love her for yourself. If you don't like her or find her totally important, well, fuck you chief.

If you have this pattern, can you send it to me? I can grade it up, bring it down, and drop it like it's hot.

and while we are wearing white and it's the sixties, isn't THIS the PERFECT outfit?

Texas is the reason!

2008-05-08T16:06:00.000-07:00

A giant sinkhole is eating Texas up, oil fields and all. I could NOT be more pleased. It's at least the size of two football fields and isn't expected to stabilize for another two weeks!

Come on Texas, what did you think? Did you think that the earth was just going let you sit there and keep doing the things you are doing? Texas is a toilet and now the earth is flushing it.

I gave Rob a totally rockin' hair cut and now I am going to give myself one too. Hopefully.

I am with you in the darkness waiting.

2008-04-22T17:52:00.001-07:00

I love days like this. I sat on my friends porch this afternoon while it sprinkled, it was nice.

I have some paintings I am working on right now, when they are finished I will post some scans in this post.

I did a little something special for Michelle. She will get it in the mail, I am sending it out tomorrow.

So, Rob M. has a blog. It's not for the faint of heart, but it's very well written. Witty and concise. It is everything that this blog isn't. You'll find it especially entertaining if you live, or ever have lived, in Sacramento. He doesn't post as often as I do, but when he does it's really fun:

http://childcareandmeth.blogspot.com/

he also has a new musical project:

http://www.myspace.com/shewantsmoney

see what I mean?

2008-04-19T14:00:00.000-07:00

hot to annihilate

2008-04-17T18:28:00.000-07:00

I am just about to finish a super undercover exciting lovely project for a lovely friend.
Aside from that:

SO, I got this new watercolor paper.
I've been wanting to try it because it's square shaped, six by six inches.
First of all, I thought it was a watercolor block, and it wasn't. It was wrapped up in plastic and appeared to be a block, but it was just a pad! Disappointing.
Second problem, my ink bleeds. HUGE problem. On the cover it says "suitable for watercolor, goauche, ink, and acrylic"
I have to use micron pens on this paper. Ick. Cartiera Magnani, no thanks. I will use what I have and return to my beloved arches.
Check it out:

MCMLXXXIV

2008-04-14T19:44:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow is my birthday.

I was recently interviewed by Kristin of DTK, here.
Your birthday present to me is that you are going to read it! HA!

She has an incredible blog where she posts tons of great photos and information. I love to see what inspires her. I always feel honored to see my work there. I had the pleasure of meeting her several years ago, and I stay in touch with her. Now more than ever, in fact. We truly share the same loves and passions.

I really love her sense of style too, it absolutely comes through in every thing she does. Kristin is style.

I have always thought that 1984 was an awesome year. Here are some reasons why:

this guy has a heart attack on live television on my birthday!!!! creepy.
even stranger, on Rob's birthday in 1984 a factory robot crushes a real factory worker to death in what appears to be the first robot related death
Van Halen 1984, need I say more?
the nightstalker kills his first victim
Judas Priest releases Defenders of the Faith
for the first time ever some ladies walk around in space
the crack epidemic begins in LA and soon spreads across nation
Punky Brewster premiers
Ronald Reagen does all kinds of crazy shit
a haunted castle ride at Six Flags theme park burns down killing 8
the first Apple home computer goes on sale
Nightmare on Elm Street is released. Yes!
Michael Jackson badly burns scalp during Pepsi commercial shoot. Bummer.
Styx breaks up. YES! if you want to know why I hate Styx, I will tell you, but you have to ask.
Def Lepard guy loses his arm. Ouch. They suck hella bad.
Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force releases Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force.
Francoise Truffaut dies. This is so sad.
Cannibal Holocaust is released.
Madonna Like a Virgin. I liked her better when she was like a virgin, versus the old worn out attention hungry whore that she is now.
Queensryche releases the Warning. Someone should have given them some warning, the album after that one is bad. Oh so bad.
SKINNY PUPPY releases REMISSION!!! why didn't my parents play this next to my crib every night?
Okay, now you know 1984 was a tight year for music: The Smiths release their self-titled album, which is my favrite. They also released Hatful of Hollow.
the Scorpion's release Love at First Sting. The song "bad boys running wild" is so amazing. The song "rock you like a hurricane" is not.
Cinnamon toast crunch is introduced.
DOKKEN releases Tooth and Nail. RATT release OUT OF THE CELLAR. Incredible.

dead daughter in the river

2008-04-12T00:28:00.000-07:00

click on this dead bitch

eyes that hardly ever saw the sun

2008-04-10T17:40:00.000-07:00

SO, I am back from the great north by northwest.
Well, what the fuck?
I wish I was still up there!
Yeah, and don't give me that bit about the weather because I totally hate the sun and I always have.

Instead of being my normal cynical bad-natured self, I feel cool about being back.

I just can't wait to move up there. The hard work that Rob and I put in here will pay off.
I wonder how those adorable St. Ofles keep coming back from Paris! Paris probably kicks the shit out of Seattle and it just goes without saying that it's way better than Sacramento. I really liked Portland too, the people up North seem really chill and totally FRIENDLY! I cannot tell you how much it caught me off guard to have girls just come up and start talking to me. I met so many amazing people there.

There will mad picturage coming tonight.

Right now I am off to the tattoo parlor......

HAHA! just to watch.....just to watch....

you watched as it came tumbling down

2008-04-01T20:47:00.001-07:00

you watched as it came tumbling down
Originally uploaded by jessica m

Another lame illustration Friday.
I am out of town in 1, 2, 3!

I love Ministry, but only the album With Sympathy and the songs they wrote before it.

Amazing!

Goodbye California!

mystery bruise

2008-03-31T23:21:00.001-07:00

mystery bruise
Originally uploaded by jessica m

This was supposed to look like my lovely lady Kristin, but for some reason it didn't come out the way I envisioned. It doesn't matter because there is much Kristin inspired art coming in the future. I have so many of her photos saved it's ridiculous!

I actually got so much done this week, but packing and getting ready for my north by northwest adventure has had me kind of caught up.

I read this spooky story when I was really young about a girl who always wore a ribbon around her neck. One day someone pulled the ribbon from her neck and her head fell off and rolled across the floor.

If I still had my dear PSP, I would write blog entries while I was away, but someone broke it. Now I cannot look at porn in the coffeehouse and giggle. Now I cannot check the weather, unless I do it at home. I miss my PSP internet, movie, music, and game playin.

Supersecret: I enjoy GTA San Andreas. I should not even have time for that shit.

pour tuer et créer

2008-03-26T13:21:00.000-07:00

So, I cannot find my battery charger or my other set of batteries. I need both to use my camera again. I have large drawings to photograph, mystery notes to do, and we are leaving soon to go up north. I pretty much need to find these things NOW.

I recently had the pleasure of seeing my long lost best friend Lupe. She is amazing. I love her. I cannot wait to see her again. I am going with her to get her next tattoo, it's going to be gorgeous!

la fille avec toi

2008-03-22T18:34:00.001-07:00

I don't like easter. Sorry Jesus, furreal.

sizzurp

2008-03-20T20:10:00.000-07:00

What would I do without the hip-hop community? I mean it, I really do.

A while back my little sister had some codeine cough syrup. She hated it because it had the same taste and consistency of shampoo. Now, neither of us drink shampoo, it's just what I imagine it would taste like. I liked it because it didn't make my stomach hurt, like codeine pills do. I think it made Rob hallucinate once.

All this time I equated "purple drank" with the stuff at the stores that's purple sugar and doesn't cost as much as grape juice, I was so wrong. "Purple drank" is really codeine cough syrups, as well as a variety of other cough syrups and cough syrup cocktail concoctions. How did this escape my attention?

Purple Drank

I am sure that high school kids everywhere are trying their hardest to fake Bronchitis!

the heavy, heavy weight of an invisible anxiety

2008-03-17T19:50:00.001-07:00

the heavy, heavy weight of an invisible anxiety
Originally uploaded by jessica m

I never do anything for illustration Friday. I think it's dumb. If I do, it's all posthumous attribution.

I got illustration attitude via Flickr, for doing this. I guess I am supposed to create something new with the illustration Friday topic in mind. I can't attribute the topic to something I have already done. I can't break the rules, and there are oh so many rules. I have never been good with rules, organization, or tags. Tags.....are stupid. As if a title and description isn't enough, we need more vocabulary. Oh, and the image has to be relevant to the topic by their standards, not mine.

I guess illustrators and artists are two totally different breeds. If I can't get through the eighteen plus projects currently rolling around in my head and on my desk, how I am going to do a piece of work revolving around one word, in only a few days?

Maybe an illustrator can do that, maybe I could do that in illustrator? Maybe I'm not an illustrator, and all of these illustrations I have done are just drawings. I could care less.

The illustration Friday topics are always so fucking cheesy and G-rated! Garden, plain, heavy, leap, soar, stitch, blanket. Illustration Friday is a wet-dream for unambitious graphic designers and illustrators of mediocre children's books.

If they ever decided to have grown up topics I would participate more often. These are several topics that would make it much easier for me to participate:

death
whore house
overdose
blood
anxiety
euphoria
fear
methadone
adult
etiquette
opiate
despair
atrophy
sedation
holiday
depravation
transportation
apathy
sex
nakedness
regret
conspiracy
autoscopy
woman in trouble
degradation
obscenity
addiction
insatiable lust
intense greed
mania
appetite

I need to start my own subversive illustration Friday for grownup's with bad thoughts and horrible habits.

So, if you're reading this. I have used illustration Friday, broke the rules, and now I admit this is a meek attempt at luring people to my blog.

Let the hatin' begin, or the complete silence, perhaps.

their mouths full of wishes

2008-03-16T15:14:00.000-07:00

One of the advantages of being with someone for a long time, is that you can sense when they are going to do something totally goofy. You learn to just roll with it.

We had a fantastic weekend, and when you find yourself temporarily unemployed the weekend starts on Thursday.

So, Thursday Times of Desperation played at R5 on Thursday night. I finally got to meet Skinner's lady, and she is a delight!
I took several digital video clips of them playing, I was going upload one, but I decided I would let Rob do that here.

Yes, that is right Rob M. has a blog! In the above picture, he is the one with the beard! It's about music and his daily struggles with things that I barely understand. It's interesting and well-written, and I am not even saying that because I like him, or even because he likes me. The way his brain works is fascinating. He is a great photographer too, yes, Rob, you, upload, now.

So, I had two very close friends who had birthdays recently. They're family to me, in fact, they know this blog exists, whereas my real family does not (with the exception of my sister with the golden hair). I decided to do a painting for Lady C. for her birthday, and I did a drawing for Biaggio.

I didn't want to scan them, but I took a few pictures so I could look at them. I worked really hard on my art nouveau style smoke coming out of that joint. Hell yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's a joint. It's distorted because of the crappy lens on my exquisite camera. That's Playboy's Miss May 1955.

For the lady of the house, I painted one of her photos. How did she take a picture in outer space? It's her secret. It came out neat, with all kinds of textures and layers that won't show up in this photo, for sure. I am still going to do one more for her. It's a pretty big deal for me to do these for them, because I totally love them and I seem to be really bad at giving people art.
It only works if it isn't their idea for me to make it in the first place. No one in my family ever wants anything I draw, they always want me to draw something for them.

So, today I have a flier to finish before I get deep into some work I am doing for Kristin. I love Kristin because her loves are my loves, and we always seem to be on the same pages about how things ought to be done.
She has let me pillage her collection of photos and now I am so up to my neck in pure inspiration that the only way out is to draw until my hands fall off! I imagine that I will spend the rest of the day here:
You can't tell but there is a drafting table in the lower left corner. Don't you love my photographic slight of hand? It's not photoshop, my hand just covered up half the flash!

Oh, I finally finished watching Naked Lunch. It was wonderful. I watched almost all of it last week, but I was fucked up on Valium and couldn't remember whole parts of the movie!

Anyway, I strongly advocate the hat and suit approach to mens fashion. Come on, if you are a reasonably cool, creative, interesting, dude who just happens to be getting up there in age, what better way to separate yourself from aging bro's and men who dress like little boys, than to go all out in a suit and hat?

I am always on the block.

2008-03-13T17:11:00.001-07:00

hot blonde
Originally uploaded by jessica m

I did this a few days ago.

This is my first experience using a watercolor block, and I love it. I have a 6x9 Canson block, it's okay. I like the Arches better, even though I noticed that they're made by Canson.

Thursday

2008-03-11T19:14:00.001-07:00

THURSDAY night Times of Desperation are playing with Iguanadon at R5 on Broadway. It will surely slay. It is free. It is all ages.

It makes me hella happy to know that my real life friend Catherine occasionally peeks at my stuff. Including this blog. Hi Catherine! Yes, you.

Cathrn, this is for you. It's a Hustler pictorial.

Some of us don't know the value of the hustle. Not the dance, but the lifestyle. Sometimes you can't understand the value of hustling, because you were raised in a "middle-I mean upper-middle class family." Some of us know she may not be perfect, but she has perfected the art of female hustlin'. She's one of the wealthiest female entrepreneurs ever! She wrote a book, she invented a fashion line or five, she has a show!

Some of us that like hustlin', probably like weed too, and sometimes get arrested. Oops girl, no biggie. Cutest mugshot ever.
Some of us don't know the value of a hand-made, custom designed Louis Vuitton bag, or even a whole closet full. Though I would say, in the millions? Some of us don't know that Louis Vuitton's monogram first appeared in 1895. Girls who want to wear vintage Chanel probably don't know that LV brought back the logo at Audrey Hepburn's request in 1963. They probably only know about it because Marc Jacobs brought it back in 2001.

Just one of KLS' closets, how about the chandelier? You know you're classy when you have a chandelier in your closet, or your bathroom.

Speaking of Chanel: KLS' first modeling contract had her hustling the runway in Paris at age 14, exclusively under the direction of Karl Lagerfield for none other than Chanel!
Some of us might find it totally obnoxious that she uses herself as primary mode of promotion for her clothing lines. However, when you are a hustler and a super-model, what better way is there to represent your company? Maybe some people find this obnoxious because KLS has long legs and big titties. Not everyone is blessed with the ample femininity of KLS! Some of us have the figure of a four year old little boy.

So, she might not come off as particularly smart, but maybe that's part of her business plan. I mean, she has to have some sort of a business plan, look at her!

She is an inspiration to me, it might not come across in my art work, but you'll see it when the day comes that my bathroom has a chandelier, and you'll know that I'm a hustler (or that I went to Ikea, or both.)

feed your head

2008-03-10T19:45:00.001-07:00

Valium, once again!

Integrity is hella important. I think that is one of the biggest lessons I learned at the Art Institute del San Francisco.

For instance, I recently came across a painting of Mark Ryden's that I found quite upsetting. It was something I had already dreamt up, and he apparently beat me to the punch. His was exactly what I had envisioned. Am I going to do it now? No.

There is a difference between borrowing shapes, colors, and ideas and building on them, and then there is just straight stealing.

white skirt

2008-03-06T21:50:00.001-08:00

white skirt
Originally uploaded by jessica m

People on the internet respond really well to titties.

While drawing with the pen I sort of screwed up some fingers, if you haven't noticed yet, don't look.

So, I went shopping with my mom and the whole trip made me remember why I hate America.

First, we pull up to the same gas station we always go to, and there a very nice homeless veteran who always sits near the door. I was able to give him a few dollars today, but I have about twelve dollars and four cents to my name. This nasty bitchcuntwhore drives up and parks her HUGE American SUV about three feet right in front of him! Her head lights probably blinded the poor guy. I thought she might hit him, as if not having a home isn't enough. She gets out of her car and starts smoking and talking to an old worn out whore with one foot in the grave, in a GIGANTIC super American TRUCK which is totally blocking the exit of the gas station. My mom whose mouth is just as foul as mine rolls down her window and says "why don't you get the fuck out of the way selfish bitch" and we ride off into the sunset.

All of it made me realize that I hate you America. I hate people who get angry when I say that I hate America. I am an American, I have the freedom to hate whatever I want. SUCKAS!

Another reason: no veteran should be homeless for any reason, unless he wants to be. I am not in support of the military or the government at all, but I think if you sacrifice yourself for this country (though I don't know why you would), then you shouldn't ever have to be homeless.

Medical care, what really needs to be said. It's a tragedy, the richest country in the world, hella no health care. I am one of the uncovered and I must say, it sucks. My grandfather died of cancer in 1989, there were men from the secret service there on his death bed to make sure he wouldn't spill any secrets, this I remember well. He wanted to write a book, but the government said "NOno NONONO no" and never trusted him again. He almost died for them, and they were there when he died. It only took five months.

My mom had cancer, this is what brought me back to Sacramento. Are we trying to fix cancer, HELLLLLL NO! Capitalism is not conducive to good health. Chemotherapy and radiation are big money makers. We're not going to cure cancer, until we find a cure for insatiable greed.

Another thing, I just hate capitalism in general. It seems more prevalent and horrible than ever, especially in places like Natomas. Natomas disgusts me, yet delights me, because it could flood and I can imagine it. I really don't even like money, I feel happier broke. I've seen both sides, I've been well off and I've been dirt poor and let me tell you, poor is better for me.

So, I told my mom I wanted to move out of the country. To Switzerland or maybe Austria. If Austria is good enough for the family Von Trapp, than it's good enough for me.

my head as clear as a bell

2008-03-01T19:10:00.000-08:00

Art is truly the only thing I have ever cared about. As a child all I did was draw. I would draw beautiful women and decadent clothing. I would draw all day and all night. During class, during recess, on my homework.

My mom recently told me that if I ever became pregnant not to get an abortion, but to let her raise it. The baby would hate her and then hate me for giving it to her.

I find big hair to be absolutely necessary.

My weakness is Mexican food. I also have a weakness for a Mexican. Now I'm fat, but we're totally happy.

I procrastinate because I love working under pressure.

I drink alot of coffee.

I would hem David Lynch's pants if he wanted me to.

I can make clothes from patterns, I can make patterns from scratch, but I never do because I hate to sew.

My record collection is the only evidence that I have ever held a job.

I love really old Playboys, pre-Barbie Benton only.

I come from a long line of photographers and pilots.

My grandmothers and Rob's grandmother, rest in peace, are my idols.

I have recently reconnected with two lovely ladies that I've missed.

Physical fights keep breaking out around me when I leave my house.

Richard St. Ofle is my favorite artist in Sacramento.

I love horror movies.

I collect old handbags, shoes, dresses, jewelry and basically anything weird.

I hate southern California.

I'm Swedish. I still have family there, and I would like to meet them.

Rob calls old people "pre-corpses" and it totally makes me laugh.

I live in the hood and I love it.

I have a painting for a friend that needs finishing.

I'm setting 22 tables for the funeral feast

2008-02-28T14:41:00.001-08:00

I love pen and ink with gauche and pencil. It's the most fun.

Tomorrow night Rob is playing at the house on 22nd and S. It's gonna be acidcop so you know it's gonna be nasty. We were invited to get goth after that, and we just might. So, to the one or two people who might read this, 22nd and S, man!

Oh, then Times of Desperation is playing in Oakland Saturday night.

I feel like there is something else....

real talk

2008-02-27T18:29:00.000-08:00

I love fairy tale town. It's an odd place. Apparently you cannot go in without a child, which I understand, but I don't know a single kid! I come from a giant Swedish family, yet know one in my family has a kid! None of my friends have children, I don't even know anyone who is pregnant. In fact, I never want kids. My fairy tale town future is a bleak one.

I still took some pictures from outside, which I know made me look really, really, creepy.

I am working on some squares of my recent paintings. Yes!

multiple

2008-02-26T21:36:00.001-08:00

multiple
Originally uploaded by jessica m

I am using the for illustration friday. You know what I think of illustration friday? Nothing.

Je Hais Ma Vie

2008-02-26T20:12:00.001-08:00

This lovely over-powering floral design is from a scrap of old wallpaper. I don't really much care for the composition, I think the right side is too busy. i doesn't seem particularly

I got a look inside fairy tale town, oh how I wish I could take photos inside. You can't go inside without a child though. Lord knows there are no kids in my future, in fact, I don't even know anyone with a child. This lovely girl Amanda used to live with us when we were in high school and she is expecting, in fact her baby is due right around the time of my birthday. Her baby shower is this weekend, thank god baby showers don't involve babies.

I got some new stuff last night, more watercolors, white drawing ink, two tubes of white gauche, and a new watercolor block.

I recently scanned some new stuff, the scans look not so great.

your vice is a locked room and only I have the key

2008-02-24T16:47:00.000-08:00

I came across this lovely picture of Catherine Deneuve from the movie Repulsion by Roman Polanski. I read the synopsis and recalled that the movie is in my netflix queue! I am looking forward to watching it as I have only seen one Polanski film, "Knife in the Water", which was incredible and beautiful.

This will be a nice break from Fulci and the gialli we have been watching.

I like that on the criterion collection website they have a specific category for Technicolor. It's magical.

So, I read that Martin Campbell doing a Birds remake, which I find completely INSANE!!! I consider Alfred Hitchcock to be one of the only real American film makers. Other than Jim Van Bebber, naturally. I would like Quentin Tarantino if he was capable of making a movie that was his idea, instead of taking advantage of the fact that the average American has no knowledge of foreign cinema.

You wanna hear a joke, or read a joke, rather?

Guess who is playing Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren)?
Naomi Watts!

Mulholland Drive was the only decent shit she's ever done and that is because of a Mr. David Lynch, it had virtually nothing to do with her.

As for the motherfucker directing it, his previous work includes such gems as The Mask Of Zorro and Golden Eye, yeah, that's a Pierce Brosnan James Bond flick.

The reason that Alfred Hitchcock's movies are so well loved is because he knew about cameras, lenses, film, lighting, and he knew about visual style. He was a craftsman and an artist. This is why Francois Truffaut idolized him. This is why I idolize them both!

baby-sitter

2008-01-17T20:05:00.001-08:00

I have done a horrible job maintaining this blog!

I have been drawing and painting so much lately. I really love my moleskine watercolor book. It has sixty pages of pretty good paper, and it fits in my purse.

I've filled the pages of my sketchbooks, but haven't really done anything else. Now I am going to concentrate on working with the images that I like and doing larger, more involved versions.

The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola

2007-11-29T16:55:00.001-08:00

I was working on a series of little watercolor postcards and then I got really sick and all work was thrown aside. I did manage to scan a few of them. This is my favorite, so far.

Michelle

2007-10-30T22:57:00.001-07:00

I did this drawing of Michelle a while back. She has done so many vectors of me over the past few years and I love them all. I have more drawings coming of her soon. This one is pretty minimal, but it really looks like her and I like the expression.

see Michelle's vectors at www.shesagiant.com

jazz a go-go

2007-10-29T21:23:00.001-07:00

I am painting my nails, listening to music, watching television, and writing this blog entry. I feel like a teenager.

I'm listening to France Gall and watching a True Hollywood Story Investigates on fucked up crimes.

This paper came from a book my sister gave me. The book has lovely paper but it's so hard to draw on, it's really rough and tears easily. I was trying to use it as much as possible, but I recently bought two books of watercolor postcards and I have been painting on them. Hopefully I will get around to scanning those soon.

wedding paper doll

2007-10-15T19:31:00.001-07:00

wedding paper doll
Originally uploaded by jessica m

I made this for an Illustration Friday a few weeks ago. I forgot to scan it, but two weeks later, here it is. The topic was wedding. I thought that "wedding" was kind of a lame topic, but I like to be challenged, so I drew it anyway.

This is pen and ink with watercolor on Canson classic cream drawing paper. The scan isn't that great. In the actual drawing the watercolor on the dress looks so much better, there is alot more detail in the blood splatter. Her face looks kind of skewed, but she is a killer bride, so she needs to look maniacal.

I went to school for fashion design. I excelled in illustration and design, but I hated sewing. When I left the art institute, I felt that I needed to put fashion design behind me. I spent the last two years forcing myself to draw in styles that don't resemble fashion illustration, but then I realized that I love fashion. Growing up, all I did was draw beautiful ladies in pretty dresses. So, returning to that is really pleasant.