Recently I've been trying to figure out how to integrate all the eclectic things i like to do and make. At the gallery last week someone noticed, i dunno, something artsy about me, it happens, and we struck up a conversation; it sort of boiled down to "Oh, you're an artist? What do you DO?"

Oh, hell. I feel like such a cheesewad saying I "Do Everything".

I've always been this way, and not for lack of attention span; it's just tough to pick one direction and not wonder what else i could do with it. The short list? I draw stuff with sharpie markers. I make jewelry out of kitschy vintage stuff, and i make jewelry out of gorgeous silver and stone stuff. I paint and I make beads, I do mosaics with bits of smashed up broken glass, and sometimes I'm a photographer, too. I guess I'm a crafty go-getter, and I'm even a little cocksure around the fact that if you give me enough time and a decent guidebook, i can turn my hand to just about anything. However, there are not enough hours in the goddamn day and it is frustrating.

Like, i could take my drawings, right? And make them really teeny and put them on my handpainted paper beads. And then string those together with all the other baubles I've got.

Or a mosaic! I saw this thing where you can take smashed & crackled clear glass and embed images under it, and i could stick my drawings under there and.... baubles, yeah.

Or, or, or..... I could stick my pictures on a canvas and draw crazy ladies wearing the jewelry I designed, and paint all around it. Not as baubly, but still.

And it goes around and around and around. Maybe someday i will have time to learn to make soap, and  become a volcano scientist, learn to fix cars, and remember to make dinner on time. Until then, this is what i did today:

Hey, look. Some of my drawings on little pendants! I hand-drew each of these, wooo art.

Aaaand now i have to go stand around in the gallery (and not be in my studio making stuff, sigh) while I stare at the floor for a few hours. Buh.

Huzzah! the last illustration for the Good Luck / Bad Luck show at the ellO gallery.

Click here to see the larger version. Incidentally, I met Matty two years ago on the 66 bus; however, he wasn't wearing a bird on his shirt and my bike hadn't been stolen. But still, it's kinda funny how we make our own luck, isn't it?

My new obsession: HONKBARN. The sad/funny thing is, the sounds the little characters make remind me of myself, especially when I'm riding around in the car with my best pal, Kerri. You don't want to be stuck in traffic with us.

Schnerkit.

I'm kind of obsessed with the guy at 1:05 who floats sideways and goes "Wyyawwwgh wyauugh nyauugh nyaugh".  I do that in the car, too!

There he is, in the middle. And i downloaded one of the songs to my phone, so now it's my ringtone. hehe.

Aaaanyhoo. Todd Ramsay & co. have a website at Honkbarn.com, and on his blog you can see some of the behind-the-scenes of his artwork & animation. I love his illustrations!

And the backgrounds for the animations are pretty sweet, too! Check out how he scribbles & paints over old patterns, leaving some parts peeking through.

Now I'm feeling all silly and inspired .... time to get out the sharpie markers : )

A different twist on an old superstition. The original is about 5x14" and is gonna be a bitch to frame. Oh well : )

I divided it up so you guys can see it a little better:

The whole time I was drawing this, I had "Mean Mr. Mustard" stuck in my head. (Keeps a ten-bob note up his nose, hehehe.)