This is a painting I finished over the arts festival weekend. It’s a redo of a previous painting, which didn’t turn out quite how I envisioned. This is the first painting I have ever “redone”. Each idea generally gets one shot, and if it doesn’t come out right, I lose interest.
Reworking this one paid off, though: this is my new favorite painting. It’s part of the series of animal/human hybrids which, at least in my mind, confront the unnatural lives that humans lead today. Also, he looks like an emo Japanese demon. I dig it.
“His Natural Habitat 2″
You can also find him for sale on Etsy.
from Cat Rocketship
Scott and I are going to start working on some pieces together. This is very exciting news: Scott has the best ideas, and has been a great guide. Our first piece will involve a series of paintings on The Golem.
In other news, we are three days into engagement and gearing up on the wedding planning. My current biggest concern is where my name will go. My real last name is boring, Scott’s last name is great, but sounds too punctuated with my name, and Rocketship is awesome, but I fear that I won’t be happy with the decision to legally name myself ridiculously twenty years from now. Plus, part of me wants the symbolism of sharing a name.
Perhaps I will hyphenate.
from Cat Rocketship
Despite being 24, Cat and I both receive our own copy of the LEGO catalog at our current address meaning, yes, we have both ordered something from LEGO recently. They debuted a new series in this one called “Agents” which appears to be a mash-up of James Bond plots and characters with Spy Kids style crappy gimmicks. I was pretty amused to find this set, however, which features “laser-guided cyborg sharks!” They are minions of “Break Jaw”, an orange jump suited knock off of Bond-villain Jaws. Now you can finally finish that custom Austin Powers set you’ve been building in your basement for years.
If for some reason you legitimately want to purchase this travesty of a set, “Mission 4: Speedboat Rescue” is $39.99 and can be found on page 4 of your LEGO catalog.
from Scott Rocketship
The Des Moines Arts Festival was a Funtime Big Success. Make sure to head over to my Etsy shop if you want to see what’s available. Lots of paintings found good homes, but there are still plenty available. As always, I do commissioned works if you like the style but don’t see the particular subject you want.
Scott and I started out art collection today, so now the art of others can hang on our walls (instead of mine). We traded two of my paintings for two amazing photos from other Emerging Iowa Artists.
Paintings that were purchased and/or traded:
Siamese Cat
House for Pretendees
Beast of Luck: Legless Cicada Can Never Land
I Love You Bean
Everything in the Right Place
Red Lady
Plus a bunch of little dudes that I don’t have photos of. Oops!