Bees take over the Studio

Not really, but both the Mincing Mockingbird and I were finishing up our pieces for The Bee Cause art show at Zinnia yesterday morning before taking them to the gallery in South Pasadena. The opening is Saturday, September 13 from 7 - 9 p.m. and we're planning on being there the entire time. So stop by The Funky Junque Gallery at 1040 Mission St. in South Pasadena and say hi.

Arbitrary Art Curiosity #6

I love this image. It's titled "Dreamer" and the artist is Erica Felicella. You can see more of her wonderful work here. I actually found her on the Blurb website which is where Mincing Mockingbird had his art book printed. Erica's is titled "The 'Shots' Project" and she took photos of people right after they drank a shot, which is a great idea.

Dog Proposes Marriage

Sigh....canine mating rituals.

A few months ago I got an email from Peter Schulberg, owner of Eco-Logical Art Gallery, saying that there was going to be a piece about the billboards we painted. It would be on "The G Word" on Planet Green, and since we didn't get that particular cable channel, I had to wait until I could find it on YouTube, because -- let's face it -- almost everything ends up on YouTube. So here is the piece. You can see me briefly painting and saying something about wondering how hard the vinyl would be to paint on.

Really intelligent.

Really.

And here's a photo of me in front of the billboard when it was over the gallery.


You can check one of the blog posts about the process here.

The Super Shipping Station!

The studio is coming along and the fabulous shipping center is shown above. The only other item we're waiting on to complete it is the postal scale that the Mincing Mockingbird has been harping on me to buy, which I finally broke down and ordered and will be arriving something this next week. It's probably ridiculous how much we've been losing in shipping costs because on larger packages we almost always underestimate how much it will be.

We also scored a couple of corner desks from the "AS IS" section of IKEA that we'll be installing this weekend. $160 desk tops for $50 each because of a few scratches and dings. What a bargain!

I'm totally copping out and going to put in a link to Mincing Mockingbird's awesome interview with our new shipping station. She's a bit tempermental but he got some info out of her.

Ahhhhhh Finally...a New Banner!

So, after months of putting it on my "To Do" list, along with backing up my computer and vacuuming behind my fridge, I finally designed a new banner to reflect both my etsy greeting cards, as well as my oil paintings.

I think I could actually see "The Frantic Meerkat" and "David" going out for a cosmo or chocolate martini and discussing my procrastination problem.

FREE STUFF!!

The Mincing Mockingbird is having a contest to kick off the publication of his new 80-page book, "It Is Folly To Assume My Awesome Lies Dormant". I berated him because it's not much of a challenge - you don't have to draw a picture of a bird, write a haiku about a bird or even tell him the story about when you were little and a blue jay attacked you on the way to school. All you have to do is send him an email and he'll randomly pick out a winner who receives a copy of his book and a $50 gift certificate.

He says he doesn't like to choose favorites out of his many fans.

Click here for details.