I wrote this for one of my painting classes: Colony Collapse Disorder, which is currently plaguing honeybee colonies in the U.S. and Europe, is a phenomenon in which entire colonies of bees simply vanish without a trace. We don’t completely understand why it is occurring, though there are several theories. We rely on bees, non-native…

I have lots of papers due this week so instead of working on them I am making lots of tiny drawings for the Post-Postcard show at the Lab in November. Cuz that’s just how I roll.

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On the way to Cole hardware today, we walked by a lemonade stand on Cole between Belvedere and Carl. The stand was run by three little girls around the age of eight. On the way back I stopped and got us a couple lemonades. “Would you like to hear about our cause?” “Sure!” I said.…

This is the start of a pretty big coiled piece that I want to finish for my senior show in april. I’ll be working on this whenever we watch movies at home. Never an idle moment around here.

Matt Saunders CCA Artist Lecture September 27th, 2007 Matt Saunders is obsessed with film. He is interested in the immortalization of a person through the medium of film. He uses a lot of Mylar and silver paint in his work. Both materials reference the physical properties of film. His work seems to get as close…

My teacher completely slammed yesterday’s bright happy painting. I expected him to. He had such a strong reaction to it that he couldn’t look at it. Then he tried to like this one. He said nice things. Really nice things. Can’t say its not exciting around here.

Kerry James Marshall SFAI Lecture Series September 26, 2007 7:30 p.m. I attended a lecture tonight at the San Francisco Art Institute. Tonight’s speaker was Kerry James Marshall. Here’s a brief paper on the talk. Kerry James Marshall is an incredibly charming and powerful speaker. I walked out of that lecture feeling more confident about…

Of trying something new.

The woman who cut me off in the parking lot is keeping me from the orecchiette. I stomp my feet a little; a firm yet subtle queue to get the hell out of my way. An old woman baffled, viagra blocks the aisle with her cart. A line of eight angry shoppers scowl with impatience…

First pass at a batik inspired painting. Its got bes in it!

I was feeling worn out and uninspired so I looked for a new artist in the library. I found beatriz milhazes and was inspired to start this painting. Now to start a batik inspired painting.

This marvelous little creature was discovered and procured from a little shop somewhere between here and rio vista last weekend. It’s he wonderful? He cracks nuts in his mouth when you move his tail. Looks like there’s going to be a lot more nut eating around here. When I was a kid, I loved cracking…

I’ve been having fun with 4×6 paintings.

Now that I have total freedom to paint over my paintings as much as I want, while simultaneously getting constant feedback from a variety of sources, I can’t seem to stop messing around. Who knows if I’ll ever get to any conclusions. The journey is fun enough that I don’t care so much.