through the owl eye lens

Not much happened this week that 

the owl eyes on the back of my phone wanted to capture. 

I've been working relentlessly on my landscape.

Many late nights this week ran into early mornings.

 1. The jose's working an a photo shoot 

 2. some cowboys on a taco break after the memorial day parade

3. a painting for my fantasia loving manager

through the owl eye lens

1. small field of yellow flowers top left

2. harpsichord inside club 33 top right

3. beautiful bronze elephant statue 2nd row left

4. warming up in the back seat 2nd row right

5. resting on the floor of the green room 3rd row left

6. a picture worthy of letting it speak for itself 3rd row right

7. Mountasia. I only thought it existed in commercials bottom left

8. sweet new boots bottom right

Silverlake Jubilee

This past Saturday

Killsonic played the Silverlake Jubilee

A festival put on by

 Los Angeles Arts and Athletics Alliance (LAAAA)

'twas a grand old time!

Here are some photos of us taken by

Say Cheese and Die,

and a promo video about the event

Under the bridge just before sunset

huge dancing crowd!

 Me (right) and a salsa master from last year (left)

 ImaginANDY BEN

 José

 Girl drummers :)

Mike. Conducting.

May Giveaway!!!

I finished this one fairly quick, so i can spend the rest of May 

working on my landscape. This giveaway will be open 

until the last day of May, and you will win 

a signed print of this painting.

To enter this giveaway

leave a comment with the answer 

to this question,

If you had a magical firefly

that could grant you wishes, 

what would you name it?

through the owl eye lens

 1. funny little blackbird with a red and yellow mutant feathers top left

2. ready to record! top right

3. favorite spot at The Hobby Shop left center

4. Oscar and Andy right center

5. reindeer drying in the sun. spotted on Sherman Way. bottom left

6. some flowers I added to the Landscape bottom right

The curiously strange world of Jeffery Kibbe

As soon as the recording session was finished,

We walked outside to find Highland Park in the midst 

of their monthly Art Crawl.

Erica, the other tom to my tom 

(together we make up the tom-toms in the drum section of Killsonic) 

Suggested we all go and check out this artist

named Jeffery Kibbe, who is a collector.

He only opens up his space once a month for the art crawl.

His exhibit was stunning (a bit creepy), but altogether amazing.

He had collections of puzzle pieces that he layered 

to make giant instillations that towered down from 

lofty ceilings. It made me feel like I was underwater. 

There were taxidermed creatures

 (once alive and fabricated),

Funhouse mirrors, surgical utensils, bottle caps, a giant

metal gyroscope, just anything you could imagine, and anything

your imagination could imagine. The best part of it was that 

he made things out of these found objects.

Like chairs, and lamps, and tables.

Everything was antique.

He had the most beautiful collection of old treasures.

Every month he features a new artist in the front room.

I'm kicking myself for not writing his name down...

Royce Hall and the Hobby Shop

This week has been a busy one, In terms of Killsonic.

Monday and Tuesday were rehearsal days.

Thursday we played outside, inside, and behind Royce Hall at UCLA.

Saturday we spent all day in Highland Park
recording "Caveman 7" and "Up against the wall" at The Hobby Shop.

Here is some of the craziness caught in stills and moving pictures.

Top photo by Esau Rosales

Arrival

Break for dinner

The end of the after party

Video by Eddie Ruvalcaba

Here are some shots from recording at The Hobby Shop. 
I'm sure José will work his magic on the 
edit of the video we shot throughout the day,
but until then, he took these pictures before the playing began.

through the owl eye lens

1. silly boys in girly colors top left

2. what happens when babies are left in my care top right

3. crazy theater kids  left center

4. my fab mother's day gift wrapping job right center

5. pretty pink-fringed lampshades bottom left

6. favorite magazine of all time. (been collecting since 2008)

 I'm only missing the first three issues. bottom right

Secondhand Haunts... mother's day edition

I made my mom silhouette paintings of me (left) and my brother (right)

She doesn't have any recent pictures of us

(the photos I referenced are as recent as just a few hours ago),

and I thought she would love the 

elementary school feel of the silhouettes.

I found the frame at Goodwill for a whopping $1.99 :)

and the paintings, of course, are priceless.

Sketches of May

I'm hoping to get most of the painting done this weekend.

Happy cinco de mayo everyone!!!

Landscape Peek (part 3)

The second layer of this ginormous painting is nearly finished.

I still have to go over the plants in the left hand corner 

and the water under the bridge.

This layer was difficult, but I learned quite a bit.

1. wait until the paint is completely dry 

before you start to paint over it.

2. I can finish a whole layer of paint on this landscape in 10 days.

3. It's kind of fun to stay up painting all night and go 

to estate sales at 8 am.

4. I'm a little obsessed with pink at the moment, 

I'm sure it this phase will pass.

5. If it doesn't feel right, DO NOT try and make it work.

I have to trust my instincts. 

I spent an entire night (over five hours)

trying to turn the candles into some type of flower.

The photo is a little ridiculous. I blame it on 

lack of sleep. I think I was somewhat delusional.

Heres a photo so you can laugh along with me.

You can check out peek one here

and peek two here 

I took the candles out because they no longer 

served any purpose, and just felt off.

Originally, the painting was going to go from morning (left)

to night (right). I chose to change my original concept

because It wasn't as dramatic as I originally envisioned. 

I've taken a few days off from painting, and drawn

out some concepts for May (of which I'll be sharing soon),

but now its back to work. I have to finish May

as soon as possible so I can get back to the landscape

and finish it by June so I can then take it to LC at Thinkspace.

I'm hoping I can do all this. May also happens 

to be a very busy moth for Killsonic.

Wish me luck!