surviving the heat

I have an extremely hectic weekend ahead of me.

Saturday marks the start of a series of 

4 contracted performances at the Watts towers with Killsonic.

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On Sunday, right after the Killsonic performance

Bryan, José and I (dulce de leche)

photo by esau rosales

will be on our way to the Ace hotel in Palm Springs

Where we're going to perform alongside our

friends Sister Rogers for tom tom magazine's release party.

It should be quite magical.

Cheers to hoping we survive the heat!

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.:and have a great 4th of July weekend:.

Thinkspace

Yesterday I went to Thinkspace.

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LC (one of the gallery owners) reviews portfolios 

three thursdays a month. I went for the first time 14 months ago

when the gallery was still located in Silverlake.

LC told me that my backgrounds were secondary to my characters,

 meaning I didn't put as much time and effort into what was 

going on behind my characters. Which was completely

true and not something I'd really thought about.

So as a "homework" assignment he asked me to do a 

large landscape painting and bring it back to him when I was finished.

(he also put one of my paintings in a cannibal flower show!!)

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The landscape took quite a while. 

I had other shows I was apart of and band stuff,

and I didn't really buckle down until a few months ago.

I finally finished the landscape in between my monthly paintings

and was ready to go back to Thinkspace.

The Gallery's new location is in Culver City.

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After sitting in traffic for 45 minutes in 90 degree weather

We finally arrived at the gallery with most of the art I've created 

since the last time I saw him. He wasn't there. He wasn't there!!

I guess they changed the walk-in days to fridays...

(cough) their website the day still says Thursday.

I was my fault for not calling. a stupid mistake. oh well.

Now I'm going to have to wait until July 22nd.

This time I'll make sure and call ahead :)

lesson learned.

and the winner is...

congrats José!

You will receive your prize on tuesday.

This is a photo of the final painting.

José de Lara is my co-worker. We've worked together

for years. When I first started doing giveaways on my blog

I always encouraged him to enter. He's been a huge supporter of my 

artwork as long as I've known him. I'm so glad he was the lucky winner.

La vie en rose

tonight, Dulce de Leche 

will be playing a free show at Taix (a french restaurant)

In Echo Park. The show starts at 1030 pm. 

I made this flyer in 20 minutes in photoshop.

After I closed the psd file (and didn't save it)

I realized the top two band names were really hard to see.

It says Sister Rogers and Dulce de Leche.

In just a little while I'm off to Culver City to see L.C. at Thinkspace.

eek! I'm kind of nervous  -_-

I also finished my June painting yesterday morning.

I'll post a photo along with the giveaway winner on Friday.

Progress shot

Thursday night/Friday morning

I finished the first layer of my June painting.

I took friday night off to allow the oil paint to dry 

and for some much needed rest (for my brain and my wrist).

June Giveaway!!!

The winner of this giveaway will 

win a print of this painting (note: this is only a sketch)

I'll post progress shots of the painting soon.

I just finished the sketch last night,

and I plan to start painting the piece tonight.

To enter this giveaway,

leave a comment below with your answer to this question,

If you could run away to the Circus,

Which act would you be apart of?

This giveaway will be open until the last day of June.

You have 9 days. Including today.

Good luck!

Landscape and other news

After over twenty hours of work,

ladies and gentlemen,

without further adieu,

I present to you 

my landscape.

This painting in particular was quite a feat.

I found that it's difficult to jump back into a painting 

 after a year without progress.

I'm just in a different place I was when I began to paint it. 

When I started painting this piece, 

I was still fairly new to painting with oil and I had a very old

collection of cheap brushes. 

Overall, I like how It turned out. Of course there are still things I 

would like to fix, but I have to move on.

In other news, I had strep throat for an entire week.

Which means I'm seven days behind on my June painting and

I'm going to have to bust my butt for the remainder of the month.

I will put up the entry post for my June giveaway 

later this week and might extend the giveaway 

into the first week of July. we'll see...

also,

I'm going to be in a juried art show 

put on by the National Arts Program

at the Superior Court of California

thanks to my wonderful step-monster Michele ;)

 I entered these two in the contest.

I will be attending the ceremony on July 22nd at 12 pm.

The exhibit will be up from July 1st until August.

first prize is $300.00

wish me luck!