Dutch Christmas
Hey! Sorry for not posting in ages, I've actually started on about five posts but never finished them. I just finished my first gallery show and posted it on my new Flickr account. We're going to have a PDF file with words underneath available on our Kickstarter at some point.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beckydreistadt/sets/72157622779312313/
I'm also getting another gallery show at an indie club that looks like a closet goth club. I think I want to just paint people in cool costumes with animals.
Also this is just one piece I did for a group gallery show at High Seas in Auckland New Zealand. They are doing this thing where they are selling paintings for 100 each around Christmas.
Speaking of crests I've been working on an off one for a New Zealand music festival, and as I was looking up crests for reference I came across some really terrible ones. Any crest with a beaver on it can not be good.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beckydreistadt/sets/72157622922765066/
Here are some recent commissions!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beckydreistadt/sets/72157622807174989/
Today Frank and I celebrated Dutch Christmas, neither of us are Dutch and I think this is the wrong day. But in elementary school, pre-Rawls Byrd we would make paper shoes and leave the class room and then when we got back we'd have candy and stuff in them. So Frank put some little things in my shoes this morning such as a pencil sharpener that looks like a carasol, a ceramic owl from a Chinese medicine store, a notebook with a wooden cover, owl earrings and hairclips. We also got art supplies and had pizza and watched movies.
One of the movies is a Scooby Doo one where they go to Japan, it is amazingly terrible, and contains horrible inadvertent racism. We're going to make a video of all the best clips, I can't really find the words to describe it.
We tried to watch Space Chimps but it made no sense and was just too ugly and the writing made us both want to die. For example the main monkey is a circus monkey he hates it and wants to go to space like his father. A woman comes to get him to being him to space, now going to space is lame, he likes being in the circus. Also you want to know why a lady comes to get him? The leader of NASA decides that all of the monkeys they have are nerds so he sees a poster of the main monkeys dad and says he wants that one, only his dad is dead so they go to the circus to get the other monkey.
Why the scientist sold the son of their celebrity space monkey to the circus I have no idea. I think the writers just REALLY wanted to do a movie that took place at the circus. Meanwhile on an alien planet a USA space ship lands and shows some video to an alien, he somehow finds out how to control the space ship that was meant to capture him so now he is dipping other aliens into liquid nitrogen cement. We stopped watching once the monkey love interest (a sassy individual but really isn't complete until she has a boyfriend) shows up. We should have rented Santa Buddies instead.
Now time to watch one of the good movies we rented!
P.S: This is our first proper day off in months!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beckydreistadt/sets/72157622779312313/
I'm also getting another gallery show at an indie club that looks like a closet goth club. I think I want to just paint people in cool costumes with animals.
Also this is just one piece I did for a group gallery show at High Seas in Auckland New Zealand. They are doing this thing where they are selling paintings for 100 each around Christmas.
Speaking of crests I've been working on an off one for a New Zealand music festival, and as I was looking up crests for reference I came across some really terrible ones. Any crest with a beaver on it can not be good.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beckydreistadt/sets/72157622922765066/
Here are some recent commissions!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beckydreistadt/sets/72157622807174989/
Today Frank and I celebrated Dutch Christmas, neither of us are Dutch and I think this is the wrong day. But in elementary school, pre-Rawls Byrd we would make paper shoes and leave the class room and then when we got back we'd have candy and stuff in them. So Frank put some little things in my shoes this morning such as a pencil sharpener that looks like a carasol, a ceramic owl from a Chinese medicine store, a notebook with a wooden cover, owl earrings and hairclips. We also got art supplies and had pizza and watched movies.
One of the movies is a Scooby Doo one where they go to Japan, it is amazingly terrible, and contains horrible inadvertent racism. We're going to make a video of all the best clips, I can't really find the words to describe it.
We tried to watch Space Chimps but it made no sense and was just too ugly and the writing made us both want to die. For example the main monkey is a circus monkey he hates it and wants to go to space like his father. A woman comes to get him to being him to space, now going to space is lame, he likes being in the circus. Also you want to know why a lady comes to get him? The leader of NASA decides that all of the monkeys they have are nerds so he sees a poster of the main monkeys dad and says he wants that one, only his dad is dead so they go to the circus to get the other monkey.
Why the scientist sold the son of their celebrity space monkey to the circus I have no idea. I think the writers just REALLY wanted to do a movie that took place at the circus. Meanwhile on an alien planet a USA space ship lands and shows some video to an alien, he somehow finds out how to control the space ship that was meant to capture him so now he is dipping other aliens into liquid nitrogen cement. We stopped watching once the monkey love interest (a sassy individual but really isn't complete until she has a boyfriend) shows up. We should have rented Santa Buddies instead.
Now time to watch one of the good movies we rented!
P.S: This is our first proper day off in months!