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Into the fire

Well, the first of my clay work went into the kilns tonight. They should be done by Friday and I can see how well they turned out. If they survived. I plan on keeping a journal about the process and how things came out. I really love this. In only 2.5 days I made 8 pieces. 3 of them were made today alone. It is amazing to me that everything I have ever learned about art can be applied in clay. I would like to show these in galleries but I might also sell them at art festivals and craft fairs. I have heard that they have alternative craft festivals, which includes cool art and no duck-covered toilet paper dispensers. YAY! I hope to post some pics this weekend. Check back Sunday.

From the Earth

I hope to post some pics soon but lately I have been working in a class on clay. I am learning various ways to draw on clay. It is AMAZING and I have to give major thanks to Kevin Hughes my professor who is just a monster potter for letting me do this work and also to Rick Nickel for teaching me so much about clay before I could even take a class. I love it. I have been having more fun than I have in years. I can't even tell you. I hope to take some pics of work before and after firing in the kiln. Should be fun. Hope to have 30 or more pieces in the next couple of weeks. YAY 4 CLAY!

Work for sale.

Hey Everybody. Here is a link to a slideshow I made of the work at the Thinkspace and McCaig Wells Shows. The conflict piece is sold but contact the galleries if you would like to purchase them. Please, I got student loans doncha know.
http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x175/chrismostyn/?action=view¤t=1181876725.pbw

Dorks Interview

Zack and the fine folks at ourartsite.com are featuring yours truly along with the many fine artieests in the artdorks. They have images up right now and are asking viewers to go over there and post questions to be asked of the dorks in a future interview. Please take a little time and put on your inquisitors hat. Just dont ask for cash. Here's the link: http://ourartsite.com/ask.php

I also have some art still for sale at the Thinkspace show at http://www.thinkspacegallery.com/
Go to the link that says show online and scroll down. Get it now before I ship it off to Germany. I'm Big in Germany. Like David Hasselhoff.

Sweet and Sour

There is a real delicate balance to be juggled when making and image. It is easy to be all bitter or all sweet. Probably easier to be bitter considering the state of the world we live in. I have started to work in Holbein Acryla Gouache. (If you see this Holbein and would like to sponser me with free paint, email me.) I really love the vibrancy of colors and quickness that I can paint with them. I am saving my pennies to get a big boy set of them. You should buy some too, then send them to me. HEE.

Dork show went well in L.A. Many dorks sold work and there was a great crowd. Much Thanks to the guys at Thinkspace Gallery for hosting and promoting us. We love you.

PS. the colors are slightly off on my scanner so the background should be a dark bluish purple. Sorry.

A little love for my baby girl.

A little gouache done as an experiment with a new gouache at our local art shop and also for my baby girl Sarah.

Yummy Sweet

I just started a new sketchbook and I am exploring images absent of sarcasim. I have been thinking about how the whole ironic, anti-establishment art thing is getting a little old. I like it and all but just wish there was something else. Probably due to the fact that I am seeing a lot of things through the eyes of my daughter. I love all the shiny plastic colors in her toys at this age.

Happy Little Hole

Ok, so here is a picture of where I spend an awful lot of time perfecting my craft and my back pain, usually late at night. School is getting close to an end. I think we are the last district in the country to get out. Ugh. The last 3.5 days will be unbelievably hard to get through. Things haven't changed completely for kids. I hated waiting for summer break when I was in school.

Dork Invasion Coming Soon

Ok, so as you are no doubt aware, the Art Dorks are showing June 8th at the Thinkspace Gallery. Part of that show included an instalation of 12x12" panels where we all interpreted the Art Dorks 4 eyed logo by Brendan Danielson. So here is mine, ala Invasion of the Saucer Men, meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Some more work

Hello Everyone. This is the piece I am sending out to the McCaig Wells Show in NYC! The Dorks are Going to ROCK! Seriously, It is going to be an amazing show and If you can go I would highly recommend that you get your butts over there. I hope to post some more crap here later today.

Waitin for the weekend

This weekend, I am hoping to have a whole bunch of stuff to post. I have some new art, art in progress, some show announcements, a new artist link for a fantastic artist from my home town. End of the school year always takes forever to get here. Can't wait for summer. Check back on sunday for new stuff.

Some things are harder to title.

The subjects of images often don't present themselves right away. For me, I try to doodle with as little concious control as possible. I just doodle. Then, as I work on the final version of a piece, I find that it get's me thinking in certain ways about the image and what I am experiencing. This pic is called "It hit me like an act of God." I borrowed it from a song lyric in an Andrew Bird song. It got me thinking about the power of seemingly ordinary things can be. Stuff we consider benign or mundane. I didn't say trivial, just common. Things like love, a home, a child... Stuff we all know but maybe hadn't thought about much. Then I start to connect the "feelings" of a picture with my own experience at that time. I want viewers to be able to see their own things in the images but sometimes, I think, "man, that's too obvious." Obvious or not, it is what it is. Sorry the scan is not better.

Big Bad Beautiful Bugs. What's not to love.

Ok so I was out in the yard this past weekend when I found these beauties. The beetle flew right up on the patio and the centipede I dug up while planting flowers. Finished a new piece for the Thinkspace show. Gotta make something for NY. I dont feel real inspired right now. So I am gonna go.

New shows coming

OK. so as some of you may or may not know, the Art Dorks collective will be having shows in Brooklyn and LA in June. I hope you can make it out. Thwew will be some really great work there and fine people to meet. Here is the finished version of the stinky piece. I am closing in on the completion of a new piece about LOVE (sort of) and have been enjoying spring break with my daughter. She is pooping as we speak. YAY! I may wait to post all of the new work for the shows til after the opening so go if you can.

New work, sinus infection

The title sez it all. here's a new pic for the Thinkspace show in LA in June. If you are in the area, please check it out. I hope to have a couple other stinky pics with this one.

New shows

Well, there are 2 new dork shows coming up in June. I will be in both of them. We will be at the McCaig Wells Gallery in Brooklyn in my home state of NY. Represent. We also will be at the Thinkspace Gallery in Los Angeles CA. I will have three new pieces in L.A and 2 in N.Y. Go see them and all the other dorks if you are in town. The picture above is one I did for the Don;t Wake Daddy show in Hamburg Germany. I will post some more pics of sketches this weekend and the new drawings when I can.

Monsters Gotta Fight!

I'll be in the Fountain New York show February 22. pretty big deal apparently, directly across from the Armory show at Pier 94. Here are some pics of a piece I am sending to them. I have done a lot of doodles in my little sketchbook lately. I will be using them for material to do the graphite drawings from. I will be posting these soon along with finished art when I can. The Art Dorks have twin shows in LA and NY in June so I gots to gets busy YO!

And.....here we go again

Another fine year. We begin with the birth of a new baby. Sarah was born on the 4th in spite of our tax deduction hopes. She is awesome. She is strong as could be and just amazing. 2007 will be a great year I hope. There are several new Art Dork shows planned including stints in N.Y. and L.A. I am going to get Squat Thrust #2 out this month and I hope to make a butt load of new drawings for shows around the country. New Kid, Teaching, Husbanding, Artmaking, Parenting, Housemaintaining, and lots of new DVD's to watch. YAY!