Enraptured

Wow, three entries in a period of 24 hours. Not too bad if I say so myself.
Here's my latest work. I named it "Enraptured", because as you can see the central figure of the image is being raptured away or at least that appears to be what is happening. Actually, the girl being engulfed in the green flames came from a collage I made a while agao. I was quite dissatisfied with it. In fact, that was the only collage I've tossed, yet, however I found the raptured girl to be too rad to toss, so I saved it and it is now on this collage. The girl came from the cover of an issue of Slug N Lettuce and the flame is composed of various green images out of a Home and Garden magazine. It is hard to tell in this image of the collage (my camera only takes blurry, grainy pictures and I don't have a scanner.), but in the upper right hand corner is a bunch of mischievous angels blocking out the sun and in the lower left hand corner is my favorite part of the collage:

This image is even more grainy, but what's going on is the pope, with a rad little devil hovering above him, is dragging (or maybe even eating) a dude that is severed in two, possibly by the pope himself. Blood is spilling everywhere and two doves are drowning in it. I think this should be the focal point of the collage, but the raptured girl is hogging the spotlight.

Little Collages

Here are some more collages I gave away on my fundraiser show a few weeks ago. I intended on posting them earlier, but didn't scan them until minutes before the show itself. These are smaller ones that I made quite a while ago, actually. I made them over stickers with the original intent of sticking then around town, but I found myself in need of more collages for the fundraiser, so I stuck them to some cardboard and put a mean coat of finish over them. The finish I used for them was Mod Podge glossy, which I have heard about, but had never used until then and I will say that I am quite impressed. That stuff can make anything look beautiful.

My First Art Show!

It's been a couple weeks since I last posted anything here. I'll try not to let that happen too much, so as not to let the blog stagnate. However, I do have a good reason for my absence and it is because I have been busy. "Busy with what?" you may ask. Well, I have been busy with many things, but in particular I have been getting ready for my first showing. That's right, a bunch of my collages are up on display for the internet free public to observe. They are up on display at a local restaurant called the Delta of Venus , which has always been supportive art and music in Davis. Along with my collages, there also collages by a couple artists from Santa Cruz, whose names I cannot remember, and another local collager named Pxl. They will be up for about a month, so if you are around Davis, California within the next month, I recommend you stop by the Delta and take a look and if you make it there in the morning, definitely order a breakfast there. I've found that the best cure for a hangover is vomiting, biking in the rain in a t-shirt and getting a Delta of Venus breakfast. It works everytime. We may also be hosting some sort of dance party near the end of the showing. I'll post more info on that, later, along with some pictures of the showing.
As for my portion of the showing, I have put seven of my collages up there (Infanticide, EXTERMINATIONTHRUPROCREATION, the Brutal Death art, CEREBRALCIRCUMCISIONINCISION, UC Daeefus, Do Cavemen Dream of Electric Sheep? and the Future is a Machine). With the exception of "the Future is a Machine" and the Brutal Death artwork, they are all for sale at negotiable prices. I put a lot of effort into mounting them in the most precarious fashions possible. I acquired various cutting boards, paintings, clipboards and planks, which I have painted over and glued my collages on top. Since the collages are themselves made precariously on the backs of cardboard boxes, getting oll of them to stay flat was a challenge, with any amount of glue. For the few that I couldn't get to stay flat, I utilized the help of a staplegun, so the collages are not all in mint form anymore, but I personally like the touch the staples add to them.