If anyone is in the Taos, Northern New Mexico area on Friday night September 21 then you should go to the

Fall Arts 2018 Opening reception. It is from 5-7pm. 

The exhibit continues daily from September 22-30 from 10am - 6pm.

We got these nice tri-folds from the president of the Fall Arts Organization.

A story for another time...Is that I got pressured by the President of the Fall Arts show and
my co-worker and boss to submit something for the show. I met him at my job when my co-worker made this really awesome pun and I just had to follow up with another joke after the fact. I did not finish the two pieces I originally planed to submit. I even mentioned one of my grievances to the President that every time I look at the event times for something it varies on different forms of media. He joked that I should be the one proof reading all the electronic media that goes out for Fall Arts. (If only they knew I've been running a blog for awhile and usually triple check what I write. Sometimes I don't catch my typos but will fix it by the next day after I post.)
Anyways the president personally told me the reception was until 7 but on the website it says 8pm.
I'm not too sure or can guarantee if it goes on till 8. Usually it does but I can't say for sure.





Also our Saturday morning portrait group will be doing a demonstration on the show floor this Sunday the 23rd from 10am-12pm. Which is shorter than usual since we take breaks every 20-25 minutes. I'm not too sure yet if I will attend this week's session. 



The one piece I did submit I originally wanted to submit to another show.
I missed the deadline this summer for the Tajmagundi Taos meets the Salmagundi New York art show in NYC. :,< It was an opportunity of a lifetime but this summer I had something terrible happen but also something extremely good happen to make up for it. Like finding another job with a cool schedule and that's close to my field as an artist.

Named Her Grey Daze

If you say it really fast it sounds like Gaze or Days instead of Daze. 

I believe the model's name was Jamie. For the first 

3 years of going to the group I remembered all of the model's 

names. It has been several years and I cannot recall

all of the people I have drawn.

As a kid and early teen one reason I was motivated to draw was because of Anime. Until the explosion of youtube back in 2006...It was something like video games I didn't have much access to at home, but at other people's houses.

Personally I don't draw in distinct anime style but once in awhile I'll sketch something anime-like just to poke fun.

One method I used all the time to gauge progress as a self taught artist would be redrawing something I've drawn before. Whether it being a single idea or concept of a particular drawing.

Sometimes improvement could be seen.
Either big leaps or small increments.

High school Junior                  compared to             College Freshman (Pre Art School)

                                                               
This was my sister's OC.



Art school Sophomore.
There was a credit cap I could transfer at my art school.
So I started as a few credits shy Freshman going into Sophomore year again.

Not the same character as the OC but based of a drawing I did as a 12 year old.
Man I loved those spikes.
I thought the spikes were awesome and edgy as an emo kid.
I'll have to find my original notebook again.  It is filled with redraws from the so called future.
All of the fill in entries were terrible.



Well, Hopefully this next month I'll find something embarrassing that I thought was extremely good and redraw it into something better and be embarrassed about that again in the future!