My Artist Bucket List

 A friend asked me about my bucket list yesterday and it led me to thinking about my artist bucket list.  I'm a fickle human being that wants to experience a little bit of everything and I have no limits when it comes to art. I would do more extravagant pieces if my financial situation would let me. haha
However, I will work with what I have and here's a small list of future projects I want to sink my guacamalan teeth into. I want to masticate the hell out of it.


ARTIST BUCKET LIST:

• A proper website that I can attach this blog to and have more organized body of work on display. 
• I want to start an online comic called "Retail" and start illustrating the relationship I've had with retail the past 7ish years.
• Start various collaborations with other disciplines ie. writers, musicians and other artists. I did collaborate with my friend Dave Colon for the 3rd issue his zine - STRETCH. I worked on the cover art.

A magazine full of awesome fiction and poetry.
You can send your submission to STRETCHTHEMAGAZINE@GMAIL.COM

• Illustrate for publication and take courses on illustration. 
• Open an online shop where I can sell plush robots, monsters and prints.
• Continue to apply to different art shows and residencies. Anything that will help me become a well rounded artist. 
• I'm still debating on this - go back to graduate school to get my M.A. in Fine Arts. I'm not sure how well going back to school would serve me. 

For now I will continue to work on painting and work on my bucket list as I go along. I've gotten a second wind and I'm feeling inspired to do everything. Overwhelming in a great way. And it started with just one conversation. 

Frustration leads to your ultimate path...right?

I am frustrated with this painting right now.

So what do I when I get frustrated? I grab my tube of Naphthol Crimson and just go apeshit all over the painting. My process has never been easy and I can't just bust out a painting I will be pleased with in two hot seconds. I have tried and I always go back to it and make more changes. I am my worst critic.
I know one thing. I am tired of painting about my past lovers. I get it. It didn't work out and I've used up all the material I need for artistic inspiration. A NEW MUSE! Hmmm....SEND ME SOME INSPIRATION UNIVERSE.
There is too much "I" in this post. Maybe I should change it and refer to myself in the third person.

Z paints and she works at a grocery store. She walks to work every day in her black hoodie and robot backpack. She is pleasantly serenaded by the likes of Charlie Winston,  Band of Horses, The Beatles and Adele via a pair of cheap headphones. Z views bagging as game of tetris and wins 9 out of 10 times. She is surrounded by the awesomeness that are her friends and the melodramatic sensations of her family.
Inspiration has to be in there somewhere. haha

2 Beasts not 3

Here are the finished pieces I submitted to the Beast show. I will hear back in 3 days whether my submission was accepted or not.

I named this one " You're my Best Friend" because of the vicious attachment an ex boyfriend has to alcohol. When I was thinking of beasts this person definitely came to mind. He couldn't control himself or the actions he committed during said inebriation. So I always thought he had a tiny monster telling him what to do or say. 

This one's name is Floyd. haha It's actually a very grotesque portrait of one of my friends. He's a wild man and not really a beast in the same sense as the previous painting. 

Work in progress. I still need to work a lot on this piece. I did not have enough time to submit three pieces. This one will go in different direction for now. I will post the finished piece when it's done. 

This painting and I have two other paintings to work on. 

I will continue to work on more paintings until I have a huge body of work I'll be satisfied with. 

I have to WORK to get to my dream. 

3 BEASTS

The deadline is tomorrow and I decided 3 days ago to enter this art show. The theme is BEAST. It can mean a lot of things - a sub non-human creature that feasts on the hopes and dreams of mortals. It's just one thought when I think of beasts. I watch too many horror films. My direction is to use the beast as a vicious companion to humans. We can do so much better without these little beasts that inhabit us sometimes. I am one to talk. oy!