POSTerART

My friends, the Abby Birds, asked me to make a poster for their upcoming show hosted by 101X Homegrown this upcoming Wednesday at Club DeVille. This is what I came up with: ...

12x15" watercolor and acrylic on paper
completed April 27, 08

Meet the Parents

During Christmas break this past year, I went home to "meet the parents" of my room mate and friend, Melissa. We did all of the regular things: stay at her house, show me around her home town, antique shopping, dinner with the family on the River Walk, visiting of high school teachers...

Okay so bla bla, other than it amusing me that I stayed with her family for a few days, here is a watercolor I think I am finished with. It's a house close to Melissa's old high school that used to be a drug house until the police in that area buckled down on it. Now, the house is just old and falling apart, with No Trespassing signs, barbed wire etc.

grooming

Furniture can be found anywhere at any given time. Say for instance: the alley behind my house, random side streets and especially around the time people are moving out to go home for the summer. This past week I found several sweet items.

1) new dining room table
2) beautiful couch
3) end table with two matching dressers

Unfortunately these things are thrown away for a reason. The couch is a bit stale, so I rented a steam cleaner from HEB but it still smells a little. Good thing is now I know it is clean. The two matching dressers were great (Ethan Allen pieces) but I couldn't move them by myself and in the morning when I went to transfer them to my backyard, they were in the process of being loaded meticulously into some guys tiny hatchback. How they both fit, I will never understand. As for the table, it was fine. I just didn't like the color or the particle board showing on the top, so it's been painted.

Problem number two with picking up unwanted items: you have to either find a place to store them, or be willing to replace something already in your home... or have a garage sale and sell them for less money than you spent fixing it up.

... I think I am turning into my mom ...