I played off and on again with Kristian Swearingen, here’s his new album. The third track is a cover of an HB telling song. I’m completely uninvolved on this project but it’s made by friends and I wanted to share 🙂
His Seattle band was called Electric Tape. In Alaska the project was a little different and called “Kelsa.” (I played drums for it.)
You can here new tracks from Paper Scissors here. I provided the album artwork for this. See any pareidolia? It’s uncommon for me to release digital art. I also played keyboards on these tracks. Do they sound different than previous paper scissors? We hired a string playerto make it epic and cinematic, there are synthesizers in the mix, and Bruna is added on vocals.
The May show lineup. I 💜 femme daggers “50s housewife” satire persona making music with an electric fan , a telephone and an ironing board. How ironic. One of her songs is about watching “wheel of fortune” with you. It’s so domestic and cute. The April show lineup. Atlas had a real powerful voice. Thy have one song on Spotify. Alexa Ro is on Instagram @alexa.ro.music
Osprey flies the nest is on spotify too!
The June show lineup. Hannah has several albums and is available on Spotify. When I hosted a show in January, I drew each artist on an individual page and gave them the drawingsZiree sun’s music is on Spotify and it’s beautiful! Cloud is a fantastic performer. Cloud Out Loud is what their name is on Spotify. They remind me a bit of Brett Dennen.Amiia Nectar is on Spotify too! Very sexy music 💜 she’s collaborated with me before but we didn’t make recordings yet. she reminds me of Biig Piig
I made this drawing months ago at their wow hall show in Eugene and I’ve been working on inking and coloring it.
This band always puts on a fun show and I highly recommend you catch them live sometime. I drew on a BIG piece of Bristol board and I was able to fit every musician in, but I wish I had taken more reference photos at the time.
Here’s a drawing of members of “mambo diabolico” they have Richard elfman the filmmaker on bongos. Their vocalist Lena Marie was channeling yma sumac as a tribute! Ego Plum also cocmposes music for SpongeBob and the cup head show.Here’s a drawing of the full band, I experimented with ink and just one color of water colors. I met all the horn players and they were friendly.The hukilau hotshots were a delightful band! So charming to hear their front person Natalie Mendoza say for nearly every song “I think this is my favorite song we play”Listen to them on Spotify.Creepxotica is a side band of a group called “the creepy creeps” listen to them on Spotify! Their songs are not long and jammy, but short and tight! The martini kings have played at the Oscar’s and the Grammys, their announcer boasted. Many songs were instrumental but gretje sang some songs including “fly me to the moon.”The tikiyaki orchestra play surf rock with jungle rhythms and vibraphones, fun silly samples pepper the music too. I went to this fest because my online friend Thea triffid, aka ghoulish gal posted that she would be there. I got to see her play in a band, above and a solo theremin setI animated a little gif of her hand moving. That’s vibrato!Click here to see this drawing animated with music added She wore a few different costumes, so I drew her several times! There was burlesque, djs and gogo dancers too!
I had such a fun time and I learned a lot from the symposiums/ seminars. I’d love to go again if they have the event again, I actually made several more drawings but I haven’t finished them yet. So there may be a “part 2” to this post!
I was able to make two drawings during their 2 hour set. They play traditional Balkan music.
Black Magdalene play organic dark wave, music to belly dance to.
I took photos of the show and made drawings at home based on them. I was fun to add the lace effect in the background. Their music is on Spotify!
Banter Waves play guitar based jazz, sometimes jammy covers of pop songs. It’s very chill and the drummer hits trashed cymbals and boxes with springs mounted on them.Math Fourth play exciting zany marching band circus music with rock and funk! They put on a wild party every time! their music is on Spotify and all the streaming sites, and their music has appeared in films! This was their show at the wow hall.
Do you recognize Christopher Lee? I finished this book so I could read it at Oregon Country Fair in 2022. I was really scrambling to get this done, literally working on it in between classes, rushing over to draw and color as soon as my students would leave for lunch. It was fun to share the stage with poets at Chez Rays stage at OCF and so touching to hear their words. Grace, Sage, Marcus, and Jorah are inspiring. Here I am doing comedy at Spectrum in between drag queens for Drag Brunch! It’s always fun performing there. One sweet mother and daughter team wanted to give me a tip!
the poem is “a rumination on death” and the audio version of it can be heard here. I played guitar and did production, but my good friend Craig Brookes played bass and added drums and helped with production. It also has good friends contributing to the background noises and shouting parts.
Lots of other poems and comics and art by students and adults. I feel so grateful blessed thank you Bree!
Surf’s Up season 9 episode 2Just the cloudsPainting in some dark wAterAdded the rocks with a palate knife and the white fluffy foam on top of the waves, you can almost hear it!
As an artist we go through phases where we might condemn some art as being tacky, commercial, vapid, and then we may come around eventually to enjoying it. That’s how I was for Bob Ross’ work and so today, at the age of 39 I painted my first Bob Ross style painting. I have seen children paint beautiful pieces following along with bob ross. He’s so gentle and funny in a subtle way. I can really see how he became so popular, it isn’t just the art: it’s the cute things bob says as he paints that make the show watchable.
“Island in the wilderness” season 29 episode 1
I was gifted a set of leather Acrylic paint and a set of bob ross brushes for Christmas so I’m trying them both out for the first time here. Bob Ross paints with oils, but that requires you to use paint thinner, and I already have MANY tubes of Acrylic paint.
The major difference is oil paint dries much slower, so when bob said paint on the pink in the sky, then the blue, and then put a touch of paint thinner on your brush and blend them, my paint had already dried so I couldn’t blend them anymore.
Also he said to scratch the paint away with a knife sometimes and I couldn’t do that either. My bob ross brush set even said on the packaging “for use with oils only: do NOT use acrylic paint with this brush.”
I thought it would be fun to use an airbrush to do the sky. Maybe I’ll try that with my next project, get some lovely gradient blending that wayThe fan brush was used to paint these vertical background trees. In mine they look like they have been hit with a forest fire that has burned of their branches.Next I painted in the water reflection and some foreground treesNot bad… but I left some pink in the background above the mountains and I thought the tree on the far left had too much light tone in its trunk, so I tidied that up and put some more in the water: too much contrast between the green reflection and the sky blue water Leaving a bit of white in the background makes some interesting mist . The sky looks more orange here on the phone than it does irl.
So there you have it. A bob Ross style improvised landscape. No matter what your art style is, if you’re going to draw figures or dragons , it would be nice for them occasionally be in landscapes. Even if your art is usually abstract, it can be rewarding and fun to follow along a guide as they do things step by step. After following along 4 or 5 of these, many people could “improvise” their own. It could be fun to Follow the directions but use all “wrong” colors. Or to have students film their own “how to paint” guides.
Perhaps the first appearance of a “holodeck” or “danger room” in a work of science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote “The Veldt” in 1950, it originally appeared as “The World the Children Made” in the September 23, 1950 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. He included it in his book: “the illustrated man.” I got to see it once as a stage play at the University Of Alaska Fairbanks Theater Dept. I’ve always loved this story, and with the help of some talented friends, I put it together based on the episode of “x Minus 1” #holodeck #dangerroom #thenursery #scifiradio #raybradbury #greatestsciencefictionwriter
Featured in the cast:
Jonathan Miller as George
Ariel Hicks as Lydia
Nicholas Price as Dr. David McLean
Narrated by Andrew J Laniohan.
Eli May Salerno as Peter
Cora Paris Hanson as Wendy
Sound effects and music by Isaac Paris
Some sounds came from YouTube, or I made them. Others from freesound.org or the Apple GarageBand library. Song at the end “Pauline” by Isaac Paris.
SPOILER ALERT
There were a few different versions, some of which imply the parents really do DIE. I referenced the original, mostly stuck to the x minus one episode, but I did edit a few lines, and allowed my actors to improvise a little.
If you’d like to read it, its FREE online here Do you think the story is stronger if the parents actually are eaten by holographic lions?
Isaac and the Awkward Situations 