Fresh Paint!

That's Steve Nowicki of Shock-n-Awe, working hard (at sassing me) at Fresh Paint, the festival of artists at work.

This is the first year I've gone to Fresh Paint by myself. (Look, ma -- no little people dashing away into the crowd, on a mission to seek and destroy someone's art!)

But I did find an artist who brought one of her kids.

Melana Bontrager was kind enough to allow me these pictures of her son Culver (age 8) as they worked. Note to self: eight-year-old artists can keep themselves sufficiently occupied with their own art to hang with mom at an art show. I can see myself and The Boy perhaps doing something similar, but I don't think this would really work for TwoBoo. Fire is more his style.

I didn't stay long, but here are a few more booths I found interesting (thanks for the photos, Latitude Studios and Jennifer Lommers). Enjoy!

 

 

Coming in September...

I have just enough time for a quick bit of news, and a work-in-progress update:

Got the body and dress the way I want them for my current project (more later). Also... [trumpet sounds announcement] my artwork will soon be making its Seattle debut!

"The Plumber's Jealousy" and "Our Lady of Georgetown" have been accepted into the Fraker/Scott Gallery's September show, ICON. Again, more later... gotta run!

Getting it STart-ed

I've enjoyed the temporary wall art some construction sites are now putting up to amuse passersby...

 

but a public art program at the bus and train stops is rockin' the temporary art hard, I'm tellin' you. STart (Sound Transit Art)'s Red Wall project curates an "art lab" that surrounds the light-rail construction in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Some of my favorites as I walked around the site:

That one above is part of an experimental animation project. (With a couple of nods to "Northern Exposure.")

The pointilist portrait above was created with tons of these:

You do have to back up to see the portrait, but I wouldn't advise backing up all the way out into the street.

STart also has a Flickr album for the Red Wall project, as well as its other public art projects. Any cool temporary art projects in your neck of the woods? Tell me tell me tell me.