2nd Half-2015

Greco-Roman Cat Statue. July 11th, 2015.

 

Collector’s HotWheels. July 11th, 2015.

 

Three-way Art. July 13th, 2015.

Art by Mabelle, Alicia, and Egon Shiele, in that order.

 

My Harley-Davidson T-Shirt from Old Orchard Beach, Maine, 1994 (age 14). July 14th, 2015.

 

My “Flame“ hair…triple mirror effects. July 15th, 2015.

 

Art by Mikhail Caspar, our resident Russian “vampire”, with his BFA from Russian art school. These are on big big canvases, about 4 by 6 feet. July 18th, 2015.

 

The story behind this photo, ‘Cuba Libre’ – peace out, lol. July 19th, 2015.

 

Sunrise Art by Francis Malboeuf. July 20th 2015.

Beautiful sunrise pics with colors on Lake St-Clair in Michigan. Plus enjoy his 4th of July fireworks montage!

 

Malboeuf’s Storms. July 21st, 2015.

 

A rose? No, a sunday. July 24th, 2015.

 

Birthday shopping and gifts. July 24th, 2015.

 

Tropical Fish by Nico Madres, I really like them. July 26th, 2015.

 

Handmade Birthday Art. August 1st, 2015.

Cards, and a book, from my guy friends, to me, for my birthday

 

FUDGE!!!! August 1st, 2015.

 

My sister Stephanie’s birthday gifts. August 2nd, 2015.

 

Beautiful beach self-portrait by my friend Nathalie Lagden. She also was the artist that made my logo (rough pencil sketch) into a (cleaned up computer file) graphic design. August 3rd, 2015.

 

 

Alicia’s agenda art page from 2010. August 5th, 2015.

 

Color pencil drawing (by me) from 2005. This is one of my favorites. Craft birds and a snowflake from a Christmas card. August 6th, 2015.

 

Master Weaving by Alicia. August 7th, 2015.

The beautiful “friendship bracelets” I wove, some of these are made with up to 16 strings!

 

Tiffany’s antique silver money clip. August 7th, 2015.

“I left you a couple fins, honey, get something nice for when I get home.”

 

Our Roses. August 7th, 2015.

 

Pastel drawing by Nico Madres. August 11th, 2015.

 

Pristine and Coradora. August 11th, 2015.

 

UPDATE, August 18th 2015: “Got OUTLINE?”

Posted on the 2nd half-2015 page, this was an inside tip about a highschool course that I wrote the outline for, that should be mandatory in the US and Canada. The course is called ‘Money Management for Life’, and would teach people how to handle their finances and live within their means. In my opinion, a course like this would clear out a lot of debt problems, by teaching life skills that people do not know, right at the age when teens need to start being responsible for their money. Right now the Outline is several pages handwritten in my notebooks; notebooks where I was teaching my friends other things they missed in school.

More to come soon about this course.

UPDATE, September 1st 2015: I’ve even got a page for kids

 

UPDATE: August 19th, 2015.

Both Spider-Man volumes completed with all components. I forgot to post this news a long time ago.

 

ALICIA, Summer Art 2015. (On august 21st 2015.)

 

ALICIA, Summer Art 2015. (On august 24th 2015.)

At the park again…its rainy

Do you guys like my natural hair? Its grown out a lot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A visit to Lamborghini Kirkland. August 3rd, 2015.

I went to have the performance parts on my car serviced, and took some pictures while I was there to make good use of my waiting time. The dealership is beautiful, and the cars are very impressive!

 

Murano Glass Pendant Pieces, September 7th, 2015.

Murano is an isle off of Venice, Italy, where the local craft tradition is glass art.

The story behind these pieces is that a boy had ran away from home. He found himself lost on Murano, and was the only person on the small island. He found the glass-blowing workshop, and invented a new art, his beautiful pendants. He finally left the island, because a boat came, and wandered around Italy. My father met him in Milan, and bought me the tree pendant, and helped him get into an orphanage. That was many years ago. I caught up with Mr. Angel Italia recently, as I call him, and we are collaborating to recover his opera. He also had a very nice reunion with my father, his rescuer.

 

Bottega Veneta: Italian hand-crafted perfume gift set, by Brandon Boyd. September 14th 2015.

 

Brandon made me a perfume gift-set many years ago. I finally have it, and the scent is very beautiful. He made the glass bottles, (glass blowing), added leather accents, painted the delicate words on the bottles, very carefully, and even mixed the perfumes and cream himself. The ‘mixology’ is exquisite. When you make a perfume, you layer scents artistically, and BB’s is some of the most beautiful perfume I have ever smelled. He also made a stunning gift box for the set – superb craftsmanship all around. But, heh heh, sneaky-me: I made a couple of kits of Bottega Veneta too, for men.

 

Other murine by Angel Italia. Ecco le carrine! September 20th 2015.

The first one looks like my precision striping marker strokes; the second I call “ultramarine garden”. The detailing is tiny and beautiful. The shapes look like flowers, suns and stars. I photographed it over one of my paintings, to have a colorful background. The first, like a pink flower petal, is photographed on a colorful piece of fabric.

 

More murine by Angel Italia! Ecco l’opera de Jade! September 22nd 2015.

These 3 pendants are more examples of Angel Italia’s beautiful intricate glass art. I named the pendants with their characteristics. The first I call “Amore”. The second looks like romance and I call it “Pink Garden”. The third is “Greek Purple Stealth”, because it has the shapes that I call greek, and Angel uses a shade of dioxazine purple, which is a really sublime color. There are 8 rust eyes. The whole thing looks really male to me. If you look closely, there are even tiny purple stars. Also note, in the first piece, there is the red and blue sunshine shape, that I call his “point-repère stars”. You’ll see why in more pieces to come, if I can find them, and get them posted!

 

More millefiori by Angel Italia, more findings. September 24th, 2015.

Photos of the “Flower Star”, and “Mille-Fiori-Sole-Stelle”, which means a thousand flowers, suns and stars. I also call the second one “Cosmos #2″. “Flower Star” is like a mandala, like my marker drawings. A mandala means a circular shaped spiritual drawing. Jade’s art knives are featured with “Flower Star” in the photoset. He used the knives to cut pieces of glass, and to eat on the go, when he was a drifter. M-F-S-S is photographed in its handcrafted box, and Corte Murrino means “short glass pieces”. Part of Jade’s way of doing things.

 

Eddie-ink gemstone ring September 24th, 2015.

Bon, thank God’s Grace, the damage of lifted ink – that the totally negligent art-lady caused by showing my Eddie Cards in the sun – came back. I had to recolor them, and they will never be the same as they were originally, even the “Eddie” name card. The gemstone ring is little compensation, but better than nothing.

 

Drawing day at Java U with my dad and Jade.. September 26th, 2015.

I’m always amazed when I draw with friends and family. They come out with such nice things! They’re lucky ducks…they get spoiled – because I lend them my supplies, and then they get featured on my webpage too! Their cards are already in the friend’s cards photo gallery. These pics focus on the “friends and family fun” aspect of the day.

 

Hand-crafted furniture built by Brandon Prust and Mat Giantonio. September 27th, 2015.

Another super neat art form, with shop work, which is right up many men’s alley.

 

Force, new marker sheet for 2015. October 8th, 2015.

Drawing and Taking Pictures.

 

Punked with a Pumpkin family. October 18th, 2015.

I made a pumpkin family w a rutabaga too…
Heehee
Snuck it all on my sister‘s apt walkway…

Fun silliness for a Sunday…
Its freezing out w soome snow flakes

 

Journal Gift. October 20th, 2015.

A rainy day making still life in the car, featuring my gift for Spiker, for vet’s notes. Yes, my sister Stephanie is a veterinarian! …”The good doctor Surveyer.”

 

Un Simple Délice: Visit to the gelateria. October 20th, 2015.

Gelato is italian ice cream, and its made fresh with super fresh ingredients. Done a little different than our canadian ice cream. An italian outing for my “gibrano” friends! Ha ha ha…

 

“ART”

by Roy Lichtenstein. December 19th, 2015.

Lichtenstein painted my portrait after I helped him as an associate at Omer DeSerres, where I worked. I was wearing a black ribbon in a bow, for a festive holiday look, for all the fun Christmas-shopping spirit. Very busy time of year for working in retail. (2007)

He bought the store after. He is Dutch-German, and as I went shopping at my old store this year, for my mom’s framing (on a Renoir I gave her), I bought some new gouache paints, and paper for them, and two wood panels, and found one of Roy’s best works. (In The Car).

So amazing!

The Surveyer family had a hardware shop in the Old Port, near Champ-de-Mars metro station, maybe about a hundred years ago…

Point is, it eventually evolved to being the Omer DeSerres art store. It is now called DeSerres.

THE END

P.S.: Here in the photo preview you can see how the black painted space on the left melds into the blonde hair lines beautifully. It is a good part of the piece.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Male Artistic Match. December 17th, 2015.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jade’s Art….Can you imagine these alongside mine?
Incredible series of 64 large-scale fascination paintings, painted alongside my big 45…literally alongside…
What can I say…
“The guy and girl match”
If people call me artissima, the “best artist”, (of today?), I call HIM the same!

Jade’s paintings match my Abstract Landscapes in the sense that they are bold, big, distorted, somewhat ‘dark’, and use bright or odd colors… The difference is that when I painted mine, I abstracted the forms on purpose. BUT, there is still a way of ‘my viewing’ in them, my ‘warped’ perspective, that looks obvious to me, but not to others. Jade’s special perspective, which creates a fascination, and looks somewhat like biblical paintings, comes from his feelings and emotions. The difference is, the perspective he is creating is real to him, unlike my paintings where I know I am distorting the image, to a point.

 

A holiday project, c.2005-2006. December 20th, 2015.