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I wish I know how to paint well but no, the boy's portrait is actually done in illustrator and photoshop. thank u for adding me as ur friend I love to have artist friends so yay me!

by the way, ur an awesome illustrator..did i tell u that??

HEY!! > .... you dissapeared again! What are you working on?

You're still being a stranger!

" Have you ever been skiing or boarding? Being a California girl and all? " ...

...ehem, did you see where my hometown is.

Yeah, I have a snowboard collecting dust back home. Never really got any decent usage out of it. The only place to board in my town was driving out to logged out clearcuts, which was kinda shitty in many ways, mostly because dodging stumps made it lame. A lot of kids in my town would pool their money, charter a helicopter, and get dropped off on top of some mountain for a day, but I was never into it enough to do that. I've never even been to a ski resort. I'll go to Tahoe someday.

Where's the finished paintings?!

I can't really take credit for the credit cards. I got the idea from a character in a comic book "Jenny One: Channel Zero" written by Brian Wood, one of our sg members.Click on him from my friends list. But mine are different in that I cut em in half.

The colors are so bright! How many hours did that take?
Yeah, I have the new Juxtapose, this issue has a lot of great stuff in it. Those Lori Earley paintings are fantastic, the interview with her is really interesting. And she's hot. I'm so interested in the strange styles that are popular in Juxtapose today, I wish I could see the the shows in person, but all those people seem to be down in L.A. Sounds like an art road trip! Are you working on any new paintings?

Glad you liked the song. You know...there is a wide-spread misconception that love is black or white, or that being alone is a sign that there's something wrong with you. Isn't it okay to love being alone? Isn't it okay to want some sort of affection, but not neccissarily be gaga, head-over-heals, I'm-going-to-die-with-this-person in love? Nothing in life is black or white, this or that, it's fluid and organic and it grows and changes, so why do we think that love should be either forever, or nothing? I'm not a big proponant of casual relationships, and I'm anti open relationships (it may work for some, but not me)....but at the same time I don't understand how can "til death do us part" is possible.

Dramatic love is just two people feeding each others insecurities and weaknesses. People have widely mistaken codependance for deep Love. Oh gosh, I'm going to stop right here or I'll go on forever.

confession: the superpower theme in Demo was pure marketing. i never once set out to write that sort of series. some had them and some didnt. i always approached it from the angle of the 'fantastical' rather than the 'superhero'. but thats what the comics kids want, so we helped them see it.

checking out your work now. i like the ink drawings, especially the Dog Eat Dog. what do you paint in?

It really pops out at you! It has such a strong, bold look, my eyes are constantly drawn to the picture. The couple really jumps out at you. I almost want to tell them to get a room.

I'm amazed that you're using acrylic on such a large scale, do you use slow dry medium? A liquitex representative came to my school to do demos on their products, and all the odd things you never thought you could do with acrylic. They have some product that you can do transfers of printed material with. It's clear and you paint a layer onto a newspaper or what not and then peel it off and stick it onto your painting! She also had taken some thickly layered gesso, and sanded it down with fine sandpaper, painted it with paint mixed with high gloss medium and it was so smooth and shiny it looked just like a decorative tile! They also had extremely high viscosity paint that was so thick she had to spread it on like frosting, you could practically mold it. Neat stuff, thought you'd enjoy. Um...if not, I apologize for the lengthy ramblings of my art nerdiness.