Bayo Iribhogbe

Bayo is an artist that I met on the street while on my break from work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

His work moved me. I would NEVER have stopped had his work not punched me in the face (in a good way=). The colors, the atmosphere...I just had to stop and tell him. It turned into a full-fledged conversation where we shared the same outlook and passions. We traded cards (yes! I finally made a business card for myself!) and I hope to keep in touch with him.

He displayed about 3 (or 4?) of his newest pieces. One was titled, Gathering (a splash of my favorite colors to paint in: red, orange and yellow), and Market Scene (blues and white, with a speckle of red deliberately painted on - love to paint in blues and white as well).

Here is his website (you Must more than check it out...you will not regret it):
http://bayostudio.com/

Currently reading: FEMALE BRANDO: The Legend of Kim Stanley by Jon Krampner

Inspired by one of my favorite co-workers

Adelle was one of the people that I met at work whom I really took a liking to. She's got a great energy. Anywho...the other day she told me it was her last day which I did not think was cool. I asked for her email and number so that we could keep in touch with each other.

I sent her an email and she wrote back and also sent me a link to her artwork. I'd like to share her work with y'all.

http://www.adellemarcero.blogspot.com/

I was left inspired after looking at her pieces. Too bad I can't do anything with that inspiration. I'm just feeling--okay, I won't say, "dry" (even though, that's how it REALLY feels)...but--as if this period of adjustment and transition is disguising itself as a time for refueling, refocusing, regaining focus and reflection & prioritizing. *bleah*

Evolution of a Grab Bag Gift

Last week, I started to paint. Bad idea. At work, we picked names for the grab bag. I didn't want to give the usual (candy, gift card, lotion, &c). I should have! Ha! Late in the game, I decided to paint my person something. The price was at least 15clams. I spent 65 on the supplies! Yikes! AND, on top of that, I DIDN'T even like what I had given=( *brr-brr* I gave it anyway because I didn't Hate it=P Meh...

I should have just left the painting as it was. But, no. I painted over it. And over it. And over it. And over it. And, finally, over it. Yes, folks. There are 5 paintings on top of each other on that canvas for my grab bag person! I took pictures of the first painting, third and final. I would leave the piece and come back hoping that I would like it. Didn't work. Eventually, I had to surrender at around 2.30 the morning that it was due to my supervisor.

My person told me that she had to take a peak at it and she said from what she saw she liked it. So, who knows... I feel like I should get her a consolation gift! *ugh*





To think that if that painting is x-rayed...Ha!

The Reaction of a Piece of My Artwork from My "Nephew"

First, he gasped and with widended, amazed eyes he exclaimed, "That's AWESOME!"

And, this is the piece in which his amazement could not be contained:
It was one of the greatest reactions I've ever received. He scrolled through all my pieces and he'd say, "I like that one," &c. At others he'd say, "I don't like it." I'd ask him why and he responded with, "Because it's pangit," (which in Tagalog means, "ugly"). Can you say, "WHOOPS!" HAHAHA!

I say he's my "nephew" (with quotations) because he's really not. He's the son of my cousins which would mean that he's my 2nd cousin, right? But, no. In my family tradition, he'd be my nephew=)

What's funny to me is that I don't really like the painting! It's this new style that I started painting in because I just wanted to. Though, the more people have responded to it, I may begin to like it...?

Art House Cafe with red shoes on a thuuursday

Some of my pieces. There are pieces out there that I did not take photos of, or forgot, or just didn't think to. If you have any artwork of mine, I'd love to have a photo of it. (More at the end of the entry)

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broken hearted

cordelia

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make-up project as frida

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amnesty / compassion

blue sacrifice

grotto prayer

torchsong

girl and hand mirror

lady in sandstorm

untitled (napoleon and horse)

the faceless

through the curtain (for jen-jen)

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grey gardens

for liberty students

for kristin

for AS YOU LIKE IT cast

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for the andreas

for LIFE IS A DREAM cast

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for eva

for serein

I'm working on cataloguing my and building my portfolio of artwork. So, as I said in the beginning, if I have given you a piece of my artwork (be it pastel, sharpie, black ink, black thin-point marker, acrylic, on paper, on canvas, on cardboard, on panel, poetry on acrylic/canvas, &c...), I'd like to ask you to take a photo of it and send it to me. If it's dated, let me know the date, as well (if there is no date on the artwork, if you remember when i gave it to you, that would be rich!!!). Also, if you can give me the dimensions that would be a tremendous help. Thanks!

I Need them before September 19th, 2007. Merci, mes amis...

Salut!

A Long Overdue Birthday Present...

...for Serein---

My Cousin, Kristine...

Frolicking (the model is her sister, Kaitlyn)

...she is a talented young lady. She's gotten bit by the photography-bug! She's got a great eye, I believe. She also writes and paints. And I think she sings and dances! She's crazy. The good kind of crazy=PPP

a painting she created (one of her favorites)

She only has wonderful things ahead of her. I know it.

http://www.myspace.com/kristeenieweenie

Fine Art House & Poetry-Time Cafe with red shoes on a thuuursday

Since I've been on a Grey Gardens high, I decided to put up my painting with the same name that I created after I got rejected from the Public Theater's Shakespeare Lab last summer. AND I actually decided to put a poem up. It may be deleted soon, I'm not sure. I've just always been wary about putting my poetry up. The paintings, I don't really have a problem with. I mean, I still am reluctant with revealing them. But, my words... That's delicate. It's an adventure to share your own art. So, if you see this post before it's taken down...lucky you!

EDIE

© red shoes on a thuuursday
Wednesday, 11 April 2007

poem taken down: Friday, 17 August 2007
by: red shoes on a thuuursday

A Graduation Present...

...for Eva---


Currently watching: Little Fish