I added more pages to the sketchbook section. I have some paintings to update, but I've been meaning to break up that section by year.

I'm in a group show tomorrow at Gallery Heist in San Francisco, curated by Ryan De La Hoz. I have two small paintings in it. Gallery Heist is on 679 Geary (at Leavenworth), and the opening is from 7-11 pm.

I've been adding more pages to the sketchbook section. Mostly because just having 6 pages makes me feel like I haven't been drawing much. I actually really shouldn't call it a sketchbook since I don't really sketch. I just make little drawings. I don't know. Some folks tell me I should loosen up and draw whatever and I don't have to ink everything in. I use my sketchbook the way I use my sketchbook. I do used to have a painting notebook. It was made up of some sketches. Most of it's is just me trying to figure out my show schedule and making a list of what paintings go where. Or me mapping out a show. But you know it really isn't worth putting online. I switched to making spreadsheets.

Oh, yeah. So exciting. I haven't made a painting in a while cause I've been putting down ground for the past week. "Putting down ground" means I'm prepping panels to paint on, which is just me endlessly putting layers of medium onto wood that soaks up everything for about a week. It sucks, kind of tedious, and a little messy. I have to put on painting pants, and I most dick around the internet looking for things to watch while drawing, and every once in a while I'll turn around and put a layer down and then I have to wait an hour or so to do another layer. I just went through 5 32oz bottles of medium, but I got about 50 surfaces to work on. For one 32oz bottle it's like $24 with a 30% coupon at either Utrecht or Blick. They don't normally carry the 128oz bucket at the actual stores (I bought one once at the Blick on Van Ness in the City, and was a little too excited). For 128 oz it's $60, so you like save a lot of money. But yeah. I just bought two from Utrecht using a 40% coupon and got free shipping cause my total purchase was over $100. I thought that was pretty sweet, but I probably could have kept that to myself.

Last night I stayed up till 10 in the morning. I figured that I could finish my layers, and stay up till 6:30 to watch the US-Algeria game. I've been streaming from ESPN3.com, which you can see all the games live for free. You can also watch pre-recorded games from as far back a year ago. I watched the Turkey-US, and the Australian-US game while trying to stay up. I also watched Terminator: Salvation (which was alright), and Sharpe's Rifle: Sharpe's Enemy, which is like British TV Movie thing for the mid-90s. It was okay. I think I'm into it cause I liked Horatio Hornblower so much. This episode had a young Elizabeth Hurley in it, which was kind of weird. Yeah, the whole show's kind of weird.

Pretty much, yeah. I have two new prints up in the store. I was going to e-mail a bunch of people who have been asking about that but then I realized I didn't e-mail back a lot of people back then when they did ask, and then felt bad. I'm really bad with e-mails. Especially if you e-mail me through bigcartel. That, and we have Netflix, and I have a laptop, and not to pass blame onto anyone else, but ever since Buffy the Vampire Slayer got onto Instant View, Marci's been kind of obsessed. So when there is down time from painting, she gets on my laptop and I can't e-mail anyone or answer certain questions. But yeah. That's still a pretty bad excuse.

I'm in some upcoming group shows. One opens on the 1st of July in San Francisco at Gallery Heist, Another is a print show at GRNY, July 10th, which I still have to frame my piece and ship out, and the other is in late July in Mendocino, which I agreed to cause I want to visit my friend, Jacob.

I added three pages to my sketchbook section. I stayed up late to draw and around 3:30 am I realized if I stayed up a half hour longer I could watch the German-Croat game. And then the US game started so I ended up staying up till 9:40 am. At half-time I kind of regretted staying up so late, but the US equalized, and almost came up top so it was kind of worth it. And I also finished a lot of drawing and putting ground down on several panels. It's really hard to follow the World Cup when you live out in California. The first game is at 4 in the morning, and the last one ends around 2 in the afternoon. When you wake up normally from noon to 2 PM that really doesn't help you out.

I started drinking coffee again. Today I had my second cup. I took a break from caffeine for two weeks. I don't know how it started, I think I forgot to drink anything, and then after realizing I was off it I just went with it and consciously tried not drinking anything caffeinated.

Hey! I'm in a group show at the Palo Alto Art Center (1313 Newell Rd, Palo Alto CA 94303). I have pretty funny drawing in it. A few friends are also in that show and our friend Ferris is going to show us around a bit, cause we've never actually hung out that much in Palo Alto. Tonight I have a painting at Medicine Agency in the city.

I added more stuff to the Other Things section, and I downsized some of the images so they can load up faster. I made a postcard set. You can get it here.

Saturday the Post-It show opens up at the Giant Robot Store in New York. I sent them a few drawings, and they go for $20. So if you're in New York you might want to stop by. And the next group shows I'm in is in San Francisco at Gallery Heist (July 1st) , a printmaking show at GRNY (July 10th), and a small group show in San Francsico at Double Punch (August 14th).

I ordered prints and they should come in sometime next week. One's Cosmic Creepers, which I get asked a lot to make into a print. They're both in a small edition of 50. Uh, there really isn't much else to write about. I wish there was more, but I haven't really left my house to do much. They opened up a Trader Joe's down the street. It's pretty sweet. It's next to the art store, so I stopped on by after buying bristol paper for an illustration job. I've been watching Life with David Attenborough and the Sharpe's Rifle Series with Sean Bean (or Boromir from Lord of the Rings). I don't know if I can get that into Sharpe's, a little bit because of the cheesy intro on the DVD, and a little cause every time I see him pull out his sword I think, "he wants the ring for himself!". Uh. Masterpiece Mystery on PBS is also pretty good. We watched two episodes of Miss Marple (that you can still watch until the 27th). They were pretty good, but the second one was kind of a bummer to watch right before going to sleep.