Gibberings
Dad told me never to use XTREE when he wasn’t in the room.
August 28, 2008 ~ 08:41:08 AM * -07:00ST
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Log # 234
New on Etsy: Shine
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=7600667
12 x 12″
oil on canvas
Shine is a thick, decadent painting on a deep, solid frame. Cool gold, blue-black, and jewel-like chartreuse tumble across her demon skin. In low light, she seems to glow.
This was the penultimate piece in the Bee Commission, a years-long toil involving dozens of abandoned projects, and a not insubstantial number of completed ones. After I finished this incredibly grueling painting for my client and presented it to him, I realized it wasn’t really what he had been asking for in the first place. So the final Bee Commission piece came shortly thereafter, and made everyone happy. I was left with Shine, which I am now ready to sell.
This is titled “shine” in relation to a magnetic poem with the line:
shine beneath the honey garden
and watch the sea for me
A painstakingly-rendered oil painting, created over the span of a year, Shine underwent multiple incarnations in various colors and configurations. Progress photos can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eliza/sets/72157594183395035/
I know that original paintings can be pricy. I am more than willing to discuss multiple payments over time, and entertain offers.
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Eliza Gauger on October 26th, 2007 ~ 11:56:51 PM
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Log # 210
This “Etsy” Allows You to Buy Things. From Me.
I am in the process of adding prints and originals for sale to a new Etsy store, even though every $0.20 they rip from my adorable little claws is like a fork in the kidney. I may live in the Oort Cloud, but I can still feel the pain of e-commerce.
So after I ride my bike down to the Inner Solar System today to mail Noah his goddamned prints finally, I will be adding more STUFF. Here are the pieces that are currently uploaded:
Prints are 8.5×11 unless otherwise noted, and are printed on heavy matte archival paper. They’re cheap right now too, so have at it. I will raise the prices eventually. EVENTUALLY!
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Eliza Gauger on October 18th, 2007 ~ 01:58:16 PM
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Log # 174
[9/8 8pm] Gallery Opening Party at Blow Salon (there will be punch and pie)
“The Ghost of Blueprint Cat Contemplates the City at Night (an Argyrial Reverie)”
R E A L W O R L D
group art show
Blow Salon
8pm on the 8th (Saturday)
food, drink, music
2112 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
Last time I went to a Blow opening party, there was a ridiculous amount of excellent food and drink. Even if you despise my artwork, you would do well to show up and partake. Little home-printed sketchbooklets will be available at this show, something I’ve never done before.
I’ve been busy since my last show in Seattle, and the Real World art show will feature an avalanche of brand new, never-before-shown works including:
- Bombus infernae (10×10″, oil on canvasboard), the climactic end to the Bee Commission! A jellybean from hell!
- Wee Bee God (4 x 6″, oil on canvasboard)
- Rose-Colored Monocle (2×2″, oil on canvas)
- Dhampir (8×10″, digital)
- Shine (12×12″, oil on canvas)
- The Ghost of Blueprint Cat Contemplates the City at Night (an Argyrial Reverie) (2×2″, oil on canvas)
- The Vacuum-Traffic Controller (40×50″, oil on canvas)
- Lisette (I’m Sorry You Have the Right Number) (16×24″, oil on wood)
- and as a special treat, a secret work from the early Bee Commission that has never been seen by anyone but the artist and the client: the Angel of Rust and Nausea (10×10″, plus attached palette, acrylic on board). This piece will go back to private collection at an unspecified time, will never be scanned or photographed, and will never appear online.
And tons more. I have an overwhelming amount of wall and window space, so I’m hanging everything.
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Eliza Gauger on September 5th, 2007 ~ 04:32:37 PM
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Log # 173
The Bee Commission Embargo is Broken!
I know at least three of you were interested in pieces from the Bee Commission, in particular the flagship image of the beegirl and her thunderstorm, now titled Shine. Here’s a horrible photo of it:
God, that looks like hell. I’ll try to get a better photo.
This piece, along with the Wee Bee God, are now for sale. Prices will be announced tomorrow, after I hang my show at Blow Salon in Berkeley. Opening night will be on the 8th; I’ll be posting more info about that soon.
Suffice to say, the best reason to show up to a gallery opening besides making me happy, is the SNACKS. The last Blow opening I attended was catered lavishly with strawberry-and-cake skewers, whipped cream, wine, cheeses, warm cornbread, and fresh vegetables. Not only was I fat when I went home, I was artistically enriched.
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Eliza Gauger on September 2nd, 2007 ~ 12:33:07 AM
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Log # 142
I want you filthy heathens to know that I am typing this missive at great risk to life and limb. Mostly limb.
I have developed a seizure. Yes, something of mine now seizes. The seizings happen to the bird-flippin’ digit of my right hand, the single most-used finger in the profession of gonzo blogging. I can’t tell you how many times I gave my editors the deuce during the birth of my now-unpublished “review” of Resistance: Fall of Man. I believe I referred to a Sony representative in simian terms, and many were the birds that flipped over that article, let me tell you.
What I’m saying is that this is a professional hazard, one I knew I would face when I signed up for the mission. I will be absent from my usual haunts for an undetermined amount of time. I’m on Xbox Live a lot because my thumbs are fine and Hexic is a natural opiate.
Rikki painted this beautiful donkey jet thing using actual paint (for the first time in ten years) and named it “Eliza”. I think it’s probably useless to ask why. Somehow I feel I should be ashamed, and scramble to cover my nakedness. As if he donned a pith helmet and protective eyewear, and ventured deep into the dim wilderness of my essential being, and there set up an easel and arrayed his paints just so, and recorded only what he saw. I am a belching, airborne maniac and until now, I’ve been able to keep it relatively quiet.
Truly, I am the “Madame X” of my generation.
A fair chunk of my artworks will be in the upcoming issue of Other, which is a zine I am ashamed to admit I know nothing about. This ties to the previous paragraphs because my renderings of characters from Rikki and Tavisha’s “Ranklechick and His Three-Legged Cat” will probably be included, albeit in monochrome.
The Bee Commission (a collection of paintings, drawings and sketches based on a year’s work to create a “demon bee” for a commission) will go up at Glo’s on Cap Hill at the end of April. Load-in is the 29th. I was informed that Glo’s does not “do” openings, since they are a breakfast spot. I think there should occur a brunch at least. Perhaps I can make reservations.
My other show will hang at Lighthouse Roasters in Fremont, and will be more of a catch-all. Pieces from Unhallowed Metropolis and other books, as well as Monocle, Bat Smax, and whatever else I can finish before load-in. Jesus christ.
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Eliza Gauger on March 5th, 2007 ~ 08:24:43 PM
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Log # 109
New Painting
From vebelfetzer.
The final installment in the Bee Commission, tentatively titled
Tinybee in the Bad House.
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Eliza Gauger on November 22nd, 2006 ~ 04:30:12 PM
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Log # 77
demon bee progress
From vebelfetzer.
This is a shitty Photo Booth capture but you are imaginative people, use your powers. Went in there with some pale yellow and cobalt/black. This was supposed to be done last weekend but I don’t think I’ll be past my deadline by more than a few days.
The gleam on the skin is showing up far brighter in this image than it is in person, but photos of paintings are always inadequate.
I wish painting didn’t take so goddamned long.
After this one’s done I’ll finish scribbling on the unnamed thing that came before this, maybe do a fifth quick one on the last 10×10″ board, get the first one back from the commissioner, and throw a show with all five paintings (The Angel of Rust and Nausea; Wee Bee God; unnamed tentacle thing; Demon Bee; the currently-blank canvas board), plus the better sketches.
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Eliza Gauger on October 12th, 2006 ~ 03:38:18 AM
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Log # 72
Demon Bee Progress
