Gaff Doom

If I had started this blog a few months ago, it would be known that I've been "courting" a local gallery. You know, getting involved, volunteering, doing their web design, doing a residency when it turned into a studio. Eventually I hoped to show there, whether group or the coveted solo show, pop my solo show cherry and all. I was slowly bidding my time to see how that works. I learnt a lot. But now, the Gaff Gallery is closing its doors for good. I officially showed there once at an auction. Oh well. I'll have to venture to new Vancouver art gallery venues.

Here is a collection of studies I drew during my time there. I made it into a little 'zine.

Eye Candy

Chico

Gun 2

Equation

I have to put some images on here... I'm not one for just text. Here's some random favs of mine. I'll discuss particular work more in depth when it's appropriate.

Introduction / Dealing with Archiving work

Welcome to my blog, this will predominately be about art.

I guess I'll contextualize myself, as an art producer anyway...

...23 year old painter located in Vancouver currently in 2nd year at Emily Carr for Visual Arts.

I'll definitely talk about school in the future, and if this upcoming semester is anything like the last I'll certainly have a number of rants about lectures and critiques I disagree with.

I'm very much intending on posting lots and lots of images of my work... but since I've yet to get to it my website is tngart.com.

I can't wait to start scanning some of my drawings too... I literally have dozens of binders filled with drawing archives. I love organizing and seeing really old work. My drawings from high school and from the notorious NFO work doodles are interesting... I used to love drawing more then anything else.

The editing process is tough. Generally I try to through out the clutter. Drawings that aren't quit worthwhile have to get recycled. Sometimes I find myself trying to decide if even more finished work is good enough to keep. Eventually I'd like only the best drawings to stay. My precious precious drawings.

Also some kind of CHRONOLOGICAL order. I'm really not good at dating pages. Sometimes the sketchbook will have a general date... that's helpful. It's similarly hard to decide if drawings should stay bound in the sketchbook, or get ripped out then into a binder. It comes down to how full it is. Sometimes I'll fill up a book will all this great stuff, other times I forget the sketchbook even existed after a few not so great pages. I have lots of old sketch books that are now blank for future use. So much spare paper comes out of this.

I wish I could do art about obsessive organizing. There's a certain satisfaction in collecting and organizing. It's kind of the opposite to produce work than through it away or simply put it away.

After the artchive (get it, art-chive?) I'll go through and find the best of the best work, then make a drawing art zine/book. distribution. That will be a future project, we'll talk about book binding.

That's that...