For the carnivores out there, here are some of the snazzy meat pieces available right now at Pot + Pantry. (I secretly hope the ribs + floss never sells, because it is my favorite).
"Ribs + Floss" 8.5 x 11 original watercolor and ink painting, framed and archival matted in 11 x 14 frame. $175
"Country Ham + Glass of Bourbon" 8.5 x 11 original watercolor + ink painting, framed and archival matted in 11 x 14 frame. $175
6 x 6 watercolors of hot link and BBQ rib on mounted watercolor blocks. $100 each
Took a break from the activities at Camp Mighty this weekend to do a little actual work. But when work involves drinking a Mirror Pond Pale Ale and sketching in the Amigo Room at the Ace, it’s not so bad.
If it’s beer or bourbon, you’re awesome. Also, you’re drinking a ton of grains.
New art, available at Pot + Pantry, starting Friday! I couldn’t get a great shot of them all framed and pretty, but rest assured, they are all framed up and pretty. (black 11 x 14 frame, with white mat, if you’re curious.)
“Bourbon Pictogram” – 8.5 x 11 watercolor and ink on watercolor paper.
“Beer Pictogram” – 8.5 x 11 watercolor and ink on watercolor paper.
Like when it involves meat and beer.
Here are two new pieces, going up at Pot + Pantry on Friday for my new solo show.
After a whirlwind trip to Mexico, it has been heads down art-making over here for my newest solo art show, “Beer, Bourbon, and BBQ.” (The best things in life, right? Riiiiiiight?)
Expect meaty and boozy watercolors, drawings, and papercuts. All original. All new. All awesome.
The opening reception this Friday is also a party celebrating the second anniversary of the adorable kitchenware shop, Pot + Pantry, owned by my good friend Donna. Come check out the boozy and meaty art while drinking beer specially brewed for the occasion and chowing down on my favorite BBQ in the city, Sneaky’s BBQ.
Stay tuned for some sneak peeks of the arts. (I’ve already been posting some on instagram, since I joined the 21st century and got an iphone. You can follow me at @ilovedrywell.)
CD Front: That's my handwriting!
Literally just minutes ago, the postman delivered a milestone in my artist life — a couple of CDs, featuring my artwork!
Months ago, Adam from The Dirt Floor Band contacted me to work on some custom art for their band. I am nothing without my integrity, so of course I couldn’t do work for a band that sucked. Lucky for all of us, Dirt Floor Band is awesome, and the opposite of sucky. Dirt Floor Band is part bluegrass, part gypsy, part punk band out of Mendocino county, a few hours north of San Francisco. After quite a few emails back and forth (including clarification on what makes a goat male besides its balls…. yes, this is my life) and some in-person meetings, this is what we came up with for their newest album, Four Goats on the Peg. I’m thrilled and think they are too!
CD Back : That's my painting of a goat! With udders. And my handwriting.
As I’ve been doing most of my socializing outside the house this week, I have no lovely cocktail to share today! But since I did enjoy several tequila concoctions at Tacolicious in the Mission this week, with Sharon (Ms. Casa Murriguez herself) and tomorrow is the granddaddy of tequila soaked holidays, here’s a little digital margarita for you all. Given the tastiness of the Paloma I sampled there, I might need to get on a new illustration…
(Tacolicious, btw, was pretty delicious and packed with the weirdest Mission crowd, even at 5:30 on a Wednesday. So interesting that a somewhat expensive taqueria would thrive smack dab in the middle of the Mission. Now just to get that crowd as our own customer base….)
So very excited to announce that I’ve partnered up with Thrillist Rewards to create a set of three, limited edition, and EXCLUSIVE prints. These are part of the “cheeky meat” series that I created back in May for the art show at Pot + Pantry. Thrillist contacted me a couple of months ago to create a new print for their new Thrillist Rewards Holiday Shop. I’m an overacheiver/insane as I immediately blurted out that I could do three new pieces.Oh, and I could complete them in 7 days.
So after days of meat pun brainstorming* and non-stop hip-hop, here are the new designs.
They are $20 each, which includes shipping. Each is signed and numbered and ready to rock. Get em here.
The original pieces are also available on Thrillist for $125. The originals are 6 x 6 watercolors, on watercolor paper, mounted on fiberboard. They are ready to hang and look pretty awesome.
*thanks to Steve, Donna, and Kimra!
original watercolor and ink illustration
Yep, more beer art.
Back in August, when Drywell Art was in LA for Renegade Craft show, Benjamin at The Bruery was ridiculously kind enough to give us a personal tour of the brewery in Placentia. While we were there, he mentioned that they had begun a collaboration with Dogfish Head Brewery, another crazy inventive beer place, to create a Japanese-inspired beer. He sent me the ingredient list and told me to get cracking on new art for them. (Not really, Ben is way to nice to say that).
Fast forward to this week, and the collaboration beer, “Faster, Bigger, Better, Bolder (Gradually, Quietly, Steadily)” was released at Far Bar as part of LA Beer Week. The beer is inspired by Japanese shichimi togarashi, 7-spice powder. The traditional version includes black and white sesame seeds, cayenne pepper, seaweed, orange rind, ginger, and either poppy seeds or hemp seeds.(If you haven’t used togarashi powder on your popcorn before, you are seriously missing out. Go, right now. Make it happen.) This collaboration beer uses kumquats instead of the dried orange rind, and sake yeast.
This beer is also a fundraiser, with $1 of each bottle sold going towards Japanese relief efforts for this year’s tsunami and earthquake. AND, it sounds pretty delicious.
It’s about time I made some beer art, right? There is a surprising dearth of beer art available for the craft beer nerds of the world, so of course that needed to be remedied.
This piece is in the style of my “Use Every Part” lamb, cow, pig, and chicken pieces, except that instead of detailing all the retail cuts of meat from each primal meat section, it details many of the different varieties of the main 4 components of beer: water, yeast, hops, and grain. A lot of research went into this; thankfully Steve has gotten into home brewing so I had a lot of great resource books on the subject.
Of course this is by no means exhaustive, but I tried to represent the “biggies” in each category. The original is 16 x20, gouache on a wood panel. (contact me if you’re interested!)
And I also have prints available, as a 13 x 19 poster (seen in the top photo) in the shop right here.
And yeah, now I’m thirsty.
