In which I draw myself every day and post it to this blog, along with selections from 30+ years of self-portraits. It's alot to look at, here are my favorites.
Labels: 2009, artist, contemporary, daily, every day, julia kay, Media: Cut Paper, Media: Digital, Media: iPod Brushes, Media: iPod Touch, Media: Photoshop, painter, portrait, Process: From Imagination, Process: From Photo(s), self-portrait, Subject: Head, Subject: Narrative, Subject: Nature, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
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11:59 PM
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This one's for Ruth! (and thanks to Nick Cave for the flowers!)Labels: 2009, artist, contemporary, daily, every day, julia kay, Media: Cut Paper, Media: Digital, painter, portrait, Process: From Life, self-portrait, Subject: Hands and Feet, Where: SEAsia
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12:59 PM
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I didn't go to my 25th reunion this summer, but the Wesleyan fundraising folks sent a very fancy brochure with many nice pictures and I imagined myself back on campus, sitting under a tree and studying.And for those wondering about the technical details, this was made with colored electrical tape.
Labels: 2008, Media: Cut Paper, Process: From Imagination, Process: From Photo(s), Skin Tones: Black, Subject: Narrative, Subject: Nature, Subject: With Plants, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
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11:59 PM
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...for Guy Steven's 40th birthday party. The Aiki is Guy's boat - I was amused to note that the colors of paint chips used included regatta, speedboat, catamaran and victory. I wasn't looking at the names when I chose colors - I see in retrospect that I actually rejected kayak. And can you guess which of those colors are purples and which are yellows?Labels: 2008, Media: Cut Paper, Process: Directly From a Photo, Process: From Shadows, Style: Graphic, Subject: Narrative, Subject: Wearing a hat, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
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10:36 PM
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In the immortal words of John Lennon, 'You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one...'Labels: 2008, Media: Cut Paper, Process: Directly From a Photo, Skin Tones: Yellow, Style: Graphic, Subject: Hands and Feet, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
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12:20 AM
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Another entry in my bad High School poster art series (the other one was my illustration of getting vaccinations before my trip to Thailand last year.) In any event, it sure looks political, but my only intentions were form and color and continuing to play with my 10+ years of collected paint chips.Labels: 2008, Media: Cut Paper, Process: Directly From a Photo, Skin Tones: Yellow, Style: Graphic, Subject: Hands and Feet, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
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11:24 PM
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Makes the very best paint chips.Labels: 2008, Media: Cut Paper, Process: Directly From a Photo, Skin Tones: Pink, Style: Graphic, Subject: Head, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
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10:52 PM
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This weekend I made separate trips south to Los Gatos, east to Albany and north to Santa Rosa, making my unfortunate contribution to global warming.Labels: 2008, Media: Cut Paper, Process: From Photo(s), Style: Graphic, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
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12:33 PM
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At today's demo of kirigami for the Los Gatos Art Association, I demonstrated cannabalizing your own imagery for papercuts by making this piece based on my collage 'I Think It's Level'.Labels: 2008, Media: Cut Paper, Process: From a Sketch, Scale: Journal/Sketchbook, Style: Graphic, Subject: Narrative, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
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2:50 PM
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Tomorrow I'm giving a kirigami paper cut demonstration to the Los Gatos Art Association, so this evening I made two kirigami paper cuts of my hands holding scissors. As you can see, they look pretty similar when folded up, but quite different unfolded.Labels: 2008, Media: Cut Paper, Process: Directly From a Photo, Style: Graphic, Subject: Hands and Feet, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
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11:59 PM
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11:26 PM
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Here I am giving myself kota-gaeshi stretch.
Meanwhile, FTP Upload has started having problems again. What's up, Google?
Labels: 2007, Media: Cut Paper, Media: Pen, Process: From Photo(s), Style: Contour Lines, Style: Loose and Scribbly, Subject: Aikido, Subject: Hands and Feet, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
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11:35 PM
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Don't ask me, I just work here!
Labels: 2007, Media: Cut Paper, Process: From Imagination, Skin Tones: Multi, Style: Graphic, Subject: Active Fantasy Life, Subject: Fictional, Subject: Head, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
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11:45 PM
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Sometimes these things just happen.
Labels: 2007, Media: Cut Paper, Media: Pen, Process: From Mirror, Process: Left-handed, Style: Contour Lines, Style: Loose and Scribbly, Subject: Head, Subject: Too Creepy for GF, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
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11:42 AM
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Yes, that was 3 days of a paraphrase of Julius Caeser discussing Cassius in William Shake- speare's 'Julius Caeser'. It would have been fun if it had been someone else discussing Julius, since we sort of share the same name. Alas, that is not how it was written.Labels: 2007, Media: Cut Paper, Process: From Mirror, Scale: Medium, Skin Tones: Blue, Style: Graphic, Subject: Head, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
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10:21 PM
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Hmmm... can this have worked? I made this this morning after several sunny days - and now it's raining!
Labels: 2007, ArtistsChoice, Media: Cut Paper, Process: From Imagination, Skin Tones: Green, Style: Graphic, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
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11:28 PM
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I never know what I'm going to see by the end of the day in the studio, and surely that is one of the great pleasures of being an artist.
Labels: 2007, Media: Cut Paper, Process: From Imagination, Process: In 15 minutes or less, Skin Tones: Multi, Style: Graphic, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
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11:33 PM
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I adore light. And color. As if that wasn't perfectly clear. And Happy Birthday to my father - he's wherever it is people go when they're no longer here with us. He gave me my first camera, and thus my first tool for capturing ever-changing, fleeting, world-defining light. Thanks, Dad!
Labels: 2007, ArtistsChoice, Media: Cut Paper, Process: Directly From a Photo, Skin Tones: Pink + Yellow, Source Image © AK, Style: Graphic, Where: San Francisco (Florida St.)
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11:45 PM
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Artist, Analyst, Aikidoist, Alexander Technique Teacher-Trainee. Artist: I've been living, working and exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area for almost 20 years. My subject matter ranges from portraits of people and animals to almost abstract paintings of plant forms and light. I paint in oil, acrylics, & watercolors, with oil paintsticks and watercolor markers, and with digital media such as pressure-sensitive tablet and Studio Artist software. I draw with anything I can get my hands on - sticks on wet sand and fingers on frosted windows, chunks of wood freshly burnt into charcoal and children's toys such as etch-a-sketch and magna-doodle. I also take landscape, figure, animal and street photographs, have played with printmaking (mostly monoprints) and have dabbled with sculpture in steel, wood, clay and neon.
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