Paper 18: Indian prints

 Not my print job, just some very old favorites. Tiny 3" paper Indian gift bags. Held on to since 1999, via moksha-imports.

Wine Fest

So PS- the dessert and wine painting actually made its way to the winning poster design for the 2012 Chesapeake Bay Wine Festival May 5 + 6. Held at the Bay Bridge Marina in Stevensville (Kent Island).  See below post (April 17) for another (modified) version!
http://www.chesapeakebaywinefest.com  for tickets and other information.

Paper 17

("There is no boldness anymore")

 Is there, or isn't there.. I would like to see it.

With additional note to pick up the typewriter.

Paper 16, Ladybugs/mortality

Ink on paper; After once upon a time stumbling into Lindsay's cabin and noticing hundreds upon hundreds dead (ladybugs), though they looked peaceful. 

Tonight: Sneaky Pete watching Forrest reading Grace Slick's autobiography and blankly asking "what is this?" Note the neon melon paper and tank top; the camera cannot even do their brightness justice.

Midnight Special

(Shine a light on me. Think CCR, and The Lavish.)

detail

 detail

acrylic and ink on panel, 8"x11"

Ink Drops

A few new [little] ink pieces in the works. Inks featured here with Miss EggNoggies. Perhaps the greatest cat who ever did live. Blue eye... green eye.

Look Up!

Almost indescribable. I desperately recommend seeing Fuerza Bruta some time this year, but try to go without knowing too much, the mystery/surprise duo is electrifying. You will become magnetized to a spectacle that might make your cheeks stuck in a smile, then leave with a curious yearning to breathe art, (artlife). A little bit of beauty bombardment.
Find it at the Daryl Roth Theatre in NYC between $26 and $80 through late summer.
http://fuerzabrutanyc.com/wordpress/

Paper 15

Here's a little piece of paper for the old rocker in all of us..[related fact]: Today is also Melissa Cromwell's birthday. Check out her work http://melissaannecromwell.wordpress.com/. Check out her other work at http://www.jonathanadler.com/, too.

("How do you feel LOVING the most popular man in AMERICA?? [Bruce Springsteen]")

PS PS PS

http://yesbaker.tumblr.com/ is my new mood board style blog. Here you can also find a little montage shrine dedicated to M.Cromwell today. Other days see spectacle, color, and tableaux vivants.

Papers 13 and 14

("[I am 26]. And female")
("It will be a sad day when I loose my astounding memory")

Found #1 in a pants pocket.   I figured these could go hand in hand.

Wolves in real life

How incredible was this on rt. 2? Never seen one before, maybe I'll never see one again. 

Old newspaper nostalgia

And look, almost four years to date. Chronicle front page! Hospital mural fine-tuning and my unnaturally cheerful paint pose. I hope that anyone I worked alongside of on this one is finding much mural and/or painting success! Leap month now, leap month then. How incidentally awesome! (click image to read)

Leftovers part 2: Last month's show?

A few from the Metropolitan show. Not the original layout. Strawberry on linen found a new home, thanks to Mr. Walker Babbington. 

do you?

Leftovers part 1: Valentines (Paper 12)

Only because I actually do enjoy the celebration of St.Valentine's Day, thanks to all of the colors in the middle of dreary Winter.

 Cara Cara oranges are in season. So are heart ice cubes.

 Click to enlarge; top right corner!

 Thanks to chef JC Lowery; Brie En Croute with too many fresh berries.

And of course our handmade paper selections...

Newest Mural

After working with A Girl and A Brush last month on a residential Maryland dining room; approx. 84"x60". Grass and boats, grass and birds. The homeowner loves it more than a he would a photograph (and I'd rather deal in paint) even if it is the beautiful blasé Bay.

A Music Show An Art Show

A Music Show, An Art Show Saturday January 14 2012

Featuring the artwork of Stephanie Baker, Jimi Haha and Laura Gallagher.
Listen all night to the soundscapes of Contra, the grooves of Subtle Hustle and more art offerings of the musical kind from Jimi Haha.
Work will be up and available for purchase several weeks following Saturday's opening.
Enjoy (seriously) specialty drinks and farm-to-table creative cuisine at The Metropolitan Kitchen and Lounge: 169 West St. Annapolis, MD.

--scbaker.com

Wood and Pigments

Small rose-shaped wood, stained and painted with powdered pigments, courtesy of Melissa Cromwell- by way of Lacoste in Vaucluse, France (SCAD campus). Packs of ochres and oxides.

Light-colored wood stained black, fixed in place by a rub down with jojoba oil. I was once told that this bracelet is made of banana bark (debatable).

"A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones." Proverbs 14:30.

Paper 11

("Go fuck off

Please & thanks")

It's valid.

Paper 10

(Salvaged pastel on paper.)

Doctors, Pandas, Women

I don't think I've had this much of a Savannah/SCAD inspired weekend since living back in Maryland. Three consecutive days off (boom), I painted until 1:30 a.m. in an empty building all alone, had to be up early for a film/lecture at a film festival, I purchased 4 new notebooks (very excited to fill them up with lists, notes and art-notes), and thought of a new tattoo (hopefully won't get this one). Then there was being too busy to eat, calling doctors I don't know (and who don't know me, double plus), setting up a new website (for the lady I'm painting murals with) and managing to log into my old paypal account, only to find that the address on record was still W 38th street in Savannah, GA. How nostalgically full circle.

So here is one complete panda. Currently I'm working with "A Girl and A Brush", painting rooms in the new Chesapeake Bay Pediatrics, Stevensville, MD.

Not quite complete pandas:

New topic. Rowdy hearted women, bold art. The Guerilla Girls are in all of these types of documentaries, though. Not that there's anything wrong with that. (Love.) I'm really curious to see who and what will be discussed in 20 years when one of these films is made about today and tomorrow's art-minded women.

And, more pandas. This is from the mural we made off-site and installed in the children's oncology  room at Memorial Hospital, Savannah GA in 2008.

No stranger to pandies. They also eat for about 14 hours a day. Side note, one of the books I'm using is called Animal Life Cycles, every page has a detailed illustration of every animal mating, from hedgehogs to hyenas. It's actually all the same.

Paper 9, Daily Reminders

Sometimes it takes never getting rid of lipstick on the mirror.

Or sometimes it takes a stellar reminder from your mom.