Haight St. Art Walk at Pure Beauty!!!! Katie Gray

Katie Gray is a painter, please see her web site, www.katiegray.info, and also a tattoo artist in the San Francisco Bay area. She is fantastic and I would love for everyone to come out and support her next month for the Haight Street Art walk! I haven't curated at Pure Beauty since Nov 09. This will be the first one in months. I am excited and look forward to seeing you all, light refreshments and wine will be served. Here is the Stats,
Pure Beauty Salon on Haight st, at haight and Clayton
1560 Haight st
up stairs in the salon.
Friday April 2nd
5-8pm
Artist: Katie Gray, curated by Leanne C. Miller

The raccoon is fixed, me and Helen made it out there today. There were a bunch of other tags too, we got em all...hopefully there will be no more.
Yeah!

Today was a fixer-uper, someone tagged the deer last week. Part of the contract is that we keep it cleaned up...so I went, with a cold and all to clean it up. From afar it's fine, but up close it's a little murky, I did'nt have any paint left from the original cans, so it was a bit of a random mixing frenzy, but not too bad! The funny thing is that the whole wall is gray, it was designed in part to work with the nature of the area it's in, ie: plenty of space to tag with out ruining the plants and animals!!! But that's o.k., I knew it would happen and am thrilled that two tags in 4 months ain't bad!!! As far as other art news goes, The Urban Share Mural, given if there is no rain and I'm not too ill,.. will hopefully be finished this week!! Yeah!! Ok., thats all for now...
Leanne C. Miller

and it goes, onandonandonandon!!!! 01/11/2010

Yesterday was all about details, some shading, cleaning up lines...putting little shines on the lady bug wings....just a few hours out there, had other stuff to do, but an other wise productive bit of time....
The top right are huge potatoes growing out of the ground, when all is done there will be wood cut outs "growing" out of the top as a plant. As if the mural goes beyond the box. it's painted in! And here above is a "happy little squash", as Bob Ross would say. I think you can tell from that picture you can see the textures I am dealing with, it's very difficult to paint on this surface with out it having that.."crayon" effect. I have to thin out the paint and paint each thing 2 or 3 times sometimes just to fill in all the cracks and dots that don't get paint in them. It's a lot of work to be doing for free. But it's a good cause, their garden is really coming along, they installed wall plots over an area of the wall that was chronically being graffitied over, took care of that!! See their progress at ...www.urbanshare.blogspot.com or TamaraLowenstein.wordpress.com! Thanks for checkin this out!! Don't know when I'll find time to be out again, but I hope it's soonder than later!!
-Leanne C. Miller, fanciemammal