Etsy Store

I added a bunch of artwork to my Etsy store.jeremyforson.etsy.com. They're all things that I won't be showing ever again, and I priced them to move. I want to start adding the tens of little drawings I have in folders all about, but it's kind-of a tedious process.

New personal paintings

I'm working on more gallery stuff. When I'm painting for myself I can do a piece every couple days, and I get to paint whatever I want. I'm banking on the idea that I will be able to sell these things though, but I don't think they'll cost very much so it will be do-able. Anyway, this is part of an on-going exploration, so expect to see more in the future.

Links etc.

I redesigned my website, and I took out the links to all my friends and other artists I admire. I feel kinda bad about it, but I love how stripped down my site is, so I started adding blogs of my friends and of other artists to this page. Anyway, painting for myself in the studio today. As soon as I finish this coffee.....

New website

I launched the fifth version of my website today. For a while now I've been thinking about how unnecessary most of it was. So I made a new one, and I think that it very well may be the simplest portfolio site ever. The biggest cut was the links. Having a massive collection of links on your site seemed pointless to me, and I didn't like people feeling slighted if they weren't on there. Also the large image on the front of the man and woman holding hands was largely there to look cool, so, gone. Then the news section was not what I thought it would be. It was always "I added this painting, and removed this one." Gone. Instead I have the "last update" which I instated because I think that most people come to the site every so often to see if I have something new up, and so if that hasn't changed, they can move on. Also I took out all of the shirt designs in my portfolio. I think that a portfolio should be both your best work, and the work that reflects what you WANT to do. My shirt work is neither. Most of the time I can't use enough colors to make it special, and I prefer painting above everything else. I'd love to take out older work as well, like anything I did while I was in school, but sadly that would leave my portfolio very thin, and many paintings I did as a student remain the most popular.

Facebook Fan Page

I now have a Facebook Fan Page. I'm not really sure what I'll do with it yet, but it was really easy to set up. I'll use it as a more expansive portfolio site, including sketchbook pages and work I no longer have on my main site. Also I can notify people of my art shows and whatever else I'm up to pretty easily. I could do that on Myspace as well I suppose, but I'm not keen on that site, and it seems like people are using it less and less. Certainly I am.

My studio!

I've had a studio since....October??? I never got around to really showing it, so here we go. Firstly, I think I need to point out that this is going to be a big pain in the ass because there's like 50 pictures and the way blogger is set up it's hard to have the picture, then a caption, then the next picture...sigh. Anyway, it's in the dogpatch area of San Francisco, which is kinda out of the way (see shot showing how far it is from the downtown), but it's good if you like industrial wastelands as much as I do. The building is photographed here too, it's the only one that look habitable, it's a whole block and there's all kinds of businesses in it. Video companies, bakers, furniture makers, printing companies, etc. I made a long panorama of the space. From left to right it's Kelly Lynn Jones and the Little Paper Planes, then Becky Ebeling and Stacy Martin (I don't know if they have websites), then Michelle Blade, then Deth P. Sun, then Marci Washington, then me. The area is full of odd little alleys and decaying buildings, from which I derive a lot of inspiration. On foggy nights it's all kinds of creepy. I walked around today annd took a bunch of pictures thinking I might make them into drawings. I got a little carried away with the photo-merging because it's really easy. I though I would be able to draw the buildings after merging them, but they went all bananas on me and look too creepy circus mirror to draw. There's that red (ranchero or el camino?) that was just in somebody else's blog, was it Mike Giant? Anyway, it's always around here. My square of the studio is at the bottom...it's messy right now.

Wondercon is over.

Exciting prospects for me that I can't mention right now. Made good connections, and new friends. I'd like to thanks Super Ugly, J.J. Kirby, Camilla D'Errico, Moritat, Jonathan Wayshak, and Kevin Leung for being extra rad and helpful.