13 Days to Go…

With 30 paintings to finish. Here are today’s updates!

“Suck it! (They’re succulents… get it? Huh? No?)” I think I’m coming down with some sort of cold, or maybe it’s a wicked combination of wine/video game hangover + caffeine withdrawal. Anyways, I feel lousy. 😦 So today was spent working while watching Dirty Jobs. Hmmm. The following paintings might be getting a bit grosser. Guts and maggots and flies all that good stuff.

Oh! Thank you, thank you so much to all of you guys for voting for me in this year’s RAWards. I am officially a city finalist! On November 17th there will be a finalist group show, where voting will take place live to advance to whatever the next stage of this popularity contest is. I owe you all big time for helping me out here, and getting a ton of exposure for my humble drawings. Let’s see what happens next!

love, me.

 

Insects in Shadowboxes, or: “Making Work that is Impossible to Photograph”

Featherweight

dear diary

Conversation with my heart

hey bullet dodger
swooning cliff diver
genius in a jumpsuit
Your chute’s on backwards.

Let’s disassemble
this lantern toss out the pieces
hold the lighted wick

Let’s work on this poem together
every day
risen and steady
like it has no end

Joe Walker

pencil, sumi and watercolor on sketchbook paper, 11″x13.5″

detail below

Undergraduate Juried Show

At the Ridenbaugh Gallery, Moscow, ID tonight I found that “Pink” won Best in Show!! Weeee! …now, if 0nly I had a larger place so that this piece would have a home when the show is over.