Frankie on the down low...

So honestly I haven't been updating or doing much on the art front lately. Since the 30/30 show in July I been burnt out. On July 3rd I had a panic attack over the project and called someone I really liked. Someone I wanted to be romantically envolve with. But I never told him I was Bipolar and we had a fall out due to him not being able to deal with my disorder. I had also stooping taking my meds after starting the project June 1st. I wanted to see what would happen with my art as i tapered down my meds and reduced to nothing. I used the projected to see if I wanted to stay on meds.

And the truth is I need Lithium to keep me balanced. I have been on a roller coasted ride from hell and back and I see now that I can't just mediate or do some new age shit. I have a disorder in my brain. Lithium helps to restore balance and allows me to better focus on my work and my emotional problems. That doesn't mean it makes me perfect but it gives me a chance to work on myself and my craft.

I don't have to be another sad artist who kills them self. (not that I plan that. Would make too many people happy and frankly I'm not in the mood to make any ass holes happy.) So at last day two of being on Lithium. The future is what I want to shape it to be and shaping the key core for me.

I quite smoking and I am starting to slowly but surely work out. I want to be better person all the way around. In side and out. So the break is over. I have been working way too many hours at work and not enough hours in my art studio.

So back to the drawing board folks!

I suck at updating!

Yeah I know I suck at updating. If only I could get paid to post on this about art and shit and be able to suport me and my cat, Oryan. But at last I don't get paid...yet. haha

Live drawing in Seattle!

Come see me draw, sketch out ideas for future paintings and make a damn mess of Art with a Heart Gallery!

Art with a Heart is at

570 1st Ave South, Seattle, WA 98104

206-478-8342

Saturday July 9th 2011 from 12pm to 6pm!

Avanti 30/30 show is up.

Yesterday evening I set up for my Avanti's 30/30 show. I meet some amazing artist and got some help from fellow artist to set up for the show. As well as help other fellow artist set up. The Greenwood art community is awesome! I hope you all can make it to the show tonight!

Avanti Art and Design is on 7317 Greenwood Ave North in Seattle, WA 98301

Frankie

Frankie is showing at Avanti Art & Design in Seattle July 8th!

I'm showing at Belmont Fist Friday!

Belmont first friday art walk
Today June 3, 2011 at 6:00pm
I'm showing at Bare Bones Cafe, starts 6pm!

2908 SE Belmont, Portland, OR 97214

sloppy art

I will be showing this Friday at Village Gallery of Arts in Beaverton, OR. How ever the show at Village Gallery of Arts leaves me feeling a little sad. For one i will not be there for the artist reception (i will be in Seattle) and two i rushed doing the project. The goal was simple. make four 6"x6" paintings in 30 days. well I procrastinated and i my work was due by may 1st. i started on Fri and did the work with water colors and i used gloss to make the colors run but they paintings looked sloppy and rushed. i'm kind of ashamed to turn them in but i didn't want to be a flake to a gallery. I'm signed up to do 30 4"x4" paintings in 30 days. this time i will not waste time. For now the clock is ticking for my 7x7 show and i have 6 virtues to do still and 30 little paintings.

Lust: The last of the Deadly Sins

So At last I have finished my 7 Deadly Sins! The last Sin is Lust. This was a hard piece because I didn't just want blatant sex. That was too easy. I was going to do my birth since i was a product of a lustful night for my parents. But I didn't do it because one of the galleries can't show nudes and well my fat baby head coming out my momma is well beyond nude. My it still left me thinking. Most babies were born out of lust. If the pregnancy was natural and not from a donor, then it came from a night of lust. Lust can be dangerous. It can lead to rape, unwanted pregnancies, stds and what not but some times this thing called lust, a sin none the less can leave to something so amazing as a baby.

Arts & Charity: Community Auction Event

I will have some paintings for sale at At Purest Cafe. 20% of all sales go to Mercy Corps. This is a great charity event. 

Location: Purest Cafe at 115 SW Ash Street, suite 100 (Downtown Portland) by Skidmore Fountain

Date: 4/7/11

Time: all day.

Thanks!

Frankie

A venue

I will be having a big art show called 14 this June. Its about 7 deadly sins plus 7 virtues equals trouble!!

The 7 Deadly Sins Series

So my last painting is in the works...Lust. ;) Then I start on the 7 Heavenly Virtues!

The 7 Deadly Sins Series: Sloth

Sloth: After a week or two of painting my buns off and promoting art shows and looking for work I got a job and I was tired! Sloth was easy and this is what came of my laziness.

The 7 Deadly Sins Series: Wrath

After my bottle of whiskey, broken heart and a hang over later I made Wrath. Vengeance would be mine no matter what! My wrath would not come from a knife or a gun but my my weapon of my power of determination. I'd move on but the ripples my pond were made and my blood spilled from my fingers for i'd ripped my own heart out and tossed it in that damn pond.

The 7 Deadly Sins Series: Gluttony

McDonald's home of the Big Mac and the best fries a fast food joint has to offer. Also home of Gluttony fatty goodness. Its fucking sick I can choose the size of my value meal and the age i'll die from eating all this. No one forces me to eat this cruddy goodness but no one slaps that XL chocolate shake out of my hands. And if they did they get my wrath! So here is Grimus eating so much he ate his pal Ronald McDonald and as he munches on that red hair and blood coming out of his mouth with tears running down his face you can clearly see Grimus has a binge eating problem. I'm sure that was on the extra value menu.

The 7 Deadly Sins Series: Envy

A few days just before a big art show I was having in Feb 2010 a guy i adored back in Phoenix told me he "Loved me but he was moving in with the guy he had been dating for months now." This made angry as hell because what i saw was mine was being taken from me. And the fact that he told me that "he loved me" made it worse. This painting was supposed to be Lust. My lust for him but due to my anger and some whiskey it was my Envy.

The 7 Deadly Sins Series: Greed

The next in the series wasn't hard to cover. Greed! The person for this paint was good ol' Mayor Sam Adams himself. Sam Adams lied about an affair with his intern so he could get elected. He played the gay card and said he was target because he was gay. No Sam you were the target of someone's wrath because you ex lover/intern broke a man's heart but before braking his heart he told his ex love all the dirty details of your affair. But the point is you lie because you wanted to be Mayor. And I have to say a lot of us would because we're greedy just like you Sam.

The 7 Deadly Sins Series: Pride

I started a year ago to cover the 7 Deadly Sins via Abstract design. The first painting to come out was Pride. I was unemployed last January and was walking through Macy's and I noticed that they were changing all the clothes on the manikins. They were all nude and poising their with perfect bodies with no imperfections to show. Yet the women that were showing were far from perfect but yet beautiful. But let one of them women with their imperfect body stand tall and proud in the dude and they would be laugh, stared at in discussed and called names. My manikin stands proud with her uneven breast, her cottage cheese thighs and her double chin all worn with Pride. A sin we do not forgive large people to be proud of their bodies.

At last an update!

So I won't lie! I've been lazy with the updates and posting so one of my new goals for the new yr is to update more. Here is the new news! I landed a consignment dead with Benham Designs Concepts. You can see my page at www.benhamdesignconcepts.com/FrankieOlivo/. I also applied for an artist grant working with reusable items for art from the Portland City dump. If i get it i will get $1000 and to show my work a year later with 5 other artist. I should find out any day soon. I'm pretty nervous because I'm one of 46 artist who applied. Let's hope that the fact that i work with animal bones sets me a side from other artist.

I also got my first art studio this month. It's under the Hawthorne Bridge! it's so awesome too!

I'm also in the works of making a website for my art. So more updates coming soon!