Unnoticed Abundance, Miles' 15th Art Blog.

Miles Frode's 15th Weekly Art Blog!

from February 24th -
       Today Tuesday March 3rd

Still rolling almost completely non-Dominant handed.
                           Lefty
Since I saw you last.. I hung fliers for My Art and Hip-hop shows,
(for 4 days or so I've had art up in 7different overlapping ARTSHOWS!) I
changed/updated the flier to include a new show I'm part of at Talent City Hall
Thanks to New Amazing Artist Friend, Peter Van Fleet

Photos of my City Hall Piece below todays one try Freestyle Video Featured

I teach and believe in the creative benefits of "throwing oneself under the bus right off the start
please enjoy the 3 minutes or so of PURELY improvisational techniques recorded TODAY 3/3/2015

Having arrived the City Hall today to get photos to share,
I walk in and directly up to the young woman at the counter…(It only seamed right this being an establishment of some kind and with a real local human person at the helm!) I told her I'm here to admire the art show... and told her I'm actually one of the artists and asked her if she could guess what piece was mine.

She did!
T.J was right:)

I'd "Started" this piece last Tuesday night…

I'm treating the word STARTED with quotes like i am

because the white is gesso and the yellow was thrown in to exercise the unnoticed abundance

of art that can't be stopped…the gifts when rolling with the punches… the wisdom when bending …

Ever since patron and friend Rich Whynkoop spoke to the beauty of simplicities i've been working to see how important things are AS i work with, add, and dance with the momentary dynamic's of the ART and ARTISTS union.

Like a Master Calligrapher's, who's every line is a bold fragment of a masterpiece

THIS PAINTING BELOW WAS JUST THE START…

BUT I SEE/SAW IT'S PERFECT.

(Thats why i sgraffito /scratch signed it)

As i continue to look at and sit with the yellow piece i feel it horizontal..

but i know that only means what it means till it's become something else

Below is a piece i also felt the need to confuse, obfuscate and add to last tuesday

added to it again over the last week
This is where it is for now

A lill' collage of mine.

Of the earlier stage appreciatabilities:)

 I was building my own frames for my Liquid Assets Show this year and i cut it just to small…
      or just too big..i don't recall but it's not a rarity with me.. But i't NEVER holds me back!

I just saved it till i had some raw canvas…and BAM!
epic over 2inch wide hand streched Canvas

 Another Freestyle Rolling With The Punches Technique for NOT JUST not wasting paints and media but to create a larger net of work that can be integrated into what You as an artist can work with at one time…Use Canvas or Boards or any painting surface for you'r palettes'….more often than not the un intended marks and those without intention will be more exiting on the journey of a thousand suns!!!!
…
..sorry i was getting exited!
background music n whatnot.

Nothing is ever exactly what we can imagine it to be.
From there down
with the anchors of change
we all become freestyle artists of some caliber, degree and dimension

These times we allow ourselves to "Talk ourselves into corners…
                                                             and talk our ways out"
Or paint or draw ourselves into corner's or under buss with what we do
these times are telling of our topographically discernible emotional landscapes
how the difficulties and inevitable successes rain on our feeling's and memories
these placeless places we as "Artists" speak to

This morning I was thinking about
2 men saying they're divers….
and realizing that is a lot like 2 people saying there "Artists"

Deep sea SCUBA DIVING would require scuba suit's and tanks of air
and would seam to be about what's under the water….the deeper the better.

And what is just called DIVING…
is all about what's done between the water and the moment a diver leaps from a diving board…

Yes both are divers…

We are all artist
in some way
in the sense that we all find things we do LOVE to do passionately!


As i sign off i urge you give yourselves the gift/lesson
to take time to "do the wrong thing ON PUREPOSE!" or say the opposite thing you have planned in you'r freestyle…and ROLL WITH IT to somewhere awesome and NEW!
and think about the classic
What,Where, When, WHY AND HOW.

How and why someone does something can show you great depth
in Emotional areas.

As always, "MAY THE MUSE BE WITH YOU!"
Miles Frode

BLOGasaurus Rex!

Miles Frode's 14th Weekly Art Blog
Tuesday 17th-
 today Tuesday 24th February 2015

                                                                                      I WON!

Me accepting one of 3 Jurors Choice Awards on Friday the 20th
At the Rogue Valley Galleries Biennial in Medford Oregon.

All Three of the pieces i had juried in were selected to show. 

                    Above is an abidexterouse mixed media piece who's title is a haiku.

Above is one of my first Gouache pieces.

These next handful of sketches and watercolors are non-dominant handed 

                                                 pieces "I had to make"over this last week.

It's a difficult stage to be in, as i have for the last 4 years or so working with

consistently increasing pain when using my arms to the point where i basically can't use them.

Normally if i can wait…and work to not work..the pain subsides within a week

i've never pushed it this far… nausea is normal all the time for me.. but the random sharp stabbing pain's in my left foot, specific toes is oddly new and kind of scary.  

I often say i'm an art addict…

thats not really even putting it lightly.

             
              I have most likely made more artwork (for sure paintings) in the last 5 years than
over the span of the rest of my life…i have drawings from 20 years ago
and i started painting in the last dozen years or so.

When i am in pain or sad or hurt or angry or exited:) I want to..no I need to paint!
I am Inspired when I  remember I am happening with everything else!
It's my Therapy, My Happy Place… and that can be a debilitating cycle…

OW! I need to paint
     OW!!! it hurts to paint!

I exercise my "need" to create and make marks by bending as to not break…

The Black outline marks in this above Piece i did completely with my feet

signature and date.

I apologize for the briefness of our visit this week…

if you remember, or you are getting the info about my debilitation for the first time

I hope those marks can also play a part in the marks you'r mind makes when fleshing out who I am to you….Remember... we make sense of everything as we make everything from our senses.

I go by The Vagabond Wordsmith, and Now Words'illa!

so if your in the Area, Ashland Oregon

Come peep my Heady-Hop!

(end of my set's gonna be a freestyle with My Homie Mixmastr!)

"May the Muse Be With You!"

Miles Frode

FUCK YOU PAIN!..Im Busy! (13th Blog)

 Hey! Happy Tuesday:)
cmon in, want a cup of tea?
or a cuppa coffee?

Take off yer jacket…
pull up a chair.

Above is a Completely Non-dominant handed Painting

created when working on my Spring Art/Hip-hop Flier 

            now in the Collection of a Dear Friend Gabby.

                                                 Heres (most of) the flier:) 

The full one can be seen around town (Ashland)…

This one's only missing my Art Show at ENOTECA 

from April-June normally seen at the very bottom of the flier.

                                                      Over the last week

I worked on My Friend Jesse Young-Nix aka Mixmast'r Kno1's 

Open-Collabo Project constructed from the soundtrack of Time Bandits 

                                       and anyone with something to bring to the beat.

The link below is to the actual verse i got "Laced Up"

"First Try Freddy" last wednesday along with the hook jesse had B4 i got there.

https://soundcloud.com/timebandits2015/1723-time-bandits-incomplete-1

The whole track isn't finished yet…but he posts the progression of the project

Above is a COMPLETELY non-dominant handed painting i'd started AND finished 

last Thursday the 12th (might be done…but definitely in an appreciative holding stage:)

On "VDay" Saturday the 14th
I submitted these 3 Pieces of mine from the last 2 years
to The Rogue Valley Biennial…For Emerging (myself) and Established Artists

Above and below are pictures and slices of pictures of one of my 3-D Cubist pieces
that i have yet to show!   "Reclining Nude"

-if you look close you can see Tongue depressors, Drift Wood, Stretcher Bars, Pieces of Frames, Wood Letters, Wood Shavings…and more!

I am really hoping they not only accept all 3
but dawn one with a Jurors Choice award:)

JUST HEARD THAT ALL 3 WERE SELECTED TO SHOW AND the 3-D PIECE WON THE

JURORS CHOICE AWARD!                              Come to The Reception 5-8 Rouge Valley Gallery

on Friday the 13th

A talented Artist Friend, Mike Cook

came by and shared some wine and Paint.

This is a painting that Mike added some marks to 

that has been tumbling around my stash and getting marks

from my First Girlfriend i met in Oregon Emily…and also "Disappearing" Chris

 at various painting parties from 2009-
( I reference a specific Chris as Disappearing Chris
because i don't remember his last name and
because we were hanging out and had some painting
business between us..He'd said he wanted to buy one of my Twisty Sky Masterpieces
https://milesfrode.see.me/post/1595962?tab=image
that interestingly enough….Another Chris Acquired…
       Though the Chris that ended up with it is A friend:)

So It's been Real…SOOOO REAL!

Thank you for checking out some of what I've been working on the last week.

Until next Tuesday…

as always "May The Muse Be With You!"

Sincerely your's 

Miles Frode

   aka The Vagabond Wordsmith, Words'illa

12th Blog

Welcome to My (Miles') 12th
                  Weekly Art Blog

This last Sunday the 8th
I was a featured Poet/Musician and Artist
with the Ashland based Dancing People Company's "Second Sunday Sketches"

Having not had time to recuperate
this blog will be mostly visual.

The Art portion of the Dancing People show will be up for the month of February

The 24x36" piece that i finished during the live improv set at the end of the night was donated/traded/given to Rob Head, and will be added the the Show for Viewing while up:)

You can see some of the piece i finished above…

Poet Sallie Ehrman and Dancer Ellie Leonhardt OUTERacting with Me..the Artist:)…
                     Ok..interacting…

And heres the stage of the other 2 paintings i'd started Live during the Gig.

A hip bag made by Sue Hans Keys with some of my Hand Printed Fabric
from my mom Diane Ericson's most recent Design Outside The Lines Retreat.

A Flavorful Vest Made By Gayle Ortiz from some of my Hand Painted and Printed Fabric.

 Lill Old'er Collaboration flavor from around 8 years ago'ish with friend Jason Miller and Myself:)
I LOVE to get photos of My Art from Patrons over the years.

YAY! I'm on the bill! 

                                   Paid Gig-            Words'illa!

                                                                                            Come check it out:)

Open and close signage by Me….Miles.

And so the end approaches…

twisting the inching feet…

over the broken keys….

and my less agile fingers poking the meats….

or at least your attentions and whats been left in reach.

(lill' free write finish/flourish)

Thank you for tuning in…

and as always "May the Muse Be with you!"

Miles Frode 2-10-2014