Aqua Colorways expressing itself in RIT Dye Aquamarine and NEON green! PinupsPresidential PalmSprings Greenwashing Christmas Laundry? Laugh.
Paintershouse Palm Springs
PaintersHouse is PinupsPresidential’s “Wordpress Theme” for Civic Housing. With pre-populated materials & lifelong #practice, we can improve our civic arrangement.
See citizen Kelley’s content below.
Poolhouse Colorways in Aqua continues- updating Kelley Brown Padrick’s permanent art collection
OX- Chinese New Year Colorways
Palm Springs Papal Popup Chapel
Brought out this #midcentury #modern influence #painting. You're looking at the “Man in the Mirror…” asking him/her to…If we want to make the world a better place, take a look at ourselves and make a change. PinupsPresidential’s proposes we create a simple citizen filter on big data starting with what we share vs. what divides us as peoples and nations. We ALL need food, clothing, shelter, healthcare & sanitation. HOW we go about doing this, one relevant affinity neighborhood group at a time is the GLOBAL imperative. A simple dashboard view on our #Citizenship being able to turn on and off relevant layers of influence, zoom in and out on our most important relationships, with privacy settings that move from individual citizen, to family to community group to state, nation, world. Basically, all I’m asking for is what a general marketing person sees with an aggregator- we just want a view on the info in meaningful ways so we can interact correctly with ever-changing biotech, tech, apps, and platforms that need to sort our their differences before hitting our neural networks.
Hope
Fallible human, divine inspiration.
Christmas Carolers and Candlesticks
PinupsPresidential’s #IlluminationStation identifies #lighting opportunities in the #Civic arrangement.
The Batman influence on #Holidays - I keep playing this version for our #DarkKnight. I am a devotee, our path is worship: identifying and elevating what we want vs. giving attention to what we don’t want (fear in uncertainty.) Attention, emotive stuff is SUPER powerful with tech, social media…please.
I be beseeching. (See most excellent beseeching sneetches costume below)
4, 3, 2, 1
Lion of Judah- St Mark
A lot is going on with #KelleyPadrick’s devotional series #FieldNotes during #PoolHouse #Colorways though my #CivicDesign outcomes are focused on secular programming this quarter.
This summer I am responding to global #security standards —due to issues in the U.S. —with a zany #PinupsPresidential summer blockbuster production #SWIMCOP!
#SWIMCOP! #StyleGuide note: Replace the exclamation point with a one so it looks like an established franchise. Think sustainable SWIM toy action figures.
Several pitches: #SWIMCOP1: a chance to reimagine #SexySheriff & #SexyPolice costuming into something civically transformative. Which is funny but also sets an expectation that we’re going to have to do #Police #Military #Security #colorways formatting more than once, with hard work & patience, both now & forevermore*.
* forevermore terms because we can search on your posts by date (now) or stardate (eventually) forevermore. What would happen if we imagined #SwimCop1, #SwimCop2, #SwimCop3 & #SwimCop4 as #DESIGN or release phases?
Big picture though for my #fineart series, I am finally able to embark - ha #water- on this work. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/403775922841595618/
This may or may not be the title: Lion of Judah (yes, I am a Leo for #BeliefSystems where this is meaningful to you…) We may not #practice #astrology as Judeo-Christians but we acknowledge #informationsystems that reference #Lion imagery its related associations. As information architects and data scientists, we shall know the truth and the truth about these associations will set us free. #Freedom is a #Core #BrandUSA #Value.
I am also considering how to study saints & prophets as I #paint. #CivicDesign is an outcome of my #sacred #studio practice.
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Paintershouse Weekly: passion
Maker #ActivityStation Design
A few test vids
Pinups Presidential Life Phases for New Year Renewal
Making the #NewYearRenewal #Transition at #PaintersHouse while staging the home for sale. To a prosperous 2020. #ChineseNewYear- year of the rat, see below> Incidentally also the year of our U.S. Presidential Election. Year 4 of 4 is our #Delivery year at PinupsPresidential, so I am anticipating a lot of #BrandUSA in #Presidential #Colorways in #Formal, #SocialWhiteHouse formats.
Outtakes
Year of the Ratt!
PaintersHouse Weekly- HauntCouture for CorpseBridal, Ava Protester
Remember also: Perplexing Arrangements for HauntCouture and #Emo #Art.
See also A Moving Celebration.
Ava Protester!
What a giggle to dress Ava up for a march in #Protester #Form! PinupsPresidential is a campaign to promote new #Design for #GovernanceStandards. I’m not convinced these #Political forms: the Rally, the Vigil, the Convention, the Debate are as effective as we need them to be, especially on urgent issues like #Security #HealthCare and #ClimateChange. We aren’t voting quickly enough to #DESIGN for category leadership across government, nonprofit, academic and corporate entities.
With an emotional range running from Rage to Helplessness, our outdated political forms can’t compete for our attention. PinupsPresidential wants to reformat in the spirit of the Daily Show, Patriot Act and SNL so that #BoringButImportant and #ScaryButImportant civic conversations happen at the local gathering level.
p.s. I’m not sure how much going bra-less impacts patriarchical sins but it made for a funny afternoon walking around town.
I did all of the signage and costuming before #FridayChill, #CivicSabbath, so that the march itself was just fun entertainment.
Scenic Painting Direction for HauntCouture 2019 in Festival of Lights Colorways Featuring CorpseBridal Bridal Form
Bridal Design Forms
Transition to Haunt Couture- Festival of Lights Colorways, CorpseBridal form
Rethinking The “Scary Clown” form, as court jester, confidant of the King. Kids activities at a funeral. Talking to kids about death & what aspects the “inner child” within adults need similar rituals and #activitystations.
#DesignThinking Considerations
We will need to culturally reconcile the celebratory nature of Festival of Lights as we navigate our #HauntCouture civic art collections in #CorpseBridal #form.
Relate Picasso and Primitive Masks
Light in the Darkness
#DesignThinking: How to reflect on Angels of Light and Resurrected Bodies without sinking into trite religious platitudes. He or she may be in a better place, but this may not be what mourners are yet ready to hear. Good Mourning starshine: “clean” mourning is a #sanitation #exercise. If we mindfully observe rituals like Jesa, Sitting Shiva, Dia Des Los Muertos and All Hallows (Halloween, All Saints and All Souls) we can be more prepared to mourn when we actually need to. Adults, check out Jonathan Tropper’s This is Where I Leave You for a “get real” illustration of a family dealing with their stuff as they reluctantly observe an old-fangled" ritual.
#Stir pod
Investigate which cultures bring food (when, why and how) and which ones don’t.
Ava Harlequin
Indigenous Influences
PaintersHouse Weekly- Bridegroom Sketch, Soda Bread and FieldNotes panels at Spirit Mountain
Sanctuary
Seeking commissions and Ava-in-Residence invitations to design and paint the reverse sides of #KelleyPadrick’s FieldNotes doors and panels
Stir for BirthdayCake Colorways
FieldNotes Panels at Spirit Mountain
Summer Studio in White
BirthdayCake Colorways- PaintersHouse Weekly
a new room has begun!
A featured artwork I'm using for this #Colorways was created by Idyllwild quilter Marcia Monroe, bringing in the #localflavor. To that I'm adding colorful banners repurposed from year one of the Ren Faire. I'm sure they'll be glad I kept them!
An eventful summer #MoonLanding50 & #WoodStock50 and last episode of the original Star Trek airs!
The composting bin gets a painterly update. #fireworks for the 4th. No food goes here, just leaves, pine needles & regular dishwater. I have to keep them wet for #firesafety. #breakitdown
PaintersHouse Signage Design Project- v1
Following the simple “Ava’s Double D’s” #CivicDesign standard process, #PaintersHouse #Idyllwild created version one of this signage solution.
#BreakItDown
A sign designed and painted for a local #Salon artisan. How did we arrive to v1 of this solution? Camille had an existing chalkboard sandwich board she wants to use in front of the salon. The required verbiage included "Custom Hair Design by Camille" at "Idyllwild Day Spa" and "Walkins Welcome" Camille has a relationship with Idyllwild Day Spa, which uses a chalkboard look in their own materials. So we want those to relate. In addition, Camille had a piece of inspiration artwork a friend had made for her. It features a blissful woman with multi-color hair. As an expert colorist, Camille liked the idea of this painting. She also has a business card, shown in the Development phase images below, that I had to if not precisely color match, at least relate to in a relevant way.
Discovery
I looked at other chalkboard styles around town to see how Camille's sign could relate to the established community signage system (are we used to looking at chalkboard sandwich boards? If so, in which contexts?) I took some pictures.
Design
For our first meeting, I taped the various elements onto the boards and walked Camille through PaintersHouse to see completed paintings with various finishes. Initially, she thought she'd like to move away from the chalkboard look and make a fine oil painting on white like the Bride doors (below). Once we discussed the other chalkboard looks around town, she decided wholeheartedly to pursue the black ground. She preferred the homey look over a modern San serif.
I completed a few chalk/conte crayon drawings both for the 1st meeting and second review (by email) so Camille could get a feel for the layout options. Once we knew we were working with color over a dark surface, I introduced the idea of magnetizing the board and leaving a border around it, so the board might be utilized as a rental for someone else on days when Camille isn't working. This might help her offset production costs or even allow for the v1 solution to serve as an underpainting for a fancier oil painting like the Bride doors in the future.
Functional Specifications and Estimate
With the look decided, I was able to estimate time and materials for Camille. I am looking to design a product small businesses can afford, then relate other economic and funding sources to PaintersHouse (a nonprofit BeliefDNA project). As #PaintersHouse’ #ProjectConcierge designing civic prototypes, I actually put in significant time in addition to what I budget for my client-citizen, but, like many start-ups, that is in the hope that PaintersHouse can then repeat the size, ground and technique again in the future, promoting it as a community standard. In some ways our experience will be like visiting a Beauty School.
My Trip to Home Depot
Development
Production
During production, I tested with a car/fridge magnet style & that option is now available to her (think, a Friday or Saturday night band promotion, since she works during the day, or an event weekend)
Delivery
See the images at the top of this post and note possible alternatives generated during the #development phase. The issues we imagined may prove true or they may not. Camille will be placing the sign in different positions and in different lighting and weather conditions, so the placement itself will influence how the artwork is perceived.
Documenting the products used and selecting key paints and colors to archive so our client-citizen can call upon us again for revisions- whether those happen quickly after delivery (can we make this darker or lighter, more or less saturated) or for an annual retouch next year. As PaintersHouse, I’ll continue to seek rental clients for the board (magnets like this can be digitally produced or painted by hand) in order to pay for maintenance and improvements and to network on Camille’s behalf (event rental customers frequently need salon services).
With permission, I cleaned and lightly sanded the frame itself and gave the wood a light spray with the Varathane. I am interested in seeing how the UV protector impacts the signage’s weathering. I suggested for v2 that we might wood putty fill some of the rougher edges of the frame itself and give it another coat. We’ll see how things go! Camille was wonderful to collaborate with and I hope we get to design together again. May Camille be blessed by a steady stream of clients!