A Sunday Mural

This is my house! We spent a full day painting Sunday...Well - painting, drinking, and consuming ridiculous amounts of delicious food! Our 10 min planning session after breakfast (fueled by mimosas) lead to this materpiece....

A few other friends stopped by to help later that evening (after work) - sadly we were to worn out to think about photographs. Also, there are still some final touch ups, and windows to be tangerined....so, I will have a clean pro photo to post in the next week or so!

We are super lucky to have such amazing friends - and the coolest house on the block! I wish all weekends could be this productive!!!
♥

...Allen Duffy, Cori McWilliams you kick some serious ass! Also, Johnny, Karla, and Carolyn we were sad you had to work but soooo happy you got to hang out later!

P.S. there are rumored birds being added tonight by the lovely Miss Karla!

Spokane for Japan update!

A friend asked me for a photo of the finished Spokane for Japan mural for a blog post....which reminded me that I didn't even post it here yet!  Silly me.

Darcy Drury was a joy to paint with. Neither of us had ever worked on a collaboration piece before...not to mention a live one with tons of people watching. It was 8 hours of solid painting which was very tiring but at the same time really laid back and delightful. I couldn't have been happier with the result! ...and the bar likes it too, which is probably a good thing.

Friday is coming oh so soon. I can't wait to post photos from Flutter!

Pug LOVE

I don't usually share my commission paintings, but I really wanted to show you guys the ones I finished just last week.

I had been doing vintage style family portraits for my good friends Ginger and Luke - and finished up the series by painting their babies Kody and Farley Bob....or Uncle Money Bags and Winston Churchpug:

Of course this way I get to give a shout out to Mr. Brandon Vasquez - amazing local photographer who did this fantastic photoshoot of their family last fall:

 
I became very attached to these photos while I was drawing the pugs! The rainbows are simply perfect...and painted in the playground of an elementary school just down the block from Luke and Gingers house!

Check out more of Brandon's work on here!


Have a bright and happy day! ♥

Random busy bees and lovelys...

Good Lord, I may have fell of the face of the earth for a bit, but I'm back now. I bring photographs as my peace offering!
My first ever art giveaway was an amazing success! It was like a big scavenger hunt that with 51 Photos of people with my artwork (in one week!!!). The very lovely Tanya is now the proud owner of a new painting. This picture is beyond perfect and totally made my day.

Here are a couple....
Next we have: Booze Day!Not only did I get to do the artwork (poster and tee-shirt), which included a map for the paper, but I also got to "run". Except there was absolutely no running involved. We met up with some friends who surprised us with pink mustaches....team PINK MUSTACHE!

A record of 250 people attended last year with almost double, 480 runners, this year!

After that came the interview. The Inlander, more specifically Leah Stottle, wrote a wonderful story about my work (which made me blush...a lot). It came out the day before my art show opened.

There were all of these strange encounters with people who had read the piece. My favorite was a lady standing behind me Neato Burrito reading the paper while she waited. She nearly lost it when she figured out she was standing next to me, reading about me. I didn't tell her that the mural on the wall was mine too.My art show "INK: I ran into my canvas at the grocery store" opened for the May art-walk. This was my first real gallery show and it was so amazingly packed. James Owner/Curator at Second Space had created this big themed show to coincide with the tattoo convention the following weekend. I got to be the feature artist and he rounded up some of the best local tattoo artists to show their 2D works alongside.

The tattoo convention was the next weekend and I ended up designing three bee tattoos.

My dear friend Jillian was packing to move off to Portland. Her and her art partner/bunny in crime (another wonderful friend) asked me to make them (Naaman and Jillian) bees to get tattooed the day after her going away party. They ended up getting them done at the convention by an artist that was also showing with me at Second Space.

Amelia, probably my biggest fan (which is so weird to say - she's lovely) ended up with a little gang of fat happy bees done by a Portland tattoo artist - Splat Ter.She happened to walking by the gallery while I was outside photographing the painting she had bought. So I got to see the tattoo in person - which turned out so perfect! I am extremely honored.

Sometimes Spokane feels like a small town.

I need to sleep now, but I have so much more exciting and upcoming news....so stay tuned, and I will try not to slip off again. Art is thriving!

Remember:
...Art-Walk tomorrow, Artfest and Elk Music Fest this weekend! xoxo

Supporting my Supporters = Spokane Art Giveaway!!! YAY ♥

There are a few people/places in Spokane that I really feel loyal to. They let me make things for them and give my works a safe place to reside for all to see. At one time or another each one of these unquestioning souls put everything in my hands and let me do whatever I wanted. That kind of trust really builds confidence. This is a thank you (so go visit them).

The piece I am giving away is titled "Ellipsis". It is made with acrylic paint and pigment pen on canvas board in a (painted) vintage frame. It was in the 2009 Terrain.

To enter the contest you must take a photo (of your beautiful face) with one of my mural/door paintings and post it to my Tiffany Patterson's Art ♥ ♥ ♥ facebook page. You have one week. (Ends Friday 4/16/2010 midnight) The photos can be from one or all of the following locations:

Neato Burrito (/Baby Bar)
827 W. 1st

Empyrean Coffee House
171 S. Washington St.

Pedals2People
1802 E. Sprague

Wild-card:
Peaceful Valley Community Park
(pillar under the bridge)

PLEASE NOTE:
-If you have a photo like this taken previously, yes, it still counts as long as you are in it and post it to my page
-Each photo only counts for one person's entry
-One entry per location (max of 4 entries)
-Please, no photo-shopping yourselves into the pictures if you wish them to count :)
-The winner will be drawn randomly and then we will set up a time/place to do the hand off
-Sorry, I will not be shipping the painting so you must be able to pick it up in Spokane

Good luck, can't wait to see your photos!
♥ Tiffany

Focused

I finished my painting last night in the wee hours of the morn. Jacinda was sleeping away with her pillow over her head to my left. Standing on a chair I snapped this photo...the wooden box actually took up my entire card table.

This is my temporary makeshift workspace in my temporary bedroom at Jacinda's parents house (permanent parents). Nest. That is the theme of the Riverspeak Launch Party this Friday for the Visual Arts Tour (everything I do is last minute). Nest also seems to fit our temporary housing situation.

The theme this week for Illustration Friday is 'Focused'. I really wanted my nest painting to fit in with the weekly theme as well. I think I accomplished that pretty successfully. I am calling this piece 'Mobil Home'. You can't really see it here, but I am starting to incorporate some strategically placed metallic paints. Jacinda made me a bunch of these amazing boxes from scrap wood (via house remodel) as a Christmas gift. They are wonderful to paint on, and each one is unique. Now that I have finally figured out how to properly hang these beasts on the wall (sitting on L's) I am sold. I have three more of them in Raw Space on Friday as well....if you happen to be out and about.