Author: John Otter

spent the weekend in San Diego – yardwork for my dad…it was a warm (if not downright hot) weekend & now I’m a bit achey and tired. I need a new commission to begin working on. I have about 6 paintings in progress I could be working on. Told myself I’d stop drawing and focus more on painting – but I’m still cranking out small drawings in an older sketchbook. Ran into an old friend this weekend, someone I haven’t seen in over ten years – it was quite a happy suprise. While pulling weeds and such this weekend I noticed the agave plant that I transplanted about a year ago has grown to an enormous size and has a tall stalk shooting up the middle filled with baby agaves that were dropping everywhere. I collected up a bag of them to plant and give away. I read online that they exert all their energy to create the little ones and drop them – then they apparently die. Last week I figured out how to geotag a photo – its pretty cool, lets people see the place the photo was taken. Here is a geotagged photo of mine on flickr.

this weekend I was having iced coffee at a local cafe/bakery who needed some art to fill the window as the artist who was scheduled flaked out or something, thought it was a different month or something? So I have four paintings in their window now, paintings that recently returned from San Diego. I like the way they hang together.

(these past few days have been extremely hot around here) I’m hiding inside with all the blinds drawn and the AC blasting (small window unit is better than nothing) – I think I’ll go get a haircut as soon as it’s a little cooler outside. Yesterday stayed warm until about 3am.

The holiday weekend I had a lot of fun and also came into work on digitizing and optimizing Japanese prints. I worked all day friday, which is generally my day off, as well as a few hours saturday. I’m finishing up the project right now & will transfer the files tomorrow morning. Today has been a long day & I need to get out of here. I’m glad there’s music, otherwise I might have gone insane. The prints are amazing. If you ever get to study them in person I would highly recommend it, they have a very unique aura…the colors and intricate details. I’m only slightly sad because this was a rush job and I didn’t have as much time as I would’ve liked to gaze at them.

funny – because these colors are all wrong, and theres no way to set a white balance on my camera phone.

Last night I completed my recent sketchbook. Today I got a job digitizing Japanese prints for a traveling exhibition. I love Japanese prints and have worked with them in the past. They’re so very different in person, the paper, the ink -everything is so delicate & beautiful – I’m happy to be working with them again.