Library Drawing Show

Pictures from Meagan's amazing studio in Oakland. More to follow!

Participated in a show at Megan Donegan's new studio, 'The Library'

Pictures from the show in Oakland last weekend! And my ghost in a hallway.





This is Meagan finishing one of her pieces the night before the reception.

New Paintings

Skylight Books is stepping up

Handmade sign project for Skylight Books. This is totally hand painted. By me. Ought to be finished painting the rest of the 5,000,000 sections by next year. Check them out on Vermont Ave between Franklin + Hollywood (Los Angeles, people) or online.

Blue Tooth

Where are you, blue tooth painting? I made 2 of these paintings (one blue + one pink) for an 'SF Show' at New Image Art. Then they went to a gallery in Long Beach. I wonder what ever came of them? The LBC gallery closed + I haven't been able to get the word on the whereabouts of the art...cool. I did get to paint a gigantic whale on the wall + the whale's teeth looked like the little bumps seen here in the painting, so maybe that's the trade off.

Yes, that's me. That is too. And that.

You may have realized that I use this blog to host images that I can imbed in other places. That said, here are some 'Amy Jo' images. The 1st one is a drawing I used for Helio Magazine's Contributor page. I made it for the issue that featured the 2nd drawing (those are silhouettes of Parker Posey). 3rd picture is what I look like when I'm dreaming. Oh, wait the 3rd image is
HA RD
LU CK
HE RO, which was a moniker I started using when I worked at Skylight Books. It's funny because I nabbed it out of a quote from that movie about the racehorse. I can't remember the name of the movie, I didn't watch it, I'm not a horsey kind of person. We all know girls that were fanatical about horses. I've never been that kind.
Anyways, I did like this one quote part of a quote from that movie, '...Hard Luck Hero for a Troubled Nation...'. Someone left it as a message on my answering machine + it stuck.
Ok, so back to the pictures...the last one is a great picture of the little squiggly thing that hangs down in the back of your throat. This picture reminds me of the Schultz drawings of the Peanuts characters when they were yelling.

Heart Asteroids

This is the image I chose for my website . I have to animate one of the hearts so visitors can click on it to be forwarded here, to the b-l-o-g.

Light Shiner

Please come + see all the fun things that I have in store! Notice the Edward Gorey Font over an Amy Jo original drawing of a flashlight. I know, I'm a genius.

Here are some of my drawings + paintings. Most of them live in Paris now, but I make new ones all the time.

More,
more,
more!
Oh my god, MORE!

Yep, you guessed right! More Amy Jo artwork.

More Amy Jo artwork.

Oh, this? Just some little thing I threw together.

Just kidding. This is part of a DubLab project called 'Dream Scene'! . Folks made fictitious rock posters, and all 3 bands I picked WERE actual bands! The only one that is still going strong is Bunny Rabbit. You can check it at .

I love this little painting. When I say 'little' I mean miniscule. It's only about 8 x 10 inches or something crazy. Those little birds were inspired by Vidal Sassoon jeans. The jeans I longed to squeeze my little body into when I was in the 5th grade. A German fashion designer now owns it. I can feel his love for Sassoon jeans from here.

"Another Best Friend Somehow"
Drawings inspired by Bob Dylan/Dylan Thomas.

On display in the attic at Four Star Video
18th St Potrero Hill in SF.
Next door to Goat Hill Pizza.

7-10 thurs Aug 10-S Sept 15


http://www.flickr.com/photos/4starvideo/216331866/

This is a VERY LARGE, VERY COLORFUL drawing. You can see a little detail on the following page (or maybe it's the page after that).

Now, this is a VERY SMALL, SLIGHTLY COLORFUL drawing. it's smaller than my hand. It's probably smaller than my middle finger.