Birthday Month

PART 30!!!

Apartment Therapy

This morning I found out that one of my paintings was featured on Apartment Therapy.

Jasmine featured the painting in question on her blog a while back. A reader saw it, met us at a coffee shop, and bought it!

It turns out, her apartment is amazing - amazing enough to earn a spot on Apartment Therapy's website. You can see the apartment tour here. Just click on "Enter House Tour" to get to the gallery of photos. You can see my painting in photos number one and five.

It's called White with Red No. 2. My name is spelled W. Levi Meyers on the site, but I promise I painted it. ;)

I think this painting found the perfect home.

Levi's Got a New Project!

Jasmine spotted this beautiful dresser for free in someone's yard here in Long Beach. We snatched it up ASAP! By the looks of things it appears to be from the early 1900's and other than some minor cosmetic damage it's in really good shape.

Ugh!

It just gets muddier and muddier every time I touch it. :/

Street Art

art and inspiration are everywhere

Makeovers and New Projects

Things have been hectic since Jasmine's and my engagement back in May. We're making progress, though, and all this forward movement seems to have lit a flame under me to get creative again. It has felt like quite a dry spell in the studio for some time now, but I've been inspired by these jute coffee bags that Jasmine brought home for me from a coffee shop that she and her sister frequent.

(Loving painting on these coffee bags. They have character all their own)

Some of my new work has inspired me to go back and revisit some older pieces that I deemed "complete" months or even years ago.

(I covered the above Yellow, Gold and Red and...)

(...I am not sure where it will end up)

(another older canvas I am using to explore new possibilities)

In turn, these older made-over pieces are inspiring more brand new works.

(throwing caution to the wind and trying things I never have. Not sure how I feel about it)

It sounds so self-indulgent, but I really feel like I am on the track to discovering my artistic voice. I am impatient, however, and want it all to happen NOW! But alas, it is the path to the destination rather than the destination itself that I should be more in tune to.

PS. This is pretty ground-breaking stuff here. I have never liked showing unfinished work...

Big News!!

For those who don't already know, on May 17 I asked my girlfriend, Jasmine to be my wife.

And now for the big news...

SHE SAID YES!!

Little did I know the wedding planning would begin at dinner with her family that very night! Now, as some time has passed, I'm settling in to the idea of planning a wedding and kinda having fun with it. It definitely is accompanied by its share of stresses, but we love each other and are determined to have fun and make sure this wedding reflects US!