LaLa the Lamb - A Day at the office....

I am La La the Lamb I work in an office as an artist

Sometimes I draw for work....

I feel lucky getting to draw for my job...

I also work on the computer making designs and visual stuff...

SOmetimes I like to listen to music for inspiration or just to take my mind off work ^___^

I get to talk to other artists and tell them what to draw which if fun ...I'm a bossy little lamb!

I like to take lots of tea breaks...

I like to make a nice big hot cup of tea...

a spot of milk makes it just right on a cold cloudy day.

I keep lots of plants around me cause when I am inside I miss being outside...

Sometimes I feel like I work too hard and wonder when I will ever leave....

In the end working hard is ok since I have good friends to keep me company!

The Wonderfully Amazing Prints of Oleg Denisenko

I adore these magical mythic detailed prints made by Ukranian Print Maker Oleg Denisenko. I find them so exquisite in lines,textures and are just charming! They are also very affordable which makes me happy... I just might have to get me one to hang in my house! I heart them! AHHH seeing all the lovely prints so reminds me of my print making days! Etching was my favorite! I also enjoyed working in the beautifully lit print making studio at Parsons....ah memories can be useful sometimes and then they can be dust collectors as well....In life we keep memories of people we have known. They sit like knick-knacks on our minds shelf collecting dust and being mostly useless. Though they are just some how too precious to get rid of...Of course once we get older those knick-knack memories fade away they crack and break and get thrown away... so we cling to the few we have in our heads as we get older as we cling to our lives... not wanting to face the impending end and these knick-knacks bring comfort and distract us from the ugliness of the world. I myself have a zillion knick-knack memories and as useless as they seem to most I try to hold on to them knowing that the small things in life are what make us most happy no matter how nonsensical or foolish they seem. I would like to spring clean my brain though of a couple of dust bunny memories those little nasty ones always find their way around and they are no good... all they do is make you feel bad and sneeze all over your ego.

House Broken - New Works From Angie Mason

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Took lunch down by the Hackensack River and painted in my car with a bag full of cheap acrylic paint by number set paints I had from work from a piece we had shot for the magazine.... so I grabbed those cheap paints and took advantage of them... popping them open and globbing them on my journal making lovely textures ...its amazing how time goes by so fast when you are consumed by what it is you are doing lunch was over in an instant and I just wanted to keep painting ...But its back to Design days for the rest of the day for me at work.... It was so crisp outside the water jumped around all choppy and cool as the ducks floating on the waves like toys being thrown about sat mindlessly content and I with my brush in hand all frenzied dipped spit and painted a delicious dna filled mess of colors in my book .

I would post the mess i made in my book but its still drying in the back seat of my car... I am excited to get in my studio tonight and work on my paintings.... I Glazed some last night and they look like candied gems..I do love when I get to that glazing point. Funny thing about working on this solo show House Broken I feel like once I am done with that I have already been thinking of my next body of work I want to focus on... I don't want to get ahead of myself here but I am excited about it all...I am excited and enjoy these moments becasuse I know how somedays can feel so tortured with thinking of visions and only words come... So I am happy to have them in my back pocket keeping warm waiting to emerge....

Wasting time wasting away tip tap typing for no one in particular just to clear out my brain and pass time till I can get that brush back in my hand... I sit with my tea and chew on my xylithol gum and pet my pretend pet mini lamb doll which sits on my shoulder keeping me company and the day passes and and and and nothing else comes to mind just waiting to get my next painting fix awww yeah and grammer aint my friend so I do away with periods and structure and build my sentences off of verbal residue stew juice bubbling over out of my fingers onto your screen. polluting the wires with nonsense more nonsense blogging join the crowd of mumble head talk typers telling rambles of their lives... Blog you man blog the blog up and stick it up your blog you bloggy blogster! Have a great afterblog and see you in the Blogging when the birds start blogging with their chirp chirp chirping ... Ok I need to stop and go hang out near a toilet or make more tea or maybe just maybe I will design something!


Oh here is a friend I made over in the swamp lands where I am.... amazing creatures are everywhere if you look....

Water Bears, Gardens and painted dreams...

Adorable microscopic water bears or tardigrades are crawling their way into my heart! It's nice to know that when I am digging around in the dirt or playing near moss I am most likely petting tiny little water bears or atleast I will pretend I am ! Amazing little creatures! Speaking of digging hands into the dirt spring is coming which gets me excited to get my fingers all covered in earth in my garden!. But before all that I am working on finishing all my paintings for my upcoming solo show in May at Art Star Gallery.... I have like hmm let me see about 12 new paintings in progress a bunch of drawings, some sculptures and some special one inch boutton sets for the show! Should be fun once I get it all up and done!

Its the Angie Retard Puffer Fish

Its the Angie Retard Puffer Fish Camden Aquarium
Originally uploaded by Angie Mason.

I look just like this fish!

This was taken at the Camden Aquarium in N.J. which has been undergoing lots of remodeling these past couple of years. There really are some surprising little gems within this place.

A Strange Beauty

A Strange Beauty
Originally uploaded by Angie Mason.

I love how this flower looks like it's from another planet. ^___^