There’s a band that I really enjoy with a rather cum­ber­some name: Today the Moon, Tomor­row the Sun. They’re kind of indie elec­tro fuzz dance party rock. Or some­thing like that. They’re from the Atlanta, Geor­gia area but do make trips up the east coast, which is how I was for­tu­nate enough to see them. You should visit their site, buy their stuff, and check their sched­ule to see if they’re com­ing to a town near you. It’ll be a good time. Plus, they’re just really nice people.

When I first started these clocks, one of the first ideas I had was to make a pair of clocks based on the name of the band. I can’t say why, really. I feel like try­ing to under­stand my cre­ative process would either kill it or ren­der me com­pletely insane, so I just go with it.

Today the Moon, Tomor­row the Sun

In the back­ground, you can see some of the tools of my trade: spray bot­tle, pen­cil, eraser, ink, ash tray… Acrylic on two 8“x10” can­vases. It started out as an acci­dent but I now claim full credit for hav­ing four stars and four clouds since there are four mem­bers in the band.

The moon side.

Mooooon. It’s not made of cheese.

Supah-stah

I can’t believe Fire­fox thinks “supah” and “stah” are spelled incorrectly.

To the sun side!

The sun’ll come out, tomor­row, tomorrow

Suu­u­u­u­uun. It’s not made of mac­a­roni and cheese, despite what it looks like.

Fluffy.

I’m pretty happy with how this turned out. It’s been a long, long time since I did a paint­ing in acrylics. It was a lot of fun. You can get a lot more tex­ture and lay­ers of color with them than you can with inks. Try to layer inks too much and they end up look­ing like mud.

See, here’s the thing. When I get going on a new art project, I tend to kind of churn them out. So, have another clock.

Let’s do the time warp again!

Fancy hands.

Spit, splat­ter, and whirl.

Time­warp

Occa­sion­ally I make art. I may add pic­tures of other stuff I’ve done, but tonight, I present my lat­est project.

I have a hard time call­ing it a “piece”. Seems kind of pre­ten­tious. Anyway.

“Time is money.”

Clock in a 5″ x 7″ can­vas, with a penny, a nickel, and a dime at the 1, 5, and 10 o’clock posi­tions. Clever, huh? I just hope the hot glue hold­ing the coins on doesn’t give up the ghost one day.

Okay, so I need to work on the whole Word­Press file upload and dis­play. I’ll work it out tomorrow.

The next day…

After some finagling I got the pic­tures worked out well enough. The Word­Press sys­tem for upload­ing and adding images to a post is kind of cum­ber­some but I think I can get used to it. If you click on the images up there, you’ll be taken to the full size pic­ture, which is rather large, so be warned. My friend J sug­gested I work on inte­grat­ing Flickr and I might do just that.