J.Hitzig's Mentoleum Blog

Ornaments Update!

jhitzig — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:53:06 +0000

A few more for ya:

Ornament Update

jhitzig — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:57:17 +0000

Ornaments Update!

jhitzig — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:45:23 +0000

Here are sommore!

Ornament Update

jhitzig — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:24:57 +0000

More ornaments!

Kidney Bean man is another favorite, right up there with Mr. Broccoli.

Faces Forward

jhitzig — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:55:03 +0000

Sunday the 4th was my show, Faces Forward.
What a success! I can’t believe it has already been a week.
I arrived early at the Stardust Cafe and pushed all the tables around, stashed the chairs out of the way, and hung my small collection of formally framed works on the wall.

The Cafe is equipped with hanger molding that makes putting work on the wall fairly easy. I spread all my matted works out on the tables, propping up a few on supports. One table was reserved for little hand drawn tree ornaments.

My matted paintings were spread out all over the tables.

The most exciting part was the part where other people came in to look around. I spent the first hour and a half talking non-stop, and utterly failed to record this part of the show on camera, so I turn here to my friends’ photos.

: D
What fun!
Here are a few more to transmit the ambiance:

Also, here I am, with a smidgen of art, on the big night:

My eyes look a little tired, but that is just my superpower leaking out,
as you can see more clearly below:

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Ornaments for Wall or Tree

jhitzig — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:22:53 +0000

These can be thumb-tacked to the wall or hung from a tree on a wire.
I have now done about a hundred of these, and my favorite is still Mr. Broccoli.

Further Preparations

jhitzig — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:36:55 +0000

My preparations continue. I’m pretty busy, so I’ll just give you a glimpse of what I’m up to:

Also, I got some glass at a hardware store, which is awesome, but there is just one problem:
STICKERS. On the glass!

Luckily, my mother taught me an excellent magical method for removing gummy or crusty stuff from the stove, and it works great on glass, too. The Patient People’s Wet Paper Towel Trick to the rescue!

Come see the result of all this getting ready and further preparation at Faces Forward in Lewisburg, WV, this Sunday!

Getting Ready

jhitzig — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:23:38 +0000

I’m getting ready for Faces Forward by matting as many paintings as I can. I’ve been making tiny drawings to hang from tacks (and christmas trees) and planning logistics, and now, matting. My livtng room is a jumble of rectangle packaging and parts, and I never thought I’d be so excited about something so repetitive. I think the Cinderella-like transformation of the artwork is what I like so much about it. It goes from a semi-tidy slip of paper with art on it, to professional presentable work of art.

The glass came that way in the mail. There was a 50% glass survival rate. It might be time to find a local source for that stuff.
Anyway, I am super excited to do my first hometown show. I expect to see a lot of people who I have known for many years, and a few who I have never met, and some in between, and show all of them my non-sketchbook artwork for the first time.

ULP! A hand-drawn animation by J.Hitzig

jhitzig — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:38:26 +0000

I made a thing:

Dream Geography

jhitzig — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:34:03 +0000

So, I had a dream. The sleep kind.
In that dream, my home state of West Virginia bordered Virginia, on the east, and on the south-east by Senegal.
Senegal Boardertown was THE place to go if you wanted a fourteen-note piano. Or a six-note “short board” piano.

Here is the map:

Dreams, man, they fascinate me.