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Today was a framing day.

I varnished "oldest trick" and it's drying outside in a box.

I accidentally killed a spider. I prefer to catch and release spiders. Especially with all this trickster stuff on my mind lately. I think of spiders as little Anansi's running around. But this one just got too close to this little crevice and if he got in there he'd just be living in my room and I didn't want that. so I moved too quick and squashed him.

In any case, after varnishing "oldest trick," I tried to put "cave shenanigans" in its floater frame.

I've never used a floater frame. You can see in the picture that there's a little gap between the painting and frame. And It's pretty much impossible to get that gap to be totally even on this particular frame.

I spent a lot of time measuring and doing math. Lots of math. Then I realized the amount of math it would actually take to get it right is way beyond my pay grade.

I spent a good 2 hours or more on this. I ended up just eyeballing it, then measuring it with a framer's ruler, then slightly moving it, then measuring it again, and slightly moving it, over and over.

Ultimately it's still slightly off. But that's what I get for trying to save money on frames. I'll probably never use this type of floater frame again.

After I got "Shenanigans" framed, I started cutting mattes. I bought a matte cutter a few weeks ago so that I could offer mattes with my grotesque portraits.  

So now I can offer them like this!

Or even like (framed) this for a few bucks more!!...

One of the artists in my show gave me her piece yesterday and I really hated her frame.

Her piece is good. Its on paper and the matte opening was too short and wide for it. And the Frame was like the cheapest Michaels frame.

So I cut her a custom matte and put it in a much nicer frame I had laying around.

I was taking out the trash. I heard a crow caw super loud. I turned and looked around for it and kept walking. Then I turned back around and bumped into a wall.

Another trickster encounter.

Last night I went to an opening at Copro gallery. I had to drop off a piece I owed someone. I'm also trying to show my face around there more because I'd like to show there in the future.

The show was Shawn Barber and Carl Dobsky. It was amazing.

In particular I couldn't stop staring at this piece by Carl Dobsky.

 The photo doesn't do it justice because you can't really tell how massive it is. It's probably 5 feet by 8 feet. At least.

Carl Dobsky does these huge, old master style allegorical paintings. They're super cool.

Here's a grotesque I did of my friend Patrick.

I know I said I'd write something about my "oldest trick" painting, but because of all the math framing I did my brain is no longer in service for that type of thing. Tomorrow.

Happy June 2nd everybody

Have Fun

Goodnight sweeties