Loriesque Studio

I couldn’t be more proud of this mural piece I made in my community. I was chosen as one of the muralists for the Orange Street Fair and Maker’s Muse festival on March 21st. I am now one of the mural artists that grace the big Rental Guys building between 6th and 7th streets. (across from Maker Radio)

I wanted to paint in my most recent style of bright colored, whimsical shapes embodying a large angular face with a headdress of recurring symbols from my art: marbles, staircases, faces, trees and bright blended shapes. My paintings represent my dreams and patterns of ideas in flux; a doodle brought to life.

It took roughly 20 hours, 4 gallons of paint, kid-chalk taped to a pole to sketch so high (20 feet tall, 15ft wide) the help of lights and scaffolding from and one dedicated person by my side helping me with ladders, painting, measuring and mostly encouragement, my partner, Marcellene (pictured in 3rd and 9th photos) Thank you so much.

I have always wanted to paint murals. Fascinated by artists who can make such detailed beautiful art on the largest canvas: a building. You may not know that I got to design the colorful mural inside the Boys and Girls Club of a big beautiful word tree with people silhouettes alongside my co-workers and sponsored by our company Fifth Sun many years ago. And, I am currently painting some blooming poppies on the leasing trailer of Merriam Park. I hope to do many more now that I have this wonderful experience of navigating giant art painting.

I love finding murals, going to cities decorated with them and now being a part of that in my own city. So if you get a chance, drive down Orange street downtown and have a look!

Thank you to Maker Radio, Chico Fab Lab, Creative Reuse, and Your Local Marketplace for this opportunity.

If you missed it at Paradise Brew Werks, they’re now up at Paradise Art Center Dysert Gallery 5564 Almond St. through January 31!
A trio on tour from my Flux series:

Descential Diadem
Ascending Ramifications
The Paradox of Logic
10”x20” Acrylic on canvas with custom frame

Prints and postcards available
More information: Loriesque.com/ascential-flux

Who’s drawing portraits this weekend? It’s meeeeeee! Come by, bring a picture your pet, have seat for a live portrait, bring your hubby, wifey, sissy, bro, bestie, cuzin, auntie, uncy, granny, gramps, nephew, niece, boss, coworker, barista, bartender, hairdresser, doggy daycare, dj, anyone who is special to you and you want drawn in my rainbow demented style! See you this weekend!
Chikoko Bizarre Bazaar
Silver Dollar Fairgrounds
Dec 6-7
10am-5pm

My cat piece at the October Mock Cat show at 1078 Gallery sold! So i said goodbye and hopefully the new owner loves it forever. Mixed media; charcoal, ink and the goldiest gold by Stuart Semple on paper. I forget the name I gave it, but it had a punny Cataclysmic type of title. Thank you for a second year of the Mock Cat Show.

ARTober-fest is during October in Chico and I did portraits again at the Chico History Museum last Friday during the Art and Wine Walk! These lovely couples sat for me. My Demented Portraits get more and more Delightful over the years. But i still love doing it because I really get to connect with people i. A busy space where we often encounter each other but never quite as in depth. So thank you my friends! I hope these drawings continue to bring joy to those brave enough to get drawn!
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What a busy month for me! Join me! Events, shows and more!
FRIDAY- OCT 10 - Art and Wine Walk from 5-9pm in Downtown Chico! I will be at the Chico History Museum again drawing Demented Portraits! Come get drawn and get Demented! Will Also have prints for sale all month!
Then, the NEXT DAY:
SATURDAY-SUNDAY OCT 11-12 from 10am to 5pm is the OSAT! Chico Open Studios Art Tour! Grab a map at Chico Paper Company, Chico Art Center, from me, and stop by our studio and check out our art!
Studio 3 houses myself, and Daniel Penner Cline and Julie DeMaggio and we are located at 116 W. 2nd St. in Downtown Chico.

WE WILL DO IT AGAIN the next weekend, because OSAT is TWO WEEKENDS LONG!
OCT 18-19 we will be open again in Studio for more shenanigans.

Next up during ARToberFEST during the month of October, head on down to Vang’s Plants and Succulents and see my original plein air watercolors framed in the window!

Then on OCT 25 from 5-7pm I have a Cat Painting in the MOCK CAT SHOW at 1078 Gallery Reception! Show up from OCT 10- NOV 2

Also during the month of October, I have a piece in the OSAT group show, showcasing participating Studio Tour artists at the Chico Art Center UP NOW through October 25th.

Once we hit NOVEMBER 1st I will be back doing Demented Portraits again at the Day of the Dead Festival by at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds from Noon to 6pm celebrating culture, remembrance and community! Get your portrait then face painted, visit altars, learn about Day of the Dead and celebrate our community!

I think that’s it! See you in OCTOBER - or I mean ARTOBER!

October is here and I am opening up my Studio for the Open Studios Art Tour! OSAT! What is that you ask? Keep Reading…
Well, puts it on every year beginning with a gallery show and reception for all participating artists. THIS FRIDAY!

OCTOBER 3rd FROM 5-8pm

THEN you buy a map and guide and take them like a SCAVENGER HUNT all over town on two full weekends to go see artists IN THEIR STUDIOS making art, selling art, meeting people, seeing the studio work in progress, ordering commissions, buying originals or prints, GETTING THEIR DEMENTED PORTRAIT DRAWN, you know, fun artsy fartsy things.
…There’s a secret contest with all the map owners to see who can go to the most studios during the OSAT. 60+ artists this year makes for some busy quest days!

What dates? I simply must know!
OCT 11-12 from 10am-5pm
&
OCT 18-19 from 10am-5pm
Two full weekends!

Well, how do I know where to go?
GET A MAP!
I have some. ASK ME! Or try Chico Art Center, CHICO paper Company, Some other places i will link to after I find out…

My studio is participating, who are we? STUDIO 3 at 116 w. 2nd st. Suite 3 Downtown.
—But in the guide book we are #36 on the map including my studio mates Daniel (also in the map) and Julie and we will have some snacks, some & a good time. So come on by!

ALSO, IF YOU ARE AN ARTIST…go on this FREE TOUR ($15 guide) and learn about all the amazing artists in Chico you may not know, see what they make, how they make it, what they make it with, places they create to be able to create. If anything, as a fellow artist it is wonderful to see others in their element. And my fellow artists, IF YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF THIS, you have now and now i challenge you to go see the studios and sign up for next year.

What other questions might you have? Ask in the comments!

When is a painting done? How does the artist know when to stop? We can fiddle forever. You say you like it and we say, no it isn’t even finished. We see beyond the here and the now to the idea of its end. We know each part and know if each part needs more or less attention. Art is like our progeny, it comes into being, we watch it grow into something more than just an idea. Maybe it frustrates or disappoints. But we learn and value the process and the adventure. It becomes its own and then we set it free into the world. Will the world love it or be cruel to it? Will they identify or condemn? Will I let it go? It truly is the process. Creativity is this gift we can all partake in. Invent. Play. Try. Creativity is never finished.
Yet to be named
Acrylic on canvas

Friday at the 8-Bit August reception at 1078 Gallery with my Super Mario in bright cubist surrealist style. The reception was packed! So many great 8-bit inspired pieces, retro gaming on display to interact with and thanks to Casey Fay for putting it on! Show is up until September 14! Check it out.
Things to find in my painting: ? Block, castle, pipe, mario, mushroom land, blooper, cheepcheep, coins, and i wanted to add so much more but it was feeling chaotic. Ha!

Painting outside again. Sycamore pool bridge, I see you.