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Art Auction for Hurricane Sandy Relief: The Rowing.

Vintage matchbox with gouache on board painting. 

I did this piece last weekend after coming home from working at the Hurricane Sandy-wrecked Gowanus Ballroom-- there is a high water line on the walls after it not only flooded, but had a huge wave of canal muck wash through when the doors burst open. The Ballroom is having a Save Gowanus Ballroom fundraiser on November 24-- please consider going if you're in NY!

This piece is on auction RIGHT HERE!

100% of the proceeds will benefit Hurricane Sandy relief via Occupy Sandy. Please, please bid and help me raise money to help the victims of the storm. This is an ongoing crisis, and my neighbors in New York and New Jersey are in desperate need of private donation and mutual aid. If you're not interested in the piece, please consider donating, either money or time. 

A Brief Holiday.

I'm leaving for distant shores tomorrow, and won't be back in New York until after my solo on January 7. It's so strange to have all the work packed and that (relatively) empty desktop feels a little lonely. I'll hopefully be updating from the road, as I have gobs of drawing that I want to get to and share.

In the meantime, Horace (that red fellow on the right) will hopefully hold the fort down. 

Confession: I started a Tumblr.

Check it out!

 

One of Fifty; Sheepish Programming Note.

 

27/60: Worst Birthday Ever.

(indeed.)

Here are some of the latest additions to the One of Fifty family!

 

And, a sheepish programming note:

I made pious and public proclamations about finishing this project by my birthday this year. That happens to be today, and I find myself at the lowly point of having finished only 37 of them, so I have no choice but to bump that deadline back a little bit... Hey, I've been busy! I'm thinking that Halloween the end of the year is as good a deadline as ever... check back in later?

 

 

Allison Sommers episode of My Love For You Podcast!

Woo! I am So. excited that my podcast with Meighan of My Love For You is live! Check it out! She asks some really great questions, I had a great time. LISTEN!

FLOTSAM: Sketchbooks Vol. 1.

I am very, very proud to announce that FLOTSAM is ready! It's a book I've made of sketchbook drawings from over the past year.

It's hardbound with dust jacket, 40 pages full color, and crammed with sketches, doodles, and brain-wispies that no one has ever seen. I culled from my Moleskine sketchbooks of 2010 and 2011, and if you look hard, you can see the original idea-buds of paintings that I've made in the past year.

Keeping a sketchbook is so vital to me as an artist and human being-- it's a dumping ground for ideas, a place to work out kinks and explore brain-jungles, and one hell of a way to pass train rides. I have had to say goodbye to so many paintings over the years as they've gone to good homes, so my volumes of sketchbooks are really, really special to me, collections of my raw ideas and artifacts of the art I've made. All my friends hang out in there. I want to share, and that's why I made this book.

Flotsam is available for purchase right here, and I can attest that the book is gorgeous, and comes packaged safely and speedily.

 

Some of the sketchbook pages featured therein follow; you can preview more of the book right here.

 

PLUS PRINT GIVEAWAY!

To celebrate the birth of Flotsam, I'm going to give away one of my Society6 prints! All you have to do is RT or mention #flotsambook on twitter to win! I'll pick a winner at random on Saturday morning, 2pm EST.

Twitter giveaway!

I'm having a giveaway on Twitter! When I hit 450 followers, I'm going to give this tiny painting and a goodie pack (postcards & stickers!) away to a random follower!

It's called "Heigh-ho, Silvers!" and is a very, very tiny 1.5" x 1" (the painting inside the nested paper frames is 1.25" x .5"!), gouache on bristol paper.

So! Make sure you're following me on Twitter, RT, and stay tuned for the winner!

 

 

Fahrrat.

I have a sub up on Threadless right now!  I'm so excited about this fellow.  He's riding what looks suspiciously to be a nicer version of my bike, so I have to like him, I guess. :)

Anyway, it would be ever so excellent if you would be willing to pop over to Threadless and vote on him-- I really want this tee design to make it!

commissions open!

Tollbooth.  6.5 x 11.5 gouache on illustration board.  Available here.

Now that I'm settled into my new home in Brooklyn, I'm ready to work on new commissions!  Please email me if you're interested!  This is the first time I've been available to do commission work in almost a year, so I'm really looking foward to it.  I'm open to all pieces, small and large, painting and graphite, so spread the word!

Birth of a Nation.

 

Best not to bump the foliage around here.

Check it out!  There is now an Allison Sommers Art Facebook page here: come say hello!