Fame @ Ignite wrapup

On Thursday July 30th Ignite, a local model agency, hosted Fame. It was an evening event to celebrate the grand opening party of their new office space. Ignite knows how to throw an event, there was a fashion show of local designers, a cash bar, a DJ playing some music, and hair and make up consultations. Art also played a huge role in the evening, being that the space was filled with art by Jesse Draxler and myself, while we also worked on a live painting.

Jesse and I spent most of the week setting up the show, hanging and organizing our art, so we had little time to work on any preliminary sketches for the live painting.

I've known Jesse for many years now but we have never collaborated on something together. We have shown together, we've talked art, but we have never worked on the same piece together. We had little time to setup and even less to discuss what we were going to do, but I don't think it could have gone any smother.

On Wednesday night we setup the blank canvas and briefly discussed what we wanted to do. We agreed on an idea and a composition, did a sketch on the canvas, started it and called it a night.

Looking back on the situation and our plan I am somewhat amazed at how smoothly things went. It could have been a total shit show, but it wasn't. Working with Jesse was a natural organic process. We agreed on what needed to be done and did it.

Later that night we ended up deciding that this would be the first of many live paintings. Look forward to many live paintings from Nice Awesome, the name of our live painting collab group company. Get a hold of one of us if you want Nice Awesome to do some live painting at your event.

Here are some pics: