i know i’m technically on hiatus right now and haven’t been writing here,but as i was just enjoying the latest episode of one of my favorite new tv sitcoms this fall,2 broke girls,i FINALLY saw my stencil painting that their set designer bought from me on etsy! i guess the camera angles just hadn’t gone in that direction yet in the set apartment on the previous two episodes,but it’s right there,hanging on wall in the living room:
see it? smack in the middle of this screen shot. it’s a small painting,and it wasn’t much money and i don’t even like the painting –it and its companion piece which i still have were just silly little stencil things i sprayed on thrift store canvases one afternoon when i was thinking about my relationship with money. i had absolutely zero luck selling them at markets for almost a year! i almost don’t even like claiming that it’s mine…except that it’s kinda exciting to see something you made on the set of a new hit tv show that’s on every week!
this is what the painting looks like:
see? not really indicative of my usual work. kinda sloppy. though i guess it does have a little street art feel to it,which is probably why they liked it for this set. it does kinda look like the kinda crap you can buy on the streets of new york for $20!
if you watch the show (which you can do online from its homepage),you know their apartment is totally thrift store funky. it must have been a really fun job for the set designers to come up with,and there’s clearly a lot more etsy art on the walls beyond mine. but,hey,it’s still cool.
and this makes my second film/tv “credit”where something i made has appeared on screen. those who’ve known me for a while will remember that my popular “evildoer”stencil t-shirt appeared in the indie film “flakes” starring zooey deschanel many years back.
i guess i do keep getting signs from the universe that i am not done creating and selling my creations…but i’m still not really feeling it right now. but who knows. maybe i’ll get a rare burst of inspiration sometime soon. we’ll see.
