Had a DAMNED good time! *ULTRA Pic Heavy*

Flames on a black screen at the DAMNED show

• So as most of you know I went to the DAMNED art show in Detroit this past week. 2 of my pieces were accepted so of course I wanted to attend, especially the first night (Thursday, October 29th) for the VIP part from 7-9 pm, before it was open for 9 dollars to the public. So I went that day and.....it was SOOOOO much fun. I met some really cool artists, cool people just checking out the art, and the show had everyone in good spirits. Good times!

• Sadly, I did not attend the Masquerade Ball (night two, Devil's Night in Detroit also). Yes, I was pretty sad about it but due to personal reasons I just could not attend. But there's always next year. And if you're curious, no, I didn't sell either of my pieces but it's ok...it was just FUN to be a part of it and to be there in general.
• ALL of these pics are up on FaceBook, as well as the entire night (about 95 pics). So you can always check 'em out there too. OK, here's my night...in a nutshell...a slightly big nutshell...

This is where you enter & exit DAMNED. For the first night, there was Absinthe tasting. And Mike and I had some...Mike telling me later he had TWO, woweeee! It tasted good but really didn't DO much (hallucinate, etc... and that would be crazy anyways!)...Mike said if anything it calmed him a tad...but he's always calm so IDK what he's thinking. ;)




This is looking out to the gallery below from the VIP area. VIP people are the artists, staff, and the people who pay the 25-50 dollars to be in VIP either night. Cool up there just to people watch and chill a bit.

One of the many Devil Girls. She's in VIP selling pastries but nope, not even FREE for VIP. What's up with that? Atleast downstairs they had free appeteziers and cake. YUM!!!

The first of the performance artists of the night. A girl belly dancing. Before long she brought out a snake. Yikes!

LOTS, well, a good amount of ALICE pieces, including this BIG photograph...which was above my piece below. Coincidence or not? Hm...makes me curious. ;)

It's me with my piece I intentionally made for DAMNED, Female Baggage. I think people liked it from the reactions I saw throughout the night. I actually had more conversations with guys about this piece compared to girls. Interesting...very interesting.....

They hung her just right, yay!!! And below is a torso hanging from the ceiling near my piece above.

Now for some of the cooler pieces of art, in my opinion....

The awesome metal wall. A girl I met (Mariandra X) did the piece above the girl in the red dress. It's the four apostles...called FOUR. I thought it was pretty awesome. Bruised Girl was on that sweet wall too...but you can't see it in this pic...that person in black to the right is covering it.

One of the two Marilyn Manson watercolors. Loved this one lots.

The second piece by Marilyn Manson. Also a watercolor piece.

Yes, that's Pee Wee Herman getting devoured by Chairy from PeeWee's Playhouse, haha...good stuff!

Another awesome Alice-inspired piece called Damned in Wonderland.

Next five pics are of a really awesome performance by a talented lady. I took about 25 pics of this. It was AMAZING. The music, her outfit, what she did...it was intense.

This lady's work was right in front of mine...see Bruised Girl by this lady's head? Yup, it's on the cool wall. She had some interesting pieces....some type of "vessels" that I really don't understand but that's ok, I don't understand lots of art!

YUP, it's me in front of my piece Bruised Girl. :)

More sweet DAMNED art...

One of the two Giger pieces. The other was a tiny sculpture. This is a print. Kinda disappointing honestly. Not that they weren't GOOD BUT because like I said only a sculpture (so tiny we had a hard time finding it!) and a print...not an original painting. But you can't get everything....and the Marilyn Manson pieces kinda kicked their @sses...but I would never tell Giger that. ;

When I say everyone & anyone was at this show, I mean it! Look, even the Hamburgular showed up. LOL.

My two sisters and my mom...supporting me...awwww. Glad they stopped by. They had fun and that made me happy!

Right before we were about to leave for the night. This was probably my favorite piece there. If I had the money, I would've purchased it. Also I'm unsure where this lady is from....gotta look into that more. But I believe her art can be found here...at fragilemuse.org Plus she had the best business cards there...quite amazing!

People watching...hm...yeah...Halloween outfits or not? Your guess is as good as mine!

Mike looking...pretending he's interested...ha ha. Oh and see above alllll the wayyyy in the back? UP there is the VIP area. So it's pretty high up.

I didn't wear my dress shoes...I chose my boots. Which I adore so much. They were comfy!!!

Well, I didn't get a laminate or anything but it's fine, there really was a lot of artists but what my wristbands mean is 1-red I'm VIP and 2-black I'm an artist. So BOTH means ARTIST. So that's the distinction...still it's hard to tell with so many people there and some people have long sleeves but us artists strangely found one another, which was pretty cool.

All in all, had a wonderful time and can't wait to be part of something like this again. Hope you enjoyed my pics and thank you all for supporting me all the way too. Much appreciated.~

And tonight is...

...the opening night of the DAMNED show. And I gotta work beforehand. I'm going to be so anxious to get out of work at 4 pm. Then go home & get ready (don't forget to put in the new batteries) and head on out. I hope I can post some pics for you all tomorrow. But just a lil' FYI, I'm sure I'll upload all the pics from both nights to my FaceBook page. There's no way I can show all of 'em here...but I'll do some of course. OK, take care, say "Good Luck," and I'll talk to you tomorrow! Your friend, Eve~

My Outfits for the Damned Show

Hi there. Finally posting a bit of what I'll be wearing for nights 1 & 2 of the Damned art show. I am not wearing everything-just the basics. I also have jewelry which includes: a skeleton keys set necklace, earrings, bracelet, ring, watch...maybe tights (I say that because I kinda don't like wearing 'em & my Bibi tattoo can be easily seen without 'em...yes, I wanna show it off, lol).

So above are the shoes. Shoes are a BIG part to any outfit, I think. And these shoes go with both outfits and are EXACTLY what I wanted-no heel, shiny, straps, and BLACK. So those the shoes, yo! ;)

• Below is my outfit for Night One: VIP show & day one, very important-first impressions! (VIP show is for 2 hours, before the doors get opened to the public. It's where it's kinda a hang out with all the artists and people (the public, artists, whomever wants to hang out & see the art before doors open at 9 pm)...and those people pay the $25-$33 bucks to come into VIP for a couple hours).
• Can you tell what my two favorite colors are from this outfit??? :) Oh and yeah, excuse the hair...as it's not even washed yet & just blah. :P

YUP, purple and black. The shirt is pretty much all lacey, the skirt is a pencil skirt (if I got that right) from Torrid...and it's AWESOME, very slimming and I just love the way it feels. And I KNOW it's a bit long (my sis kept mentioning it on FB, kinda ugh)...BUT I'm short (5'1). So it's hard to both find a skirt in my waist size as well as fitting me like the 'average girl's height.' BUT it is a tad loose so I may try pulling it up a bit or using a thin belt. I'll see how it goes.

• Again, this outfit is not complete...I still have jewelry. (Maybe tights?...what do you all think...tights or no? Cuz I bought black ones, but I could also get sheer). And the hat below could also be worn Night One but I'm unsure because I kinda want to save the hat for the Masquerade Ball. Kinda just wanted to look nice & presentable the 1st night, if that makes ay sense. OK, enough about this outfit.
  
  
• Below is my outfit for Night 2: The Masquerade Ball. First know, that the skirt is so awesome to me & I'll be wearing it BOTH nights (I mean I really don't care if someone thinks OH, she's wearing the same skirt! And who the hell is going to care or notice anyways, it's weird!)
• Well, I'm not wearing the 'required mask' (still have to get one) but I am wearing the 'required' formal clothes. The purse is for both nights also. Oh and Queen that is the Saks Fifth Avenue purse I got for $1.49 at the Salvation Army, pretty awesome, huh? Cheapest part of my outfit for sure! Such an awesome score. ;)
  

So, hm, I do have a belt that is awesome...from Torrid also. This is what I got from Torrid: skirt, belt, and all my jewelry minus the watch. But sadly, the belt is not looking right with either outfits. And this belt is SWEEEET! But I'm gonna hold on to it cuz you never know. And yeah, the skirt is slimming but it don't slim everything unfortunately! ;) So I bought a shirt that goes underneath (updating this 3 hours after I 1st post it) that will hopefully slim my boobs (ah!) and my tummy a bit. I hope it works!

• OK, the hat is pictured below. It is probably the icing on the cake because I never expected to find something so cool & my style! Cuz I love the little hats (they're like gothic lolita hats & I LOVE the style-gothloli-in general, as soon of you know)...and I just love the little touch of the skull & crossbones charm on it too!
  
  

So can you guess where it's from? I really did not EVER expect to find something THIS cool at THIS particular store. They have some cool stuff, but definitely not stuff this sweet & gothic. Guesses? Guesses? Guesses?

Hint: Is a tiny store at most malls...and no, it's not Hot Topic. Curious?!?

• OK, let me know what you think about my outfits, if you'd like. :) And I must thank Mike for taking the pics & for letting me do a little fashion show for him, awww. Isn't he nice? Haha. What a good sport as I know guys really could care less about girls outfits & such. And honestly I'm not a big fan of it but for this particular event, of course an outfit is important! :)
• Alright, pleae take care & hope you all enjoy your Saturday. I'm actually dropping off my art pieces at the gallery in a couple hours. Ooooo, so close...it's really getting me so anxious & excited. Woweeeee...only 5 days now!!! TTYL. ^_^

Getting nervous and some not-so-good news

In Memory of Lenore

~RIP~

I really love this picture,

very peaceful.

Well, this is the first time I've really thought about the DAMNED art show (intensely that is) and how it's making me a bit nervous. I looked at the pictures from last year's show, which can be found HERE.

• And last year's show wasn't half as big as this year's show...meaning more artists...and 2 nights of the show, not just one like last year. And the place was packed. Which is good of course, but bad for me a bit because I don't like being elbow-to-elbow with someone. That makes me feel a bit panic-y. The VIP part (2 hours before the show opens to the public) should be cool and maybe there'll be a lot of people...maybe not, since it's $25 in advance & $33 at the door.


• The VIP part is basically ALL the artists (that can attend) and the people (general public, artsy people, etc...) who want a first look at the art (before EVERYONE comes in) and maybe can talk to the artists. I'm guessing maybe you stand near by your art...and guessing again that my 2 pieces will be near one another.

• The show is also very very late. The VIP part starts at 7 pm-9 pm...and then the show goes on until 2 am. As far as I know (and I'm hoping cuz he can get a lil' weird on me) that Mike is still going to be my date for night 1 because I don't want to do the meet-n-greet (VIP thing) alone. But I doubt I'll be staying til 2 am. And that's fine. Mike has to work the next day and being there 5 hours or so might just make me tired. Jeez, I sound like a true artist, huh? I'll be too tired...whine whine whine. Kidding, but it will be a long night.


• The next night is the BIG NIGHT of DAMNED...meaning the Masquerade Ball and it's actually Devil's Night (the day before Halloween). So I would assume that more people might come to the show that night. Guess I'll have to wait and see.

• So...back to panic mode. I do feel a bit nervous now. I mean that's a lot of people looking at my art and yeah, a lot of artists looking at my art as well. Not that I don't think I'm any less of an artist...but being self-taught and having ZERO experience besides art history classes makes me feel...not so professional I suppose. I did have a group art show...ugh, 10 years ago...long time! And it was cool but not downtown and definitely not with this much exposure. It was kinda my show but my friends (and friends of my friend) did it too...I just had the most stuff on the wall.


• And it was kinda funny because a woman I talked to via snail mail (yes, we were kinda penpals) walked into the gallery and then almost instantly said "I want that one." And I sold it. It was actually a mixed media piece. A BIG eye with cut up credit cards in the middle. That was one of the happiest moments of my life thus far.


• And now, DAMNED is making me really happy...no matter if I sell anything because that's not really the point of it all. But again, I get really nervous and panic-y...so I just gotta calm down a bit and just realize I'm showing two pieces that are a big part of my "style" and be cool with that. Maybe the Absinthe tasting during the meet-n-greet part will help me relax. ;)

• So once again, I must apologize for not commenting much on your blogs. :( I'm bad, I know. I took on a massive project today: ORGANIZING my art room completely. And labeling everything. I started it today but no way will it be done asap...maybe by late tomorrow if I go at it all day. And I want to buy a bookshelf because I really do need to see some of my materials/etc... instead of just putting 'em in a storage container. I'm getting there...it's just a process. Wish me luck!


• AND I'm having work issues. Nothing too serious, I'm hoping. Can't really talk about it here as some of my co-workers take a peek at my blog every now and then. Just a bit of a stressful thing...but working on my art room is helping me deal with things.

• AND ONE MORE AND! Sadly, my boyfriend's grandmother passed away tonight. He got a call that it was URGENT to get to the hospital to see her (her cancer made its way to her liver) and then his brother called and said she was doing OK and possibly being moved to another room.


• So we got in the car, almost got into the hospital parking lot and Mike's mom called him and said she just passed. I felt terrible. But things like that are out of control, I realize that but still...it's sucky. And Mike loved his grandmother...as did his whole family. She was a great lady and I loved her like my own grandmother. I was never close with mine (barely knew my father's mother so there wasn't much there)...this was my mother's mother. So I always felt like she was my real grandmother too (again, been with Mike for almost 10 years now). And although Mike and I are not married, they do treat me like one of the family (and always have) so it wasn't weird or anything. I mean I loved her very much too. Very sad...but she didn't suffer much so that is the important part.


• So yeah, it was hard and everyone was sad but staying at the hospital for a while with the whole family (cousins, aunts, uncles, grandchildren, great grandchildren) was a good thing. She was really specific about what she wanted after she passed away. And Mike always knew this about her and actually Mike and I feel very similar when our time comes. She didn't want a ceremony. She didn't want people to look at her after she passed away. She just didn't like that. And I can understand that...as seeing both my grandparents at their funerals was kinda scary because they did not look like themselves at all. My mother was not happy with that either.


• So anyways, Mike's grandmother (her name is Lenore, which is a name I've always loved), will be cremated and put in an urn and their will be a celebration (not a funeral technically) at one of Mike's aunt's house this Friday. I think that's an awesome idea. It reminds me of Day of the Dead...to celebrate the life of someone, rather than mourn. There was a lot of mourning today and I'm sure people (including myself) will be sad Friday but it's to remember what made Grandma so great.


• Everyone was asked to bring pictures...anything that reminded them of Grandma. Mike actually doesn't have pictures (she hated photos too...just like me!). So maybe (maybe!) I will try making something in celebration Grandma Lenore & how awesome she was...and of the love Grandma gave everyone too. If it's not right (to me) I won't bring it...but I am going to think about it. I figure it's the least I could do.

• Woweeee, this much longer than expected...it's getting late! Well, thanks for reading and I hope you are all doing good. Enjoy the rest of your week (if by chance I don't make a post) and take care.~

New Stuff up in my Etsy Shop

Lipstick Girl

Bondage Girls

I put up DOLLS (yes, because to creep you out Cindy, ha ha) in my ETSY shop this morning. A first. Dolls that is. I priced them a bit higher but for a specific reason. And that reason is because IF people are interested in my art at the DAMNED show, then I can give 'em my business card and they can see my mixed media, collages, and creepy dolls. Of course I don't STRICTLY do CREEPY/SPOOKY art...but I wanted to atleast have a few creepy things (or as DAMNED called the work they're interested in-'beautifully disturbing'-I like that description) since DAMNED is a show for the creepy-ier type of people. Well, you know what I mean.

So by having these dolls up (and at a much higher price) they probably won't sell. And that's what I'm hoping for. Weird, I know. But like I said, I want to have a few things Eve Noir-Damned Show-ish in my ETSY shop so those darker folks might say "Hey, she does all kinds, not just dark/creepy." And maybe, just MAYBE, I'll actually make a sale on ETSY. That would be nice. ;}

OK, now I'm going to post the pics because I got to work at 4 pm which doesn't give me a whole lot of time. So adios for now and check out my ETSY shop since it's been updated a tad if you'd like. Hope you have a good Wednesday!~

More cool DAMNED news

One of my many pictures from the Angelspit concert. Really love this one!

Hi there! I am so excited to hear that the DAMNED art show will once again be a feature story for one of metro Detroit's biggest publications, Real Detroit Weekly. OOOoooo, very exciting stuff!!! As I said before this is not your typical art show...it's a pretty big deal. And they will probably use some art pieces in the article for pictures. I wouldn't expect mine to get in...but I can sure hope. ;} (Last year's cover of RDW for DAMNED was very creepy and disturbing-a photograph of a person's tongue wrapped in barbed wire-ouch!!!)

Why DAMNED is a big deal (imo)? First I'd say because it's only once a year (this show being the 2nd year). Second because H.R. Giger and Marilyn Manson will be displaying their art at DAMNED for year two, and those are some pretty BIG names. Third because it caters to both artists and the general public who appreciate creepy/spooky/bizarre/disturbing/thought-provoking art. And lastly (and maybe because I'm pretty sure it's only a DETROIT thing-it's on Devil's Night (the 2nd night of the show).

And Devil's Night is the night before Halloween (the 30th)...a night that is feared a bit (yet not as much as in previous years) because of people basically being BAD-causing trouble late into the night. Good example: my mom works as a custodian at a school (the night shift 3-11pm) and she has to stay in her car (in the parking lot) watching the premises until probably 2 or 3 am. So yeah, it's a lil' spooky of a night here in the Detroit area. I think maybe once something egged my car...that was really fun to get off. Ugh!

Click HERE to see Real Detroit's website if you're interested. Please know that DAMNED isn't featured in it just YET...very soon though...and you know I'll post about that of course! I just put the addy if you wanted to see their site. And since I'm in the show I get many heads-up (which is great...especially so I can pass on the news) and here's exactly what the email said to me about RDW...

"We are now coming up on the final 2 weeks before DAMNED and things are picking up around the event. We received confirmation that one of Detroit's largest papers Real Detroit will be creating another feature story on DAMNED like last year!"

And here's what was said about the first night's VIP reception, which I'm REALLY looking forward to.

RECEPTION: As stated before, the artist reception is Thursday October 29^th from 7pm until 9pm. There will be a chef preparing tapas appetizers as well as an absinthe tasting, special sneak preview performance and other goodies. This is a perfect time to chat with those wanting to meet the artists or purchase their art before the public doors.

And that will pretty much RULE!!! I have no idea what TAPAS appetizers are (anyone who knows, feel free to tell me) but I'm sure it'll be interesting. AND I've only had absinthe once so it'll be cool to have some again. But not TOO much of course as I want to be somewhat sane when chatting with people...haha.

So that's all the news for now. Things I still need to do include: wrapping up (possibly putting in boxes) my 2 art pieces, getting my outfits coordinated for both nights (well a girl has got to look her best), and maybe doing notecards that I would sell in the gift shop. I thought I could do it but they aren't coming out the way I wanted 'em too...so I might just drop that idea. I'll see how it goes...as I still have 2 weeks before the show. But time flies so I must do the most important thing first--->which is wrapping/boxing my pieces so they won't get damaged while they are sitting around in the gallery waiting to get put up.

OK< wow, this post was much longer than expected. Sorry!!! Alright, take care and chat with you later.

My name in PRINT...well, online print for the 1st time

(After cutting my terribly long bangs. They actually look kinda crappy. The headband is the solution. I chopped 'em a bit too much cuz again, SO LONG, so the band pushes down my hair. Of course I have to go and do this 2 weeks before the art show! But my hair grows really fast so hopefully I'll be able to sport my bangs then. ^_^)

The artist roster for the DAMNED II art show is finally up. Unfortunately neither H.R. Giger nor Marilyn Manson will be attending the show though :(...BUT some of their art will be there which is still very cool. So just to say I was in a show with Manson & Giger's work is pretty awesome to me!

Anyhow over 700 pieces (not artists) submitted art and approx. 130 artists got in. I'm not sure how many pieces each person got in but as most of you know my now I got two pieces in. One that I made particularly for DAMNED II (Female Baggage) and the other (Bruised Girl) was not made purposely for the show...but found out I got that one in first, go figure!

Anyways check out the roster HERE and you'll see the list of artists (which about half are from Detroit...some from other states...and even some from overseas...so this is not just your typical local show, which is a good thing of course!). And don't worry if you don't know who any of them are, I know maybe 5 artists, including Giger & Manson.



BUT not to toot my own horn or anything but my name is kinda high on the list...well, it's still below Giger & Manson and the "special guest" artists but still up there because they put the artist names in alphabetical order by first name, not last...cuz some don't have last names...I'm assuming that's why.



Anyways, it's my first time seeing EVE NOIR in print (well, you know besides here)...because it is an alias I created just a few years ago. Pretty much when I changed my old artist name (which was RUSSET, don't ask me why...just thought it sounded cool). I have a lot of old pieces of art (going back to 2001 or so) with that name on it...yes no last name or maybe no first name...just Russet. I may (MAY, not sure yet) sell some of my old canvas sheets at a cheaper price in my ETSY shop because I do have a bunch that I still think are cool...just with my old 'artiste' name on 'em.



OK, please check out the roster (and the whole site while you're there)...feed my ego (you know leave me a comment)...and take care.



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And thanks for looking at the roster if you choose to TOO!~