Olvia Hopkins
(Still Playing Cowboys and Indians)How early in your life did you start making art ?I started making art as long as I can remember. My mom said I would draw pictures on everything from walls to the refrigerator to paper. I started taking art classes and really seriously getting into it when I was seven.
Who are your influences ?
My biggest influences have been my childhood friend, Ann and my elementary school art teacher Mrs.Herrick. Ann told me when we were very young that no matter what happens to keep doing art because she believed in my talent. I always look back on her words when I doubt myself. And Mrs. Herrick most of all nurtured my artistic side from day one. Artistic influences as far as who I admire and look to channel in my own artwork are Raphael, Richard Shmid, and Casey Baugh, and many more.
What's one of your favorite subjects to draw ?
I paint people, especially faces. I am focusing lately more on capturing whatever mood the person has through the expressions on their faces. You can get so much information from just a persons face, it's an opening into their world.
What medium do you mainly use ?
I primarily use oil on canvas now, but my previous works went back and forth with acrylic on panel and oil on panel and pen and ink on paper.
What keeps you up at night ?
I love The Walking Dead. But after I watch it, the lights stay on.. all night.
Andre Bathalon of LNDMRK (Montreal,Canada ) http://vimeo.com/user13082330
How early in your life did you start making art ?
I'm not drawing anymore, but my hunger for art started when I was around 5, Thanks to two things: Cartoons and Toys. Toys companies started creating TV series based on action figure lines, and US television stations inserted toys commercials during Saturday morning cartoons. Their marketing startegy hooked me up, I became a toy addict. I wanted to take my love for toy to another level, so I started drawing the toys I owned, creating new stories, new chartecters, new universes. Toy packagings and comic books fueld my interest for art and creation.
Who are your influences ?
Richard C. Marcej, Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, Chuck Jones, Guy Laliberté,
What exactly is LNDMRK ?
LNDMRK is a creative agency, it first goal is to value and promote artists through creative and innovative projects. We offer solutions to companies who wish to add artistic values to their marketing strategies or to revisit their brand image. LNDMRK also aiming at the beautification of spaces, outside, inside, private or public, via integration of artworks, sculptures, installations or murals.
What's one of your favorite subjects to draw ?
Food, I love to draw food.
What medium do you mainly use ?
I don't draw or create anymore but must admit that my favorite medium to look at are clay and oil painting. I am always amazed by the level of mastery that artists can reach with a particular medium, I love the feeling of high admiration I sometime gets when I look at an artwork.
What keeps you up at night ?
The search for happiness, global warming, the rich getting richer
INSA IS IN MONTREAL! from LNDMRK on Vimeo.
Brittany Bly
How early in your life did you start making art ?
When I was 3, and I lived in Tulsa with
my parents and my big brother. I had beautiful lemon yellow walls. But they were missing something. . .I stood on my bed and starting in the middle of the wall at first small and then getting bigger and wider I drew the best spiral! It was grassy green and perfect. My parents hated it and I got in serious trouble but it was worth it.The first time I went to an art museum was pretty silly too. I was about 8, and a dead serious 8 year old at that. I knew that smart people liked to look at art and think really hard about it. So, I prepared myself for visiting the museum by putting on a simple black dress and pulling my hair back into a demure, high pony tail. And my shoes had to be serious too, so I chose black flats. When I looked at those paintings that day you would have thought that I was an adult. I studied them with a very pensive and dry expression.
Who are your influences ?
Everyone. Absolutely everyone. I had a brilliant friend that taught me not to ever think you are smarter than someone else's artwork. That's how you let your brain stagnate and let taste set in. Suddenly you're making the same painting over and over or at least everything you make looks like you. If you want to change and you want to grow you should at least try to find something good in everything that everyone makes.
What's one of your favorite subjects to draw ?
Anything nerdy. Science, math, organized patterns, fractals. Anything Nintendo!
What medium do you mainly use ?
Lately, I've been enjoying handicraft. I like things that you can have fun with and not take too seriously like clothes and jewelry. I like that you can wear them and use them everyday.
You coordinate events as well correct, How did you get into that ?
Geez. I've always been a Lisa Simpson style overachiever. I ran the art history club in college and was the editor in chief of the student journal of art and art history. Then I got an amazing job doing programming at the Museum of Fine Arts and ran a gallery after that. I curated and organized a bunch of art shows and lectured at Lawndale and even wrote an art column for the Free Press. Now my life is a lot more simple because I only work for myself doing events and managing a modest e-commerce. I love to see people having a good time and I love the freedom that working for myself has to offer. But I also like my life to be simple. Quality over quantity and less is more (always all the time)!
Do you have events coming up in the Houston Area ?
Yes, several. The Houston Holiday Pop Shop is an Indie Craft Fair, Art, and Music Festival that is taking place at Summer Street Studios November 23rd and 24th. I am very happy with artists, designers, and local businesses that are participating in the event. Lady Lazarus Press, Nano Fiction, and Jag and Nevi will be there. Jason Villegas, Justin Anville, and Michael Rodriguez are exhibiting art work. HTown Streats and Good Dog will be serving yummies and bands will be announced this week.
I am also planning a Dreams Come True dance party with Mike Murland but the date hasn't been set yet.
What keeps you up at night ?
Nothing. Nothing at all. I sleep through all three of my kitties crying at the window to go in and out.
www.houstonholidaypopshop.com
www.brittanybly.com
How early in your life did you start making art ?
I started copying Guns N' Roses shirts and Garfield comics when I was about 12.
Who are your influences ?
I am mostly influenced by music and the things my friends are creating but I have always had a weak spot for Will Oldham,Egon Schiele, and Barry Mcgee. What's one of your favorite subjects to draw ?
Animals,religious symbolism, and text.
What medium do you mainly use ?
Gouache and pen.
What keeps you up at night ?
Trying to figure out how I am going to make all this work with so little time.
http://www.adrianlandonbrooks.com
Brandon. West. (Houston,Texas)
(Still Playing Cowboys and Indians )Who are you ?
My name is Brandon West. I am a singer, writer and visual performer.
Why did you start making music ?
Growing up, I was in an environment that was not always emotionally open and there were times where I felt that I couldn't express my feeling, thoughts, desires as some might have been able to do in such an "it is what it is" atmosphere. So having grown up with music always playing and hearing how Smokey Robinson, Anita Baker, Johnnie Taylor, Rod Stewart, The Rolling Stones, Lighting Hopkins, on and on and on; hearing how their songs and voices and expressionism caught a hold of the listeners being really struck a chord within me. It was then that I discovered that what I couldn't say, I could write, and when I couldn't speak, I could sing.
Who are your influences in this current project?
I have been just opening myself up to hearing and reading everything that I can. From Robin to And One, Neruda to Burroughs, Frank Ocean to Iamamiwhoami. Its a little bit pop, a tad industrial, experimental and there is always soul. I can't shake the feeling! Lets call it 'Modern Electronic Soul'! Let's call it open.
Whom have been your influences in past music projects?
Mj, Madonna, Otis Redding, Tina Turner, The Stones, Leadbelly, Daft Punk, Jeans Team, Disco and funk in general have always been teachers of mine.
How do you feel about the growing popularity of Electronic Music ?
I think it is great. We should always be expanding our minds and opening ourselves to new interests and tastes.
Do you write the lyrics or the music first ?
I tend to usually write the lyrics first. I am a poet, a writer before all else.
What are you listening to right now ?
T.Rex's The Electric Boogie-1971
What was the last show you went to that you really enjoyed?
Little Joe Washington. The man just can't be stopped.
Whats the last thing you ate ?
Two tacos with all the fixin's from the Taco Truck in front of Avant Garden. They are so damn good, especially with bourbon.
band camp http://brandonwest.bandcamp.com/
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