This year’s COCA (Center on Contemporary Arts) Art Marathon was located in the Fremont Abbey Arts Center in Seattle. See, what COCA does for this event is take several unsuspecting artists and stick them in a big room for 24 hours where they are forced to stay awake, make art and drink bad coffee. All the artworks are then whisked away, tagged, photographed, put on display and offered up for auction.
This was my second year participating. Once again, due to the tediousness of my painting style, I was only able to create four pieces. Many artists, like my friend Geoffrey Garza, created six or more. Anyway, I was happy with the paintings that came out of my sleep deprived stupor. I also met a lot of really great people. And ideas from the four works I made will be transferred into future paintings.
Thanks to Daniel Smith for donating art supplies for me and my friend Geoffrey Garza. I was provided with several tubes of Primatek watercolors (a unique paint made with authentic mineral pigments), some of their new line of stick watercolors and a handy apron. This was a big help, and much appreciated.
This is the cute building we worked in, complete with beautiful stained glass windows.
People starting to set up shop.
Geoffrey Garza setting up next to my station.
Probably about 7 or 8 pm working on the painting that would be titled, “Comfort.”
Geoffrey Garza, painting machine!
Marc Lindsay
Jill Levine made this perfectly sized little black book that I still want.
Emily Gherard made this sweet little Northwest Artist style abstract in oil.
Irene Wood makes sumi type abstracts and wears cute boots :)
I love to look at encaustic paint pots on the hot plate, pretty.
Some of Daved Francis’ found objects.
The start of my painting titled, “Moving.”
Amost done. For some reason I forgot to take a photo of it when it was done.
“Comfort” in the works…
“Memory” completed.
Background for “Ghost Ship.”
My last painting - all done at around 7am on Saturday. Time to go take a nap before the auction starts at 6pm.
Pedro trying to figure out how to Tweet from this damn thing!
Vice President of the COCA board, Danilo Banilla (with black hat), helping with set-up for the auction.
Pedro De Valdevia with his beautiful wife.
No sleep looks good on these folks, don’t you think?