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Animal Activist Artwork
In this post I'm going to be adding the animal activist artwork that I'm making and hoping to do more of. Animal activism about endangered animals, animals rights, veganism, speciesism, animal abuse prevention, spay and neuter to prevent pet over-population etc... those are the causes nearest and dearest to my heart.
Elizabeth Montague Art 2019
These are some art images I created in 2019. So far I'm just posting some digital artwork, but I do have some paintings I was working on until I got tired of breathing the fumes. I'll finish them when I finally have a room separate from my main living area where I can paint and let the paintings dry and let them finish emitting toxic fumes before I bring them into the living and breathing area.
Happy to be Vegan for the Animals
I've recently passed my first year anniversary of eating a strictly vegan diet.
I was vegetarian on and off many times in my life, starting at age 16 while traveling in Africa and seeing so many amazing animals there. Unfortunately I was never able to be completely vegetarian and gave up trying for most of my life. I think I've been able to eat vegan for this long due to my increased knowledge on the subject, the increased number of vegan food options and supplements options available and the fact that being vegan as opposed to vegetarian eliminates the use and potential over use of dairy on a vegetarian diet. I feel the supplements I take now have been critical for me remaining vegan for the last 14+ months.
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Elizabeth Montague Art 2017-2018
Here's an assortment of images I created in 2017 and 2018.
Most of these images were created on my phone, even the drawings were done on my phone, drawing with my finger. I loved how the limitations of drawing with my finger influenced the style of the drawings. I also loved being able to lay down and be comfortable while I was drawing on my phone after sitting at my computer working on graphic design all day. I do need a newer, better, faster phone to be able to work on any files large enough to print a decent size though.
Several of these images are spontaneous accidental artworks that were created by digital corruption. I love the spontaneously glitched images but I also want to improve my own databending skills someday.
Although I took many many photographs during this time, I consider most of them in a different category such as simply photography, landscapes, future artwork resource material or documentation rather than being my art. I have included a small selection of my favorite unaltered photos here. You can find more of my photography on my instagram account.
Toward the end of 2018, I completed 2 traditional paintings on paper and started a third, that was finished in 2019 and will be added to my 2019 portfolio as soon as I create one. I'm planning on doing a series of small paintings on wood in 2019.
Spaghetti Infinity
My unfinished instrumental project tentatively named Spaghetti Infinity. "Spaghetti" because some of the music sounds like weird Spaghetti Western style music... and I've always loved spaghetti. "Infinity" because it can be something hopeful to believe in but also because some of this music is pretty repetitive.
Elizabeth Montague Interviewed by DJ Dominic Trix on KFJC
I started building a video to go along with this interview of me by DJ Dominic Trix from Wednesday 6/3/09 2-5pm on KFJC 89.7 FM but I never quite finished the video so I'm finally putting the interview up by itself in the meantime. Here's the story of how the interview came about and a follow-up meeting between the DJ and myself in Santa Monica. I wrote the below paragraphs back in 2009.
Elizabeth & Friends’ Musical History
I wrote the following introduction in 2008. I can't believe how much time has passed and that I never finished the new music that I was working on at the time... oh well at least I put some of the old music online.... maybe someday I'll get back to working on that "new" stuff again or I may just post the pieces that now seem "good enough", they are kinda cool as is, just very sparse and kinda childishly experimental. I'm not sure I will ever want to finish the others at this point, it might be better to just start from scratch if I ever record again. In the meantime I'm re-posting some stuff from my old blog and adding some new things here and there.
Laughing Academy & Tin Brood
- Triple Feature
- Silence for Two
- Thick Talk
- Power of Words
- Threatening Trees
- Night is Black
- Life Goes On
- Trenches
- Tarantella
- The Only Place
- Sweet Cocoon
- Cracked Bone & Why Am I
- Tarantella
- Dogs Bark
- Do Hickey
Around the time that Tin Brood stopped performing, Joe Dean and I recorded this experimental vocal music.
I was in the bands Laughing Academy and Tin Brood in the early and mid 1980s. My main artner (no pun intended, I meant to type Partner but I like Artner better) was my significant other at the time, Joe Dean. Prior to Laughing Academy and Tin Brood, Joe and I had been in 3 recording and performing bands together in Santa Barbara: fX, a few Circles and Victor the Florist (I will be posting music from those bands at some point). When we moved to Los Angeles in 1983 we formed Laughing Academy which morphed later into Tin Brood. We wrote a lot of material that never made it onto an album. We were good at writing, but bad at selling ourselves. A lot of our music was recorded live with a single microphone or once or twice off the mixing board, but we did also record ourselves on a reel to reel 4-track on a few occasions. I will be adding to this collection of songs over time.
Glenn Campling Collaboration
In the mid-80s I was in a band in Los Angeles, CA called Tin Brood. In around '84, we were the opening band for the amazing Tones on Tail when they played at The Music Machine in Santa Monica, CA. I guess I was too shy at the time to introduce myself to the band, I was stupid that way. Now fast forward to 2008 and the age of the internet, I became friends with Glenn Campling, the bass player for Tones on Tail. We were both just starting to use multi-track recording software on our computers, having started both of our musical careers in the analog age, though both being very computer literate using computers as graphic designers. For recording and mixing, Glenn was using Logic Pro and I was using Pro Tools. Somehow in 2009, on different continents, we managed to record this song together.
1994 4-Track Recordings
I've decided to finally put some of my old music up on this website. I don't know why I never have before. Hopefully someday I'll have time to finish my newer recordings or to make new ones. Life got extremely complicated a few years ago and recording music had to take a backseat to my other work.
- Thumping Rose
- Basket of Lead
- Train of Thought
- The Sick and the Well
- Plan with a Flaw
- Out of the Blue
- Wait For You
2014 Digital Art
I'm having fun making abstract digital art in Photoshop!
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Shadows at the Beach Photos
I took these photos of my own shadow against the cliffs facing the ocean at the beach on September 29th, 2013.
I shoot a lot of photos. I used to shoot with a film SLR camera before point and shoot digital cameras became affordable. I miss having an SLR but I do not miss film. I love the fact that I can shoot as many digital photos as I want and it costs practically nothing. I shot these with an inexpensive Nikon digital camera. Read more
Hello There
Hi, Elizabeth Montague here. Thanks for stopping by my site. Below are a few samples of some recent digital artwork of mine.
