Art Assistant

Boxes, A Stand up Bass, And a Zonkey...

2010-11-02T13:16:00.000-07:00

It has definatly been quite a while since we've done a project or a show but we just got in for the Halle center in downtown apex this includes some of ians old work and some of his recent work and as a special edition we added ians stand up bass covered in critters and boxes all around the hallways! You don't know what Boxes I am talking about the boxes have parts of a critter like one box might have half of a turtle critter painted on it and the other might have half of a fox critter on it put them together and you get a new critter you made yourself. Another special feature is a sculpture of a zonkey like the one on the billboard. Its as tall as a 5th grader! (for more pictures go to sands art and go to the gallery)

The Color Me Project!

2010-06-05T12:13:00.001-07:00

It hasn't been too long since I was talking about my own doing my own project called The Color Me Project and my wish finally came true! I made my very own and first project and put it up at the closes park to my house that sorry but I do not know the name of it ); But if you live in Waterford Greens you might know it!

The Ballon Garden Project

2010-04-28T06:04:00.000-07:00

The Balloon Garden is an interactive project we are working on for the upcoming Apex Reunion Exhibit at the Halle Cultural Arts Center in Apex, NC.

The garden will be made up of about twenty helium filled balloons. Inside each balloon will be a dollar bill.

Beside the garden will be a pair of scissors, tacks and a sign that reads:

The Balloon Garden
Each balloon contains a dollar. You may:
Pop a balloon and take a dollar
Cut the string and set a balloon free
Or walk away.

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The Love For Haiti Action

2010-04-28T05:59:00.000-07:00

Come Out for a Spectacular Night of Art, Music, Dessert
and an Outpouring of Love for the People of Haiti.

The Love for Haiti Art Auction will be held
Saturday, April 24
Doors open at 7:00
Auction starts at 8:30.

at the Halle Cultural Arts Center in downtown Apex.

Auctioneer: J.C. Knowles
Judge: M. Blair Ligon
Live Musical Performances!

and a chance to get your very own Zonkey!!

http://www.loveforhaiti.showitsite.com

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The Color me Project

2010-04-28T05:57:00.000-07:00

Usually Ian makes the projects but since Grayson has made three cartoon cats and a cartoon mouse he wants to do his own with his characters if you want to do it too read these instructions!:
The Color Me Project
1st draw three cats and a mouse on carboard (Do NOT color the cats and mouse)
2nd put them near a sidewalk, park, or a library, grocery store, office, ect
3rd hang 5 water guns filled with 5 different paints on them
4th SQUIRT AWAY!

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Billboard

2010-04-28T05:51:00.000-07:00

Remember when Ian got the billboard? Now you can go see it! Yes the billboard is up and the picture is proof. So if you are driving down i-40 to the beach this summer and you are going through Duplin County, near mile marker 373 ....

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Ahead

2010-04-28T05:36:00.000-07:00

This is my new pic for Illustration Friday called Spaceship Race it is about a cat vs another cat in a race to the moon and back to earth. In this picture the cats are heading back to earth but the other cat's ship has broken down whitch is making the cat ahead.

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Zonkey Street

2010-04-09T14:31:00.000-07:00

Zonkey Street(.com) is now up! The purpose of Zonkey Street is to encourage artist everywhere to make Zonkey Art. Zonkey Art is any art that is public, collaborative and interactive. Public: Art can be for everybody, not limited to a few people who enter the doors of a gallery. Zonkey art is accessible to anyone. Collaborative: An artist doesn't have to work alone. Art can be created in pairs, or by small teams or even in large groups. Interactive: Art doesn't have to be static. Anyone who comes in contact with Zonkey art should be able to add, subtract, move, share, comment, give, take, build, destroy, help, arrange or interact in some way. Go check it out now at http://www.zonkeystreet.com/ ! and remember since it just came out it will be changing!

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Jordan Hall of Art

2010-04-09T14:27:00.000-07:00

Our recent show was at Jordan Hall they had carpet walls there so we did NOT put the giant sticky critters instead we did art like the picture. Once again you can write on it. If you take classes there you might want to stop at the main room and take a peek. Also we didn't do all of them like this one was part of the billboard!If you want to see more pictures, as always, go to the Photo Gallery tab at our other site http://www.sandsart.com/

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New Books Coming With BillBoard

2010-04-09T14:22:00.000-07:00

Shellless
Jirst Bluefin's biggest problem is being ignored. Kacela Middleton is the one person in the world who is never ignored. Jirst is about to discover that sometimes it's better to be ignored for no reason than it is to be ignored for nothing at all.

The Metal Marble
Tucker's Aunt Nyce is his mom's little sister only she isn't that little and she isn't that nice. He has to get used to it though because he's stuck working at her beach restaurant The Crab & Grab.

Booth books coming soon on Amazon!

BillBoard

2010-04-09T14:15:00.000-07:00

You know that soon (summer 2010) we will have our very own billboard! We have come up with a solution of what the billboard should look like through many blog and Facebook comments. This is the billboard. It was hard to decide because of the font. First we went with a Zonkey-like font but nobody liked that so one person said that Ian should make his own font. And thats what we ended up doing. But it wasn't just the font it was also where the letters went but after all was said and done we agreed on this.

Rescue

2010-03-28T14:14:00.000-07:00

If you have noticed I have been showing pictures of my work that because im presenting them at illustrationFriday.com this one is about a dragon who is trying to rescue his rider from a prison while he does he got chained but could still fly

Expire

2010-03-20T07:02:00.000-07:00

The main idea of this painting is to show that the little baby penguin that is on the cold, hard, iceberg is scared that he is going to expire if the great whale eats him.

2010-03-07T07:01:00.000-08:00

Our recent show was at Holly Spring's Public Library in Wake County. We there hang up the big (non) sticky critters. And we hung up a few like the Cat and the Zonkey. We had lots of room so there was enough space to fit all the critters even the big ones. We hung markers so people could write on the paper just like at before at common grounds with the alligator. To see more pictures go to the photo gallery at our new site www.sandsart.weebly.com and also make sure to visit on the 12th to meet Ian and Grayson!

2010-03-07T06:58:00.001-08:00

A new site coming soon! www.iansands.com is coming back and www.zonkeystreet.com is coming they will both lead to the same site, Zonkey Street and if you go to Zonkey Street now you'll have a picture appear in front of you saying " Zonkey Street Coming soon!" and that picture was created by yours truly Grayson Sands in photoshop! We don't know what Zonkey Street is going to have on it but its alive so go check out
Grayson's awesome picture!

2010-03-07T06:56:00.001-08:00

Sticky critters it got the name from its sticky notes but are sticky critters sticky? Maybe they used to but not anymore the sticky critters have been edited! Now they are foam boards and bigger a lot bigger maybe too big maybe too little (probably too big!) Now the problem the lines for now they will be on paper but what will happen i don't know.

2010-03-07T06:53:00.000-08:00

The Critters are back! Just not how they were at first. They were foam but now... They are STICKY, really the sticky critters are stickey notes! But Ian doesn't want to hang them up on a piece of paper he wants to hang them up straight up on the wall. But who would allow him to do that! (I would) so we'll just have to see what will happen.

Mooseifesto

2009-11-29T16:09:00.000-08:00

Today we set up the Mooseifiesto it took 6 hours but it was worth it. Two of those hours were getting there and back. The others were work. My dad fixed up the 3D moose head and we got a lot going on. The Mooseifiesto is held up at Wake Forest Coffee we even made a crittermas tree! There are critters throughout Wake Forest Central telling us to bring them back to the coffee shop. Then when the kid/parent/adult comes back with the critter they hang the critter on the tree. We had a lot of creations in there like the sticky note critters, the squid, the 3D moose head (main thing), the zonkey sticky notes, the zonkey, the turtle, and others now if you remember this is and was the first place I ever went to, to be his art assistant and its where I became his art assistant and it was the perfect place for the Mooseifiesto because when we first went there we put a moose on their ceiling and well what goes up must go down but this time it didn't go down. The moose could not come down so they just left it there. Even now a year since we put that show up they still have the moose on their ceiling. Also today we "lost" some more lost critters. Thats all I have for you so go Mooseifiesto and also buy those Cd's! And moose body parts!

2009-11-27T19:43:00.001-08:00

One more thing for today

The sneak peek of the moosifiesto CD (made with garage band!)
No More Christmas This YearOur first song is a heart warming tale of a guy who went to all the trouble of writing his Christmas list and Santa just didn't come through. What else is there to do but plant a bomb in the chimney. Kaboomy! This tune is a little punkish and might not be everyone's cup of tea. And by "everyone" I mean people with no taste in music.Favorite lyrics:Thought it was magic anything that he doesbut I didn't realize what a fat slob he wasso when he slides on the down the chimneyhow quick he's gonna get skinny Kaboomy!!Take a listen: No More Christmas This YearTrapped Beneath the MistletoeOur next ditty is the love song off the disk. Trapped Beneath the Mistletoe is the sappy love song with the human interest story that all the chicks dig. Personally, I just like the ending. That, and the way I say "shnow".Favorite lyrics:Now it's almost Christmas daybut before we retireLet's go upstairs and set our hearts on fireHearts on fireTake a listen: Trapped Beneath the MistletoeChristmas Lights Don't Shine AnymoreThe final track is one of those songs that just hits home. I'm sure we've all experienced the heart break of being dumped around the Christmas season at least once. Some of you more than once. Best features of this track: the incredible guitar solo. Favorite lyrics:And all the streets have now been emptied but the street lights won't go on. I can feel an endless winter. Do you feel there's something wrong?Take a listen: Christmas Lights Don't Shine Anymore

POST A NOTE!

2009-11-27T19:37:00.000-08:00

POST IT NOTES

Some of the newest critters

are...

POST IT NOTES!!!!
weird huh

I know!

at first I didn't really like them but then I got used to them.

2009-11-27T19:34:00.000-08:00

Remember Critter the Cow? He was one of the Lost Critter Project critters.
Then Christy's Creative Space thought it would be a fun idea to send Critter on a Blog tour. So Critter ended up taking a plane to Texas were he visited the blog of PJ Hoover. Remember all that?Well, At Critters second stop he visited Beth's Blog and she took Critter to the Biltmore!
now the critter is coming to Korea!

2009-11-27T19:29:00.000-08:00

Okay people say its winter right?!?

well I say when the leaves are done falling its winter

so look out your window and do not tell me that its winter!

but anyways

my dad will be making a 3D moose for the moosifiesto in december

this 3D moose could or will! Lead to 3D critters!

Its fits nice on my dads wall (if i had more room i would steal it into my room)

2009-11-27T19:28:00.000-08:00

Help! I'm lost!Thank goodness you found me! Take me home and make me your art!Have you found any Lost Art lately?We'd sure like to hear your story. Please take a photo and email us at: ZonkeyStreet@gmail.comWhat's This All About?Need something to spruce up that office cubicle? Can't find that one special centerpiece for the coffee table? Have any of your friends ever said, "Dang, this house needs some art!"If you answered yes to any of these questions than today is your day!Take Me Home and Make Me Your Art is a free, giveaway project that can fill the art void in your life. That's right, the art is free! All you have to do is find it.Tens of pieces of free art have already found their way into the hearts and homes of art collectors across America. Soon, hundreds more pieces will join them waiting for you, the new art collector to Take them Home and Make them Your Art

Critter Goes on Tour

2009-09-17T13:31:00.000-07:00

This is one of the critters from the lost critter project

and The owner on the blog http://christyscreativespace.blogspot.com/ thought it would be a fun idea to send Critter on a Blog tour. Christy posted a photo of Critter on her blog and challenged her reader to give her a good reason to send Critter their way. In return, the winner would give Critter a tour of the town, take him out and show him a good time and then a few days latter, have their own contest giveaway. The winner of that contest would do the same until Critter had made his way around 15 blogs to finally end up back here in apex, NC.The first first place Critter went was to Texas were he visited the blog of PJ Hoover. My understanding is that Critter had a great time in Texas, were he spent some quality time with a couple of tortoise. You can keep track of Critter's adventures at Christy's Creative Space. (And also to keep track i'll have it on the sidebar.)

S.M.A.U.R. Society of Moose Against Using Reindeer

2009-09-17T13:20:00.000-07:00

A Moosifesto

For hundreds of years Santa Clause has been delivering toys to children around the world. Though he is not beyond using outside assistance, Santa has been able to distribute presents on Christmas Eve without the help of FedEx, UPS or the United States Postal System. His primary mode of transportation has been a sleigh driven by an original team of eight tiny reindeer with the occasional help from a mutant red-nosed deer, and a misguided or perhaps delusional dog.

As members of SMAUR, we now provide the following reasons for the immediate elimination of the use of reindeer and the prompt replacement by flying moose.1. More Torque:Pound for pound, moose produce massive amounts more torque than reindeer. Where horsepower, or in this case reindeerpower, is needed for speed, torque is the ability to overcome resistance. Though it is true that speed is necessary to circle the globe in one night, it is the initial ability to pull the sleigh, weighted down by a ginormous amount of toys and often hindered by heavy, laden snow, which is needed before horsepower can even be applied.

2. Ease of Spelling:Riendeer? Reindear? Raindeer? “I” before “E” except after “C” and sometimes “Y”? Isn’t rein spelled r-a-i-n? And deer spelled d-e-a-r? Let’s face it. Without a spell checker, reindeer is just too hard to spell! Moose on the other hand is simple. Only five letters and no confusing vowel arrangements. 3. American Made:Moose are born and bred and raised if the good old US of A! Hiring moose to pull Santa’s sleigh is not only good for America, it’s our patriotic duty. Imports, such as reindeer, are manufactured abroad in such un-American places as Northern Europe and even Russia! Look for the “Born in Maine” label next time you consider hiring your sleigh team.

4. Better Night Vision:All it takes is one foggy Christmas Eve and Santa can be shut down in a heart beat. An entire year’s worth of elf work, down the drain all because of low hanging cloud vapor. The issue, poor eye sight on the part of reindeer. This is more than a threat as it almost happened Christmas Eve 1964. Thankfully, the travesty was narrowly averted after a red fog light was attached to the nose of Prancer. Prancer was later said to have been so humility by the event that he and Cupid fabricated a tale of a red-nose reindeer that saved the day. These so called “close calls” can easily be prevented through the intervention of a deer removable, keen-eyed moose replacement task force.

5. No More Reindeer Games:Reindeer are generally poor-spirited creatures that tend to weed out the vulnerable in the herd and deliberately poke fun of them till, tired and weak, they leave the comfort and safety of the compound. Many times the stronger of the deers will laugh and call the weaker reindeer names. On some occasions there have even been reports of the more feeble reindeers not being allowed to play any reindeer games. Moose have a motto. No moose is left behind. Conclusion:We believe every effort should be made to, and a call for, a cease and desist order to be implemented, for all reindeer regarding any attempts to fly, pull, or be in connection or association with, Santa, the elves, toy delivery or Christmas in any way, shape, form or means.Furthermore, SMAUR is advocating for the establishment of the Meese Labs where moose and geese can be cross pollinated to form a new species of flying moose (code name: meese). Meese will merge the flight path navigational abilities of the Canadian goose with the strength, torque and American brand name that we have all come to respect and love, of the moose.

Toys

2009-09-17T12:47:00.000-07:00

Coming in December:

The Mooseifestio is coming and I wanted to inform you about it

The Mooseifestio is about moose taken over the reindeer on Santa's sled(Read the paragragh on the post below for more information)

At the Mooseifestio there will be toys look at the pic and you can see what i'm talking about too.

2009-08-23T14:13:00.000-07:00

i got the most greatest idea this morning

It was BUSINESS CARDS!

so i thought about it and i made them

here's how they look now but I'm getting them turned into real business cards

here are the buissness cards

2009-08-21T10:25:00.000-07:00

Today wasn't much because

I'm just telling you that the Lost Projects movies are on the sidebar but

they are cut off a bit
i messed with the codes and stuff but thats as small as the videos are gonna get

and also i'm trying really hard to fix the bootleg video of the news so i can get it on the blog but i can't seem to do it

but i will try my hardest

2009-08-12T16:20:00.000-07:00

Finally the moment you've all been waiting for
the video that will change your life
that's in perfect condition

watch and learn

The Lost Critter Project

2009-08-07T14:45:00.000-07:00

Today we wrapped it up
We finished all 500!
and...
tonight NBC 6 or 7 o'clock we will be on TV
Yep. We got interviewed this morning
now soon there will be a video of it up on the side
and a new critter video is coming out
its already in the making so over on the side where YouTube is
will be the new critter movie
also we are going to be in two newspapers
that's all the information i have now

{I have to go so the pictures will be late}

2009-08-06T15:07:00.000-07:00

You won't believe this!

WE HAVE MADE-

457 Creautures

So after making the critters we stopped at downtown apex to check out whats going on. We set the lost & found boxes at

Realty World

All Booked up

Green Pea Nursery

and The Chamber

Then we hid four creautures

it went out preety well. Now we are going to hid a few every day.

Here are the pics-

2009-08-05T14:45:00.000-07:00

Tomarow we are going to try and knock off 100 critters because...

WE HIT THE 350 MARK!!

so 100 plus 350 equals

(my math smarts)

450 which means if we go quick we can make that 150 we could knock off
and then we would be done. Also tomarrow we might deliver the boxes which is good. Another thing we have made magnetic critter with magnit tape.

so this all ends up on tomarrow

Tomarrow has a lot a of stuff counting on it

Here are the pics

2009-08-05T08:40:00.000-07:00

IMPORTANT NEWS!!!

We have created 250 CRITTERS!!! Thats halfway of our goal 500!
Isn't it amazing we are still working today too!
I don't have much pics sooooo-

Here aren't the pics

2009-07-31T11:48:00.000-07:00

Day 4, we have 100 critters made and our special crew making them with their nick names

Ian- Yo
Caitlan - Eric
Eric- Caitlan
Graham- dancer
T.J- Gamer,Writer,Player
Me -Art Asistant
Kelsey- Minion
Tessa- Kelsey's Siters
Ahthomy- Itailian
Taylor- Asian
Nicole- Nicole

Thanks for helping

Here are the pics

2009-07-29T13:37:00.000-07:00

we went back to the apex high school classroom today room 511 and we did more creatures but instead of it just me and dad people came this time!and brought soda (:. We now have seventeen full creature that meas seventeen creatures that are glued together cut out stickerized and over on the corner so 484 left woo hoo oh wait was that wrong calculations hmmm...

here are the pics

i really think that was wrong answer hmmm...

2009-07-28T09:31:00.000-07:00

Can you figure this out

%)) rettil srettirc rof nwotnwod xepa ew evah ot ekam nwod ni eht tra moorssalc ta xepa hgih loohcs

I'll show you the answer and pics tomorrow

ANSWER:

500 little critter we have to make down in the art classroom at apex high school is it true are we really going to make 500 critter for downtown apex for kids to find? Yep its true we are going to give ten businesses each business gets 50 critters now isn't that exiting and after that the banner up there will get edited with more of the art

here are the pics

2009-07-07T07:58:00.000-07:00

More Ice eggs

Today we did 9 nest at the park the bigs nest had like 5 or 6 and the little ones had like 3-2 a lot of people were looking at them it was wayyyyy better than the last time we had 35 eggs at like 11:30 am we are going to go pick up some art work at somplace(i forgot where)because we drove an hour long drive there yesterday and it was closed! So we are doing it today.(after all that we saw a captapiller in our backyard and it was huge!)

anyways-

here are the pics-

2009-07-06T05:29:00.000-07:00

ETSY (drum roll)

Have you ever wanted a zonkey a moose or a squid but me and dad take the show down then ETSY!!!!!! the my boss has posted the original zonky from Ligers, Tigons And Pizzlies: A Pop Expressionist Guide To Newimals The original dinocow from How To Milk A Dinosaur and his squid which really isn't in any book so yea

here are the pics-

2009-06-21T14:05:00.000-07:00

After we did the ice eggs over at the park we left for da beach yay and a the beach we made clumps of sands with seaweed shaped as a nest on top of them. and placed more ice eggs inside. NOBODY PAID ATTENTION THE ARE CRAZY! But at a simple moment my boss had an idea me and my sister placed Doritos ( the best chips in the world) inside the nest hidden nobody could see them except for... SEAGULLS! One seagull sat on the eggs but i forgot to tell that this time there were 7 nest it was fun but now I'm back from the beach. that's that

here are the pics-

2009-06-11T05:16:00.000-07:00

A couple of days ago( actually about 1 week ago) my dad froze water balloons then he popped them they looked like big round pieces of ice just they were still colored! So after that we went to some park and gathered a bunch of pine and made a fake nest. Then we gently put the water balloons in the nest they looked like giant bird eggs. We went to the bench with the camera and took pictures of people looking at them. It was fun but now they're melted and if you go to the park all you'll see is a empty nest. But I have been making a lot of sculptures lately so i want to share those with you.

here are the pics-

2009-06-05T13:55:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was fun not fun and fun then not fun I'll tell you why

yesterday as soon as i got out of school we drove all the way to the new art show no stops i like being in a car its fun but we had to be in it for hours! it was soooooooo far away so it wasn't fun then we reached it and we set up our art show that was fun then we drove for hours! to home not fun seeeee.

2009-05-30T13:28:00.000-07:00

Well today we did 2 things

it sounds small but it took us till forever

the first thing we did today is my dad made a float we tied it to a strong fishing line the float was a deer it was cool while we were there we saw one of my bosses students she had made a float too! it was a turtle and it broke ): oh well after that we tied a zonkey(if you don't know what a zonkey is go to my dad's website i showed you earlier)to 6 balloons and we let it fly! it flew far away our goal is its going to fly real high then it will go down to the ground the person who gets it will read the zonkey and it says YOU FOUND ME!! i was tied to a balloon in apex, NC and you found me take a picture of me and send it to zonkeystreet@gmail.com and tie me to another balloon if you want. Then I went to wendys

that was my day

2009-05-24T05:54:00.000-07:00

My boss is now making street signables

its a public art project for downtown apex.

Each street signable would be about. 6 feet tall and provide a marker and a large space for anyone to write on.Without getting arrested

here are the previews

2009-05-17T11:29:00.000-07:00

okay so i made this awesome video for my boss-
(did i tell you my boss was my dad?)
and he said he would put it on Utube!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
also my bosses website is
http://www.iansands.com/

2009-05-16T06:28:00.000-07:00

Last night was a total blast at the Halle cultural Arts Center the divrege party was great heres a snip of it and we hung the little owl things 22 of them and fifteen were found when we left! did you go to the diverge? was it fun to you? do you go to apex high school???

2009-05-15T18:43:00.000-07:00

Hi my name is Gray and i am Ian sands art assitant i just started this blog i've been blogging for a long time now a couple of years maybe. and here are my artistic adventures that are true

here is my first post-

Okay the art project(top secert) we are working on all day! Go downtown apex there are little critters kinda like owls it says on it somthing like Help! I'm Lost! bring me to the halle arts center i miss my brothers and sisters! and at that place my dad made a huge lost&found box really just a found box today we hung 22 of them up and there are the last time i checked 15! so hurry up!(I gave you five hints but they're probally already found)