Onwards and upwards to the second half of the photos from the RAW artists October show we attended last Thursday.

I don’t think the silver petticoat was the most flattering outfit to wear, but the excited responses to it were wonderful. At any rate I got it out of my system (for now).

Nate Knodel’s impressive, enormous oil paintings. It’s been a looong time since I painted anything on a canvas larger than 18 x 24. I do like a nice large painting.

Your Pals posing upstairs with drinks in hand–whiskey sour for the Boy; ginger ale for me.

I loved Vincent Bachmann’s art. I regret not meeting him, drat! That pesky art show A.D.D..

This reggae band was really good.

I love reggae music! It always makes me happy.

Could Corinne look any more adorable here? I peer pressured her into buying that pea coat from “Delias”–I have a similar one in royal blue. The Boy is inhaling a “Seattle dog”–hot dog with a heavy layer of cream cheese. Mmmmmm, cream cheeeeeeeeese.

The Boy caught this model eating (and glaring).

There were four fashion shows that night, which was pretty cool.

Namu is a Japanese-inspired line, and the models had on short petticoats. Corinne and I had joked about my petticoat possibly matching the clothes in the fashion show, and in a way, it did!

The model in the pink petticoat was adorable. So photogenic. She also had on one pink fishnet stocking and one blue, a nice touch.

Love the red ponytails. She complimented my petticoat after the show and I told her I loved her hair.

Not just female models this time.

Overwhelmed by all the fabulousity!

Corinne is so cuuuuute. I’m digging her new darker hair color.

All of the models for the hair-and-make-up portion of the show were beautiful.

Lovely line-up!

It seemed like 80% of the people at the show were guests of this team. This was my third RAW show–first show as a guest–and I’d never heard such loud cheering for any artist before.

Well, who doesn’t like a good hair-and-make-up artist? Kissy, can you hear meeeeeeee?

Love the 60s lashes on this model.

Actually, I think I might have those lashes. No wonder I was so attracted to them!

The final artist of the night made all of his clothes out of garbage sacks and bits of paper, right before the show.

The bustle on this dress was made out of paper garlands, which reminded Corinne and I of the Christmas garlands kids make in elementary school.

Newspaper corset with…rhinestone details?

The designer was hysterical. He sounded like Harvey Fierstein (with bronchitis) and growled, “I make art.” Nice.

Me too, little guy. In fact, no time like the present.