Halloweeny and boredom

So Halloween was great I went as Nurse Chapel from the original Star Trek, Kevin was Spock and our friend was Kirk. It was great on Fri we went to the Van's custom show curated by Andrew Davis at Cave Gallery. Sat we just chilled at Ryan's former apt.


I made my costume out of a XXL shirt!

So I've been trying to clean me house and get rid of stuff (everyone who know me knows I'm a "collector") So my fam hasn't seen it all painted. So i'm posting it.

Beside the front door my awesome sewing machine cabinet... currently I have my garage sale sewing machine on top cause the awesome old one in the cabinet is getting new wiring! And the roses where from a huge box of roses me and my wonderful minions found on the road while celebrating this wonderful tuesday we just had. We feel that they were a sign for us, showing that wonderful things were about to happen and change was a comin'.

Looking into the kitchen from the living room. A beautiful painting by Joe Schlaud and a silhouette of me at I think 2 and a little print of a painting of mine. And the end table has all my wonderful different flute and recorders I've collected from all over.


Part of my awesome art wall. Got prints of Heather Hansma, Camilla d'Errico, James Jean Poster, and some cutouts from juxtapoz. On the other half of the wall I have prints from Ryan Gitter, Jeff Nolan and a original screen print from Kristina Rafalski... I'll have to take a picture of those when that area is a little more clean. I love all my artwork and framing and hanging it. Oh and I have a wonderful screen print from Leyland Devito, he has the coveted spot above the tv! I'm so excited I have my full front room painted it only took a couple months!

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Paintings

Here are progress shots of two paintings for shows.

This is finished and was shipped a couple weeks ago for the Modus Lotus "Pop Euphoria Show" Its based on Peter Pan and how Wendy always tried to play with the mermaids but they would always pull away from her and tease her. The scan is a partial... my scanner wasn't working correctly so this is all i have of the drawing. The show is a charity show for Toys for Tots. If my painting doesn't sell during the show then it will be auctioned off :)


This one is the companion piece for the SF Gallery 1988 show "Vivisect Playset 2008" curated by Luke Chueh. It's "Goat Cloak" hehehe I like the name even though it's a big horn sheep cloak. It was the best name I could come up with to go with "Giraffe Jacket". The painting is pretty much done but I'll wait a little before posting because the show open in Dec.



Oh and here is the ring pillow I made for my lovely friend Morgan Hawkins... now Drain's wedding. She sent me a link to the pictures and here is the beautiful boy who carried the pillow down the aisle. It looked like a wonderful wedding, I'm so sad I missed it.

Paintings Woes

I need to get back into the swing of things... I miss schools pressure to be good!

Ring Pillow

A Season of weddings!

My sister got married and my good friend Morgan, all in one weekend!!! Unfortunately I couldn't go to Morgans, but I saw the pictures and it looked amazing! But she was great enough to send me pictures of the ring pillow I made her (because silly me didn't take any pictures)



Now I need to get a picture of the book I made for my sister. And I'll post some pictures from her wedding, I was a bridesmaid! It was gorgeous.

my job

So recently I started working for Schubot Jewellers which is a old high end Detroit jeweller, they carry really expensive jewelry and make custom stuff for the wealthy and CEO types of the area. The jewelry is incredible. Here's a pic of a picture I took of one of my rings, this was given to my grandma by my grandpa when they first started dating. It's a Tigers Eye with a carving of a spartan head, this motif was popular for the time but mainly seen in men's rings and were usually bulky "class ring" styles. This is I guess pretty rare to have such a small stone on quite a dainty ring. Also the bumps along the gold band were made to give the illusion of diamonds in the setting, this was because really the common person could not afford diamonds during that time... Well hope you enjoy.

vacations

So theres been alot of traveling this summer, I need to post pictures of all the pretties I saw all across the country when Kevin and I drove along Route 66 to california then back through the middle of the country seeing all the pretty national parks and camping. It was wonderful...

My Studio

Kevin and I have finally cleaned up our studio spaces. Here's a little picture of my desk area, I'll have to post more pictures of our little house as soon as I have all my walls painted and artwork hung, but I'm so excited that the house is finally getting organized and becoming our home.