Online artist blog, documenting 30+ years of creative work.
Sculpting is a term for working with all kinds of materials in a 3D way. This includes ceramics, metals, plastics, paper and more!
Progress on the bike trailer design: it’s becoming a 360 digital media studio. When I bike to the beach or park I can bring this little trailer for my own use and then some to mix work with exercise! Achieving a work life balance is important and somehow this is my solution. Equipment assembled so…
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Finally, I’m getting around to calculating the board feet I need to create the frame for my mini-gallery aka bike trailer aka mobile dog house. These plans are simplified to a basic box with one window and garage-style side doors. It’s a starter kit for the small scale model you see in the upper right…
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New stones from my recent trip to Cambria. The stones are citrine, pink heulandite, green opal, azurite, machite, cuprite, rainbow moonstone, rose quartz, and labradorite. I arrange the rocks on colored glitter sand in a large papier-mâché hemisphere made from old sketchbook pages.
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I took a ceramics class from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art over the holidays. The class is open and I did a couple slab bowls and a mermaid rattle.
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Each year I create a limited addition series of gifts for my friends and family. This year I am using recycled materials, eco-friendly art materials, found objects, and things hanging around the studio. The end result will be a little creative kids for making beaded bracelets or miniature sculpture dioramas.
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Progress stopping the rotation of the earth, covering it in plastic, and taking a plaster cast of a half sphere shape to draw in. Testing the process, one more step of paper mache in surface preparation before I draw and paint on it!
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These are some work in progress photos of the two new little figures of mermaids.
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I’ve finished my first single person powered, red wagon cargo sized artist’s self promotion festival display. It features a free DIY body paint station, small objects for sand tray therapy kits, works on paper, and illustrations in books, stickers, magnets and cards. I will be taking a test drive tomorrow youthinteractive for the funk zone…
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Working on new hanging planters. This is the first one. It’s about 4 inches tall and made from polymer clay and acrylic paint with hemp string and succulents. Painting on a round object is cool and I had to take photos from each angle. After finishing the planter, I recreated the image in watercolor.
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