Photo Gallery > Personal Works (16)
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Entrance
Here's the house all decorated for Halloween and my guitar propped against the doorframe
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Memories and Dreamtime
My first painting in over five years for a gallery exhibition!
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Memories and Dreamtime close-up
Close-up of blue panel of Memories and Dreamtime
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Untitled
Mixed Media (primarily acrylic) on paper. 2006. Size: 22"h x 30"w. I don't like to give paintings like these titles because really they are abstracts. Some people say they look at this painting and see a flower, others see a volcano ready to explode. As an artist I have to live with the fact that people bring their own interpretations to my work, but I also hate all those art aficionados who have some weird interpretation of how an artist "felt" while making a particular piece. This painting is nothing more than me trying to capture my emotions right now and picking out colors which suited my mood. I had no sketch, no anything really other than the desire to put down on paper how I'm feeling right now. This is the painting that resulted.
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Katie at 2
Acrylic on Canvas. 2005-2006. Size: 48"h x 30"w. You have to click on this portrait to see it fully (just like a lot of the pics on this page.) This is a portrait that sat dormant on my easel for at least a year while I fretted about how to go about painting it and kept putting it off. I love this picture. We were wading in a fountain and I snapped a picture of Katie giving me her "cheese-eating" grin. When Kim bought my other painting that hung in my office I wanted to replace it with something that made me happy, and now I have. I don't generally do portraiture work, actually this is the first one I've done. Not bad.
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Katie at 2 (close-up)
Just a close-up of the painting above. Don't I have the cutest daughter?
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Mother and Baby
Linoleum Block Print on Rice Paper. Size: 14"h x 11"w. This is a block I carved and pulled prints off of for our annual dinner at Nurses for Newborns. It not only served as the invitation cover, but also the cover on the programs, cards, etc. I learned how to block print while I was pregnant with Katie, so a lot of the imagery I did with the block revolved around the maternal bond. That's probably why so many of the other block prints I've done are in the same theme.
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Sleeping Lion
Pen and ink on watercolor paper. 30"w x 22"h. 2006.
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Cog In Wheel
Mixed Media (primarily acrylic) on Canvas. Size: 40"h x 40" w. I love this painting, unfortunately it's no longer in my possession. Kim Miller walked into my office one day and literally talked me out of it. She also paid me handsomely for it, and I know it has just as special of a place in her heart and home as it had in mine.
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faerie 6.jpg
Just a close-up of the faerie. I'll post another picture of her after I get her in a habitat. I've also made a couple others which I will take pictures of soon and post here as well.
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faerie 5.jpg
And Voila! The faerie is complete. She is dressed and this particular one is holding a Quail egg as if she's listening to it. I try and match each faerie to the personality of the person I give it to, so having her with the egg was totally appropriate as my sister carves these eggs into beautiful masterpieces.
The only thing missing is the habitat to put her in. I'm waiting for the wood and glass box to arrive in the mail within the next couple of days.
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faerie 4.jpg
Add the outer skirt, wings, leggings, etc.
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faerie 3.jpg
Got the hair styled and more clothing finished.
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faerie 2.jpg
Here she is after adding hair, painting her face to give her a little more realistic quality, and sewing on a shirt. Each faerie I design I also design and sew the clothes on by hand so that not only is the faerie unique, but the outfit worn is also unique.
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faerie 1.jpg
The medium I use is a polymer clay called "Sculpy". I wind it around an armature and make each feature from the eyes to the fingertips by hand. Each sculpture is one-of-a-kind because I don't use molds.