Bringing Adam Back

In my Eve series I have brought Adam back into it, and decided to discuss unfair male stereotypes, or at least the ones that I feel produce the least desirable men. So I'm doing these live size woodcuts, though it is on MDF board instead of real wood, so its much easier to carve, they look like wood cuts.Also while its closer to linoleum, it does not soften with heat, its still pretty physically grueling for me to carve out these stupid things, my whole body hurts after a day of working on them entirely. Yes them, because there is an eve one as well...they are both in the poses of the Durer alter piece. Should turn out pretty sweet.

Hot Wax

Encaustic is the oldest painting medium, and is quite possibly my favorite thing in the world. Mixed media is my passion, and it is a fantastic way to do it.





You Decide, Wax, Feathers and collage on paper.


I hated the print that was under this piece. Hated it. And now, I really dig it.



No More Shame, Collatype relief, wax, and collage on paper.





Pysche and the Puritans, collage and wax on paper






Something Borrowed, Something Broken, Something patterned, and something...., Collage and Wax on Paper

Current Sketchbook:part 1

I realized I've never actually posted something from my sketchbook, so I thought I would seeing how this blog is of the same namesake.

So here goes.

Eve's Journal...so far

Eve's Journal pg 10 of artist book, watercolor

Some Prints

"Smile" - Plexiglass drypoint, and monotype on watercolor paper 19.5"x 27" 5/2010



"Smile: Puritan Headdress" - Plexiglass drypoint and polyplate litho 13.5" x 22" 4/2010



"Presenting Eve" - Plexiglass drypoint and collagraph on arches watercolor paper
12"x 22" 4/2010

You Decide

"You Decide"- Poly Plate Lithograph 15"x 22" 10/2009



"You Decide: Version 2" Poly Plate Litho, collage, inkwash 15"x 22"




"You Decide: version 3"- Poly Plate Litho, Collage, Inkwash 15"x 22" 10/2009



"You Decide: Smile" - Poly Plate Litho, Plexiglass drypoint, and stamp on rag paper, 15"x 22" 2010



Poly Plate Lithography is a fantastic process, no stone, no acids, no grinding the limestone smooth. And even better, you can use the copy machine to make it, and we all know how much I love the copy machine!

The Adamah

"Adamah"- Collagraph, 20"x15" 11/2009

Here is my plate for this piece




The plate took me a month to complete, mostly because I was new to collagraph and didn't know I could do certain things... Also back wards Hebrew is just confusing. But I enjoyed it a great deal. Its one of my favorite processes.

Phobos, 2008

"Bride of Cacomorphobia"- photo copier collage and oil on wood, 3'.5" x 8'



"Autognosisphobia" - acrylic, collage, photo transfer, sharpie, and thread 44"x 54"



"Kafka's Intradaemonphobia"- oil 67"x 63"



"Pyramus and Thisbe"- Charcoal, dry Pastel, Ink wash, graphite, photo transfer and sharpie on paper, 36"x 52.5"



"Victoria de Enosiophobia" Charcoal, Pastel, acrylic, ink, collage, razorblades 44"x 30"



"Virginiphobia" Acrylic, Charcoal, Collage, 44"x30"




"House of Agateophobia" Acrylic, Charcoal, Collage 44"x 30"

Bringing Eve To Life.

I've been working on this sculpture, for a couple of months, though not as diligently as a I should, but I figured, what the Hell why not show off the process, since I started taking pictures of things as they came to light. And this is after all a works in progress thing.



So you start out welding together some steel rods, hot rolled or something or another, I will get the lingo down this year! I will, I must!

And then you spray paint that, because you don't want the thing to rust and ruin your lovely white plaster, though I am curious, so one day I think I shall.




Then as you see above you take recyclables that you forgot to take to the recycling center and tape/shove them delicately and jam pack the armature with plastic bottles and bags.
After that you sew with wire, window screening (say that three times fast) onto the armature and wrap in some areas so the plaster has something to adhere to. You will need gloves for this.
My weekend on the Windy Hill farm helped me out here, with some new wire techniques, so wiring chicken fence can be useful to art. (Actually I'm pretty sure I can make anything useful to my art.)




This can get a little tedious...




After that, you start covering the structure with plaster. Start with the base so that it won't topple over.



This takes a long time.

I'm still doing it.

Its a back and forth process, mostly posted right now is more the forth part.






She's come along way since may, when all these pictures were taken. But I haven't taken pictures recently. I'll try and update more, soon.
One day not too far away, she will be done...hopefully it won't be too far away.

When You're Poor.

I'm in Huntsville you know where I grew up. And this summer I'm quite literally a starving artist, sooo I stole some tomatoes from the Sam Houston Museum.

The Month of May.

I know that it's July. And I'll get to what I did in June, but first things first...May.

Baloo and I went to Junction for with my watercolor class. And since I seem to have forgotten my camera for the event here is a picture, still taken in May, of us lying about.



Well Junction was fantastic, really refreshing, but the remainder of the month was to be rather, sleepless.

But no matter just look at all I got done!

I have decided that Watercolor is my least favorite media to work in by itself. It is a slow painstaking process that I am glad I learned, but still need to work on more being that I lack a great deal of patience which I thought I had acquired in learning how to oil paint. I think the trick is to have at least four going at once. Sadly I did not really learn that until the second week, which means towards the end of class.
But here's the one that I did almost entirely in watercolor.





I haven't really decided on a title, but right now its "I Know Why the Caged Eve Sings"



"No Sins"



"Stop Schlafly"



Again haven't really decided upon the title for this one OH and suggestions are always welcome.

"Submit to the Throne"

I've also started Eve's Journal.





And let us not forget that I had my reception on the 29th for my street photography show at the Turtle Resturant(http://www.theturtlerestaurant.com)! For which I had about 8 hours of sleep for the entire week....Which made me very glad of the small crowd.







I gave a speech, and told Italy stories. Apparently I talk constantly with my hands.





Thanks again to Mary at the Turtle, Tyler and the new bartender (whose name I forgot), and everyone who came out and supported me it was awesome! And if you weren't able to make it, no worries I still love you.