Illuminated Art

This is my finished product after helping with the Illuminated Art Saturday Short at the MCA this weekend. It's a light box made from an old cigar box. So simple and yet it looks so fantastic if I do say so myself. Lots of potential with this project that I finished in only three hours. Everyone in the class made something that looked remarkably different while using all the same materials. I think a series of these on the wall would look really striking.

Pandas on Parade!

I did this drawing for a friend of mine who loves pandas. This is the Empanada Panda. He loves empanadas, especially bamboo empanadas. Sometime after this I started drawing Henry the Panda who became Francis the Bunny's best friend.

Little angry girls

I did some of these drawings last year. I was having a really cranky week and somehow drawing these little girls made me feel a lot better. Since then I draw them quite frequently, maybe as a form of release or maybe just because I think it's sort of funny seeing these little girls with their sweet little dresses, barrettes and mary janes looking so frustrated and angry.

A lot of new work...

The top two are doodles/sketches from my sketchbook, but I really liked how they happened to turn out. Its funny how much time I sometimes end up spending on what start out as simple doodles. Or how one quick sketch can inspire a plethora of other drawings and projects. The other is a more finished drawing that I did continuing with the theme of map like drawings that I am currently obsessed with. Someone asked me why I draw these map like images and its funny because despite the fact that I have thought a lot about it, I am honestly not entirely sure. They definitely serve many purposes and fit in with my other interests, but I just sort of draw them. Instinctively, habitually... I find drawing them to be relaxing and almost meditative.

Everyone Loves A Top Hat!

So these are a few sketches of the top hat men I have been drawing as of late. I love how simple they are and yet how different they can look depending on a number of small details.

New Old Pictures

I finally got some images from the Around the Coyote show from my parents. Here are images of some of my work that was in the show. The top one is called Looking for Robert, and yes the little orange dinosaur in the upper right hand corner is in fact part of the piece. It was interesting how many people seemed to gravitate towards this piece, but I am not yet ready to part with it so it was not for sale. I want to further explore the idea of little figures sitting on the upper edge of the canvas, I like the playful quality that it adds to the work. Before I added the little dinosaur I felt like the painting was missing something that I couldn't quite put my finger on. Then on a whim I added it and was really happy with the results. The title for this one came after I had finished it. I was looking at it with the dinosaur and it reminded me of the film for Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty. The idea of layers and time and the combination of natural, geological, organic shapes/lines with those suggesting man made cities.

The other two were done at the same time and I really like them as a set, even though I didn't intend them to be a set as I often do when I am working. But there was something about the different blues and the gold and silver combination that just fit when the are displayed together. These now live at my friend Sadie's house.