Menage et Trois

the start of a new project

"le menage et trois" the morning after.

marie "too cool queenie"

i know she wasnt a queen, but i love that song title and had to use it. i cleaned up one of my sketches from sketch night and well, here it is. line and color finish

sketch night...mais oui!!

how can any warm-blooded artists turn down a sketch night with burlesque models?...with marie antoinette inspired theme?

a page turner

fustrated.

its been a horror of a week, and a struggle to produce anything i like. so here is the begining of what i hope will be satisfying to myself and viewers. monotype, ball-point, digital

good print and misprint.

printmaking is all about lining up the registers, and so is being a female. i laughed at combining the two, i dont mean to be vulgar, its just funny to me at this point.

business cards!!!!

i crack myself up everytime i look at this...if you know peacocks, you will know they are the tone-deaf bird of music

king of pentacles

what a vain man, i actually cried making this, visually adding the moose's last breath didnt make me feel any better...but it was necessary for this particular card.

The sky is falling!!....

we are all a little melodramatic sometimes. then again, maybe the sky will fall in 2012. haha, more monotype with ball-point

birds of a feather?....never

monotype printmaking with a twist. scanned it in and trying some things out with the help of my computer. the digital foolaround, and the original print.

secret blue thread

I really liked this song by the Winterpills, so....hahaha, what can i say? im just too narrative.

still in process

appologies

now i know this is Logan's thing, im sorry Logan-i had to try my hand at it, i wont steal your thunder... but it seems everyone is doing pin-ups lately, and the artists are all men. now its time for a woman to do a pin-up. So here is my new project in the works. sketch to ball-point to color and hopefully to a finish at some point.

COME TO MY SHOW!

hahaha. I have been working on a flyer to leave in the random pockets and folds of worcester.

Thank you!

A HUGE thank you to Eamon from out of the dark world who gave me these wonderful mexican playing cards. Thank you, Thank you again.

i cant decide,

dark background...or one on the lighter side?
Oh, this is queen of pentacles. i thought a flapper suited this card, haha

testing out a color palette for

the litho print.....why do i always do red and blue? i need a new color scheme.

Well Shangri-La-Di-DA

much better.....

slow goings...the fool card,

how fitting that its the fool card when i cant quite seem to figure it out. But i like the subject matter. what drove a person to climb a mountain?

the newest edition from printmaking!

this is non-toxic litho, or polyester paper litho print. i drew this in sharpie and ball-point on polyester paper. i wet the paper using a sponge, ink it with normal litho/etching ink, and run it through the press....voila!

the fisherman's daughter is self destructive,

and toxic to you. im not sure what this piece needs....but its missing something...

some progress of printmaking proofs

this is Mars

"the painted veil"

ahhh...what a wonderful book. Just what I needed right now. The painted veil is written by the talented W. Somerset Maugham, published in 1925, part of the lost generation's need to find the meaning of life and escaping their ego from the western perspective. I love each of his characters, I had to bring them to life in my vision. So from my sketchbook to you, here they are.

cutting board blues, I am just another surface to be used

This project I started while I was still in school, and two cutting boards seemed lonely, so I created one more for the series.

printmaking class starts tonight! yes. yes. yes.

this one is for my mother

...optician business...
circa 1936

the Clinton "olde home day" juried art show

While I didnt walk away with a prize or title from this juried show, I was still so happy to have my art in one of my favorite museums, the Museum of Russian Icons. It has always been a vital source of inspiration, I can already feel the surge of creativity. (the picture with the woman falling to hell isnt mine, I just really liked this icon, fyi)