Monkey foot stool

Here's a little guy I made for sculpture class. He has a wooden frame and can support an adult sitting on him. The frame is covered in 1" foam, plus some polyfil for extra comfort.

Alternative photography

There are lots of thing, projects, paintings sculptures and more in the works. So many things to do so little time! One of the current projects I'm working on involves alternative photography techniques. Here are some of my cyanotype prints, freshly processed.

Sculpture

This piece is made from a tree that was in my parents yard. I could go into great detail about a vast conceptual meaning behind it, but I won't. Take it at face value and decide from that if you like it or not.

It's been awhile

Life has been full of surprises, some good, some amazing, and some not so great. I find the best thing to do is take life one day at a time, and try to add a little art to each day. Thankfully,  my kids and wonderful husband share my love of art, therefore many days we get to create and collaborate!

Here are a couple pictures from a series I did 04/16 - 05/16, featuring one of my fantastic friends Brandee, who was gracious enough to be my model,  and endured me doing her hair, makeup and costuming.

Ceramic fairy house

Well apparently I've been slacking on my posting!  Here's a fairy house that I constructed quite some time ago, I finally glazed it and  did the final firing. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!

Loving working with Metal!

Well I am most definitely slacking on posting!  Life is busy as always, but never a dull moment!  I'm recently working on another welding project,  but there will be a lot more applied to the project in forms of other various media. I'm super excited about it already! Here's a glimpse of the beginning stages.

Another trade to add to my skill tool box!

For the longest time, I have talked about learning to weld. Well I finally had the opportunity to. Currently I am in a sculpture class at Northern State University. I have on of the many art department faculty as my professor/instructor, Dr. Greg Blair. Whom is an amazing artist himself. You can check out many of his amazing works here http://www.gregoryblair.com  

I made two sampler pieces just to start out. The first image you see is of cartoon animal, not really sure what kind of animal I was aiming for, but I like it nonetheless.  The second image is of feathers, made as a gift for my wonderful mother in law, Cathy. I was very nervous at first, as many people might be with things containing high heat and electricity. In the end I really enjoyed it and can't wait to do more!