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Bryant Park Sketch

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Figure Drawing

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A couple favorites...

MET in March

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These are watercolors inspired by the Sculpture Garden at the MET when visiting and drawing with Elena.

Stumptown 2010

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I had the honor of sharing a table with two very talented individuals I can call friends -Cat Farris and Matt Grigsby over at the Stumptown Comics Fest right here in Portland. It was a great event to be a part of and I look forward to coming again next year! Afterwords, headed over to the Pony Club Gallery for their after party.

These little owl scribbles were done using the mighty japanese Pentel brush pen that Cat let me borrow...

silhouettes

I was inspired to make these because of my love of silhouettes, and the artists who do them best - the German animator, Lotte Reiniger, and American artist, Cara Walker. I took a series of profile pictures for reference, drew from those, and then cut them out of black construction paper using a very tiny pair of scissors. I went on to choose vintage oval frames to place them in. ^__^

Bottle caps and Woodblock Type

My friend Jessica collects bottle caps and has been for quite some time. She has buckets full, and shelves full of the buckets, and they are fitted in crevices. We wanted to devise a plan to utilize some of these, so we decided to make some fun magnets out of them. I ended up stamping out the names using my favorite alphabet rubber stamp set that resembles old woodblock type. Then I filled them with cold resin, and after an overnight sitting, and adhering the magnets to the backs, they were ready for display!

the Intensity of Felted Soap

It's been a while since I posted. Despite my absence, I've been making things all along and especially during the holidays for presents. The rest of my free time I am working on my animated short film (an illustrated/ AEFX / Stopmotion ) project I'm very excited about! More to come on that later....

So this felted soap business: My friend Tita was telling me how Anthropologie was charging $15 dollars for these particular felted soaps, and that they are relatively easy to make - (theoretically, that is). You take a sweet smelling bar of soap, and wrap it in roving wool, then you place it in some women's stockings - and getting the soap and the wool wet - you then rub the whole bundle against a bamboo mat on all sides vigorously until the wool begins to knot itself around the soap also making a big soapy mess. The idea is that the wool acts as a washcloth, so you won't need one, and as the soap shrinks, the wool does as well.

I made a few. They turned out rather cute, but they were quite challenging on my weak arm muscles. :/

Watercolor Dog

This is a little watercolor I made for my uncle for his birthday. Homemade IS better. He loves dogs... Thought I would share. I was pleased with how the piece came out considering how quickly I made it.

Feathered Headband

Around Christmas time this past year, I felt very inspired by all the feathered items I was seeing. Jewelry and hair pieces, etc... so much so that I thought, I can make that! SO I did. And they came out quite lovely actually. This is the first one I made - for my sister, Lauren, who is modeling it - isn't she the loveliest of models EVER? She is also wearing my galaxy 999ish black button coat. She got so many compliments at her school she told me I should sell them, alas I never got around to it. However, I have some supplies left, so if you want to request one from me, shoot me an email and maybe we can work out a deal. ;)

Star Wars, Gesso, and C3PO

This past week, I put some time into recreating a set from a scene in Star Wars at Fashionbuddha. The project came from this site - StarWars:Uncut. If you are interested in more details you should check it out. They are recreating one 15 sec clip from the movie. In the end, the entire movie will be pieced together of segments from different artists, and not so artists making up the entire length of the movie! My little set was made of foam core, gesso, hot glue, and lots of paint. It turned out pretty cool, and I even got some compliments on my scoring ability! Yeehaw.

Blackbird Pi Stationary at Last Thursday...

Last Thursday is an art walk/festival held in North Portland on Alberta St. on the (yes..) last Thursday of the month. After many previous attempts, I finally (after staying up 2 days straight!) got all the cards and prints gathered up, printed, and sorted to have my very own set-up at the event. It was an awesome experience. A special thank you to Evan and Kris for helping me set up and keeping me company, and to Tita for helping at the end of the evening. Of course, a big thank you too to all the people who came by! - ♥

Odd Couple and 20s Woman

I was inspired by old vintage photographs... I would like to draw more like these when I get a chance!

Bird and Owl Drawings

Blind lady and Curious Smoker

A couple sketches I liked....

Watercolor thank you cards..

for my friends and family...

Our Jazz Voices

I created this poster for the Jazz Singing Workshop I was involved in. And yes! I sang!... 'Cry Me River' and 'Fly Me to the Moon!' It was quite an evening.