Category: News

Entrevista con Yourbanclash

I had a lovely time with Lora Grigorova and Alberto Sibaja, who stopped by the studio for a chat.  You can see images and hear the full interview in Spanish on their site Yourbanclash here.  

Bookends

Well I finally managed to upload my first children’s book “Arthropods are all Around!” to this site, where you all can get to it… This was a fun project, a great way to start drawing again, to merge some of my skills and interests (especially relating to art and education) and to experiment with the […]

Droring

Okay so…these days I’m drawing.  This is for many reasons, the most personal being: I’M ESPECIALLY TERRIFIED OF DRAWING!!!  But alas, economic realities also prevent me from doing anything else at the moment.  Have you ever worked for $18 USD a day?  That is what I make at my day job, and you may say […]

These gloves were made for workin

The final chapter in production for Ondine’s Exit started with embroidery:             I then made a sample glove based on some vintage kid gloves I have and patterns from the internet, in order to work out any kinks and practice my rusty sewing skills: I used a bunch of bought […]

When a mermaid sheds its skin

I had access to all the wonderful woodworking tools at the University of New Mexico and was able to mill and glue a big ole stack of pine lumber together and start carving:     and carving:     and refining:  gettting the details worked out with hand tools:   working on the finish and […]

How to make shoes for a mermaid

First, an armature, my McQueen knockoffs: Which I covered in clay. At that point I pulled a mold, and poured a pair in wax.  Then I really got busy until: Then I pulled a second mold, made a pair of waxes and fixed up the details.  Shout out to Laird Hovland, talented artist and wax […]

Ondine’s Exit

Hi all!  Have been working for a long while on a series based on my own analysis of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid” and  inspired by the work of late fashion designer Alexander McQueen.  I have been documenting my process with this work and thought some of you might like a looksee […]