Letters From the Earth
Please join us for the opening!
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 […]