I totes got published for the first time in a online British mag called “SuperSweet”!
I got to go all freak-out illustration style to interpret the essence of the work of fashion designer Craig Lawrence. The assignment was a perfect fit for what I do and couldn’t have been happier with the outcome.
Big Thanks to Choltida and the open-minded staff at SuperSweet.
When my curiosity happened upon information regarding the Large Hadron Collider, I was smitten. After reading a number of things about it, and watching a rap about it on youtube, I still can barely explain what it does. However, I do know, it fascinates me. Along my journey researching this crazy contraption, I came upon many distractions of interest, some of which are noted in my painting.
Presenting: “Hadron, Take Me Away!”
24″x20″ ink on canvas, mixed media
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The mysteries of the universe revealed! The creation of man? Or is it just a certain precarious demi god I happen to lunch with regularly? Either way, my obsession with IM slang and ridiculous headlines continues.
Presenting: “NO U”
12″x9″
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My newest and biggest painting yet. Therefore, there are plenty of details to find and feature. So, be sure to smile, as these days, we’re all on film.
Camera Shy 28″x22″ Ink on canvas…and some other stuff.
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This one’s partially inspired by those smooth talkers and fine line walkers I’ve run into during the course of my life as a romantic fool. Enjoy!
Moral Compass 9″x12″
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The human genome is a wondrous thing. For this, my lastest completed foray into larger sized paintings, I was inspired by our tiny ubiquitous friends, daf-2 and daf-16. These two genes are thee two, out of the bijillion others we’ve got which comprise a helix, that are responsible for aging and regeneration (or youth). The way scientists describe it, these two genes are in a constant battle with each other for power over our individual aging processes.
Daf-2 tries to prevent aging while daf-16 is ready to get cozy with Sr. Grim Reaper. In this painting I deal with themes of life and death, insubordination, and what really ages a person- Starbucks, stress, corporate vampires, bird flu, only being sorry you got caught? Hmmm. Catch you on the flip!
Noble Cause was my first attempt at going large scale with the “tectonic shift” style of my small format work. I made this painting for my beautiful, wonderful, architect friend Malin, who hales from Sweden. I was excited to send the painting to Europe as she dutifully bragged about her talented friend from the States while showing it off to all her architect colleagues in Switzerland. (Hey, ya gotta promote whenever possible!)
While the format of my paintings is getting larger, my attention to detail has stayed as minuscule as ever. The result is there’s a whole lot more going on. Plenty of stories, characters, and treats are waiting to be discovered in my paintings. I included detail images in my large painting posts so you can enjoy some of my favorite pictorial incidences.
My paintings are a combination of abstract and representational drawing and collage combined with colorful pools of staining. I like to draw on canvas because of the way it sucks up the ink as soon as I make a line. When I stain my canvas, I like to call it “making continents”. I find it calming to watch the separate pools of water slowly move and merge, forming shapes of its own. Sometimes I intervene, sometimes I don’t.
Here are some examples of my earlier small works. I have recently moved into a larger size which I will post in the near future.
Burning Bush 6×6″
Bomb 6×6″
Regular 8×10″
As much as I enjoy creating narratives and images with stories behind them, I do love a good abstract adventure. I relish the purity of an image which conveys a single moment or mood that steals away as quickly as it comes.
Below are some works of mine that came out of nowhere:
(all ink on 8.5 x 11 paper)
More works from nowhere to come!
I LOVE to draw females. I love the body and moving it all around. I took dance for years and had awesome teachers that would let me sit out some classes just to draw my classmates in motion. I always knew that I didn’t have what it takes to become pro (see: genetics/aversion to cheese?), but that didn’t stop me from loving dance. Besides, I also knew drawing was my true calling.
Below is a sketch I made called “Fragments”. When I was girl, I would notice men on TV or in life discussing women in terms of their parts. I would also observe women constantly obsessing over the parts of themselves they disliked. One day, I realized this would be my fate as I matured into a woman myself. Now that I’ve arrived at maturity, I find most adult shortcomings to be hilarious.
