Artist Statement

Artist Statement
I am interested in discovering what makes painting interesting and continuing that exploration through other media. Paint itself has many qualities that I think we lose when trying too hard to shape it or ask it to depict a particular image. Through dissecting paint down to its core, we are able to see it’s more dramatic side. It can be soft and flowing, barely there; or thick, strong and dense. I think it’s one of the materials that can dance to any rhythm, glide on any surface, share its true emotions and pull the viewer in to a world that is new and fresh with every glare. It can be mesmerizing, hypnotic and seductive. I wanted to explore these particular attributes through photography and video to bring paint to life, in its true form.
Within the context of Conceptual Art, I hope my viewers are able to get a sense of their own relationship with the materials experienced through a different manner than usual. Each person will have a different reaction to the colors used, amount of studies as well as different media, photography and video. This is a personal reaction that I hope each person can take away with them to view things down to a more simple form, to understand the core of something, anything, and find beauty in purity, simplicity and the experience itself.

Hybridization Painting and Photography

I have really taken to the process and the study of the hybridization of multiple mediums. These are some photographs that I took during my study of painting. I used a hermit crab cage filled with clear water and then I watered down acrylic paint and used a child's medicine dropper to slowly drip the paint drops into the water and then used my Canon Rebel to take photographs. It was really amazing to just watch the colors move and dance once they hit the clear water. I would like to play around more with multiple colors, like the red and green photos. These prints are really amazing blown up and also projected on the wall!!

Printmaking - Surrealism and Symbolism

More printmaking! I really loved my printmaking studio class! The top image was inspired by a trip to Las Vegas in 2008 and the second image was inspired by Valentine's Day 2008.

Stuffed Sculptures - Animals

My last class at JCPL, I can't believe it went by SO quick!! We are looking at Claes Oldenburg and soft sculptures. I made 2 as a demonstration/example. I made my fish first to try and figure it out, then I challenged myself with a different stitch technique and adding yarn for hair. I am really happy how they turned out!

Printmaking Peacock

These are my peacocks that I carved into the Woodcut Linoleum blocks. I taught a printmaking lesson at the library and this was my demonstration piece. I really enjoyed it and it didn't take very long to carve out your idea. Everyone in the class was done on time and made several editions of their piece.

Flower Close-ups

Just got my new Canon camera and I LOVE it!!! Still practicing with all the settings and features. These are some flower close-ups that I did outside the house. I had a nice conversation with friends last night about all the things that you can lose in life, but the one thing that no one can take away, your art! Keep rockin' it out!!

First Watercolor Attempt - Flowers

So, I tried my hand at Watercolors. The orange one is Bradley's flower. I think he did an awesome job. The others are mine, it was fun playing with the watercolor paints. Now, I just need to play with layering the colors and pushing my darks.

Ceramic Orchid

I love, Love, LOVE ceramics after this project! I made an orchid with the center portraying a female body. It is mounted onto the wooden vines which are all a wall-hanging piece. I wanted to portray the softness yet also the strength that parents (single moms) must have to care, nurture and protect their family.

Printmaking - on plastic

I scratched this image out of a piece of plexi-glass. It was difficult to see until I got some ink in the lines. My favorite part of this image is the tree limbs coming in from the left. Eiffel Tower, 2008.

Bradley's G.I.Joe Tank Birthday Cake

This is my first attempt at Edible Sculpture and it was a lot of fun! A lot of homework, but a LOT of fun! Bradley was SO surprised when he finally got to see it. We decorated the table with little toy tanks and little army men and then the cake, it was awesome!!

The Scream

This is my version of the scream. In drawing studio, I really got into the spiral movement and playing with positive/negative space with the human body and faces. This is my little frustrated man!

Printmaking - My first experience

This is the first thing I ever did in printmaking, my little white rose, 2008.

Ceramics I - Fossils

This was my first experience with ceramics and I loved it! I love sculpture, and the clay was a really fun medium to work with! Our first assignment was to use the sphere, slab and coil method for an introduction to the medium. I wanted to use a fossil theme for my assignment, so I made a fossil sphere jar, a slab vase and and block wall-hanging.

Plaster Sculpture

"Alligator"
This is a plaster sculpture that I made in 2000. I wanted to express the movement of an animal stretching and breaking free from the cluster which is itself.

Ready for the art to begin!

Getting pumped about teaching art lessons at the local public library! I have had a great time exploring new mediums myself and trying new projects! I can't wait to see what everyone creates! Hopefully I will have tons of pictures!

My First Post

OK, so I had to consider creating a post after seeing one of my high school students scanning and posting her artwork on her own blog. Time to get with the times and keep up with it! So here it is! This is my blog, my new baby and we will see how it goes!