Dark Dragonflies

Hello all! It has been a little while since I last posted and in that time, I have managed to hurt my knee and get sick. I haven't really been able to work on much so I decided to ask your opinion on something from the past. Here is an older piece I did on a small canvas panel. I have been debating whether or not to put it on a larger canvas as a part of my collection (see previous paintings post). What do you think? As for other things, I think I'll try to make some time to work on my book a little bit more. Maybe I'll even post a snippet of it here!

I left my heart in SF

Hello everyone! I am back in the city (I know I never said anything about leaving but whatever) after a busy weekend in the south bay, I thought I'd add a new picture. So here is a picture that represents the city I love.

When zombies Attack!

So SFSU decided to stage a zombie attack today on campus. Of course this meant my roomie and I had to go. While the acting could have been better (except one guy who was amazing), it was a fun morning and I even got a new book idea out of the mix. I really wish I could have joined but, unfortunately, I have work and little time to clean up fake blood. This may not be my own personal work of art but I thought it deserved a spot on my blog. I guess you could say it's someone's work of art. Zombies...yet another reason why I love living in San Francisco!

With this I bid you goodnight...

Here is a picture I took a few years ago. That flower is actually on my knee and was no bigger than a half of an inch across. Goodnight!


p.s. please remember not to use any of the photos on this site without my permission.

Spatter and drips and more...oh my!

As promised, here are 4 of the paintings that I have finished in the past few months. They are a part of the kind of morbid collection that I mentioned earlier. I'm liking the "blood" spatter and dripping lately. It actually started with that light colored painting. One day I was painting with my watercolors and made a pretty rainbow look on the canvas. I decided that it needed a drastic contrast (which I love) of some sort. My roommate jokingly said that I could cut myself and bleed all over it. I got that little sparkle in my eye and said it was a good idea...except with fake blood...also known as various paints mixed together to look like blood haha. So yeah...thanks to my roomie Heather for giving me a great idea and starting my blood spatter madness. Anyway...there are the paintings thus far. I have 2 more that are half done but I'm not sure what direction I want to take with them yet so it may be a while before those are ready. On a separate note, I have several photography pictures I took over the past 4 years or so. There are about 17 which is a lot for this little blog but I plan on adding a couple now and then. I also have some paintings from the past that I may throw on here just because I like them. Well...that is all for now. There's more to come so keep checking back!

Quickie...

Quick note...I now have pictures of some of the paintings in my sort of morbid collection. Those will most likely be posted tomorrow. Have a good night!

New Necklaces!

Hello again faithful readers (all 2 of you...if that). Here are pictures of the two necklaces I have finished recently. I did the designing, wire work and putting together of both. In case it's hard to tell in the pictures, the first had red and black beads and the second has light blue, black, silvery, and blue shell beads. I've made necklaces and bracelets before by threading beads onto a wire or type of string but this is my first time doing the wire work myself. I think they turned out pretty well for my first attempt with pliers and wire. I think they look better in person but in my experience, most things like this do. Thanks MUCHO to Dolly and Susan for the tools and supplies and helping me in general with a great new hobby!

Black and Blue Hands

I found a (sorta crummy) picture! Yay for me! Anyway...Here is a picture of a painting that was kind of an accident. I got bored while painting something else and decided to paint my hand and make a hand print on a piece of paper. Then I did the other one because I thought it might look cool. Well as it turns out, I thought the whole thing looked pretty neat so I painted a border and framed the whole thing. You can't see it too well in the picture but it you look closely at the real thing, you can make out some pretty creepy faces in the prints. My "artistic" interpretation is that the hands represent someone protecting himself/herself from some sort of abuse (hence the black and blue) and that the faces are the demons that they are having to face as well as the ones they have inside of them. Kind of a weird piece but that's what I see when I look at it. You can decide what you see...

The very first post!

Hello and welcome to my new blog! On this blog, I will be posting about my paintings, jewelry, books, photography and whatever other artsy thing I happen to be working on. Please feel free to give me feedback on anything I post. As of right now, I don't have any pictures to post but I'm hoping to change that in the next couple of days. I'm currently working on a collection of 8-10 paintings that are abstract and a bit morbid. I have finished 2 necklaces so far (kind of a new hobby for me) and have several more ideas for new ones. I have about 100 pages of the book I'm working on done and I'm slowly (very slowly) adding to it. I'm hoping to eventually publish my book and show/sell some of my paintings and jewelry so we shall see how that goes. Anyway, that is where I am right now with everything. I'll try to update this weekly if not more so keep checking back for new blogs!