for a minute i was debating on calling it a self portrait.

glass, house paint, hardware, shoe bling?,spray paint, acrylic, glitter, enamel, pc7, fake flowers and mica.

I get my loving outa magazines

my very first etching.

9x7

recent hotshop happenings

small vase

basic cup forms..

my first pitcher

5" incased mica vase

hand painted decks

little babies.

Dear Nana

made in 2007
18x24
oil on canvas

boro glass flameworked. 18"

skate deck to bangle bracelet.

recycled

it used to be a bowl, now it's a plate!

flame worked boro glass
about 10" high

BEACH LYFE

how long?

Home is where your heart (wants to be.)

acrylic, hot glass, canvas, thread 24x18

Los animales muertos deben adorar también.

cast glass, photographs, found objects.

she's got a death wish.

blown glass, grenedine and glitter.

exponential growth

cast class, patte de verre, copper wire, broken lamp, broken stereo.
[i think technology is going to kill us all. it has become way more overpowering than nature in my eyes.]

PUSH MORE!

old trashed decks that made a crafty mess of.
oh yeah, and my bff kate.. haha.

Fully Loaded..

cast and enameled glass, plaster, acrylic and copper.
24"x19"

to live and die - tide to tide

glass inclusion casting
8x6x6

this is an old painting that i did about 3 years ago that i just found a picture of. unfortunately i think i threw it away amidst some strange depression.
acrylic on wood panel.. 4 feet by 2 maybe?

another from the series i found...3x4

oil. 2x4.5

And you couldn't see me,

There's too many Lights out. You're no where near here.

New Dominion

3x4 for vhda

Lady Mictecacihuatl

34x44 oil on canvas

skulls and bonez

just so you know..
this was my math homework tonight.

(instantly)

[this an installation photo of a wall covered in glass polaroid pictures. they are made of mirror that has been cut down and sand blasted, so that the image of the photo is whatever is currently happening across from them.]

we floated weightless...

I'M NOT ALWAYS WHERE I SHOULD BE
[places i've been & are going to]

oil on canvas 30x40

obsession.

i have nothing to say for myself.

technicolor warmth

A fake fire for the empty fireplace at the house of my good friends on 2800 Monument.

I can make beads!

This may not seem very intense to you, but I'm excited because I have now been formally introduced to torch work.I can now make use of all three ways in which to alter or create sculpture out of glass. Castings (or kilnworking), glassblowing and lampworking. These are some of my very first beads and or pendants.
My friend adam made me this little cupcake while I was using his torch at his studio the other day.

happy birthday Lb.

painting.
24x18

color samples that will be turned into bangle bracelets..yay

sugar coated america

wood. sprinkles. paint. money. found frame. blown glass. cast glass.

it's like a glass painting..

more sheet glass [tack fusing]

DAY OF THE DEAD

this is a mural i made during a 3 week intensive sheet glass summer class. the background is done with oils. it's about 2 x 3.5 maybe? i never got a decent picture of it displayed before someone knocked it off the wall and it shattered. only this crappy picture i took the second after finnishing it.

attempt number one

This is a casting of a sprocket made by voice, my friend chopper's company.
There was an issue with the first mold, which cause a pretty sloppy outcome. The teeth didn't quite make it. I thought i could fix it in the cold shop, but so far no dice.
So i plan to soon remake the silicone mold and start with a fresh wax.

bittersweet

first test strip from a 3 week intensive sheet glass class. this was more cute after i first made it. then my drunk roommate knocked it over and broke it and i had to re-fire it. it now has a crack in the middle and the layers are more flat.

painting for cass and steve d

i am lazy. screw formatting.

Little Shit!

i have a retarted sense of humor. i'm sorry.

pictures fade away, but memory is forever

AHHH MY CAMERA BROKE! I had to use my Photo Booth on my Ibook to post.
Glass Polaroid Camera #2

The Lucky Nine Lives..

in spite of years of silence, you've cleaned up.

quick little number.

i am bummed.

I have been working with glass for almost a year now and this is the first peice I have ever broken.

drawings from yesterday

cheezer

so this one time.. in art school... I made a mouse out of sponges. neat.

KNOWLEDGE vs. WISDOM

all ceramic with spray paint and acrylic [who needs glaze anyway?]
I owe Lb a little shout out on this one.. dude to our intense conversation on college that caused me to produce this.

gnar.

For those of you that know him, this is AJ Sellers. he's a pretty cute kid. I painted his picture. with acrylic, watercolor and paper. This was featured in the August 2007 issue of CCS girls when they added surfing to their catalauge

eat your fruitsss and veggiess

these are mixed media paintings from when I was in AP art in high school. I used these in my concentration portfolio [clearly the subject matter was fruits and vegtables]

sandblasted prints on glass 8x10

breakfast of champions

ceramic.
cups.
too many pots of coffee.

you tell me

[i have large plans for a better installation of this coming up in the near future.]

this is why wal-mart rules..

four feet
freshman year
self portrait 3/7

sassy

this is sugar pushed around on black paper.

fetus?

this project had totally different intentions. I spend about 20 hours carving a baby out of wax and the mold was too weak and it broke in the kiln causing the form to be hollow and incomplete. but the fact that it didn't fill out was actually a lot more interesting. i was really bad with documenting this but i did take some pretty neat pictures when the wax was in peices. the details were extremely hard to capture in photograph. whatever.

Mike Giant is the dude.

I'm sure you're familiar with his work.. it's becoming pretty mainstream. nothing better than pure black and white drawings of tattoos and hot chicks. This is who I chose to do a project my teacher my teacher assigned us. pick a non-glass artist and make something out of glass inspired by them. If you don't know him check him out.
The first piece i made was the larger black and white one but then i got on this big kick about making female torsos after that.

i wanna be the girl with the most cake

glass cupcake installation.
the brown cupakes are the wax molds with the glass cherries on top before i made the inclusion molds.

A work in progress...

I am very west coast influenced & I love glass as a medium because of its fragility and clarity. I also have a love affair with the fluid motion of painting. I am interested in split second happenings, moments. They escape you and you can never have that momentain. I am interested in the the possibility of conserving that moment. Making it continue to happen. This is one of my goals as a visual artist. I like tattoos because they can tell a lot about where a person has been and who they are. I am intrigued by absolute femininity being crossed with harsh things. Color makes me feel alive - bright annoying in your face color that forces you to contrast it to the darker morbid side of things. The most common themes in my work are death, gluttony and obsession.