Wine Glasses: For the Mothers !

Glasses I made for the various Mothers of mine or that I know.. More of these to come. 

Mommy 

my bf's mom Rose

My Step Mom Felicia 

Wine Glasses: Animal !

These animal theme wine glasses I made for a few friends of mine for no particular reason but just beacuase I love my friends and I like to do nice things for people I love. I get more satisfaction out of makign someone something and having them get excited about the gift then recieving a gift in return. Thats one of the reasons I make art, to make other people happy, in turn making myself happy. 

Acrylic paint and sealer, lots of layers

A peacock for Rasean.

Cheetah Print for Janette

3D paint and acrylic sealer

Whitney B. and her glass

Giraffe print made with 3D paint and acrylic sealer

Wine Glasses: The Beginning

   So one day were at my Aunt and Uncles house I cant at the moment remember why but we were all over there. My Aunt Marie then asks me what types of art I normally do and I replied painting, drawing and etc. She then proceeds to tell me how Uncle Braxton broke one of their hand painted wine glasses while doing the dishes the other day and asked if I could possibly paint one of their plain glasses to match so their set wouldn't be incomplete. Naturally I said of course. After months of trial and error and measuring and painting then whiping off and re-painting I FINALLY got the job done. 

Aunt Marie LOVED my work and thought maybe I should do it as a craft business. Funny thing was I sort of had the same ideas after I painted the glasses for her......

I thoguht I took AWESOME pictures of the finsihed glasses but sadly they have disappeared. 

screen Print III: Monotypes

The Ghost print of the "Mommy" print I made with added drawing detail. 

Mono- meaning one. 

The silk screen can also be used with watercolor and a clean medium to create monotypes. With these print I stayed with my theme of  "pottraits" 

DezzyBee

Felicia 

Mommy, Parental Units 

Parental Units 

Screen Print II: Stephen

The original crappy one & the revised good one. 

This print was a "portrait" of my Bestie Stephen. 

Took this right after I gave him that friendship bracelet. 

Layer 1

layers 1-3

When I realized these were gonna be terrible but needed to finsh them anyway.

After being told tp re-do the print, I decided to make and additional layer.

The additonal layer I added had a message to Stephen that I was too embrassed to say to him at the time. It was really personal and full of meaning but in the design of this particular print you can't actually read the meaagae. It becomes more of a pattern then a message. 

Finished Series, Pt 2 

Screen Print I : King Loaf

Learned how to do screen printing during my last year. I thought it was gonna be really difficult but after I got the hang of it I really enjoyed it. 

The exposure unit. After u emolsion your screen you expose your image  on this machine. 

My screen set up for a print.

I decided to do a series of print that were "portraits" of people in my life. This first one was for Mike aka King Loaf as he is named in my phone. Hints why his portrait was a LOAF of bread, The King Loaf. lol. 

Layer 1

Layers 1-3

"finished" 

 

The original and the revised print after I found my knack for text in my art work. 

The text I later added, after sucessfully using text on almost the rest of this series was a personall note to Mike. When I made the print we were dating and by the time I finished the series we were just friends again. To  this day I haven't told him what it says or let anyone read the note.