Wine Glasses....and some other stuff : GREEK !

SOOOO..... After making the wine glass replacements for my Aunt Marie I went into a glass making frenzy. lol. I started by making Greek related ones for my Aunt Marie, my Daddy, and my Aunt Rachael. Then I also branched out and made my friend Kary a tiki for his frat. All hand painted by me.

Aunt Marie's Delta Sigma Theta Glass

Acrylic and 3D paint sealed with an Acrylic glass sealer

Kary's Kappa Alpha Psi Tiki, All wood pieces, painted and sealed. Used cotton string and wooden beads.

He later found a mirror to add to the back. :)

Aunt Rachael's Glass

Same materials as the other glass.

My Daddy's Omega Psi Phi Mug.
There more details on the back and sides of the glass and if you ask him he will GLADLY show you. lol 

HALLOWEEN !!!

Just a quick post about my Halloween adventures this year. I once again took it upon myself to make my costume…and costumes for 3 other people.

For trick or treating I sort of took it upon myself to make all of the adult costumes. We decided to be the Flintstones and the Rubbles.

Painting Fred's costumes. 

Had a lil helper, my bf's niece. 

Proud of her handy work

Fred all done

Fred, Barney, and Betty

For the guys costumes I used fabric from the craft store and for the Betty and Wilma costume I used XXL and XXXL mens t-shirts. For the Betty dresss I kept the neck hole from the shirt and painted it black and glued the seashell to it and made my bow out of the scraps from my dress. For Wilma's necklace I used plastic string, cheap plastic golf balls, and hot glue. 

I was Betty !

Minnie Flintsone lol

Betty & Barney 

The whole gang !

The Rubbles & The Flintsones

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. 

About A Year ago......

Its been a year since I grauated from Towson University. How time flies! The other day I realized I never posted my AWESOME grauation cap that I customized or as some say Leni-er-rized. lol 

I always knew i'd decorate my cap for grauation but not until the day before did I finally come up with an idea/design I was happy with. I went with a pin-up girl with this kind of trippy design that I tend to always come back to. This cap is one of the few things ive done, art wise, that I have no reqrets and no changes id want to make. Maybe in the future i'll decorate caps for other people as well. 

JUNKS HEELS In PROGRESS....

Currently i've been int he process of creating more "Junk Heels" its almost like an addiction now. The issue is time. It takes a while to collect items and think of new themes for shoes. 

The ones pictures above are the ones im working on. More photos and pist to come.....

JUNK Heels : The Beginning

These babies right here were a random idea that one day I just decided to attempt. I had this old pair of black pumps that were basically trash, i'd wore them as far as they could go and had no real use for them. Then one day as I saw them laying on my floor next to my "junk box" I got an idea, what if I just creat a piece of wearable art out of those shoes and this box of crap. After a little sorting and prep these JUNK heels were born. I finished them just in time to wear to an on camous MOD show at Towson University. They got rave reviews from everyone that saw them. 

They consist of candy, empty paint tubes, paint, beads, broken jewlery, buttons, beads, and other random things ive picked up through out 

Screen Print VI: My Poster

Photo by Chris "Nova" Smith 

The final screen print I did ended up deviating from the "portrait" series. I decided to make a poster tha could be used for my growing collection of dresses. I named this collection Salvation Couture. As I was printing the monotypes the image changed and colors mixed and by the end I couldnt choose a favorite so I kept them all. 

The First Monotype

Second Monotype

Third Monotype, changed the colors

Forth Monotype, at this point things go a lil messy