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 

Screen Print V: Nova

This is Nove a.k.a Chris. I remember when he showed up at TU with his "Bolt Hawk" skinny and skinny jeans. Stephann found him at the BSU cookout and the rest is history. On this particular night in this particular picture I just told him "you know I love you right, like you know if these hoes are bothering you or if they bother you in Cali, I know you wont fight a girl but I drop her for you." Or well I said something along the lines of that lol 

CMYK (layering of the primary colors & black)

My four layeer as well as the inks I was usuing all preped

K,Y.M.C...In that order. lol

Layer 1-C

Layer 1&2-CM

Top left-Finsished CMYK
Bottom left-Layers 1-3 CMY
Right Layers 1&2-CM

Screen Print IV: Foster

Oh Frosty. 

This is Foster, and yes that is his real name. This is us at this Toga party me and  my cousins hosted the beginnign of my last year at Towson. I don't remember what he said before we took this picture but it was, as usual, HILARIOUS. 

The text transparencies.

Layer 1 

After adding the second layer, achieved by exposing fabric on my silk screen instead of using a transparence. 

Layer 3 achieved by exposing a different fabric then the one iused in layer 2.

The Finished Print. With the "Foster's" beer can addition.