Love is Insane

6x6 3D Art Canvas. 

 

 

Luna Park - Padded Mind

Part of a new series of paintings / fabrications. 

We're all a little insane if we're lucky.

 

15x15 Acrylic on canvas.  Wood frame/shadow box.  Hand painted and sewn padded walls.  Luna Park props and light bulbs 3d printed.

 

Eddie Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

Polymer clay head sculpt.  Soft sculpture body and 3D printed Neck shackle

 

 

Ozzy & Eddie from Iron Maiden art dolls WIP

Working on some famous rock icons and rock star art doll's to add to my shop for the holiday season.

Just waiting for the hair and then I can assemble them all.

 

 

 

We're all a little insane...if we're lucky

One of a kind piece "We're all a little insane...if we're lucky" by Kimmie Lovin 2013

Charles Bukowski - "Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."

 

 

Acrylic paint on canvas 11x14

Fabricated padded room 7x3x3

sewn and hand painted padded walls

3D CAD sculpted /3D printed and painted person

 

Color Fast Fabric Sheets by June Tailor inc.

Picked this product up accidentally, I thought I was buying iron on transfer paper.  Well, it turned out to be a happy accident.  Sew-in Colorfast Fabric Sheets for your ink jet printer by June Tailor Inc.. is a great new find for me and so I had to share. 
I'm working on a Sideshow piece and needed to make a vintage looking banner for the backdrop.  I figured the easiest way to achieve this was to use an iron on transfer.  After pulling the Colorfast fabric sheets out of the package I realized that they were in fact fabric tacked onto heavy paper.  You print directly onto the fabric side, let dry for 15 minutes and then peel off the paper backing.  You do not have to put it through the printer as a mirror image. 
They are a little pricey.  About $10.00 for 3 sheets, but if you have a specific project in mind they are worth the cost.  I think this product would be fabulous for all the quilters I know. 

http://store.junetailor.com/store/p-13-colorfast-white-sew-in-printer-fabric-3-sheetspack.aspx

 

 

Below is my Sideshow piece, still a work in progress.

 

 

How cool is this banner!

 

 

I even added grommets 

 

 

 

E-clipse E-cigarette Jewelry

www.e-clipsejewelry.net

 

 

 

 

I have been working on this project for the last 2 years and it's finally seeing the light of day. I am thrilled with the end result up till now. To think that when I first came up with the concept I was in my studio hammering and soldering metal trying to make my first prototype. The E-clipse, e-cigarette pendant has come a long way since then. I wear them all of the time now and have given them to close friends and family to try out and the response has been great. The online store has finally opened.   I am also working with a New York manufacturing company to have a couple of the designs made available in stainless steel. Can't wait!  Taking one step at a time for now. I'm just excited to finally get the project off the ground!

 

 

 

 

 

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Le Cheile Arts & Music Festival and Clonabreany House Ireland 2013

 

Traveled to Ireland this month with the band Walker & the brotherhood of the grape ( www.brotherhoodofthegrape.com ).  They were asked to play the Le Cheile Arts & Music Festival held in the town of Old Castle.  We also had the exceptional good fortune to be put up at Clonabreany House (http://www.clonabreanyhouse.ie/)  .  What a magnificent place it is.  The old Irish cottages and land have been refurbished  to it's original grandeur.

Ireland is truly one of the most exquisite places I have ever visited with it's picturesque scenery and  incredibly friendly people. 

 

 

Walker & the Brotherhood of the Grape

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Clonabreany House

 

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Old Castle, Ireland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The split second when life and death intermingle

 

 

The dark side of the human psyche - Work in Progress

This is my latest work in progress.   I have been trying to capture more human emotion in my sculpts.  Lately I've been exploring the darker side of the human psyche. 

One of my last pieces I tried capturing sorrow/grief.  (First photo below) 

I'm working on trying to capture pain below - lot of work left to do.

 

Departed Darlingz - Victoria

Finally completed Victoria, she's been sitting on my desk as a work in progress for a while now.  So I am happy to add her today to my Departed Darlingz series of dolls.  Victoria is sculpted out of polymer clay over a wire armature.  Her costume is sewn from an original pattern and her shoes are handmade of leather.