O'Keeffe's Poppies

Today I started some special art lessons with the Choffy brothers, Caleb (1st grade) and MJ (2nd grade). We painted, cut, and glued paper to create our interpretation of Georgia O'Keeffe's poppies.

Backyard Bash

Celebrating three birthdays tonight at Katy's.

Giving it a Shot

Making paper with military uniforms with Malachi Muncy and other local artists/veterans/hippies at the Quaker House in Fayetteville, NC.

More Paper Making

Making Paper

Making paper with military uniforms with Malachi Muncy and other local artists/veterans/hippies at the Quaker House in Fayetteville, NC.

Opening Tonight

I'm an exhibiting artist in this exhibition. Check it out!

Beef Bung Caps

Experimenting with beef bung caps instead of my usual hog intestines. This is rinsed, cut in half and laid flat to dry, and then lastly some photos after it dried. It's beautiful! Its culinary use is to make old world style bologna. Ha ha I had to sing that song in my head to remember how to spell bologna.

First Day

My first day of teaching at Methodist University was a success. I'm going to be swamped this semester because I'm also taking a full course load as I work toward getting my North Carolina teaching certification. Ill be doing my teaching observation, tutoring at Fort Bragg, working in the Veteran's Center, and I'll be teaching Art Appreciation and an Art Business/ Marketing class. I'm exhausted just thinking about it.

Experimenting

I've always used hog intestines in my work but recently I discovered beef intestines and beef bung caps. I ordered in bulk from the company that supplies my local supermarket. After soaking overnight, they have softened and rehydrated quite a bit. As you can see from the photos, they are twice as large as the hog intestines, but also twice as thick. I'll be stretching some soon but I expect to lose a little of the translucency due to the thickness.

Lunch

The many faces of MJ. Love her so much!

Girl's Night

Girl's Night! The theme was "anything on a skewer"....my offering was frowned upon and omitted from the photo....

Stitched Words

Mask

I just finished making a leather mask for an upcoming exhibition called "mask |mask|" at Kimbo Studios in Australia. Thanks Michelle Connolly for including me, I'm mailing it to you tomorrow. The mask was done by a wet form sculpting process, then hand painted. I made the steel base for display. For anyone who doesn't know me, I used to make theatrical leather masks but this is the first I've made in a while.