Return to color!

My response to all the white in white of late

Superheroes in love

Sometimes things just aren't working, I was working on a piece for me while I awaited the next job...and I think I over thought it so it failed....
But I hate wasting materials And I need to not take myself so seriously so I re-did the failed piece.

Young superheroes in love.

Conversation

I am interested in pattern, layering, transparency and storytelling

I love the speed of glass fusing... Painting, layering and firing...trying to get to the answer to the question... And never quite getting there.




I like how glass changes depending on what is behind it.


I am a person of few words, I have always felt uncomfortable with language, either verbal or written. Yet I love language, I love to listen and to read. My voice comes out mostly in my work, it is often laced with metaphors and illusions but it is also straight forward.


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triangles

Playing with glass again, while I have a little down time- today's influence triangles!

Going for the undoable!

I was given a rapid fire commission 4 large mosaics to be installed in Florida

In two weeks...it's a much longer story but not interesting... And involves too much complaining on my part.. Wheeeeee!!!

Here is the first one finished, sans grout!

It's 4 x 3


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Huipil memories

Long ago I used to live in Oaxaca, Mexico...

I am enjoying these little simple exercises in line drawing on glass- no thinking, no pre-planning, no erasing and no judging...




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It's the texture!

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More fun with texture and pattern!

 you can click on the pictures for a great idea of the texture

Minimalist on glass

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Obsession, perhaps?

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And it's kind of lost in translation.... Dang! Seeing it live you can see more details but lots of it are lost... So close and yet so far. Back to the drawing board and the kiln....

When less is more

My usual style is to pile as many colors, textures and patterns into a piece as possible. I am trying something quieter



Glass paint, frit, bullseye glass, and patience....




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Superhero series begins!

I have always wanted to be a superhero... kind of scary and lots of responsibility.. trying to save the world

these are the first glass pieces in this series, of course the are not what I had hoped they would be, but thats okay. I will keep trying and one is the reverse side of the other, I like the reverse the best! they are 5 x 6 and 5 x 7-  any tips on glass fusing always welcome! thanks

Who does she think she is?

I watched a really good movie last night Who does she think she is? it follows five women artists whom are also mothers and the joys and struggles they go through. I had want to see this movie since it came out in 2008. One of my big memories from graduate school was being told regularly that I could not make it as an artist and a mother. I guess I don't know what making it really means.

But I am still playing....








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Glass painting/fusing

Oh I love being an artist! Wear my heart out on my sleeve...

This is the process...









Start with a depressing (or perhaps happy) picture of yourself, sketch from photo or mirror than redraw simplified in glass, I use glassline...


Start glueing bits of glass down



Into the kiln



Her skin color and shirt are covered in glass frit this is the reverse of ultimate piece....




And we have failure! Well maybe not completely I am thinking that the sides pushed in because there was not enough glass on top. I piled on more brown frit and put an off white piece of glass behind it and back into the kiln it went. It will deform even more- I have no idea what will happen and I won't be able to check on it for at least 12 hours. So I will wait ....

Unpredictable magic

I started making these last fall when my oldest daughter was in the hospital, making these helped me get through it, though in the end I did not know what would happen with them. I have some other difficult things going on right now and I am back to making these, little prayers hoping for a milagro........











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Niki de Saint-Phalle

Going through paper work and other stuff so..... I thought I would look at yet another favorite artist!















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Great goddess of love

Back to the portrait she change a LOT from what I thought she was going to be....still in progress

where it began

I had been in art school for three years, weaving, paper making, sculpture in clay, metal and fibers and loving it all but not really know where I was heading  or what I was trying to say. Then I took African art history and it all began to make sense. I was seeing work that had the same aesthetics as me, that used color, texture and pattern. It spoke to the gods, to the earth to the basic wonderment of life. 

this leads to this