Arting

It's time to load some photos of my art, some recent, some a little bit older. The first one is one in a series of small cloth art dolls I titled Soul Dolls. Each doll is made from cloth and hand embroidered. They measure approximately 2" x 6".

Our bathroom floor has finally been finished....altho the baseboards inthis photo are still raw wood, they are now painted a very light pink. I took up all the old tiles and brought it all down to the cement foundation. Primed the cement and then painted. All the other work on it has been hand stamped with acrylic paint.

A closeup of the floor

I have been working on a series of blue jean purses. Poor Jerry's jeans are being cut up. If he can't wear them - off they go into the barn to be recreated. All the purses are hand embroidered and lined.

This journal is covered with dyed paper towels. The flower stamped on the front is one of my original carvings and it is repeated onto shrink plastic for the image in the center. The binding for the journal is hand painted watercolor paper and the pages inside are three signatures of Fabriano Uno watercolor paper. This way the journal can be used for multi media.

This jacket was purchased from a sale at the local community college's theater group costume sale. There is a tag at the neck on the inside that tells what the play was and who the actor who wore it was. I have hand embroidered on it and added images with bits and pieces of material.

This assemblage is titled Broken. The chair is made of wood and bark. The body parts are polymere clay. The assemblage itself is sitting inside an abandoned wooden dresser drawer. On the tops of the chair back sits two bees. This piece was entered into a show at the San Luis Obispo ARt Center and at my solo show at Allan Hancock College.

This assemblage piece is titled Bound. The main image is a plastic doll part that has been wrapped/bound in fabric. Her mouth and eyes have been covered and her arms are bound and she is hanging from a chain. Under her are shards of glass and the piece is enclosed with rusted wire and barbed wire. The assemblage itself is sitting inside an abandoned wooden dresser drawer. This piece was entered into a show at the San Luis Obispo ARt Center and at my solo show at Allan Hancock College.

This piece was created for a mask exhibit at Allan Hancock College. The main body of the mask is a hip bone from a small animal. It has been wrapped in and hung by strings of glass beads.

Another in the series of blue jean purses. This photo is the back of one of the purses which has images of women.

The front of the purse has a hand embroidered eye with more hand embroidery detail on the sides and pockets.

A wearable art jacket is hand embroidered and embellished with bits and pieces of colorful fabric.

This mosaiced piece hangs over our front door. It is mosaiced with stained glass and mirror shards.

Wearable art doesn't just mean purses and jackets......it also means shoes!! And no two can possibly be alike. These shoes go with everything!!