almost march

Ive been taking advantage of the space allotted me, and experimenting with first 2d designs and also store front design. I have ultimately had more failure than success, but that's how it is for most things. For this piece, I was inspired by the work of Jose Parla. However for my piece, I used spray snow and ice in a can. The "snow" is more like a dry spray paint, but the "ice" is runny and wet, with lots of stringy texture bits. That was really the fun stuff that added dimension and interest. Then I cranked up pandora and used a broken chopstick to etch thoughts and song lyrics over and over piling up the text. Every once in a while I sprayed a new coat or when outside to see that there was not yet enough. The only problem with the finished piece as I see it, is that from the road it looks like an uneven coat of white spray paint. But I think that from the sidewalk, close up it looks really fantastic. This image is taken from inside of the building, you can see Mc Guffy's shadow in the background.

On a scale I would say that the success of this piece is a 7. and that is just because it looks kind of like a mess from far away. Lesson learned.

This chair was shown to me by a friend of mine, Devon. Its a similar, and much more successful counter part to something that I had struggled with in school. The idea of blending blown glass and chair. I think that this artist did an amazing job with the concept, and Im so glad that I am able to see a successful image of something that haunted me for such a long time.

Being trained as a jeweler in school I have a very mild exposure to a great many processes and techniques. One of which is setting stones. Ive made bezel settings, and done a bit with trapping, but thats about it. So for basket settings, which can be modified to create any prong setting, although it works better for larger stones, I use this website every time.

Today I had some guys from a project called squid and beard come into my studios to film a documentary short. I had a really great experience, but also a bit awkward and nerve wracking into how to act and what to do. Its such a strange feeling to be watched. I feel the need to both show off and be natural at the same time, which is quite difficult and can often add to tripping all over ones self. I think mine went alright though.