Monday, July 2, 2018

Retail Websites To Learn From:

Current Faves:
uncommongoods.com
food52.com
tentree.com
udacity.com
westelm.com

What makes these sites so compelling is their beautiful interface, admirable missions, and the ability to connect to each product because of the sincerity imbued in the product presentation.

Sunday, November 26, 2017

Painting Abstracts and 20 Minute Landscape

A small landscape (14x18) to remind me that I can copy most landscapes pretty quickly and some abstracts (20x20) because they're just more fun and oddly more labor intensive. 





Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Glass Goblet

First Goblet! Took a course on make Venitian Goblets this winter. Proud to say I learned A Lot and had a great time. It's a little lopsided, probably had too much to drink.


Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Kiln Jewels

These are the first batch of beautiful pendants and jewelry pieces from my class "Glass plus Metal". Next I'm going to curl metal around these babies and make them into gorgeous jewelry. 

Friday, March 11, 2016

New Pendants

I've gotten pretty good at manipulating boro glass. I'm especially proud of how I can make the chain loop and combine colors as I planned.  


I over exaggerated the exposure so you can see the colors better in the above photo. 


This is a small recollection of some of my older pendants. Some will be put up on online for sale soon. 

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Brassempouy Venus


This is part of the prehistoric female figurine project that I've been work on for a few years. I recreate prehistoric nonfunctional sculpture, specifically the female figurines that dominate that repetoire, to reframe their context and material make-up. While I recreate them I acknowledge the reinterpretation that happens when we look at and hypothesize about these art works.

You can read more about the Brassempouy Venus here:http://donsmaps.com/brassempouyvenus.html 

Pendants and Chain

Going into the kiln!