Tiny henna girl from previous blog

I had to update with a better photo of the piece from the last blog, and also to show her post curing when the shininess of the clay goes away.

Mehndi is done!

My visions have become REALITY!
Today I made my henna girl, I love her, I love, love, love her!
I put a really fast video up on youtube showing the progression of the figure, below are a few pics.


She is detailed, and gorgeous, her size alone makes her appealing (she is only one and three quarters of an inch tall) and all that hand painted goodness begs to be shown off, I cant wait to go street vending with her!
She is like some of my past henna girls, only less than half their size! She fits into the smallest cubes.
Up next on my "to make list" is an affirmation figure followed by some of the "flower girls" which will remain the same old price, but have new faces... faceless so to speak... well, painted on. You will see.

Cris' butterfly person is more than it seems

Today I was able to gift blogger Nando's friend Cris with a Butterfly Person.
The sculpture seems normal when you look at it... golden girl holds broken wrist... my work often appears arbitrary like this, and though the broken wrist does indicate fragility, if one were to do their research they would see just what this piece symbolizes... WAY more than a golden fairy-girl with wings.

The piece was designed to be a three dimensional canvas for an important black and white ink drawing that I have done which the hard copy is on paper.  See below.

The most important elements of the drawing were taken such as the symbol of peace, the dove, and several images of lovers together, the candle to light the path of your destiny, and love was written on her arm as a manifestation of these things.  The figure is supposed to send out these energies, love, togetherness, and lighting of the life path.  I thought that the imagery was interesting but I had to mask slightly the obviousness of the figure so I sprayed her in Gold. The gold partially, not completely obscured the images beneath the paint and that is how the figure was gifted.  Her wings are blue and Gold, symbolizing riches and prosperity, but the underside of the wings (the side you see when looking at the figure head on) were left in their natural state, “shine, but never loose sight of who you really are.”  Below are some images of the figure before she was covered in Gold.  Hope Cris likes her and is not freaked out that the mundane is not so mundane… that’s how we artists are, always including some importance in our work even if its beneath the surface.

Cris & Nando @ Union Square

Street Vending Date

FINALLY such a relief to be out and about in NYC again! 
Im going to be street vending Sunday, October 25th at the Metropolitan Museum of Art... this is on 5th ave and 82nd on the East side of Central Park.    There is a spot on the South side of the entrance on 5th were artists set up, find me & say hello.

Im back!

Im back, like forreal now.  The creativity is finally flowing and I am going to be creating some tiny wonders.  Small is the way to go for me right now and I will be creating some very detailed and yet minute things.  I was thinking about my first order of business besides buying smaller brushes would be to make a henna girl in miniature, it would be so very beautiful, though I feel sorry for those with bad eye sight who cannot see what I make.  More time spent on each piece means more detail… no more “mitten” hands, each figure will have five fingers and toes.  They will also be masterpieces in their own right, larger does not mean more prestigious, I have found this out the hard way though sometimes in the art world it may seem that way.   No matter the size of a work of art, its what you put into it.  That said, there will be an understandable increase in price with the increase in quality and effort ;-)

confirmed, she will be!

I can almost certainly confirm that the next bronze piece will be the one from the last blog after all, I changed her up a little bit though, her breasts and stomach were changed, one was enlarged, the others reduced.  I am sticking to the theme I had with the last figure, masks.  Masks as a way of "putting on face".  This figure will hopefully be depicted in motion, walking, almost reminding me of a person who has to go to work and put on a smiley face, so thats what she is literally doing, she has a smiley face on a stick to hold up in front of her, but its not who she really is.  The other two masks in her left arm are for later when she has to again change based on the circumstances of her existence.

Male form

Finally, after a million women, a tribute to the male form. What am I so afraid of when dealing with the male form? Judgment perhaps, ridicule, being found out that I really don't know the male body that well? Perhaps all or none of these, but this figure is beautiful.