I love spray paint. I like walking the aisle in the hardware store and gazing at all the hues and dreaming of all the things I could revive with a new color coat.

But why revive when you can make new?

Brown Waves
spray paint
2′ x 2′

Blue Waves
spray paint
2′ x 2′

White & Silver Movement
spray paint
4′ x 4′

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Brown Dot Splay
polymer clay, inks
4′ x 2′

Right now, I’m interested in showing movement in my work. The point of impact and the subsequent falling out. I like the life it shows.

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Designs & Ornamentation
polymer clay, inks, paint, wire
4′ x 2′

There is a lot going on in this piece. It’s been hanging in my home for two years and every time I look at it, something else catches my eye. Again, so much of its texture and mixed media-ness is lost in a 2-D image. So take my word for it, it’s definite eye candy.

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I liked this piece so much, I made two.

Polymer Clay Floret Tree
polymer clay, inks, wire
4′ x 2′

Polymer Clay Floret Tree
polymer clay, inks, wire
4′ x 2′

I made all of floret bowls about a two years ago. But after I made them, I didn’t know what to do with them, how to arrange them. So they sat in a box. I would pull them out now and then to mess with different arrangements but nothing stuck.

I don’t remember how I settled on the tree form, I think my brain was on overload at the time. I like the chalkboard-like tree doodle and, if you’ve seen any of my other work, the florets make me happy.

I wish I had the know-how to make a 3-D computer screen. I think my work is much better viewed in person. But since we just have images, here are a few close-ups.

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64 Florets
polymer clay, inks, wire
2′ x 2′

Being an artist requires some insanity, I think. It’s a little insane to make 192 bowl shaped pieces, plus a few more for good measure.

It’s a little more insane to hand-ink each and every one. On both the front and the back side.

Then there are the 64 floret-center balls, also hand-inked and then each wrapped with wired and threaded through a three-stack and through the substrate of the piece.

But the insanity doesn’t stop there. On the backside, there are 64 tiny nails in which the threaded wire is wrapped on to to keep them in place.

I have to say – insanity looks good.

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Floating Lights
polymer clay, inks, spray paint
4′x’2

Most of my pieces aren’t directly inspired. It’s more of a ‘oo, I like that shape’ or ‘I like that color combination’. However, the concept for this piece came directly from its source.

The source?

A movie.

A Disney movie.

A Disney princess movie.

Okay, it was Tangled, the story of Rapunzel.

If you’ve never seen it, there is a gorgeously animated floating lantern segment and I just loved it. I just had to try it with polymer.

I hand-cut all the circles, from the very tiny to large.

I think my favorite part is the gentle curve of the ‘lights’. It’s a peaceful piece.

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