Commission 2 done!

Here is the finished piece of my friend Danielle's sister. As a christmas present she is going to give this and the one I did of her to her parents!

Finished commission 1 :)

These are close up shots of the  short skirt. I actually glued one gem at a time to get a fade look. The end product came out great but it took forever!
This is a close up of the long skirt, i painted peacock feathers and then also added real feathers on top!
Finished piece of all the sisters!

Holiday commission 2!!

Its going to be a 20X40 portrait of her and her three sisters. You have the hippy, tom boy, girly girl and hipster! The painting is almost done, i just need to add the finishing touches to it. In the painting I am going to some 3d objects, peacock feathers, thread and sequins!

Sister Commission!

     From an older post i did a portrait of my friend Danielle, this happens to be her sister! The background is a little hard to read here..but the shapes are flowers, some that she actually picked out.

      As a set they are going to make a great present for their mom :). The painting is well on its way and I will put up pictures when its finished. 

Hollly Almost Holidays

For my job I made some holiday invitations to hand out to all the family members! My boss told me not to go over board ... but i couldn't help it :)

Art Opening!

The show was great! Thank you to everyone that came out to support me.

Finished Danielle!

I fell in love with her hair! So much texture and movement, but the actually piece i think looks better then this photo! So come check my show out on Friday!

ARRRRT OPENING!

Hey folks, I just wanted to remind you that my art opening is next friday!! whoot whoot The show is at the Orange Glory cafe located at 240 East Ave Rochester NY! The reception will begin 6:00 pm and go till about 8:00pm. So come check out my work, great food and drink, and live music by one of my good friends Amos Rose, who is the lead singer in the local Rochester band Walri! Hope to see you there!

This is the almost finished piece of Fawn. I am going to do some kind of red three dimensional flower in here hair! Hope you like :)

Just a couple of sketches of my next projects. I have always loved profiles, and I am lucky enough to have a lot of great friends, with great noses!

My friend Danielle!

My friend Fawn!

Where I have been

     Family vacations, never know where you will end up. My family is a bunch of dorks and we went on a disney cruise, and it was AWESOME. I only have a few photos to up load because I unfortunately don't have the pictures with me.

     During the cruise we stop at Disney's private island is the Bahamas. This is the first thing that you see when you get off the ship. Its the boat used in Pirates of the Caribbean, really cool to see in person, but no you were not allowed to board that ship :). 

     On the private adult side of the island, Disney has these new private cabanas that you can rent for the day. We got one and it was totally worth it! Small kitchen inside, with a couch and chairs if you wanted to stay out of the sun, and outside there were several lounges and hammock's. The view was great and to finish the day we had an outdoor shower to wash off the beach. One of the best days of my life! 

My Studio

My studio all set up with a new rug!...just incase I drip paint, which tends to happen a lot with me!

yes the time has come...

This is Minerva, she is one of my cats, yes I have two :).  While I was taking photos she became very interested in the camera and I had to take her picture, too cute!

Finished!

Finally finished my end table last week and just had time to take a final picture of it in all it's glory!

I do have a show in October, please keep your eyes peeled for my mailers soon! In the mean time I decided to make a self promotional piece, and what better to paint but Julia Child! I have been watching videos of her online to get a better sense of her quirky-ness. May I recommend my favorite, although not really her, the SNL version of Julia Child with Dan Aykroyd, if you haven't seen it please watch!

This sketch is just her obviously, but the background will have her copper pots up on the wall! I will post more when I get further into my painting!

During the past couple of weeks I have been working on setting up my new apartment, and as I was I realized that not one piece of my furniture matched. Well years of college later, i'm not surprised. Most everything I own was given to me or I found carelessly on the side of the road. No matter, I decided to start painting each piece of furniture a unique, inspirational way. The first piece of furniture that I started working on was an end table for my bed. These are only work in progress pictures, but I think that I am almost done!

The next band that we saw, that I am definitely going to start following is Low Anthem.  This band was absolutely outstanding. With the beginning of every new song, a different instrument was being played. Low Anthem kept you mesmerized by their sound and they continued to blow me away thought out their whole set. If you have not heard of them please check them out, definitely worth it. 

This is just a beautiful song, but they do have more energetic ones too!!

For the past couple of days I have been in the Catskills with my good friend Carla. We drove for many hours straight but finally made it to Woodstock, NY to see two of the best bands EVER! 

The first band I will mention, is one that I have followed for awhile, and is Carla's pretend husband, Langhorne Slim. Slim himself really knows how to work a crowd with his outrageous energy. As soon as he starts playing, it feels like the room was lit on fire, people go nuts! Slim's music is very well crafted and inspires me. It is something that I will continue to follow with open ears!

This is one of my favorites songs my Langhorne Slim, but the quality of the video is not the best. Still sounds great though!

ahh this has been a crazy few weeks! I am still waiting for photos from my opening from the very talented, local Rochester photographer Gerry Szymanski, but I do have a couple that some of my friends took, enjoy!

The first couple images are of my merch table and of myself! The remaining couple of photos  are just random shots of only some of the people that came out to support me!! Thanks to everyone that came out, it meant a lot to me!

  

So here are the hand made roses. I used this cardboard color because I didn't want anything distracting from the art, but this color is still light enough to be seen against the dark chocolate walls! I wish I made more than I did, but it takes longer than I thought to make these. :)

Here is the show right after I put it up on Tuesday! I was fairly happy with how it looked, but I noticed that there was just way to much negative space for my taste. So look for my next set of photos, I hand made roses to fill in some space!!

Finally have a date for opening reception! June 18th, 6:00pm at Lovin Cup!! Come support your local artist! :D

These are the labels for my pieces at my upcoming art show! The labels with the green backing are the completed labels, hope you like!