Halloween Costume Contest Trophies

 Whipped these up for a Halloween costume contest!

FREE Advice

Our road has been deemed unsafe for the post office to drive down, so we have a mailbox out by the freeway. Because we don't use the mailbox outside of our house, I decided to turn it into an art project!

 

Las Muñecas Muertas

Made a second run of my Muñecas Muertas - Dead Dolls - for an art show in Joshua Tree. Added David Bowie and Peter Fonda! Only one of each. Approximately 14" tall.

 

The Glitter Highway

Mixed media piece for a La Matadora art gallery show. SOLD.

 

Mirror Mosaic

 Using all sorts of fun things to mosiac with...

More Mosaics

 Pretty stoked on this. Broke up an old coffee mug that had zodiac signs on it.

Bottlecaps!

Decided to throw some Budweiser bottlecaps on the sides of my van, The Red Hot Shaggin' Wagon, perfecto!

And... the bumper!

Slowly working on bottlecapping a tiny porch... 

Just this much took about 3 and a half hours! Not even a quarter done.

Slowly... it came along.

And done!!

Alien Art Show in Joshua Tree

Two pieces I made for an alien themed art show at La Matadora art gallery in Joshua Tree. 

"LOOK INTO MY EYES"

"AN ENORMOUS, EXTREMELY UGLY OBJECT, SILVER AND SCALY, WITH A SORT OF WIRE-WHISK-LIKE-THING ON THE END" AKA: "ALIEN PROBE"

Mosaic Madness

I took a mosaic class with Perry who crated the Tile House in Wonder Valley. I already knew the basics, but one thing I really learned and took away from this class was using more three dimensional pieces rather than all flat tiles. It's a lot harder to grout, but so worth it! I used a picture frame, little beads, a plastic animal, I love how it turned out. Funky and fun! 

 

Taxidermied Tarantula

This was my first time doing taxidermy on a spider. I bought it from a local pet store where it arrived dead, so they couldn't sell it. It was frozen. Brought it home and did some googling to figure out how to preserve it. I cut the abdomen open and cut out the innards, and stuffed it with some cotton. There wasn't much to cut and scrape out. Then I pinned it and left it in the freezer for a few weeks to freeze dry it. I thought it turned out rather nice.

Frozen and closed up.

Pinned.

Freezer shot while drying.

My boyfriend is afraid of spiders so I dressed the tarantula up to make him look "friendly." It worked! Kinda reminds me of the cartoon Squidbillies! 

Barbie Wept

 Made for a group art show at La Matadora gallery, in Joshua Tree, December 2018.

"Barbie Wept" 2018

And another version of "The Last Super Barbie Cooked" 2018. SOLD

Five Dollar Swap Meet Score!

 I'll post the AFTER pic when I am done with this!

And the transformation has been completed! Used a big box of fishing lures I got at a yard sale, and a bunch of hardware (keys, springs) I got from a local hardware store that gave me a bunch of old junk.