Fat and Full of Chocolate

Recently I was asked by my friend, Laura Perez-Harris, at Throat to make a piece for their show, My 5th Birthday, which had it's gallery opening last Thursday! I decided to make a pinata-like unicorn where instead of beating it to unleash delicious candy, you would have to reach into it's anus to grab hand-fulls of chocolate.

Fat and Full of Chocolate
Wire form, Tissue paper, Curling ribbon, Paperclay, Acrylic, Fabric, Liquid Latex

Anyway the opening was a blast, The kind folks at Throat did a marvelous job
setting up the show!

Wall Mounts

While I've been slaving away on my next project, I decided to mount a few of my masks. Now I have more room in my studio and I have excellent wall hangings. Also my hard drive crashed so I needed to retake these photos anyway...

Keaton Mask

Nick Bottom Mask

Aslan Mask

Thanks to Sean Hughes for allowing me use of a nice lighting kit and set-up.
Also Alex Quinn for letting me use his camera.

A Wild Eevee Appeared!

About 6 months ago, during my quest to catch all 649 Pokémon, I decided that it would be a fantastic idea to make a Pokémon sculpture. Eevee was a natural choice. To challenge myself a bit more, I added some puppet aspects in which both Eevee's head and ears move.

I Choose You, Eevee!
Wireform, Styrofoam, Various papers, Paperclay, Aquarium beads

Special thanks to Alexander Quinn for taking photos.

The Lost Woods

For Halloween, I decided to put my own spin on the Keaton mask from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

Keaton Mask
Wire Form, Gouache, Various papers, Gold spray paint

Special thanks to Kayla Hickey for taking photos and lending me an ocarina!

Glee Bitch Fest

My good friend, Greg Kozatek, asked me to do another "Illusgaytion" for his weekly
column Glee Bitch Fest on his blog Gayvorites!

GLEE BITCH FEST

An Ass

Guess what, everyone?!?!

The lovely Hannah Kittell was assisting on an opera, "The Fairy Queen", based off of A Midsummer Night's Dream and they needed a mask for when one of the characters is transformed into a donkey. So Hannah was nice enough to get me my first commission, ever, for one of my masks. It was a hectic three weeks, but I'd say it was worth it.

Donkey Mask
Wire form, Paper clay, Gouache, Various paper

The Dinner of a Dancing Bear

One time I stumbled onto a picture of a sloth bear and thought to myself "That is probably the cutest bear to ever live". Then I found out it pretty much has the highest attack rate of any species of bear. Also it's been said that the sloth bear has been know to eat people. So here is a series of four images that popped into my head when I first heard this. By the way, dating back to the 13th century, sloth bears of been used as dancing bears in India (which was
banned in 1972)

The Dinner of a Dancing Bear (In four parts)

A special thanks to
Meghan K. Baier for taking the photos and Kaitlyn Kanzler for assisting.