update

Hi!

What I've been up to lately..

started a tumblr (which i am hopelessly addicted to already)

 

painting a lot


 

pretending to be Stevie Nicks on the regs

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shooting guns in Ohio

which I'm kind of good at?

oh, and being ridiculous



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enjoying the country flowers

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walking by pretty things

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humbling fan tattoos

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wearing excessive amounts of jewelry

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being in love with my new pants

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girl days with my bestie

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geeking out to world of warcraft (at the airport)

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enjoying goodiess from proseIV

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entertaining myself on dull mondays (not today)
 


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and collecting rosaries 
  
Okay, have i overwhelmed you with too many photos again? Good.
I'm still in Ohio and will be back in a couple of days, then its back to paint paint paint paint aiptna pitnpi tnpssdflsd
Oh, and fireflies are amazing. !!!!!
xx

skull girls

Happy Monday!

Just a heads up, my Etsy store will be closed for a little while. I've got a lot of work to do preparing for two upcoming shows:

September 1st - group @ Spoke Art

January - solo @ Shooting Gallery
(And for you East Coasters, I'll also be having a solo show in New York at at Wooster Street Social Club in March, where they're filming NY Ink.)

So, as always, you can buy my prints through Society6 & Eyes on Walls. Both sell larger versions of what I was selling in my Etsy, as well as t-shirts, canvases, skins, etc etc etc. So really it's better this way! :p

I am also thinking of opening up a Big Cartel shop just for originals. 

Okay.

Here is another in progress picture..

I had originally wanted to leave the wood background exposed on this, but I just wasn't feeling it. Seemed empty. Sometimes I get stuck and start really hating a piece until I do something drastic. In this case, 'drastic' meant giving her a haircut, painting the background flat black & giving her a skull on her shoulder. Sorry girl.

she also looks kinda cool in black and white

Giving her horns next.

during her makeover.
Also the other skull girl is almost done. Astrological symbols are the next step. whee!
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My favorite time of day. when the sunbeams come through the windows in my studio.


That's it for now.
<3

skull shoulders

New piece I've been working on.  Skull shoulder girl.

I've been challenging myself lately with painting hands. I don't like painting them, so I'm painting them. Ha.  

I spent the majority of yesterday glazing and just building up the skin tones. layers layers layers layers layers layers layerlisdjfks jslsdkf

I was also down in Encinitas for a couple of days visiting my family / the beach.

I was a bad girl and got sunburnt. Sorry tattoos :/

and spent some time browsing through an old Sear's catalogue. 

i want all of these hats please.

and my dagger is almost all the way healed. except the sunburn incident didn't help. 

and another lake shot for the hell of it.

back to work!!

new works

Here are a couple of new paintings I've been working on for my solo show at Shooting Gallery in January..

weird witchy lady with bird wings for hips.


and then I started this crazy girly the other night. Think i'm leaving the wood exposed on this one.

no eyebrows, an extra eye & a gap in her teeth. muahahaha.

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and now a bunch of other pictures just because:

my studio is turning in to a bit of a jungle. I have plants eeeverywhere.

It's so peaceful sitting up in the loft, especially in the evening, feeling the warm breeze coming in. half my day I spend up there, lounging on the couch, sketching, reading, drinking tea, looking down at my easel.. pure heaven. 

oh, and i'm becoming more and more of a jewelry addict. HELP.




mmmm days at the lake are my faaaaaave.
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Also, you may remember me mentioning a while back that I did some designs for Volcom..

They'll be hitting the stores (in US) this December, keep an eye out ;)

I had two photoshoots last week in my studio,

Another fancy lacy shoot with with Natali Truax for Sex + Design Magazine's September print edition.
lil preview...


And then more of a casual shoot with Jerry Buttles

More later :)

C

new ink + work in prog

 (seems like all I'm posting these days are works in progress and new tattoos)

I mentioned before that Morgan and I were going in for some tattoos, and here they are!
 
This was taken right after we finished, so they're still real dark and mine is pretty red (morgan on left, me on right). It was well after 4am by the time we finished. Ha. Thanks Derick Montez for the beautiful beautiful design & tattooing! (And thanks for putting up with my moment by moment pain evaluation.) He busted out a sketch for us in like 30 minutes while we went and got Jack in the Box curly fries (a weird tradition of ours). It was perrrrrfect. Took about 2+ hours each. Troopers!
all healed up now.


Morgan and I have been collecting skeleton keys for years, and I'm almost always wearing at least two around my neck. One year for my birthday Morgan gave me a bunch of hers, our 10th birthday maybe? I thought I had lost them in the move to San Francisco, but I found 'em hiding in an old jewlery box in my closet. I think I cried a little bit (oh I'm such a sap sometimes). Well, I don't want to lose them again, so I made one permanent.

Okay. Enough about that.
I've been putting the finishing details on this piece, it's nearly done.

I have another day or two left on the tattoos before it goes off to the New Brow group show over at The Alternative Cafe. Gonna be a fun show!

Also I'm super excited cause I'm getting a new studio space next month. It's super spacious and sunny and perrrrrfeccttt and I can't wait! yay.

okbye
xx