What's the latest?

People always ask what I'm working on.... 
** these items are always being added to the Five and Dime, so keep an eye out**

Shades of Brain

2017-2018 
paper and paint on board
22" X 28"
​collage series

Aphorism #3:  Exploding Sun

May 2016 (words)
December 2017 (painting)
10" X 20" plus framing
acrylic on canvas

Not Just Another Pretty Face ​

named by Facebook contest winner: Kyna Garza
December 2017
16" X 20" plus framing
acrylic, fabric and leather on canvas
​
- It's always fun to put on of my pieces online to be named.  Out of the 17 names given, this was voted the winner. - 

Quiet Thunder

began winter 2016 and finished winter 2017
(a LONG break in between)
11" X 14" plus framing
acrylic and fabric on canvas
​
- A gift for a friend, Trista Curwick, whose kitty,
​Thunder, passed away - 

A Scott's Legacy

Fall 2017
11" X 14" plus framing
mixed media on canvas
​
-A gift for my Dad on his 60th birthday.-

GYST '77

8" X 10"
paper collage
10.13.2017 (a friday)

The Unicorn's Misty Alchemy

Sept 28, 2017
8" X 10"
Glass, shells, marbles, beads, acrylic on canvas - resin work
(mixed media)

Space Friedrich

Graf Friedrich Carl Von Lichtenstein
16" X 20" plus framing
oil on canvas
2016-2017

Adam Mindek's dog Friedrich was chosen to fly with NASA
and had his portrait done.  
** Special thanks to Amber Hawley for painting the puppy correction so this piece ​could get finished. **

Galactic Vortex Nocturnal Dark Matter

2016 - 2017
Collage #7 : 30" X 40" : acrylic and paper on paper

These collage pieces evolve over time.  
Sometimes they are instantaneous, but usually they take
weeks or months.  They sit in their place in my studio, and
when they speak to me as finished, hen they are done.  
​It's probably the most organic art I make. 

Esther

2016
​8" X 10" plus framing
​acyrlic on canvas

Fluid Anguish, Solid Hope

summer 2016
11" X 14"
acyrlic on paper

An off handed acrylic piece that was meant to be a background for a worded collage.  After leaving it for
a couple of months, I decided I liked the piece as it was.  The piece needed a name, so I decided to put it to a social media contest.  The response was overwhelming.  I chose
​6 titles, then put those to another social media vote, and "Fluid Anguish, Solid Hope" by Brian Drummond of
Las Vegas, NV, was the runaway winner.  I love it. ​

Fashion Piece #8:
​Porcelain Guo Pei

16" X 20" 
acrylic, fabric weave, hand beading,
​mixed sewn media on canvas

Inspired by a Guo Pei dress in "The First Monday in May",
a movie documenting Andrew Bolton's Metropolitan
Museum of Art show "China: Through the Looking Glass",
and a lead up to the Met Ball. It combines the idea of blue
and white Chinese porcelain pattern with haute couture.
I LOVE this piece and it's technique.
​It's something new I will explore in further pieces.

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#3 in the Nude Series
September 2016
Acrylic on canvas; 11" X 14" plus framing
​
A study in personal view, public view, and self-reconciliation. 
Other pieces in this series are under the Series Exhibits tab. 

Aphorism #1: Concrete

May 2016
In Life, it is Hard to Break Concrete Already Set
acrylic on canvas
​8" X 10" plus framing

Polly Wog

May 2016
acrylic on canvas; 11" X 14" plus framing
commissioned by Trista Curwick

A really fun piece commissioned by an old friend.  
Her only direction was that she wanted a cute frog,
so I made one as colorful and vivid as possible.  
The constellation in the sky is Sagittarius,
​which is her Zodiac sign.

Aquarian Pirate

Summer 2015 ; 12" X 12"; acrylic on canvas

Scott Cohen, creator and visionary for the amazing Life Cube Project, sent out a call for artists through social media for the 2015 LCP.  Artists were asked to give their address to receive a 12 inch square piece of canvas which they could create anything they wished, then mail it back to him.  All the canvas squares would then be sewn together to create a giant tapestry that would be burned on the 2015 Life Cube, set for the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert.  I was tagged in the project by a friend and made my request, creating the piece "Aquarian Pirate".  I LOVED THIS IDEA for the call to artists, and was SO happy to be a part of it.  The cube burned September 4, 2015, at 9pm.

The Dress  (a floral photo frame)

October 2015
22" 25"; mixed media on canvas 
( real rose petals, tracing paper, ribbon, wire,
​beading and acrylic )

Art piece was auctioned at "The Adventures of the Dress" book release party, Nov 14th, 2015, Las Vegas, NV.
The book is by Cara Elizabeth, and you can visit her site:   www.fictionalchick.com

Las Vegas Food Junky

At the start of the year I had the privilege to do a NUMBER of projects to help my talented friend and chef, Maritza Purcell, get her pop up restaurant Food Junky up and running at Banger Brewing, located on Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada.  

Projects included:  the customization of two storage carts, creation of trivia table top tents used when delivering food,
painting two restaurant signs (duplicates of each other), designing her catering menu, creation of gift certificates, and monthly design of table top menus.