Still Life........

2012-02-11T10:07:00.000-08:00

here is a shot of one of my mock ups for a new line of wall sculptures.....

i carved it originally out of jeweler's wax, then had it molded and cast in resin.....

it is a replica of a 1965 SLR camera. i made a little hole in the back so it hangs right on the wall.

it is about 1.5 inches tall and 3 inches long.......goes perfectly with my mini replica of a 1960's airstream trailer i did and cast in bronze. i titled that piece "blue skies ahead"(a favorite saying of my father's, and family motto). each piece in this series comes from memories in my own childhood.

a new year, a new day, a new leaf

2012-01-03T13:55:00.000-08:00

i am working on a leaf now..... for my Valentine series.....

and somehow someway i want to include this poem on it or with it:

"I celebrate myself

And what I assume you shall assume

for every atom belonging to me,

as good as belongs to you."

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

new work for a new year

2011-12-17T12:28:00.000-08:00

i am working on this new line, to be in white resin with gold accents......

thought i would do a traditional rose but somehow that just seemed too boring....ended up with this.......

it still needs some work. not even sure if i will use it. feels good to be making new stuff though.

am hoping to get a few new pieces out for valentine's day.

tis the season

2011-11-30T10:59:00.001-08:00

to do something new.....i spent most of august in Norway, alot of it in Stavanger on the fjord where my mother grew up.....every evening the swallows would fly swooping up and over the lawn and back into the trees. it was beautiful and haunting ....a homecoming for them, for my mother (who i went with) and even for myself and my kids.

i have always loved the swallow, loved that it comes back each year to it's home. i moved so much as a kid this holds a lot of resonance for me.

here is a rough sketch of a new piece, a flying swallow. a bit of a sailor jerry influence at this point (i do have a sailor jerry tatoo) we will just have to see where this all evolves too!

Finally

2011-06-30T10:46:00.000-07:00

my work is on the Westside.......come check out UNDISCOVERED, right next to HEIST at 1100 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice Ca.

And since I don't have a picture of the store, I thought I would show a picture from the Westside, and of my fabulous studio assistant (and daughter) gathering up her favorite thing, rocks.

Benefit for Japan

2011-05-05T10:56:00.000-07:00

Larry, the owner of OK is doing a pop up shop inside Tortoise, an amazing Japanese design store on Abbot Kinney in Venice. He asked myself and several other of his artists, including Caleb Siemen ( he does beautiful glass pieces) and the fab jeweler Margaret Solow, (I buy one of her pieces of jewelry for Amber every year without fail) to donate.

The pop up shop will be going on until May 8th and the best part about this is that 100% of all proceeds go to benefit KAP, a non profit organization that provides direct aid to those in need in Japan.

Check it out, not only will you be donating to a much needed cause but you will be getting some wonderful objects in return.

P.s. Also check out OK's eclectic table full of art, design, and humor books. I am including a photo I took one of my favorites.

you win some you lose some

2011-03-02T11:10:00.000-08:00

i dont know how often people talk about jobs they lost...i wish they would a bit more...that said i personally was just going to delete my last blog, but since i seem incapable of working a computer, and i cant figure out how to delete it, i will simply have to give you the followup to the last blog.

i tell my kids all the time, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, that really that is just a part of life.

and so now (as i pick myself up and dust myself off,) i will say comedy central is not going to use my award for the main award. they have gotten the rights to johnny carson's mike. and even as i was listening to them tell me this, i thought well of course not....his mike is iconic, i would do the same thing if i were in their shoes......

my father use to say, "if you ship doesn't come in then swim out to it"

i think i will just go for a hike instead.

shhhhh top secret....well not really...Comedy Central Award

2011-02-24T20:29:00.000-08:00

I havent written a blog in a awhile, but I have been busy. I was lucky enough to have been chosen to design and make the award for the new Comedy Central Award show. I wont be able to show you the award...at least not til it airs....and then of course you will be able to turn on the t.v. and see it for yourself.

It has been a fun and great project. I finished sculpting it a couple weeks ago and now it is at the foundry getting cast. I cant wait to see it in bronze.

one of a kind

2010-10-23T14:26:00.000-07:00

silver ring......it was going to be the master but i carved it too thin, so now my dear friend - and generous collector of my work- shall get a one of a kind sterling silver ring. the design is unique but just like the astrid collection, and my wedding ring that i am wearing and is cast in 18 karat gold. i took a textile design from the sixties and just rifted off that. very meditative work for me, can't seem to get enough of the linking geometric yet still organic forms!

blogs hogs logs clogs and anything else that comes to mind

2010-09-30T12:53:00.000-07:00

after glancing at my last few entries one might think i was one of those 'mom bloggers'. not that i don't actually find writing talking and watching my kids my number one focus. at least now amber and i actually discuss other things besides the kids at night---tho not much else to tell you the truth- i am not sure some of these blogs belong on the annericketts sculpture site......
so while my kids are fighting in their bedroom right now i will blog a bit about something else.

i actually have been writing a book.

and since my father died i have been rewriting the ending of " blue skies ahead" .yes i know everyone is writing a memoir Memoir i suppose they are being called lately. and tho it may sound a tad morbid to now include my father's death in my book...my agent actually suggested it....also saying he knew it was a tad morbid ....but now that i have actually started rewriting the end, i have to say i think it will be a better book.

it is a mixed genre book, with drawings....some of the drawings i have posted on my blog are actually from my book.

and yes i do have a book agent,the ever fantastic micheal murphy......otherwise to be referred to as The Marvelous Mr. M - btw dust off and send all your book queries to: Michael Murphy
Max & Co.
A Literary Agency and Social Club
and even tho we havent gotten Blue Skies Ahead published yet. according to the Marvelous Mr. M we will.

and speaking of drawings........i told myself -and amber- this last year i had to start doing a creative medium that didnt cost me an arm and a leg to make -ei bronze casting. that is part of why i started drawing so much, and of course the fact that i enjoy it . - That i actually went to college to be a writer not an artist is an other worthless little tidbit about myself that helps make these mixed genre books a real sweet homecoming for me.....

some of you have seen my shitty job drawings...in fact those are what i first sent to Mr.M and at first got rejected,'where is the story?" he said. we all know the state of publishing so Mr.M thought throw in some famous people. Wala....the title now is "All My Shitty Jobs and Some Famous Peoples" ...i draw my jobs and then those of the famous people i came in contact with while i was doing my shitty job. here is one of my new drawings from my yet unwritten job book. i cant decide if knowing rich and famous people having shitty jobs makes me feel better about my own shitty jobs or worse. or if i will even finish this project, maybe i will just go back to blogging about my kids.

new beginnings

2010-09-16T16:25:00.000-07:00

it is foggy now, the extra cold summer has spilled seemlessly into fall . no change in leaves here, just the ever so slight shift of the sun, the tilt of the earth. i wonder what winter will be like. if the sun will ever come out.
we are at a new house, a new school, another beginning. i walk to pick my children up from school and stay a little longer talking to the moms. trying to set an example to my kids, 'see making new friends isn't that hard'. i think of all the new schools i went to growing up. too many to count. i don't tell them how much i hated making new friends as a kid.
my little girl starts to run away from another little girl on the playground. they are both laughing.
suddenly my daughter stops, and opens her arms.
they hug.
it seems new beginnings have begun.

back in the saddle

2010-09-10T11:00:00.000-07:00

or i should say Amber is back in the saddle. amber/anne.......at least it's a A name right?

i realize my sculpture, like my drawings and writing, are for the 'so inclined'. my own phrase. and maybe that is not a bad thing after all.

i am feeling a tad bit more grounded. happy to be "i yam what i yam".... popeye sculpture anyone?

my dog is laying at my feet, sound asleep. my kids are playing in their new clubhouse ie the closet in their room. amber is happy at her office.

though it is nearing noon, from my desk i see the road that leads to the beach. i still feel the stretch of the blue sky.
and the promise of a new day.

looking up

2010-09-04T14:32:00.000-07:00

The cemetery called. They wanted to know what to put on my father's gravestone.
"He didn't leave any instructions?"
"No."
Sheila tells me it could be anything, 'loving father, in loving memory,''with love and respect' and few more I cant remember.
"I have to talk to my brothers."
Before I hang up she adds, "FYI the phrase can only be 22 characters long."

Each of my brothers ask what the others want.

I scroll back on my phone. Already I have forgotten Sheila's extension. A male receptionist answers and yells for Sheila. I hear her walk across the room.

"Yes?"
"Blue Skies Ahead"
I continue, "all separate words, each word starting with a capital please."

14 characters total.

That was yesterday.

Today is Saturday, a week since he died.
I look up into the perfect blue sky
and that is all I can see.

2010-08-30T15:20:00.000-07:00

My dad passed on Saturday. It seems impossible to write about anything else.
He was a roamer, never could settle in one place for long.
He died at 7 am Saturday morning with one final last deep breath.
He is at rest now.....finally.

budvases in bronze

2010-07-12T09:50:00.000-07:00

well here they are! cast in bronze. i had them antiqued then tumbled and hand rubbed. the result is the polished natural bronze metal - which will age naturally from air and water exposure - think bronze outdoor sculptures, and the contrasting blackened design elements. the cool part is each bud vase will age in it's own way according to air humidity, use etc.

you can see at the base of the shortest one that it started turning a beautiful copper green almost as soon as i set it out in our beach air......

bud vases........

2010-04-27T17:36:00.000-07:00

so now you can see why i havent had any time to do a monday drawings....i have been working on some new items for the fall.... my budvases.

i am carving out the bottom. and here it goes, a fit...finally. this of course took me hours longer then i thought. thank god amber said " just go to your studio as long as you need" and finally finished! off to the casters! i am going to have them antiqued in the grooves and polished on the raised parts, like my new jewelry line.

it's Official......

2010-03-31T19:59:00.000-07:00

I am now represented by Karen Alweil Studios............I met her at the New York gift show in January, Larry from OK did the intro...thank you Larry. I am excited. It also means I will be introducing some new work for the summer and winter shows...Yay! Any excuse to make some thing new.

For June and August I am introducing my Scandinavian modern influenced line of jewelry....my mother is Norwegian after all. She came here at twenty one. I was going to name the line "Jorunn" after her, but since no one can really pronounce it correctly I think I will go with "the Astrid line" which means strong and beautiful one.

You have seen the waxes I have been carving....above is a peek of it in gold.

And even more fun stuff is in the works.....

yes i skipped a monday drawing,,,but now i am

2010-03-22T12:40:00.000-07:00

heading home
Polaris, The North Star

Pedestals FINALLY

2010-03-13T14:59:00.000-08:00

i have been told forever i should think of something to put my smaller work on.....and i have tried various things from chunks of scrap hard wood, to concrete, to glass circles - a bad idea on many levels, just to name a few. i had a meeting with someone and she said - again- i really do need pedestals for each piece. a Yikes then a Pause and then it just came to me. i should use the same marble i already use on my larger pieces. so what i have pondered, fretted, labored over, worried and obsessed over for years has been right in front of me, literally, the whole time. i know that is a spiritual axiom for all of you, but it really is amazing when i finally see it for me.

finally the Monday drawing blog is up

2010-03-08T13:25:00.000-08:00

The Monday Drogs are Here

2010-03-01T08:49:00.001-08:00

Progress.......

2010-02-25T14:11:00.000-08:00

here are some of the wax carvings of my new jewelry line. as you can see i am just beginning what will be the brooch. on the left are the cast silver masters of an additional necklace and earring set.

yes it IS another DROG Monday

2010-02-22T09:02:00.000-08:00

It's time for Just Another Monday DROG - drawing blog

2010-02-15T08:45:00.000-08:00

Bit by Bit

2010-02-12T15:21:00.000-08:00

So I have finally started on a new line of jewelry that I have been wanted to do f-o-r-e-v-e-r. I should say I have done some of it, wedding rings for Amber and I. I have received so much positive feedback over them, that I now am making a complete line to sell....and yes I already have some orders!-....and no it wont exactly be my wedding ring, god forbid.....that has to stay one of kind....but it will be pretty damn close. Here is pic of the start of one of the pendants .....everything will have it's own unique carving but still be inspired by this sixties textile drawing I saw a few years ago and simply feel in love with.
First I did my own quick sketch of the lay out of the pieces. I am starting with a pendant for a necklace. I cut the wax bar down to the size I want, and here in the picture you see I am shaving off the thickness of it bit by bit. I will draw, with a black marker pen the design directly on the wax once it is roughly the size I want, and then start the carving. I got shuffle on my Itunes and the meditative quality of hand and mind focus......good times.......

"Just Another Monday Blog Drawing" is wishing all of you a ...

2010-02-08T08:43:00.000-08:00

i have started to do some blog drawings......

2010-02-02T11:01:00.000-08:00

the big apple

2010-01-30T11:57:00.000-08:00

Am laying in bed, tring to defrost my feet after a day of making it to the handmade section of the gift show at the javitz center then down to abc carpet, 19th and broadway at the suggestion of fab larry of ok. Saw margaret solow,s booth looked beautiful.off to see john hamm ! At dress of snl tonight,thanku edie baskin!wow I guess new york really is the !est and the !iggest apple of them all.tho I am missing the family and the sun of LA. I guess once an LA girl always one.

yes the new look is unvailed i mean UNVEILED

2010-01-26T10:18:00.000-08:00

thanks to eagle eye writer extraordinaire Ruth Handel i now can say correctly that the new Anne Ricketts look is UNVEILED folks!!!
thank you Guilherme for the awesome design and Sergio for the behind the scene magic...................
two dynamic dudes from Portugal.....if anyone wants their contact info just let me know.
i am off to rub shoulders with the millions at the New York International Gift Show..thank you Margaret Solow for the nudge and sweet Larry of OK for the company!

a new look in town

2009-12-03T16:13:00.000-08:00

got my box samples! my fabulous young designer in Portugal has given me a whole new look....one i will unvail slowly......according to the level of my bank account. but i am excited! here is a peek at the new look/box that will go with the purchase of my smaller work.
and while i was at it i got some samples of miniature black and white marble bases i will also offer for my little hands and feet........

samples

2009-11-17T13:10:00.000-08:00

it just occurred to me the other day when i was about to order some of my work cast in aluminum and have some boxes made for my smaller work that i should order samples first............!!!
hello! being an artist in business does wonders for one's self esteem . that is 'said' with sarcasm in case you are wondering.....

life's little secrets

2009-11-06T16:48:00.000-08:00

not that i have any,,,,or at least none that i want to share here...but i do want to say i read a great little essay by barb johnson and i want to do a blatent plug of her book"MORE OF THIS WORLD OR MAYBE ANOTHER" i bought a copy on amazon and am loving it. anyhow she wrote this article about being a late bloomer, and i was thinking of the quote on our fridge my wife got me for my birthday that says "life ripens all things" ......and i thought, i am in a perpetual state of feeling like i will never be there.....wherever there is.......and then i thought of my best friend telling me that never being there, is of course all that there is.

as my father likes to say

2009-11-02T09:53:00.000-08:00

if your ship never comes in, swim out to it. so since my last packaging guy didnt work out, guess he is doing other things. i went searching on the web and found this amazing young award winning graphic designer out of Portugal. i cant believe how technology has made the world such a small place. we are in the final steps of creating an exciting new look for my work......which of course i will reveal here first....hah!

my father also replied, when i asked him the other day,

"hey dad, is the glass have empty or half full?"

"depends on which glass."

anne ricketts: Thank God for Serendipty

2009-07-24T15:14:00.000-07:00

anne ricketts: Thank God for Serendipty: http://dlabrecque.com

Thank God for Serendipty

2009-07-23T11:36:00.000-07:00

i have decided to take the packaging plunge. i did a mini survay of some of my stores and then asked the fabulous jeweler margaret solow "http://nightingalejewelry.com/home.html"> how she does hers, which i love. but unlike me i soon realized she has the gift for gift wrapping and i don't. my idea of a gift wrap/packaging is to stick it in an old Ralph's shopping bag and call it a day. you should of seen me last Christmas, somehow i got the gift wrapping work shift......not a pretty sight under our tree. my wife on the other hand is an amazing wrapper.....oh well. so after i came to terms with my lack of ability in this area...a persons strength is in recognizing their weakness...hey that has to be a quote from somewhere....lord only knows where my brain scrapped that one up from. anyhow i contacted my old -as in i have known her since college days- friend. the super stylish Donna Labrecque. check her out! http://dlabrecque.comshe teaches branding at Art Center in Pasadena....just so happens she is working with a packaging person now......life is sweet. i love serendipity. i will update you on this process.

my packaging now and hopefully soon to be much inproved.........

mommy mush brain -who would have thought it would come to this

2009-07-16T20:58:00.000-07:00

i just spent the last five minutes trying to log on to my own blog account because i couldnt remember my password.....from two nights ago. now this sort of term memory loss used to really upset me til today when i went swimming with my best friend. we both have 2 kids seven and younger and above and in between their yelling and splashing, my friend and i were trying to have a semi adult conversation about current affairs- i know- why bother right? the sad truth is that it wasnt a conversation. neither of us could remember anything. the topper came when we couldnt remember for at least five minutes the name of that angular faced fellow with the turban .....world trade center....oh yeah ben laden. i feel better though cause i was the one who actually remembered his name. she was still stuck on it starting with an 'H".

sea world

2009-07-14T10:54:00.001-07:00

we just spent the day in sea world....what this has to do with anything is as as much your guess as mine. i think my problem over all with the blogging stuff has to do with my self esteem, ultimately i think who really cares? now i know that isnt exactly a positive way to operate in this world, and if we really are what we think or our world is created by what we think then i just have to say i am one lucky gal. i basically have a great life inspite of myself. is there a catagory for that?
i loved my weekend, love being with my family and even loved visiting my family as in brothers parents.
and now i am back at home....my gal at work, me here, breaking every two minutes to try my kids one more time to clean up their rooms. ava is a horse emma who has hoofs and therefore cant clean up her room. that is a new one.

off to watch the horse races.......

so long

2009-01-09T15:14:00.000-08:00

it has been so long since i blogged that i actually forgot how to log on........of course if i had done it yesterday i probably would have still forgotten. i still use a roladex and i have all my passwords under the "P" just to show you how out of the modern computer world i am,,,,,and i am also fighting my paranioa that now all the world knows where my passwords are - since god knows i cant remember them- and when if anyone breaks into my house they will get all my passwords.....
and so what does any of this have to do with art...why nothing of course. i am experimenting if i actually can do this, writing while i listen to cat powers and my kids fighting/playing/fighting right behind me.
i have significantly changed both the horse and the boxes/moving sculptures. it is all a good reminder that art really is about the process. once it is made it is done. i know that sounds so obvious (i will blame the obviousness of that statment on my attempt here to write with all this going on) but i forget just what a process it is and i want to rush and finish everything....which i am actually having to do cause i am going to have a show at link gallery in march. and i am hoping to get it all done. but i did totally redo the horse. i just kept thinking how i was doing the horse was not only so done before but not revelent to what i am trying to express. the memory, the moment the time of my childhood that was almost dreamlike, and i remember the moment i knew it was all passing. i was trying to capture that moment of both bliss and loss.. so i saw the topography i have done of that moment, with the plastic horse in it and i just thought that is it. i have to sculpt an exact replica of the plastic horse to match my photograph of that moment.a sort of companion piece to the photo . they both will be named "the morning Hope ran away"

Hope was the name of my horse and it is based on a overnight camping trip i took with my older brother john the week before he got married, and my horse got away and i spent 3 hours on foot trying to catch her the next morning.)

and i would have it cast in bronze and then painted to match the plastic horse and that also was my own little way of commenting on how so many artist dont make their own work, so i would make mine to look like a fabricated piece. i just took it to the foundry wed and i cant wait to see it done

so foto will follow to show what i mean. and i will sign off now and hopefully not wait for 7 months to upload about the boxes.....i took a little video showing the process of that. which has now changed to nest.....ahhh but more of that next time.

so long.

my new series

2008-03-22T20:40:00.000-07:00

i am so tired i dont even know what the date is, not that i ever really did.......just went to my foundry today and picked up a bunch of my nests and some other pieces for my stores.....i love my casting guy...does the best work. now it is just about finding the time and energy for this new series...i was thinking today that i really havent done a sculpting series, and certainly not a bronze series that was not primarily done for my stores....and what i am doing, exploring memory and impermanence, i am finally sculpting from a part of my self that all seems to have come together...strange it has taken me sooo many years to get here, of course my focus was really more the high end design stores, so this is different and feel so good and scary.

i am also in the midst of editing and retooling the pieces in my new series as i go, i am so glad for all of the years of doing work for different stores, consignments etc because it has enabled me to be able to step back and view my art for what it is, a piece of work.

amber has come in and given me some great feedback, i love her eye, she is so talented at all of what she does, so i changed my branch - my memory tree on monday. ripped, cut and hammered the base of it off and put on a large root ball that i still now have to sculpt. that has changed the dynamics of the piece is such a more powerful way. and now we are just looking at the nests, i will do 18 of them, one for each place i lived as a child, instead of the boxes...finally giving up the boxes!!! have tried to make that piece work for year and now i am admitting to myself (and all) that they just dont work, something amber has been telling me for years. but the nests are a great replacement, and now i am editing those, with her help, and having to do some recasting, but i would rather pay more to redo them then to use the ones that dont work. i will have to upload pics of the process, really fun, the kids love it to.

that is it for now, have to help M'Lady (known as amber to the outside world) pack easter baskets for the kids.

on the hunt for a horse

2008-01-03T15:27:00.001-08:00

ava (my 2 1/2 year old........ah so now you know why i dont blog very often - plus our 4 year old .....but that is another blog) so anyhow i finally realized that if this horse sculpture is going to be any good then i better get a real horse to sculpt. i let my fingers do the walking and found this equestrian center about 5 minutes from grandma's house (ie my studio) so off ava and i went to see what it was all about - plus i couldnt get anyone on the phone + ava loves horses.
so as we wound through tractville houses i have to say this place was like a little jewel stepping back in time. i/we loved it. when we got there it was empty, just a guy cleaning out stalls and he said we could look around, must of been about 50 horses or more boarded there......it was clean and just felt like another era almost, like we really were out in the country, made me miss my horse and wish we could have one...........ava and "big john" particularly seemed to hit it off. later i came back just by myself and the owner's daughter? was there, soooo nice, offered to pull a horse out of the stalls for me to sculpt. i opted instead to just set up shop by several horses as you can see.........i loved this place, want to go back and actually go on a ride (they do tours for 30 bucks an hour). oh i guess i should talk about my new series..........that shall be my next blog!

blue skies ahead...or just simply branch and box and the new series i am working on

2008-01-03T15:20:00.000-08:00

why this is underlining is just so par for the course with me..........anyhow, the branch and boxes you see are all part of this new series i am working on...that actually the horse is a part . i am creating a series in which i am trying to explore memory and transcendence, loss and longing. this is a body of work that i have been 'working' on in my head and actually trying out parts of it in different forms for a few years now,,,,,and it wasn't til just recently that it hit me i should be just sculpting it more in the traditional, since that is what i do in general! i would like to bronze most if not all of the pieces..sounds so obvious but i had been experimenting with plaster topographies for one as in the horse piece, which i had photographed and titled 'the morning Hope ran away"........i wanted to capture that moment in more of a straight sculpture form...which is challenging...to make it mine and fresh and yet i cant get away from the fact that it will be a bronze horse sculpture when i am done.......i have been waiting a long time to see if more traditional sculptural mediums will ever come back, not that i will stop doing them, and i remember when painting as in portraiture was such a no no and now everyone is doing it....so fascinating how the art world isn't to far from the fashion world in that sense...anyhow i digress. i feel i am finally working on a series that really comes from my heart, and still is done in the medium and with the craft level that at this point i have spent years working on. the horse sculpture and each piece in this series has to do with a moment in time or an aspect of my childhood and also loss....the week before my one brother john got married he took me on an overnight horseback camping trip......this would be our last adventure before he sort of left our own family.....it felt like that to me...even though he would still be around, and his wife was my best friend....there was both a simultaneous sense of loss and that this would be a memory for the rest of my life, something i would hang on to - a permanence to it. in the morning after we had camped i discovered that my horse Hope had pulled loose from her rope and was gone. we spent hours finding her and then trying to catch her. that moment so perfectly illustrates to me what i am trying to express...hopefully the peice can capture some of this. i want to do Hope just in that instant that she saw me, was startled and before she started to run...........i also am considering adding an element to the base but more on that later...am not sure how confidant i am to actually post those ideas!

the boxes and branch is something i will talk about more next time..............my kids are calling!

2007-11-07T12:16:00.000-08:00

New work in progress -->
To be continued...
11.29.07....been a bit busy....
these photos were posted so long ago .. the piece is actually cast and at trey's store (aris) in laguna beach. i will be loading photos of them to my function gallery soon...well krystal will.....i was going to write more....that is a robert wilson 1974 retro board i am sculpting by the way....then i thought these pictures sort of tell it all anyway.....

getting it togeather

2007-09-28T13:35:00.000-07:00

so krystal...my own personal goddess when it comes to the computer, uploaded some photos i took of pieces i am currently working on...i will try to upload, myself (please dont hold your breath anyone).
i finally started working on the male torso for Trey at Aris....i have had a number of requests for that over the years but worried about the difficulty of doing such a classic pose....making it my own. dont ask me exactly why i felt that way myself...lots of my work directly references the classics.....so i started on the torso and very soon realized i really needed a real guy in here to model for me. i kept making the figure proportional off.....neck too thin, waist too long etc, in other words feminine although when you looked at it you wouldnt think that, just think what is off about this piece? so my best pal zane hooked me up with this fabulous dancer (as in legit dancer...ballet modern etc) and i feel i am hooked. first off dancers make the best models, he could hold a pose so long it was ridiculous...i had to stop before him cause my hands were cramping. when i have had amber pose for me though she is great with creating a pose she does want a break every five minutes. and secondly i have to say micheal (the model) was just a sweet dream of a guy. and after sculpting and living with this torso for a bit now i cant believe i didnt do one sooner. i sort of re saw the male figure and feel in love with just the simplicity of the lines of the male body. very graceful. i ended up really wishing i was doing a full figure of micheal, he has a great classical face and his hands and feet are so beautiful....oh well, maybe i will someday. i was even daydreaming of doing a full figure, sort of matching female but not nearly as hokey as that sounds. but a classical pose of both him and also this female friend of mine. i think it could look really beautiful, both classical and contemporary at the same time. we will see.......

All My Shitty Jobs

2007-07-31T09:51:00.000-07:00

a favorite series of mine: All My Shitty Jobs ( or at least a few of them)

i think i started cataloguing my jobs really because of the influence of my girlfriend - she does that as part of her job. plus i always like to sort of box things up in my head- with the jobs it gave me a sense that maybe there was a reason i had had so many shitty jobs - at least i could do a series on it. it also gave me something to do at my last shitty job . i cataloged them by drawing on the back of outdated pace wildenstein Los Angeles
invitations cards. below are a few. i have starred (*) the ones i got fired from.

pen on verso of pace wildenstein LA announcement

5 x 7 inches

stumped for a title

2007-07-25T20:36:00.000-07:00

finally getting this going...bear with me, shall learn one of these days (fast hopefully) to upload fotos......am working on some new mockups for trey at aris - outdoor sculpture, am going to experiment with design cast, try to create the pieces out of wire mesh and then smear (for lack of a better word) the design cast on and see how it goes...only draw back sort of is that each piece with be one of a kind...that also could be a good thing.

more later

2007-07-19T12:48:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my notebook! Here you will find sketches, images, ideas, and brainstorms of what I am working on. This is my latest piece that is now available.