"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
-Michelangelo

These are my musings. My art ranges from puddles of melted Crayola, to photography (both naughty and nice), to mix media, to textile art. I'll be the first one to say it ain't all art. Some of it is just art n craft things I just made with my own two paws, er four, no, no defiantly just two. I am constantly trying to push myself and do new things as I refine the old.

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Janica in Mask
Janica and I had fun with this shoot. The original concept was the Maiden and the Mask, then we started playing dress up, the syran wrap made it's way out again. This was my first shoot working with her. I was very pleased with the results.

E in Pink
This is my first shoot with my new light kit. I didn't have anything in mind. After I raided my closet and the kitchen for an outfit Ms. E asked me how long I had been planning to wrap her up in syran wrap... The whole ensemble cost about $3.75, the skirt was a whole dollar at a yard sale. Honestly, I really like the colours together.

Lusty Lady

Krysztof Nemeth of  charm-school.com  had an art opening. at the Lusty Lady.  This was my first time going to a "Gentleman's Club", much to my delight and surprise I found my friend there "Ashley" . She let me pay for her time and I caught her sultry heat.

Moonday-The Pages

This event was a review of Moondays past. It was a very low key evening. My favorite picture of the set is this one, ok and this one
The next set should be very interesting because it will start the colour series.

79 cents
Just something strange I did when I  found 79 cents worth of fun. I'd like to say I was drunk, but I can't.

Moonday- The World

This was more of an emorphus theme than usual. I really like all of them for very different reasons and moods they create. There are two of me in there from a 60's party that I went to that I just didn't have anywhere else put them, I took those too. However the best I think is this one.

SF trip-

This was a strange trip. I decide to do a "Walk through Life" and this is a collection of snap shots of what I saw and did. Some of them have PS work and some do not. Allot of them are very artsy which is why I put them here. Some of them are just tourist shots. You will have to decide. I have too many favorites from this series to selecto ne or two, you'll just have to tell me which you like.

Moonday- Egypt

Some digital art and photography from the Fenix Monday Party. This theme was Egypt.
I have a hard time picking a favorite but I think it maybe this one. Or this one

Curtains

I just finished making these new curtains from cross dyed purple/black silk and silver organza. I used O rings to make the tie backs and  towel hooks  to secure the O rings. This is my third attempt at sewing. The lines are fairly straight :D. The purple fabric is so neat, I think the pictures are probably too over exposed, t refracts light completely differently depending on the time of day.

Blue Flame Throw and Pillows
This is for my friend Jeyen's Birthday. Note the sexy shag Gorilla fur.
The blue flame fabric is fleece. These are very very warm. I began sewing around 5 and then stopped for 20 years and just started again. This is my second adventure with sewing, again. The first were the Film pillows below. I am practicing straight lines.

Kitty Lunch Bag
I made this for my friend Rachel's Birthday. She has always reminded me of these kitties.
I started needle point at a very early age and didn't return to it for about 20 years. This is my second piece after picking it back up again.

Dead Ballarina
  This is the shoot that started it all actually. The published one of the covers in the Sinner and it went stright to my head. The photo shoot from this set of pictures was to promote friend of mine's art show of..you guessed it pieces about Dead Ballarinas. This shoot is of the artist herself. The most challenging thing about it was making her neon pink wig tone down to a natural hair color and removing all the tattoos from her back. For my efforts I got the cover of one of our local rags. Dead 1- Dead 2- Dead 3 

Lola De Los Murtos
This piece was my last one for the Bremmerton Art show for Day of the Dead.
mixed media piece of floral foam, plaster, latex paint, dirt, plastic, wire, and creap paper

 25 Cents
Another piece for the Brem Art folks. This was a series that is supposed to invoke the feeling of a 25 cent midway freak show. All the boxes were hand painted by me and the photography and PS work as well. You can see clearer scans of the photos themselves here; Octavia, Sissy and Missy, Snakeman (TBP)
mixed media, wood, glue, photographs, acrylic paint, small chokeable parts

 Film Pillows
This was a set of pillows done on glow in the dark cloth and inkjet on solft bright orange and black fabric. Both of these images are reminicent of the Kino Eye.
These were made for a friend of mine who is heavily into...um well Russian film and has a fancy degree in it and stuff.

Cirque Du Noc

I was commissioned to do the website design, poster, fliers (front and back) and ads for Circue Du Noc fetish ball for Winter 2004. This was a group effort from two artists and myself. I commissioned the artists and asked them to draw the figures for these fliers. I did the layout, verbiage, and over all design.

SPCC Emblem

I won a logo contest for designing this logo for the Seattle Sex Positive Community Center the challenge was to create an emblem that would be all inclusive for all genders, sexual orientations, fetishes, and sexual preferences, as well as embu a sense of community and sexual freedom. That's alot of crap to stuff into one logo.

Box and stool

Icepick and I found an avocado stool with apricot legs and an old light brown boot black box with 2 inches of wax build up. We turned it into these two beautiful things.

Cramps:
One
Two
Three

This isn't exactly art but I got this in the mail one day for a piece of Art  was working on. One Two Three
Must be an old voodoo cure.

JJ Montage
I made this photo from these two 1 & 2.This is one of my first PS pieces.