Photo Contest

Here's my photo contest design for work:


So as not to use Flash, I used Lightbox. Here's the real page: http://www.alumni.virginia.edu/multimedia/uvamagweb/photocontest/photocontest.html

The Weather up Here

Check out my latest web design for my talented artist friend Adrienne Heath-Stiefel:

http://www.theweatheruphere.com



Check back soon for an update on the site and a new e-commerce design section!

webby

I am trying to work on my street cred in the web design sphere and am now available for freelance web site design and maintenance.

I work for the UVA Magazine (the University of Virginia's Alumni Magazine.) We're redesigning it to make it more modern (and so that we can use a different CMS because Kintera is so limited.) The magazine is fairly conservative (it's an alumni magazine) and the web re-design was supposed to reflect that to some degree.

Here are my original ideas for what the header and an article page might look like:




Here's another: different "Magazine". I had about 50 different versions, but this one was my favorite.




Here were some of my ideas for logos and favicons.



You can click on the images to see larger versions.

Tell me what you think!

Modified Sweaters for SALE!

I modify vintage wool and cashmere sweaters by adding tiny silk flowers and vintage appliques. So far, they have been gifts for friends but I am going to take a stab at selling them on Etsy: more info to come. Here's an image of a blue cashmere sweater that's living in the house of Taylor!

Girl laugh

Little painting of a big laugh.

4"x6", acrylic on masonite

Found Image of the Day Part 1: Cat Boy

This is a photo of a photo that I've had forever- some distant relative as a pudgy baby boy burying his face in a big ole orange cat.

olden times

This is an old drawing I just rediscovered- makes me want to go buy some fresh pens and put it all down on paper.

8"x12" Rotring in a sketchbook

baltamour: la chemise

If you, too, love the smell of hot raw sugar on a summer's day water taxi ride on Baltimore's inner harbor or the vision that is Angry Air Punch Guy or the sign on the side of Route 40 that advertises "deziner sunglasses" or the cheap, cheap booze or the Nearly New at GBMC or the Mt. Royal Tavern or Honfest, join me! Buy a shirt to show your love. Don't worry- these shirts are in no danger of becoming part of the tourist's bouquet. They are handmade by a local screenprinter and are not found in any harbor shop. Shirts are $20 and that includes s/h.

Check it: www.baltamour.com

Summer 2003.

Summer-2003.

The Stoop.

After kissing American asphalt, happy to be home, I made Baltamour shirts to join my love of Baltimore and my part-French thinking. I also made Baltimore-inspired art. This is hands-down my favorite thing I ever made.

The Stoop.





Construction details: Pink construction foam carved and covered with Hydrocal + fiberglass sheeting. Underneath is a removable platform on casters. That thing is on wheels! Finally, the top surface is 4 layers Polyurethane.
Notice the carved seat grooves.

I parked this thing outside my studio building for folks to stoop on:

Xemme's art, edition Francaise

After studying abroad in France, I came home with a large body of work that I was pleased with. Here are a few images.

You can click on any of these images for a larger view.I apologize for the quality of the images- film and halogen lights are much different in France.

Here is the studio, in process of being hung for Le Vernissage:


I made a lot of small drawings, most were pen on found or Czech paper, and some were made out of non-drawing materials like blue fuzzy paper and hot red vinyl. Good for touching:


Here are two large red vinyl drawings.
"Curtain Guy" with shoe untied, is about 7 feet tall.

"Playground" is about 4 feet tall and about 8 or 9 feet long. It's shiny red vinyl on paper.


Here is the first French sculpture- it's about 15" tall. It lives in France under the care of a woman named Grace.

2001 at MICA

Inspired by Ernesto Neto's work, I wanted to make totally desirable and interactive sculpture. This one, really a materials test, turned into a sculpture that lived in the back of my car for a year, taken out on special occasions (usually involving beer.) People loved it. It probably worked more successfully as an IKEA prototype than an actual art piece, but it got me hooked on interactivity for sculpture.




This is my largest sculpture to date. Though the concept was sophomoric, the craftsmanship was decent. With the help of stellar-teacher-D. Mydlack, I welded the legs and welded out 3/4" steel weights for the base of the legs. The red body is carved out of pink insulation foam glued together (it's a hard solid body) and coated with orange then red flocking. The legs are red- and teal-dyed China silk, stuffed with Polyfil. The sculpture sways when you hug the legs. A big hit with kids, this sculpture was interactively just right.




That sculpture was loosely based on a series of drawings, one of which is here along with a detail: 24"x36", graphite and pencil on Rives BFK

detail:

Hero

If you know who this is, you know what I'm talking about. Word to the B-Town sailors!