Fall brings on the masks...

So I have been busy in the studio...though selling some things in my store for the first time! Very exciting...so I am adding to my inventory...I am making some Halloween masks....some paper mache ones for some added adult items in my offerings....trying to make them look somewhat old fashioned and fun...still working in the studio on my painting though....I just need to update the photos on that ongoing work as well....I also received some good news this weekend...two of my pieces will be featured in our local Wine Festival art show...which will be some GREAT exposure for me...hopefully that generates some custom work...finally someone has deemed my art worthy of being viewed publicly which is nice...considering this is an UBER conservative area and most people only like paintings/photos of landscapes, grape fields and the lighthouses on Lake Erie....so its nice to see that I can find a venue for it locally....pretty stoked about that....so here are some images of my new masks that I will be selling in my Etsy shop.....oh..and here is the shop itself...http://www.etsy.com/shop/Rabbitinthewindow

Frames and projects...

So since the finish of my doll I have been quite busy with a myraid of projects....I made a frame for my little bunny painting...now I just have to find some thin clear acrylic for it to make a "glass" like protective covering....I started a new bunny painting..only slightly bigger than the last...and I am working on a paper mache mask project for a possible customer....we shall see how the prototype turns out. I just wanted to update the few of you that actually follow this blog...also to tell you my ideas behind the new mini paintings I am doing....I figured since I suck so much at large paintings...and on painting people aparently...I should downsize and do some smaller paintings...and focus on animals, also work on a theme which I am passionate about...and one thing that I am passionate about is animal abuse...I loathe it and the people that do it...so I decided that I would do some paintings inspired by it...a few of the ideas were to simple...making portraits of abused animals...a lot of people can do animal portraits...I thought about the animals that have passed...and if I were a believer in an afterlife where would they go...or where would I like to see them go...how would they look after they got there? Would they go back to their beautiful "normal" looking selves?

Thinking on that...I decided...no...the afterlife/imaginary world would be much different...much more haunting in its appearance and in how the animals ended up....

In this world...it would be covered in woods...old dirt roads and run down forgotten houses...some things would be in color...other things (like buildings or old trees) would not, they would just be in black and white. The animals would have "adjustments" to their appearance when they came to this world...like the bunny with the wheels..he lost his back two legs to someone who wanted them as lucky rabbits feet...and then they ate the rest of him...which is why he has his modified wheels..and many different series to choose from....he was also chosen as the messenger of this world...he has been one of the first animals killed in such a crewel way....wild birds and other wild animals...they would come to that world completely normal...cause they are wild....only domesticated animals ended up with modifications only because they were exposed to the human way of things, it is how they were forced to perceive things....so...like in this new painting...their is a kitten who is held up by a balloon...this little guy comes from a story that is local to where I live...several adolescent boys were scene (and not yet identified apparently) kicking and tossing a kitten up in the air till they killed it...they broke her back among other things....so I wanted to envision her getting around in the afterlife by way of a balloon that she controlled....she can move her limbs and "walk" in the air, but her limbs cant hold her weight so the balloon helps....and the painting is of when she first got to the after-world and the bunny is explaining how it works for her....and she is just sort of disgusted and hanging there....

Now I know its a sad story...but I wanted to put a unique twist and a more pleasant picture in my head of where they are now....free from pain....in a happy but odd place...because even if their was an afterlife, and I believed in it existing...I dont think it would be all rainbows and pixie dust...I think it would be a very convoluted distorted reality....So anyway...here are said paintings/frame in the works...