Where the Sidewalk Ends One of my favorite books is Shel Silverstein’s, Where the Sidewalk Ends (and of course A Light in the Attic). Any time I find the end of a sidewalk I’m reminded of that book and it brings a smile to my face. This spot is at the very end of my […]
Into the Woods This piece was inspired by my walks on the trails near my home. I love the intrigue of a disappearing trail. Where does it go, what will I see around the next bend? First I sculpted the ground using paper clay and then I painted the background I added real sand from […]
Stars and StripesCigar wood paper, acrylic paint and silver metal leaf inside a cigar box This piece was commissioned for someone that breeds Bettas and he was trying to get them bred in time for the fourth of July. He succeeded. I used a sheet of thin wood paper from a cigar box to create […]
Phases of the Moon I love the way this one turned out. I wanted it to look like the big golden moon I get to see rising outside my studio window. Infinity I was chatting with a patron that had a tattoo of an analemma on her arm. An analemma is a figure-eight shaped graph […]
So technically this isn’t painted on a cigar box lid, but it’s a board that came out of a gift box my parents received. Close enough. Sometimes it feels like sacrilege cutting up this book, but I’m enjoying myself too much to stop. Plus, this way everyone gets to enjoy a little of the book. […]
This is the Neuschwanstein castle, near Füssen, Germany. It’s located in the foothills of the Alps in the very south of Germany, close to border with Austria. I’ve been here twice, once as a kid and then as an adult. Would I go back? I’m good. The actual inspiration for this box is the route […]
Apparently this turned out to be my nod to Cillian Murphy, who stars in the movie Oppenheimer. I enjoy his work. I wanted to see this movie, but I also went into it looking for fodder for art. I assumed that I would be able to find a word that was in my NASA dictionary. […]
If I could be anywhere, it would be somewhere on a tropical island listening to the waves lapping the shore. It’s been 28 years since I was fortunate enough to visit Kauai, but the memories are still as vivid as the sunsets. I sculpted the mountains using paper clay, then blocked in some color I […]
Palau is an island country in Micronesia, it’s located seven degrees north of the equator and back in 2002 I was privileged to be able to visit this gem. I have a stack of photos two inches thick all from Palau, but I’ll spare you that and only share my favorites. I started with background […]
This cigar box was inspired by the Mercer Botanic Gardens, where I fell in love with a staircase that disappeared into the forest. I really enjoy sculpting rock structures using paper clay, it’s so easy to create the effects I want. I used polymer clay to create fern fronds and baked them on rolled up […]
