My work is a series of doodles chronicling the adventures of my robot, monster, and animal friends as they deal with the hardships of life, love, and loss in a two-dimensional world. When they are kind enough to sit still for a pose, I bring their many triumphs and travails to life with acrylics on stretched canvas. Visit my Etsy page
I am a full time architectural designer/part time illustrator born in Japan, raised in Michigan, and now living in Texas. When I am not doing construction drawings I spend my time doodling and trying to pick up my fat cat Leia who refuses to cuddle.
I create art journals in a variety of styles. Bright, colorful, vintage, fun, and funky. What makes my journals unique is the hand dyed, hand designed paper. I use coffee, and yes…you can get a caffeine buzz! I have heard that coffee absorbs faster through the skin than if you drink it. I’m not sure if this is true but I do know it’s not a good idea to dye coffee paper before bedtime! I found that out the first time I did it. I also use koolaid, spray inks, and acrylic paint. Besides these mediums my journals include unusual paper findings from estate sales, craft paper, old book pages, playing cards, doilies, sheet music, popcorn bags, tracing paper, handmade envelopes, altered paper clips and some rubber stamping. Email
We have been designing and custom building stained glass art since 1999. We are Texans and our “Texana” line is what makes us different from most stained glass artisans; especially our fireplace screens. Also, we use a completely different technique in framing; which is in copper. We build in all aspects of stained glass, lead, renaissance copper foil, faceted glass and mosaics. Facebook Page (830) 625-3640
As far as I can remember I always had a lot of fun creating art. Making drawings of crazy characters has always been my way of generating smiles around me. In the year 2003 I began to paint. My basic idea was to transport the characters that I drew on paper to canvas. Starting from scratch, I experimented with oil paints for two years, painting wildly away without a lot of direction. Good times. Then I met this wise man named Jan Buytaert, who taught me how to use acrylic paint. This was the most important change in my painting style. Acrylics were the tools I needed to shape my own little world and bring my little weird characters to life. My main aim while painting is to have fun and enjoy the moment. I want to capture this good vibe in my paintings and transfer it to the public. This usually results in joyful works full of color and positive energy. With my paintings I like to invite viewers to look at the world through the eyes of a child and to revisit a childhood past of curiosity and enthusiastic discovery.
I work primarily in oils on canvas or a masonite panel. Examples of these are The Bride Reclining, The Guitarist, The Ballerina. However, I have worked using other media such as acrylics [The Naval Officer] watercolors, graphite pencil [The Lady Wearing A Pearl Necklace], pastel [The Girl Wearing The Sunflower Hat] and prismacolor colored pencils [At The Beach]. I like to build up the layers to create a finished appearance in as realistic a way as I can possibly accomplish.
I am also able to create three dimensional sculptures of figures which vary in size between 12 and 24 inches in height. I currently use as my medium a modeling compound, the main components of which are clay, plaster and papier mache, applying one layer at a time. Each successive layer is allowed to dry and the final sculpture has a tough, durable texture.
I am continually learning and endeavoring to develop and improve my craft.
Macro Splash: We create these singular shapes through the collision of water, cream, paint, or ink droplets. Their various shapes and colors depend on the temperature, viscosity, gravity, density, and volume of the liquids we use. We work with black acrylic or pan filled with liquid in order to reflect the splash. Due to the laws of physics, the end result is often the opposite of what you’d expect.
Mega Splash: Our mega splashes, often called “jelly fish”, because they look like a form of marine creatures, are carried out by propelling water mixed with inks or/and paint of different colors, using a compressor. These water sculptures flow in the air to 6 or 8 feet high. The different shapes are obtained by modifying pressure and the pipe of water supply, which allows breaking the original shape of the “jelly fish” into fairy tale flowers for example. Under pressure, the water extracts the dies which will color the water column. The crystal appearance and the magical transparency looks like the work of a glassblower.
Fluid Painting: In the pouring acrylic painting technique, the paint is not applied with a brush or palette knife, but rather use gravity to move the paint across a surface by tilting it. The results are unlike anything you can get with a brush. The fluid flows without any brush marks or texture. We take macro photography of this psychedelic paint while it still wet and alive by choosing the best swirls. Things always look so different once dry. Our technique: Our splash photographs reveal unique liquid sculptures, created by the collision of water, cream, paint, or ink droplets or by using gravity to move the paint across a surface by tilting it. These liquids in motion are frozen in time by a high-speed flash of light. Our art prints are created with a dye sublimation process on aluminum so the colors become a magical luminescence.
Several of the art market artists, wearing market shirts, volunteered at the 45th Annual Bayou City Art Festival at Memorial Park. Here’s a some pics and links to their sites. More to come! ~Mitch
Vena Ashley is the featured visual artist at this Saturday’s encore performance of the Houston New Arts
This Saturday evening is an encore performance by members of the Houston New Arts Movement, performing works by Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, César Franck and Maurice Ravel; all late 19th and early 20th century French composers. The performance is titled “Images, Dreams & Impressions”, performance time is 7:30 p.m. at Houston Piano Company, 1600 W. 13th St, Houston, TX 77008. Advance tickets are $15 available online www.artsmove.net/enter/events and $20 at the door.
First Saturday Arts Market regular Vena Ashley will be the featured visual artist with a reception following the concert. Mitch Cohen, market founder, wrote about the event in his arts column, Art Valet, in this weeks edition of THE LEADER newspaper.
Steve Harris, local photographer/artist/dad/husband etc…is back!
After taking a long respite from the art market, he has come back and is returning with all new art, a new look for his space and a fresh outlook with photo encaustic artwork.
Each piece is one of a kind. Original photography with encaustic wax.
Striking. Beautiful. And created with a lot of love.
Check him out, you will not be disappointed!
Come one, come all!
Unique one-of-a-kind hand-crafted necklaces and earrings. Majority are designed with semi-precious stones and love. (281) 357-5180
I worked in the banking industry for as long as I can remember, you know one of those boring people you only spoke to when you had to. My Mother had recently retired from her life long job and we were trying to find her a hobby. We decided to look into beading, Mother wasn’t interested; but I was IMMEDIATELY hooked.
I started out small, buying inexpensive beads for myself and family members. Customers at the bank began commenting on my jewelry and wanted to know where I had bought the piece. When I told them I had made them and they were for sale I quickly became a walking jewelry store. Rarely did I make it home with the jewelry I had worn leaving the house.
Now I am retired and design constantly, there isn’t a room in the house that doesn’t have a bead somewhere. Previously I bought jewelry to match my clothes, NOW I buy clothes to match my jewelry.
