I’m plugging along on the first of my three museum-specimen-drawer pieces and it’s coming along quite nicely. I am really enjoying working on a larger scale – besides the two paper-mache sculptures I did last year and the year before, this is the largest I’ve worked since my BFA thesis. It’s also the most mixed-media I’ve done. Playing with gold leaf, stencils, collage, gloss medium, and embroidery on wood. The embroidery is kind of exciting – because it’s on wood, I have to drill holes so it ends up being a mix of hard and soft techniques.
Stencil for gold-leaf watertower
Masked off for spray adhesive
Gold leaf!
Gel medium windows under an embroidered skyline
Patterned Opossum 