Philly Black Friday Fanciness!

Lots of fabulous Philly ladies are having Black Friday Sales via their Etsy stores. bloodmilk, adelina mictlan, & the black spot books are having a 15% off store wide sale on black friday in their shoppes on etsy with an extra 5% to you readers with the coupon codes listed below pictures. fleathers / rabid fox is having a sale right now in their shoppe until black friday. I'm offering 25% off all sculptures through Monday. Check it all out.
Screw Walmart and Best Buy... support fabulous local artists and give something special that will most certainly NOT be regifted!

bloodmilk coupon code: beetlejuice7

a.mictlan coupon code: doom5

fleathers/rabid fox 20% going on now thru black friday!

the black spot books coupon code: littlesilas

25% off darla jackson sculpture

Here we go...

So I got to spend about an hour and a half starting on the above piece today. It still needs alot of work, but its an ok start considering that O was climbing on me while I was sculpting it (!)... After finishing this piece, I'm going to cast it and use it as a form to create the animal heads on for my next series on (baby bodies, scary animal heads...yeah!). I'm still in the process of deciding what animals heads I'll be using but so far a wolf, a pig, a shark, a falcon, a crocodile and a few others are in the running. We'll see who comes out on top...but for now I am happy to be starting something, even if my model is climbing and peeing on me while I sculpt it...Such is sculptor mom life...!

Found this and liked it

An in progress shot of the baby bunnies from a miniature ocean

Love is evoL

Clicking and whirring...that's what has been happening at late hours for me these days...and I can't just hop off to the studio at such times for multiple reason, the biggest of which is a fear of bad guys lurking about at said hours... ANYWAY, I can sit and think and plot and plan...which I am now doing and so far its working out well...The idea for my next body of work has gone from initial crazy starter idea phase into figuring out the underlying meanings to the crazy starter imagery and I am now starting to move into the research and planning phase, after or during which I plan to do some fancy drawings of the soon to be pieces...the drawings may or may not end up finished pieces themselves but I am excited about them...It will be different than my "normal" (HA!) work but I think that's a big part of the excitement, I think. More to come...

Rarely are they perfect...

Rarely are they perfect... opens Friday, October 29th at Le Cochon Noir. The reception is from 6-8pm. Le Cochon Noir is located at 5070 Parkside Avenue, across from the Mann Music Center. Hope you can make it!

And here is a sneak peek of the installation...

Backlog...

Below are some images of the million things I've been up to lately and too busy to post photos of...until now.

Stripped to the Teeth at The Toothless Cat




There is a great deal I do not want to know... at Art in the Age






Studio during POST






Trophy at B2

It's NOT always sunny in Philadelphia...

I'm sitting on the couch with miss O thinking about all that I should be doing right now but am not...have just one show left to finish getting ready for and then am taking a couple months just to make some new work...it's been a while since i've had time to just make, so this will be great. Olivia has also started walking, which is forcing me to use studio time more wisely, though the added combo of Justin moving in to the studio (tag team!) and the new baby jail that Sheila, Radha and Uma got O for her birthday (thank you!) will both help me keep my sanity. I'm also super excited about making new work because teaching at the Academy has really got me looking at things more closely than I have for a while...its totally refreshing and has me excited! Anyway....a slow, rainy day was needed to catch up on normal life stuff...back to normal tomorrow...