Some more Halloweenie Yard stuff...

A green cat that glows, pun-kins that glitter and glow in blacklight, burton style crosses, and some cute, glittery, glowy-in-the-darky ghosts...

There you have it.

(Some more painted clothing to be posted this week...but I'm gettin' droopy-eyed)

More Tombstones

Umm, you just can never have too many tombstones...I'm sure I will be painting some more next year;)

The Kids Tombstones

These were just to be funny for all the kiddos. I painted them all with blacklight reflective paint...oooh. K pasted goofy photos onto them.

I don't know how many tombstones I ended up doing in all...I don't think I can deal with posting every single one, but here's a sampling;)

The Cheezmeister

My second attempt at paper mache sculpting. This guy barely fit in my oven! I made him some extra glittery mache cheeze to munch on too...and about 20 mini cheeses that hung from the chandelier.
I'm hoping to get to do some more paper mache soon:)

Tori's Room of Pink Witches and Rats

I drew like 7 of these kooky fun witches to go with Tori's all pink and black boudoir.

There is also a glimpse of the rat patch pillows too.

Ah, the pinkness.

Beastie Jeans

BEASTIES! Purple-people eaters! Ghoulies! Uh, yes!

Skull jeans for the Kiddos

Yup, more Halloween jeans and clothing...whee.

Another pair-o-Jack-jeans

I guess one can never have enough...these are brighter and lighter with a slightly different layout.

Jack Witchy Shoes

I painted these to go with Tori's rad little black and white Skellington dress. I'll post some picks of her in costume at the kids party on my scatter-birdie blog later this week:)

Halloween Patches

I made several glittery, fun Halloween patches to be mostly used for pillows, but some to tack onto costumes and other clothing. Karen cut them out and sewed them on...one of these days I'll sit down and finish teaching myself how to sew:

What's cool about these patches is that they can just be lightly tacked on so that they are easily removed and replaced with something new for another holiday...that's as practical as it gets around here;)

(I'll add some more to this post later...)

Blacklight Spooky Eyes Shower Curtain

I painted this with glow-in-the dark paint and highly reflective blacklight paint. The kids bathroom was decked out with eyeball string lights, glass vials with blacklight reflective colored water and my blacklight reflective paper mache eyeballs!

Silly Vamps

I actually drew these for Jarod's room last year, but antiqued them to go with his vintage sports room look this year. The eyes and teeth glow-in-the-dark:)

Um, more bottles...

Here is Tori's special pink and black tree. The hot pink stripe, polka-dot and swirlies are also blacklight reflective. I of course don't have a picture of this glowing goodness, but I used the same type of paint for some of the tombstones that I did get pics of.

Bottles, bottles, and more BOTTLES

I've always been a big fan of dumpster diving, but I took it to a new level with this project. Big thanks to my aunt and uncle for being winos and saving the evidence and to my mom for introducing me to the booze recycle motherload at Tierra Linda!

I literally washed, delabeled and painted like 100+ glass bottles and jars. Some were for the house and many were for the bottle trees we had made from my metal guy, Freddy. Please contact me if you want his info for any kind of metal welding/sculpture. Great guy to work with! More pictures of his bottle trees will be posted.

Here is just a small sampling of the glory. This was also a great way to involve the kids in the decorating too...we had a day of bottle painting/glittering and they got to display their handiwork as well. Fun stuff!

*Some were glittered, sprayed with various paints, painted with glow-in-the dark paints, blacklight reflective paints, paper collaged, stickered, google-eyed...all kinds of techniques.

Sign Close-ups

*Note: The Little Spooks sign glows in the dark. Gawd, how I love glow and glitter!

Halloween Canvases and Signs

Just a few of the canvases and halloween signs I paint. Trick or treat!

HALLOWEEN TiZZY

My last post was err, in July....Halloween starts for me in July, so I pretty much go into a tombstone-making, skull-painting, bat-glittering, rat-mache-ing and all things spooky-creating frenzy. Please enjoy the next several posts.

Below are 2 you tube videos my client put together on the yard and inside her totally decked out Halloween house. The following posts will break down what I had a hand in.

Check 'em:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Z-pJgdqxM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGBumjZJmss

Pretty Much Done Gate

I'll need to clean this up a bit and then wait for mother nature to rust it up more. I'll be allowing it to oxidize underneath and where I haven't painted, then will seal over to hopefully stop oxidation where I like it best. More pictures to come when that happens. There are also more pics and info on the process on www.scatter-birdie.blogspot.com

Final Silver Tree Lady Tripdych

My first official etsy commission...complete! More photos of the progress on www.scatter-birdie.blogspot.com As always, click on pics for more detail:)

Album Artwork Submission

I submitted album artwork for this band "Black Cock".

"Austin TX band Black Cock has released their debut album, Robot Child with a God Complex, and they’re ready to celebrate. On July 9, 2009 there will be a private RSVP-only bad-ass party and art show happening at the Mohawk to do just that. Party includes Real Ale Beer, catered snacks, and other fun stuff like DJs in the private party room upstairs at The Mohawk on Red River.
Black Cock is seeking submissions of artwork that will be on display for the event. One piece will be selected for a $500 cash prize and will be featured on the band’s next album cover, due out Fall of 2009. Please e-mail rsvp@blackcockrock.com to get on the list! And have your friends and family rsvp too!"

Come see me...8PM at the Mohawk. Don't forget to RSVP. These guys are super nice cats. They play loud punk-like electronic.

Costa Rica-Belize Playroom Mural

A few more older photos of a playroom I did years ago...also lower budget, but the parents said their children learned the names of these animals before anything else. They enjoy taking trips to Belize and Costa Rica for the exotic flora and fauna so they wanted their children to have those images all around them.

Scuba-Diving Nursery Mural

Some old photos of a nursery I did a few years back. Its not on my website, so I figured I'd post it here. It was fairly low budget, so I couldn't spend a ton of time on it, but it did the trick and the new parents loved it. The couple shares a love for scuba diving:)

Ancestry: Revamped

Here's the official revamp of my painting called "Ancestry" (at least for now;) I'll be taking it down to Kerrville this weekend to put into their KACC member show. Click on the pics for a larger view and/or go to: http://www.scatter-birdie.blogspot.com/ for more pics and info:)

PS...I've just added a few new posts to the scatter-birdie blog as well.

Rusted Steel Bar

I hand-troweled this bar, knicking, pitting and scuffing and smoothing it to look aged and beaten. Then I painted it with a silver metallic paint and layered it with my rusting/aging techniques and glazing. It goes so well with our industrial dining table..luckily I finished it all up 3 hrs before people started showing up:)

Art Showing

Recently, I had a few people over to the house to drink a little wine, eat a little cheese and give a little feedback on some new projects/artwork I am doing as well as some old works. I didn't take any pictures until everyone had gone, but here's a taste of what was there, minus the booze and brie.

Hot and Cold Women Jeans

I painted this pair for myself...not sure if I'm completely done with them, but I've had fun wearing them around and getting asked where to find a pair:)

Birthday Mice Crops

Tori's special birthday outfit, hand-painted with the mice she screams wildly about:)

St. Patty's Day Jeans

Simple Irish-luck-infused painted jeans. Shamrocks + Green + Glitter= No Pinches.

More Mice

...adding to the "Pink Floor Saga", bugs and flowers and rats and bunnies and snails weren't enough. About 15 or so more mice were added by request. Here they are:

Funky Hummingbird Jacket

My mom gave me this jean jacket to spruce up for her. She loves hummingbirds and wears lots of these cheerful fresh colors. I used various textile paints, slickies and a bit of glitter on the chest lapels and back. I gave it a little extra by giving the cuff, lapel and pockets a painted "thread" trim. I'll edit this post when I get a picture of my cutie mom modeling, because it fits her so well!

Orchid Jeans

I was commisioned by my ever-thoughtful uncle to paint these jeans special for my Aunt Anne. She loves orchids (also my favorite flower breed;) and luscious bright colors. She wore them this New Year's eve and looked adorable! My aunt is also an artist...she makes gorgeous art quilts that she should show-off more often!

Stuccolux, Lusterstone, Venetian, Hand-trowels, etc.

Just a few random samples for perusal.... Lusterstone, Venetian plasters and stuccolux are pricier products so I don't get to play around with them as often as I like. Below are also examples of some hand-troweled finishes, "color-washes" and lime paint applications.

The pictures of the carved tree board is a rough-draft of what I hope to do in our bedroom soon:)

Travertine-Like Master Bedroom

I hand-troweled these walls with the help of my friend Karen to look like a slightly pitted, rough veined "chocolate" travertine. The photos aren't the greatest, but it turned out looking pretty darn cool. Some people really like their rooms to be a bit darker, almost cave-like...this finish pulled that off. The ceiling was hand-troweled slightly smooth and then painted with a iron rusted finish. All vents, lights, fixtures were also done in a rust finish to complete the look. I haven't been able to capture how it really looks in photos.

The frames in the photo were originally a bright white, I re-aged and stained them to go better with the room.

Vintage Sports Room

The room that goes with the previously posted aged lockers...as promised forever ago;) I re-plastered the walls to look aged and a bit beaten up...complete with large crackled paint. The "chair railing" colorful fence was also done in a aged crackled finish with bedroom, bathroom and closet doors to match. All handles, signs, fixtures were re-vamped in the rusted finish. Top trim was also redone to look more aged as well as the ceiling. I also salvaged a cheap boring fan to look rusted but colorful...can't seem to find pictures for that. I suppose this will be another edited post when I get to that;)

Custom Aged Lockers

These lockers were originally pristine white lockers from The Bombay company...I dutifully banged, hammered, scuffed, repainted and rusted them to go into a sports fanatic boys room. I also replastered and painted the walls and ceiling...custom painted and rusted a fan and a trunk, trash can and magazine holders...and...crackle aged and repainted all the trimwork and doors. I will pull more pictures in another post.

Misty Hills Dining Room

I painted this dining room awhile back, but it is still a favorite of the rooms I have done. I hope to get some better pictures of it because it really is a gorgeous space with a touch of both elegance and organic rustic-ness. To me, it looks like misted over rolling hills with a bit of lavender and a soft diffused gold that barely catches the light.

Jack Skellington V-day Jeans

Love and skulls...how fitting. Katherine is totally Jack crazy, so these were made special for her to wear Valentines Day or any day she chooses.

Happy Early Valentines Day to all you lovers out there and all you non-lovers too! I have a soap-box I can get on about how everyday should be special in a relationship, but I'm all out of steam. I've decided I'm going to go buy myself a box of chocolates and eat the whole darn thing myself...so there;)

Treeeezzz

I love TREES!

I want them all around me.

I would paint them on everything.

Trees make me happy, happy, happy!

My bedroom and bathroom are on their way to becoming a sanctuary of trees.

I have plans to do an embedded tree beneath venetian plaster on this rounded wall in the bathroom, but until then I have these "etched" looking glass ones that I designed. They came out pretty close to the way I drew them.

At night they shine the image of the trees onto the walls, its pretty rad...I'll try to take pictures soon.

The people at Sunsational Solutions did a great job (Jonathon is your guy-www.sunsationalsolutions.com)...they also did a hardly noticeable tint on our west facing sun windows...it keeps the electric bill way down:)

More Christmas, More Snoopy, More Jeans!

Snoopy and Christmas, they go hand-in-hand I suppose. I custom made a total of 5 pairs (1 adult and 4 for the girls) The girls jeans are all slightly different, but with the same glittery snoopy lights around the bottom and up the legs....too bad I failed to photograph them all.

You'll get the idea.

You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch!

More hand-painted jeans....

Fox canvas

I painted this canvas in rememberance of my client's godparents. Their last name is French for fox. Unfortunately, I cannot take credit for the design...it is from a children's book that is special to them. I can only take credit for my magnificent copying skills:

Petshop Jeans

Another pair for Tori...she tells me The Littlest Petshop "is the bommmbb!!!". She likes to decorate these tiny plastic choke-hazards with rhinestones and then drown them in a jar of pudding. She's a kooky little monster...I adore her all the more for that!

Tori's Mice Jeans

Tori, much like her mom, is obsessed with rats (mice). She got these for Christmas along with another pair I painted for her (Littlest Pet Shop). I am told she wears them like every other day...little girlfriend has more clothes than Paris Hilton, so I am flattered.

They have a light sheen of glitter all over that make them even more girly.

Limestone-like Walls in a Master Bath

Lots-o-work on this masterbath:

1.) Strip gunky painted over wallpaper. (I loathe wallpaper. If you ever ask me to help you strip wallpaper, I will hate you forever...you've been warned)

2.) Hand-trowel and rustically pit plaster over all the walls INCLUDING the arch and ceiling (I have a love/hate relationship with ceilings...they are murder, but I can't stand for them to be left unaddressed.

3.)Prime, prime, prime...paint, paint, paint.

4.) Use various colors and stains in about 3 passes to make it look all limestoney;)

That's simplifying it.

I also hand-stained the entire travertine floor and travertine backplashes, shower, niche arch, etc. I used a wet-look sealant over the floor that turned out super cool. The tile guys had mismatched the grout...it looked wretched...I fixed it.

The Pink Floor Saga

I don't want to go into all the details, but here's a condensed dialog:

"Can you paint my office floor pink?"

"Uhh, sure...are you sure?"

"Bright pink."

"Ok."

I did a few samples of pink. One was chosen and I painted the floor pink.

"I hate it. Can you put some brown into or something?"

"I can tone it down."

After aging it with some brown stain:

"I want it brighter...more fun...or something."

"Chocolate sprinkles?"

She liked that. I changed the color from light pink to a hot pink, stained over that a bit and splattered bright colors over the finish.

"I'd like it to go better with the walls...can you put some flowers on it."

"Sure."

"And bugs?"

"No problem!"

(Note: there was a cute brown and pink flowered rug that I had originally worked off of for the rest of the room)

"I LOVE IT!"

"Yay."

"I really want something representing all of the kids."

"I can have them do their hand-prints." (I proceeded to dip their digits, one at a time)

"I'm also going to take the rug out so I can see the floor better...can you paint some more bugs?"

"Of course, but I don't want it to get too busy."

3 weeks later:

"I want rats all over." (my client has pet rats...like 6 of them...they have a custom-made house, are allowed to roam the house freely and enjoy weekly spa visits.)

I don't judge-I have lizards.

I will post pictures of the rat version at a later date. I added like 20 just the other day.

Patina Bathroom

I adore metals...especially aged metals. Since I don't know how to weld (yet!), I fake it. I did this modern take on a copper patina finish in the upstairs bathroom. It is a really small space, but funky:)

My favorite thing about this bathroom is the tiny side-mounted sink I chose for it. I patted my own back for awhile on this because it made a huge difference.

The ceiling was done in a light turquoise lime paint...I haven't taken pictures if it yet apparently.

Aged Steel Venthood

I thought I'd take a break from the jeans and post some of my plaster and faux work.

This here venthood is something I am pretty darn proud of...mainly, because I stuck to my guns about what I thought would look best in the space. When I did a sample board, everyone looked at me like I was crazy...well, they're probably right, but that is beside the point. I got my way by promising to redo it for free if it looked horrid. (I was confident I wouldn't have to.)

I can only take credit for the finish though...the amazing Shawn Chapman of Chapman Woodworks (http://chapmanwoodworks.com/) built the venthood and everything else in the kitchen. I highly recommend him for anything woodwork related! He is quick, precise, professional and creative.

Hippie Snoopy for SALE

So I painted these hippy snoopy jeans custom for Katherine and she loved them, but I made the mistake of saying they should have been done on bell bottoms....so she is going to have me paint another pair. This pair is up for sale on ebay. They are super cute and I think may have only been worn once. A TON of work was put into these.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Custom-Painted-Boutique-Snoopy-Hippie-Jeans_W0QQitemZ130287082777QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_CSA_WC_Jeans?hash=item130287082777&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50

Princess Tiny Feet

I painted these super special for my purty little friend, Stephanie (aka Princess Tiny Feet).

The designs on these are quite similar to the works I do on canvas...I'm really wanting to do more of these that are completely my own original designs...I don't mind doing Disney characters and whatnot because I come up with new ways to represent them and design the layout, but I feel a bit guilty:

Sidenote: Steph's getting married to Chris in April...CONGRATS!!

Sunflowers for my MOM

I did this pair for my mom. Thank goodness she loves me, I took my sweet time getting these to her. She is such a cutie!

I love you, mom...your jacket is in progress;)