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SUNSHINE.

SUNSHINE.

March 1, 2012 8:30 am / Art / 1 comment

If you ever eat at my house, a conversation to most likely come up is where my dishes come from and then I get the chance to profess my love to two ceramic artists I got the opportunity to go to school with while they were working on their Master’s. [...]

 
JEDS.

JEDS.

February 29, 2012 6:40 pm / Art, Printmaking / no comments

Old news guys. I showed some stuff at Jed’s Barber Shop and it all happened so fast I forgot to tell you. My good pal and talented artist, Robin Banks, one day asked me to share space at the barber-inspired salon. It was perfect timing as I had just taken [...]

 
BATH.

BATH.

February 12, 2012 8:17 pm / Family / 1 comment

Oh hey blog, how have you been? I’m sorry I have been so out of touch. I have lots of excuses. Want to hear them? Well, a friend got an internship in the city and wanted to rent our half unfinished basement from us for a couple of months. We [...]

 
FAMILY.

FAMILY.

January 17, 2012 8:28 am / Family / 4 comments

So I sent out my very first newsletter and though I know it’s suppose to remain special in an e-mail, I just love the family photo I’ve been working on so much I have to share. The text is fun too! Oh hey there Boy, have we got some explaining [...]

 
KOICHI.

KOICHI.

December 23, 2011 11:19 am / Art, Printmaking / no comments

Christmas has come early for this girl. I was gifted a Wood Engraving workshop at SaltGrass Printmakers with Koichi Yamamoto, a printing genius who currently teaches at the University of Tennessee. I first heard of him in 2005 when I was at Utah State and he was the head of [...]

 
BEDROOM.

BEDROOM.

December 14, 2011 12:21 pm / Family / 2 comments

So real quick, I bought a house with the guy. In a nutshell the rental we were at wasn’t a good fit for us and the pups. When the opportunity arose, we took it and took it fast. While at the rental which was then an upgrade in square footage [...]

 
HORNY.

HORNY.

December 8, 2011 11:41 pm / Art, Printmaking / no comments

  It’s been a week since the opening of my first solo show in a gallery setting. The energy spent on creating it during the same time as living with the guy’s parents in West Jordan (25 minute drive from the studio I work in) until moving into our first [...]

 
WASHROOM.

WASHROOM.

November 9, 2011 10:56 am / Art, Graphic Design / no comments

I wouldn’t have guessed that being asked to make a bathroom sign would excite me. Using my scroll saw for other work beside my animal mounts has been an idea I’ve been playing with for awhile so it was a great opportunity to be handed such a project to see [...]

 
DINER.

DINER.

October 26, 2011 5:47 pm / Graphic Design / 2 comments

This menu for Vertical Diner has been a project that has taken way too long and I’m so excited it’s off my project list! This is the first time the owner, Ian Brandt, had a menu professionally designed as well as my first time professionally designing a menu. Plus changes [...]

 
FURNITURE.

FURNITURE.

October 12, 2011 3:03 pm / Art, Printmaking / 1 comment

Take a good look ya’ll. Because the rust ain’t comin’ back after these next few days. I’m finally, after emptying that mystery box and doing a lot of online research, restoring this press and the goods it came with. The most common solution I found for removing rust was Evapo-rust, [...]