Monday, June 20, 2011 Sneaky sneak

A sneak behind the scenes of a shoot I made life-size cutouts for. Hands down the greatest, most fun job I've ever had. Can't wait for the final photos to come out.






Myself and lovely child model employing gaffer tape.


Prop stylist extraordinaire Kendra Smoot fixing things up.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011 garlands

I've been making some paper garlands lately for my etsy store.

Friday, June 10, 2011 Birds

Coloured paper makes life good.

Reasons for terrible blog neglect:

1. I have been without a scanner for a long time now and it's been bleak and difficult.
2. I have been working on secret projects that cannot be revealed yet.

But! The scanner at least is back in action. Here's a camera and a dress.

Friday, May 20, 2011 cat man

Accidentally double exposed a roll of film and got these two good shots of Lion in London & the cat in New York.

metal deer, metal eye

I've been pretty absorbed by jewellery making lately. Guess I caught the bug pretty hard. I've been selling my stuff for a few months in amazing shop The Shape of Lies in the East Village, but finally got started selling things myself. Made an etsy: Datter Industries. Making stuff in metal is awesome.

Thursday, April 7, 2011 London Underground

I miss the underground.

Sunday, March 27, 2011 there's more than one way to skin a witch

Another drawing for the New York Times Book Review, in print today. Got into sort of a mad infinite loop, made many many versions of this drawing.





You can see the final one in situ here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/books/review/book-review-witches-on-the-road-tonight-by-sheri-holman.html?ref=review

Monday, March 21, 2011 brass knuckles

21st birthday gift for my brother, Viggo. So he can leave his mark on anyone who might wrong him (and also slices of bread, soaps, leather jackets, etc). I'm going to start making custom ones, but probably a little smaller - something subtler and more wearable for your average, less-theatrical-and-eccentric-than-a-Blegvad, person.

Also, brass knuckles are illegal. So I'll have to play up the 'novelty jewellery' aspect, and minimise the 'brand your enemies' feature.

Friday, March 18, 2011 two birthdays

a 21st birthday card for my brother



and a 3rd birthday card for the little girl I babysit. She is obsessed with cats.

And in between the two birthdays was St Patrick's Day. I have never seen quite such enthusiastic Irish celebrations as I saw yesterday in New York. So intense. Watched a guy fall asleep against the wall of a bar, resting on his giant padded hat, at 2.45pm. Magic.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 cat scans

If you're going to sleep on my scanner, you're going to reap the reward.

Saturday, March 12, 2011 skinwitch

Unused (very rough) sketches for a commission for the NYT Book Review. Drawing creepy witch stuff = the dream.

Thursday, March 10, 2011 funny faces

two brass stampings I bought for their beauteous visages

Tuesday, March 1, 2011 twin swords

I've started making things in wax to get cast in silver. I'm fairly obsessed with it and am spending pretty much every cent I have on making new things. This necklace is sterling silver with a garnet drop.

cat ears