Out of Martinez, California, United States
About Me
Little Background
Tools of Expression
Tools of Expression
For as long as I can remember I've known I was artistic. In school I was the student that would turn in a half assed essay because I spent the last few days drawing on a masterpiece of a cover page. In jr high my mom told me that there was a college for artists. Blew my mind! A school where I could draw, paint and create all day! My k
For as long as I can remember I've known I was artistic. In school I was the student that would turn in a half assed essay because I spent the last few days drawing on a masterpiece of a cover page. In jr high my mom told me that there was a college for artists. Blew my mind! A school where I could draw, paint and create all day! My kinda place, I had to go.
First year in high school and I instantly fell in love with glass. I believe my glass class keep me around campus long enough to graduate. I enrolled as many times as they would let me and was there more than they knew, I had found my passion.
After high school, I was able to continue to pursue that passion and expand the knowledge and skillsets that I desired to enhance and direct at CCAC in Oakland, CA. Then life happened and it hasn't been until more resent years that I realized that I can't function properly in life without it. So... here I am back at it again going down this glass journey with a renewed love an direction!
Tools of Expression
Tools of Expression
Tools of Expression
Although glass is my chosen medium highlighted here and the many ways I love to utilize it. There are other examples of the mediums I enjoy working with displayed here too. I appreciate and love participating in all types of creative expression. Music plays a big part of my day to day life, it's constantly narrating/guiding my every mo
Although glass is my chosen medium highlighted here and the many ways I love to utilize it. There are other examples of the mediums I enjoy working with displayed here too. I appreciate and love participating in all types of creative expression. Music plays a big part of my day to day life, it's constantly narrating/guiding my every movement. Tho I don't play anything anymore, it is on my bucket list to pick up musical instrument again. I am happiest when I am using my hands to create something out of nothing, deeply lost in a project. Whether it be glass working, painting, photography, sculpting, drawing or even in my day to day job as a metal fabricator for an electric sign company.
Sure glass is a medium that I absolutely love and you could say obsessed with. In actuality, there isn't a medium in any form that I frown away from. If I feel the urge to translate my imagination with something either constructively or creatively, it could happen.
Applied Inspiration
Tools of Expression
Applied Inspiration
I draw my inspiration from my everyday life, music interests, people and objects around me. I try to see the world as pieces, parts, shapes, textures, and colors. I consciously observe and take note about how things flow together. How they interact with each other in their natural or intended place. What stands out?
The key words here
I draw my inspiration from my everyday life, music interests, people and objects around me. I try to see the world as pieces, parts, shapes, textures, and colors. I consciously observe and take note about how things flow together. How they interact with each other in their natural or intended place. What stands out?
The key words here being, observe and take notes. Not just looking, but studying, taking it all in. As if you wanted to duplicate it later with the same materials it was created from. How was it made, grown, or created?
I keep music playing around me constantly, it keeps me going and guides my creative juices. It's the notes from real life that really influence me while I am working and remind me of the way something is shaped, colored, textured or fit together. Then I reapply my observation notes in whatever way I see fit for the project at hand. Its just a matter of getting my hands to do what my mind sees as acceptable.
