Kids Club

I worked on customizing some aprons for the Kids Club staff to use. They wanted them to stand out and be a bit more artsy and colorful for the kids.

I am also working on Banner for them for their Facebook page for the monthly workshops that come up.

Honoring The Veterans

Here is a project that I worked on for Home Depot. The picture you see here is the roughed out design I had come up with. They have associates that work for them that had served in our military. They wanted to recognize them with a nice visual sign that there names could be gathered around. The first image is the design I came up.

Here is the finished piece. There are some slight differences. I used a grid system to help me enlarge it from a normal sheet of paper to the size you see here. It is 44" x 35" x 3/4". I would have made it bigger if the spot they had in the store was larger. As well as this was the biggest size I could fit in my car.

It took me almost four days to design, transfer design, cut and prep the surface and to paint it all up. I wanted to have a nice shape for this piece and felt it would have more of an impact if it was something other than painted on a square board. I even went as far as rounding off the sides and making sure to seal it so it would last a long time.

Tempe Town Arts Festival

     I always love going to this festival. So many creative people in one place. I love to see what the latest and greatest is. There are also 2 or 3 artist I see every time and I look forward to seeing what they have come up with since I saw them last. The main thing I like about the festival is that it helps to recharge my creative self to get back to expressing my visions in any medium so I can share that with others. No one will see what I see or fully understand what events helped to shape this piece in my mind but if it inspires people to see what they would like to see in it or have it evoke the feeling they are looking for then it helped the artist as well as helping the viewer. Win win situation I think.

Custom Costumes

     Ever since Julian was little, I always did a lot of research online to find a cute costume that was not your mas produced outfit. My little man is unique and I want his costume to represent that. So every year I talk with Julian to figure out what is his favorite character. Hopefully it is from a new animated film it gives me reference and less chance they will have lots of costumes out. The last two year Julian has not seen anyone dressed like him and he has received many compliments. Julian smiling makes me happy so I will continue to do that.

     The first costume I made for Julian was Jake from Jake and the Neverland Pirates. This one was a total surprise. I never told him about it. I knew it was his favorite show. I had a super cool reveal planned ahead of time. I knew that they were opening a Jake and the Neverland Pirates live stage show. So on the special day I had him suit up and we went to the happiest place on earth. When we went into the show he was so excited. The cast members came down once they had seen him. The joked around about how well he looked that he was the real Jake and he should be back stage getting ready for the show. It was awesome.

     While Julian was in Texas he had a special day at school. It was something having to do with coming in dressed as an old person. So dad was on the case again. I tried to think of some of the things that said to me old. Here is what I came up with. What was funny was, that even though a lot of kids dressed up and had fun with it, only one other kid in his class was dressed. Julian went up to his teacher and took off his glasses to say, "Hey it's me.... Julian". Like she could not tell. =D


     This last year, 2012, Julian had a choice in movies between Hotel Transylvania and Franken Weenie. We both talked about it and went with creating Franken Homie. Here is what I came up with. I went a little too dark on the blue for his face and I should have pained the hair I made to be closer to the brown. But I was very happy with it.