The Paper Crane

I think about houses a lot. I day dream about them a lot too. I grew up in a really poor fam­ily and we always lived in apart­ments or duplexes or rented places. We never had a house that was ours that we could etch our heights in the wood…

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I made these lit­tle draw­ings years ago as pre­lim­i­nary sketches for a much larger project. Bernardo Soares is a char­ac­ter in a novel called ‘The Book Of Dis­qui­etude’ by Fer­nando Pes­soa. While read­ing this book I got the idea to develop some of the minor char­ac­ters and make small draw­ings…

I have spent a lot of time knit­ting over the last month. It is pretty darn cold and snowy here in Chicago. I decided to cre­ate an etsy shop and put up for sale some of my knitted wears.

Please take a look!

<3/dee

http://www.etsy.com/shop/bestfrienddee

I just moved in to my new HQ. Hope to do some great things here.

Think­ing about mov­ing my stu­dio. I have not made a deci­sion yet but there is a sweet lit­tle space in the artist build­ing a friend of mine works in. The dif­fer­ence between the new space and my old:

New Space

• Is a pri­vate space that I would have all

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Hello. Some things I have been work­ing on in the stu­dio. It’s going real slow, kind of like the way the win­ter is moving by.

Ukran­ian Vil­lage, Gouache on Paper

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I have been exper­i­ment­ing with embroi­der­ing my paint­ings. As in, repro­duc­ing them as embroi­deries, not stitch­ing on the actual paint­ings. I want to see how it would trans­late to have the same image in a dif­fer­ent medium. (keep in mind that I used my lap top to snap these photos.…

Leaves about 0 time to work in my studio.

Hi every­one. I’m tired. Really, really tired. It’s been about 5 almost 6 weeks since I have set foot in my stu­dio and worked on paint­ings. I have been work­ing, work­ing, work­ing every­day in the cos­tume dept. for Cirque Du Soleil’s…