Snaggle

Meet Snaggle!  The carnival loving furry monster friend.  Custom 8" Dudebox

Spun Sugar

"Spun Sugar"
18"x24"

1EG to express my undying love, passion and obsession for the delicious and irresistible cotton candy.

On display and for sale at my solo show "Lemonade Stand" at Trenton Social for all of November!

Carnigator

Meet Carnigator!! The friendly carnie alligator.  Carnigator is a custom 7" Munny, with real alligator teeth!  Ever since i made my shark customs, i've been wanting to make customs with other animal teeth, including alligator.  I decided to finally bring my gator to life for the Art Without Borders Show, a charity show for Doctors Without Borders, which i've posted about recently.  I wanted to create an old-timey carnival type of feel for the little guy. He was super fun to sculpt and paint... except inside his mouth around the teeth which was an absolute nightmare.

Check out Carnigator, along side a TON of incredibly talented and amazing artists, this Saturday at Art Whino!

Art Whino Gallery 

120 American Way

National Harbor, MD 20745 

art without borders preview

here's a little preview of my piece for the Art Without Borders show at Art Whino! 

Carnigator (with real alligator teeth!)

animals and carnival cakes

last week, i showed you my cartoony half of the too-many-cupcakes i made at the end of my summer vacation. this is part 2 with the rest of the time/life consuming cupcakes i made at that same time.

i attempted the shark cupcakes from "hello, cupcake."  it didn't work out so well. twinkies dipped in hot icing where i burnt my fingers like crazy. fruit by the foot that for some reason were sliced into 3 small strips, causing troubles for the sharks' mouths. basically i got frustrated and just let whatever was going to happen, happen. when all was said and done i loooked at the mess of "sharks" and i added some goldfish with googly eyes and i felt better. i was amused.

 for the owner of a nice black cat, i took "hello, cupcake's cat design, originally meant for halloween, and with less yellows and oranges, they just look like nice little black kitties. made of melted dark chocolate with black sprinkles on top, the cats were kind of delicious.

 my sister gave me the coolest cake pan ever for my birthday. animals, where you could decorate however, with the option of putting scoops of ice cream in their mouths. going to try these again!

my aunt asked me to do a carnival cake for my cousin's birthday. i warned her it was going to look very homemade... but she agreed, so here is my very homemade-looking carnival cake. i stole the melted candy with sprinkles idea (from the black cats above) for the lion's mane. it looked furrier.

along with the carnival cake, were a ton of "popcorn" cupcakes. marshmallows with x's cut in them, yellow mist spray, and yellow gel spray for kernels. unbelievable hand cramps from cutting x's in a bag and a half of mini marshmallows, luckily i had my fantastic mamabear helping and cutting with me (most of them..)  i've seen popcorn cupcakes, but the best i found and fully copied was from my fellow tcnj/facebook friend susan hoppe, who i stalk because she makes awesome cakes!