Just a warning that this part of the site is written in first person as it is my personal blog. As you can tell I don’t often post updated on my blog since Social Media has become so prevalent in our lives. I’m pretty active on TikTok and post periodically on other social medias as well. You can check out any of those by click the icons below. As with the blog, you’ll get updates that I might not post on Social Media’s because I feel it’s more personal sometimes. Anyway, you get the jist.
I spent a lot of time in the sun as a kid and a teenager….and young adult. Okay, so let says 25+ years of suntans and sunburns and that one little stint as a teenager where I tried to get that golden tan color, frying myself in the sun for skin that I hardly ever even showed. One day I noticed a funny freckle on my shoulder, it looked different than all the others. Over the next decade I would keep my eye
It has been over three years since I have last seriously engaged with my social outlets including my websites and Etsy. Covid certainly changed many lives and during the pandemic many many things changed. Among health issues, a change of housing and a change of jobs, I began planning my next move with A Layman Studios. Several years ago, I switched to using A Layman Studios, but I kept the A Grimm Design for a special line that I wanted to create. For
Last year I was contacted by a client that wanted me to make a unique mask for an art campaign that she is doing focused on empowering women. While I wait for the collaboration to bare fruit, I decided to completed the test mask that I had created to get the basic shape down for her mask. I was extremely happy with what came out of it. I called it ‘ Midsummer Nights Dream’ based of the Shakespeare’s Play of the same name.
This year I had a table in the Artist Alley of Austin Wizard World 2017 and while it was smooth operating from artist load in to load out, I believe this will be my last year attending as an Artist. I enjoyed seeing everyone’s costumes and cosplays, they were all fantastic and a lot of great flashbacks to the films and games I enjoyed when I was growing up. However, I think that WW ended up pricing the average folk out of attending;
They say artist need to express themselves in the emotional times of their lives, wether that be high points or lows ones and this Art Doll was created during probably the lowest emotional time of my life. You see my father had just passed away and I was having a difficult time feeling much of anything. My Etsy orders still trudged on, but there wasn’t the same feeling of enthusiasm that I had for them. Being with family and friends during this time
In March of 2017 I had entered a ‘Call for Artist’ for the City of San Marcos. The project was to create a paint job for a seven foot statue of a mermaid that the City of San Marcos would keep on display for two years. I had came up with several designs, some were variations of each other, others were whimsical and odd. There would be ten artist that would be selected, and there had been sixty-five different designs submitted by multiple
This was my third Artdoll. And not long after creating him I gave him a makeover in the fashion department. I hadn’t been happy about the way his costume had turned out, it was a mess of cheesecloth and chains; and to put it bluntly, it looked horrible. So I took him back to his birthday suit and redid his clothing, sewing a little vest and hood for him. And I think he looks a lot better now. He’s still looking for a
It had all started with one Serenity Steampunk Flask. And I admit that there was some confusion as to the correct Serenity Chinese Character that was used. I believe I had pulled my reference off the movie. In any case, I no longer make that flask. I did however branch off and offered several different designs. They have been the pride of many Browncoats and each one that I have made has been signed, dated and numbered on the inside. Recently a Firefly
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