The summer edition of STUDIOS magazine has featured my wife kathy(aka)the crafty chica in the summer 2009 printing.Page 28 has full color pics of our home estudio and highlights our love of the full color spectrum!   The article is entitled” All that glitters”and the mag. is full of cool art spaces and ideas ,check it!O.K! its FEMTASTIC!

Starting to get the hang of it!

I’m trying to capture the spirit of papel picado by way of Sharpie markers and typing paper. It’s a little tricky, but so far so good, I’m now working on the border of this design. CLICK ON THE HEADLINE TO LEAVE ME A COMMENT.

Last week my wife was away in Fresno working on the crafty chica product line. All our world stops when she is away! She is home now and the house is happy again. While she was gone I made these shadow puppets. You’ll never guess the material. It is from cereal boxes! First you draw your design and cut it out with an extaco knife. You have to add wire to connect the joints and add a wire stick to hold them. I need better pictures but you can see the idea. I’m going to make more of these. i’m also going tomake a pupper

theater. Don’t look at me puppet!!!CLICK ON THE HEADLINE TO LEAVE ME A COMMENT

This is my daughter’s little web site for her videos. She really knows how to work t he computer and the graphics program. I’m really proud of her! We are trying to help our son find something he likes. He is going to college full time so he is a little preoccupied and that is OK!

Here are some new paintings I finsihed and put up on Etsy. I know my site is mantastic CRAFTS, but painting is in my soul, so I do both. Click on the images for bigger view. And click on the headline if you want to leave me a comment.

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I finally finished my tree of life sculpture. It took a few days but it was worth it. With clay and wire you can make just about anything. I’m going to be posting this for sale on Etsy!

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I’m on a roll with this internet stuff, so my wife helped me set up an etsy store. We have our ChicanoPopArt shop that we’ve had for years, but Kathy says Etsy is where it is at. I just posted two paintings and a birdhouse.

Thanks to all of you for embracing my new endeavor and making me feel at home here. Damn, I’m even twittering now too, thanks to Kathy!

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