Altered playing card. Card has been covered in paint and texture with a suit of cards texture pattern in the background and micro beads and pebbles creating more texturing in the top right and bottom left hand side of the card. Card is painted in copper and highlighted with green and teal to suggest verdigris aging. The centre of the card has a metal plaque that says Collections

Day 12 Art Advent Calendar
Altered playing card. I can’t remember what card this was, probably a club. It was part of an altered art project I did that altered one playing card in a deck/week. I need to finish that project 😅 #art #ArtAdventCalendar #altered #mixedmedia #steampunk

Close up photo of a cluster of white mushrooms growing on a log. They have a long, slightly shaggy cap and a couple have the edges of the cap beginning to curl up and turn black as they age. Green forest in the background.

Day 11 Art Advent Calendar
Mushrooms growing in an Edmonton park. #art #ArtAdventCalendar #photography #mushrooms

Life sized plastic human skull that has been altered and painted to look more realistic and aged. On top of the skull is a fake candle with wax dripping down the face. The fake wax pools in the right eye socket and drips down the face. The fake candle is lit up using an electronic candle. Skull is held up by my right hand.

Day 10 Art Advent Calendar
Altered Skull
I made this using a super cheap Halloween prop that looked so fake. I painted it up to look more realistic, aged the skull, and created the fake candle wax and candle. Made to look like a prop on a wizard’s table #art #ArtAdventCalendar #mixedmedia #skull

Ink drawing of an armadillo with a taco shell instead of their own shell. Taco is a hard crunchy shell type and you can see ground beef, lettuce, and tomato inside. The armadillo is lying on its back with its feet and tail in the air. It’s hand drawn and coloured in with ink markers.

Day 9 Art Advent Calendar
Travelling (or trying to, yay delays) for work so enjoy an older Inktober picture, a rare, Taco Armadillo #Art #ArtAdventCalendar #drawing #inktober

Thanks!

Small Altered Altoid tin filled with books, skulls, weird charts, and an owl. Handmade with shelves holding the books, papers, weeds to look overgrown, a cage, owl, skull and handmade telescope. Alter tin is small, approximately 2”wide and 3” tall, both sides of the tin are filled in with the objects.

Day 8 of Art Advent Calendar
Wizard’s Study
Altered Altoid tin filled with books, skulls, weird charts, and an owl (Archimedes). #art #ArtAdventCalendar #magic #assemblageart #mixedmedia

Thanks!

Small mixed media canvas with a larger heart focal piece. Canvas is 3D with keys, charms, and found objects included and is in a purple and blue colour. It is very shiny and full of found objects

Day 7 of Art Advent Calendar
Mixed Media Heart Canvas
Made with upcycled charms, keys, and found objects this canvas has a large heart as the focal piece. What you can’t really see is just how 3D it all is. #art#ArtAdventCalendar #mixedmedia #assemblage

Thanks for the love :)
I don’t sell online anymore, just at Artwalk and this one sold right away (I’m sad too - I loved it and wouldn’t have been sad to keep it for myself haha!)

Thank you!

Mixed media assemblage painting featuring a resin steampunk seahorse. The painting’s is roughly 5 inches by 7 inches and three dimensional with gears, bits of metal, fabric, and other elements framing the resin seahorse. The colours are vintage gold and bronze with green and blues representing the verdigris

Day 6 Art Advent Calendar
Steampunk Seahorse
This mixed media assemblage painting features a resin seahorse surrounded by gears, fabric, metal ocean charms, and other found objects. The colours are more gold, blue and green. #art #ArtAdventCalendar #mixedmedia #steampunk

Thank you!

Mixed media assemblage painting featuring a resin steampunk octopus. The painting’s is roughly 5 inches by 7 inches and three dimensional with gears, bottle caps, fabric, and other elements framing the resin octopus. The colours are rusty coppers and bronze with green and blues representing the verdigris

Day 5 of Art Advent Calendar
Steampunk Octopus mixed media painting with a resin octopus and plenty of gears, fabric, and found objects. #art #ArtAdventCalendar #mixedmedia #steampunk

Altered Altoid tin pocket shrine. Filled with a frame and handmade moon face to represent the forgotten god with an alter with mushrooms, crystals, candles, and a little pair of glasses. Under the alter are more mushrooms and an amphora style pot. Everything is distressed to look ancient with moss included to represent overgrowth of the forgotten. All handmade.

The outside of the altered Altoid tin. It has been painted, textured, and aged to look like it was lying on the forest floor for years. Small Altoid tin resting, half open on my right hand

Day 4 of Art Advent Calendar
Altered Altoid tin shrine - Shrine of the Forgotten. Imagine you were walking in the forest one day and something unusual caught your eye. You bend down to pick it up, and this is what you found, a shrine to a forgotten god. #art #ArtAdventCalendar

Semi opaque pink resin pumpkin dish with a lime green stem lid, show assembled sitting in my right hand. Dish is roughly the size of a palm

Semi opaque pink resin pumpkin dish with a lime green stem lid, show with the lid off, sitting in my right hand. Dish is roughly the size of a palm

Day 3 of Art Advent Calendar
Resin! Possibly the cutest resin piece I’ve ever made, a semi opaque pink pumpkin dish with lime green stem lid. #art #ArtAdventCalendar #resin

Small stack of foam pumpkins, 3 tall, each pumpkin is only 1” tall. Wrapped in painted black gauze and the top pumpkin has a painted jack o’lantern face. Being held over a work table by some severely painted fingers

Miniature configuration box featuring the stacked pumpkins as well as an assortment of other handmade and found objects. Overall a haunted house, spooky vibe. The mixed media art features 5 different compartments with different spooky items including skulls, bones, spiders, creepy dolls and other Halloween themed items

Day 2 of Art Advent Calendar is more about the process of creation. It’s messy but results in amazing things.
Halloween mixed media Configutation Box #art #ArtAdventCalendar #yegarts

Thanks Deb! They’re sculpted in air dry clay ☺️

Pocket shrine in an altoid tin. Tin is artificially weathered, made to look old, rusty and covered in moss like it’s been in the forest for centuries. Inside the tin are many moon faces, meant to symbolize many different gods.

Day 1 of Art Advent Calendar!
Day one is a pocket shrine I created in an old altoid tin - the Shrine of the Lost Gods. #art #ArtAdventCalendar #yegart

True love is your husband looking up the next book in your series and offering to buy it for you because you’re sad you don’t have it, and then just saying how about I get the rest of the series. And then getting worried because he can only find books 3-7 because book 8 isn’t out. I feel so loved. ❤️

That feeling when you send someone an excel and they send it back as a pdf.

Although my art creation this year has been minimal thanks to CPA, I’m definitely participating.

And so it shall be

Four completed bookshelves filled with books, crystals, stuffed animals, and lights. In the foreground is a massive chair with a computer on it and a console table with a light.

And this is where it is as of now. All done, I hope not to do that again any time soon (although I do need more bookshelves as these are pretty full). I’ve purged 5 massive bags of books and there’s still some I probably won’t read again, but can only get rid of so many before my heart rebels.

4 bookshelves full of books

When I finally stopped at 2AM, this is where I was.

Massive pile of books on the floor

Massive pile of books on the stairs

Massive pile of books in the hallway

Pile of books on a coffee table

I did a thing this weekend which was great and terrible. I emptied all my books off the it various bookcases, stickered all my TBR books, sorted them ALL alphabetically, purged books, and loaded them back onto the bookcase. I started Saturday afternoon and finished adding books to to shelves at 2AM

’Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.

Carved pumpkin in the dark featuring a welder that is carved with the pumpkin skin off and black ink over the welder’s clothes and lines of the drawing. Where the welder sparks, the pumpkin is cut all the way through, showing a brighter light than the welder.

Happy Halloween!
Enjoy this pumpkin I carved a few years back that I’m super proud of. #Halloween

Perimenopause is hell, but I’m glad to have it confirmed because now it can be treated. I’m so tired of the emotional rollercoaster, the sadness, and the feeling of being done. I’m looking forward to a little normalcy and happiness. #perimenopause

3D unfired ghost with kitty ears and whiskers. Includes a little flat ghost shape in front.

3D unfired ghost with attitude. Open mouth in a sneer and tongue poking out

Group shot of the ghost kitty and attitude ghost with the little flat ghost in front

We went and did a pottery course this weekend and made little ghosts. These are our results, can’t wait to see what they look like fired ❤️ #pottery

Once again, time to share the best pumpkin I ever carved for my coworkers vm.tiktok.com/ZMAXBYWBe/ #pumpkin #pumpkincarving #welder