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bataleigh

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Artist // Hobbyist // Varied
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My Bio
Current Residence: A bat cave next to the city cemetery
Favourite genre of music: goth-metal-rockity-abilly type business
Favourite photographer: Henk van Rensbergen (www.abandoned-places.com)
Favourite style of art: if "rotting corpse" were a style but not a smell...
Operating System: Circulatory, Nervous, and Endocrine
MP3 player of choice: My little purple Shuffle
Shell of choice: Paua or Abalone
Wallpaper of choice: Lickable. Mmmm...schnozberries...
Skin of choice: inked.
Favourite cartoon character: daria
Personal Quote: "...why on earth would anyone practice self destruction?"

Favourite Visual Artist
impossible to pinpoint...too many influences...
Favourite Movies
Disney's Sleeping Beauty, Alice in Wonderland, & Hellraiser
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
The Cure, The Smiths, Rasputina, The Dresden Dolls, Depeche Mode, Flogging Molly
Favourite Books
Old sketchbooks, well-loved and falling apart
Favourite Writers
Shel Silverstein never ceased to amaze me...
Favourite Games
Scrabble
Tools of the Trade
der hammer und der sicle...oh wait...no, just the hammer...
Other Interests
tribal.belly.dance, metals, jewelry, Halloween, tattoos!!, fire, raunchy.roman.poetry
Onward and upward to a summer of Printmaking! I'm working on a series of kinetic, interactive puppets, some new tattoo dolls and paper making plus bookbinding.  I've posted the first couple of puppets I've completed so far. Also...having a baby boy sometime in July.  Too much to do!
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New stuff??

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Finally got a chance to upload some of my work from this semester.  Just a few paintings and drawings for now.  Not the best images (hello, iPhone shots), but they'll do until I have time (haha, what's that??) to get my real camera out. I had 4 pieces accepted into my school's annual juried exhibition!  Huzzah!
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Slow start

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So, after being creatively cock-blocked by financial aid restrictions and slapped with some courses to repeat due to new rules...I am taking Drawing II and 2-D Design instead of Sculpture II.  My Uni has a new rule that after 7 years credits in your "core classes" expire.  So...despite already having a BA in Studio Art and having A's in both these classes from 2004 I am now retaking them.  I had to drop Sculpture because it "isn't on my current program of studies" and therefore Financial Aid would not pay for it.  It was a not-so-happy Friday afternoon when I got the phone call telling me this had to be fixed by the following Monday or I'd be
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thanks for the fav's! :) :music:
Thanks for the fav, DJ pendant. Your new necklace range looks great!
thanks for the :+fav:

Lovin the clockwork heart tat... amazing.
Aw, thanks for the faves Leigh-Anna!
Fellow Deviant and Livesteel watcher,

I would appreciate your support for my work in an online voting campaign.

The Cherry Creek Janus Student Art Buying Program lets you vote for artists work that will become part of a show that travels to Colorado schools.

Click on this [link] and scroll down to my Dodo bird sculpture. Click on the VOTE button and fill in the info they request. When they ask to enter the name of a Colorado school, enter one of the schools listed here,

Emerald Elementary
Slavens K-8
Thornton Middle School
Eldorado K-8
Bell Middle School
Aurora Frontier K-8
Rocky Heights Middle School

Thanks!
Thanks for the fav!