Here's a sculpt I did not too long ago loosely based on a friend's character. I haven't had time to mold/cast her yet but it's on my list of things to do....I drew in some eyes just for fun :) You can check out my friend Jeff's work here

Here are two sets I did a while back for the Canada Science and Technology Museum.  They were to be used for childrens animation workshops in Ottawa. I had fun working on them but was on a fairly tight schedule and on the day I had to ship these sets to Ottawa(from Toronto) I was extremely stressed not knowing how well they would ship and if they would arrive in one piece.  Luckily they arrived on time with only a few damages that were easily fixed. The characters were used as demo characters for the kids, and were tossed out afterwards(As I mentioned before, they are only meant to be used once or twice in a 5 second animation, and I was on a tight budget and schedule) Hope you like :)

.....and here's the final for the shirts.

Dot was a Roller Derby coach in Saskatoon for the Rebelles, and last week a friend of hers asked me to draw a picture of Dot in a roller Derby type logo.  She will use this logo on t-shirts and sell them to raise money for Dot's children.  Though I did not know her, her friend described her as " loves derby, she's a tough cookie and doesn't take shit form anyone, loves 80's hair bands and an overall great person." She seemed very loved and I'm sure she will be missed.  Here is the pic I did... and her missing person pic as well. Rest in peace Dot.

Random Children's animation workshop sets

Here are a few workshop sets I did quite a while ago. It's important to know that I did these fairly quickly and with basic childrens plasticene, and the 'demo" characters were done especially fast as they were only meant to be used once or twice then thrown away.  Either way, coming in to work and playing with clay all day was by far the greatest job I've ever had! I especially loved that I had complete freedom of design, including the theme of the workshop. Ahhhh, miss those days. :)

While I'm probably the LAST person I know to start a blog, I always figure it's better late than never. Please bear with me on my spelling and grammar, I am an artist afterall ;)

So I guess I should start by explaining the title of this here blog, as I'm sure some of you are like 'huh?'.
My favorite movie of all time is Labyrinth, and when the ' making of ' doc came out I was about 6 years old. The scene from the doc that stood out the most was when they described the process behind the 'shaft of hands' scene in the movie.  Jim Henson describes the many latex "gnarled arthritic hands" that needed to be made for that scene, and when I saw a lady painting one of those hands, with tons of creepy hands in the background, my jaw dropped and I thought that lady had the BEST job in the world and I vowed to be involved in a film of that calibre one day! I practised my artwork and got better at drawing and painting and eventually got into animation, as this has always been a love of mine as well. I graduated from Sheridan College's Classical animation program, dabbled in some computer animation, but still wasn't completely satisfied just animating.  As much as I love/respect the process I just felt I needed to head in a different direction.  I started working for the National Film Board of Canada back in 2006 and it has been a pretty sweet gig, and a real learning experience.  I got to sculpt clay animation characters, props, sets and backdrops, for stop motion animation workshops and it made me realize how much I love to sculpt! AND how much I love stop motion! Armed with this new knowledge I took a maquette course last year, and a few sculpting courses at Toronto School of Art, and got slightly better.  Which brings me to today, and to this blog.  My ultimate goal is to create my own stop motion film, but for now I will just use this blog to post artwork, sculpts(rough work and completed), and randomness about me :) 

Finally, incase anyone's wondering, I was born in Toronto, Dominican background, married my highschool sweetheart Shane(who has been my absolute ROCK these past 15 years, and who also happens to be a kick a$$ photographer) enjoy making cakes, or at least decorating them,lol,  and I truly believe that a cup of tea and a hug can make almost ANYTHING better!

For now please feel free to read an interview I did I while back for NFB's Blog HERE