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About Me

I am an artist living with my family in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. I work with several different mediums and have been commissioned to create many items for my customers. There are several slideshows and photos below of pieces of my work. I am always uploading new shots of my work so don't forget to COME BACK AND CHECK THIS SITE FOR REGULAR UPDATES! Also, subscribe to my Blog to see things that I'm working on, my most recent portraits, and updates on family, the Yankee Slickers, and life at the BEACH! I was recently married on April 5th, 2008 to the love of my life, Paul Gearrison Ivey. Paul is the lead guitarist and a vocalist for the band Yankee Slickers. To hear some of the ROCKIN' music that made me fall in love with him. Visit the band website @ www.myspace.com/yankeeslickers. Paul and I have a BEAUTIFUL baby girl name Abigail Lee Ivey, and she is six months old this month! Our little family thrives on good old fashioned love and respect and we're taking the long and twisted, unconventional approach to making a living...which means, do what makes us happy whether we end up poor or not! So it's art for me, music for him, and hopefully we'll teach our little one the beauty and variety of life! In a nutshell, I love my dad.TO CONTACT ME ABOUT ARTWORK: PLEASE EMAIL ME AT [email protected] the good word about pet art! It's an awesome gift, especially for people who love their animals or already have Everything. My turnover rate varies depending on how many pieces I'm working on at once, and whether they are paintings or charcoal pastels, or a sewing project. I offer several different mediums to create a portrait, and will be posting a brochure and completing my website soon.REMINDER - I do not limit myself to any particular subject matter or medium, I simply love animals and find conveying their personalities through portraits is as gratifying as a portrait of a person. I am always gathering new work and doing new pieces, so just because you don't see it here, doesn't mean it something that I won't do!.. .. .. .. .. .. ....

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ATTENTION BANDS! I know that not every band can afford to keep a seamstress on the payroll...but if you are interested in having something one-of-a-kind, handmade, and all around pretty dad-gum awesome...check out the backdrop section of my site. (New photo album coming soon.) Below are some photographs of one of many I did for the Yankee Slickers, it's about 20 feet by 16 feet, completely washable, and has backing. It has a hanging apparatus sewn into the backdrop, and can be used as a blanket, partition wall at a festival, etc. Each backdrop is custom made according to the specifications of the purchaser, and are made from serveral types of fabric, paint, and other materials (to also be specified by the purchaser if desired). SUPPORT LOCAL MUSIC!!!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I've moved around a lot, and moved away from lots of friends whose last names, and faces sometimes, I've forgotten. I love myspace to find old friends and keep in touch with them, because the snail-mail letter writing never seemed to stick. I also would like meeting anybody interested in the field of art, design and textile work, or art and music in general, and of course, all those wonderful people out there that would like to hire me to do work for them...those people are my favorite (wink wink).

My Blog

My New Pet Portraits and Drawings!

These are the latest pieces of my work, and some progress shots of what I'm working on. I'm drawing as much as I can (which is never as much as I'd like) and keeping up with little Abigail - Who I'll ...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:17:00 GMT

I miss the friends that KNEW me WHEN

I'm beginning to develop a strange feeling, having realized that my friggin' blog is one of my best friends these days...and even WE don't talk THAT much. Actually...Mr. Blog never talks back...so I g...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:47:00 GMT

Friggin getting Frustrated

I hear an awful lot about taxes from people...how they're already high enough, and they don't want them to go any higher...as if they're talking to someone who has never paid their share of taxes. I'v...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:59:00 GMT

Spontaneous Veganism...for 30 Days

I have the sudden urge to be better. Immediately. To suddenly know all the things that I have not had the sense to give a shit about knowing&while&perhaps it has simply been my lack of spine, my fear ...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:11:00 GMT

Apathy and Anger

I didn't know that Apathy had made such a comeback. I guess that was before I realized that many of my peers and friends probably don't even know what the word apathy means. The old cliche' "I don't k...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:49:00 GMT

PLEASE watch this...Zeitgeist

I watched this movie...and am disturbed.And I'm totally the type of person who would much rather have remained ignorant of our state of affairs...because now I have a knot in my stomach. A knot in my ...
Posted by on Fri, 16 May 2008 10:26:00 GMT

Projects Im working on.

Just in case anybody was curious about seeing any of the things I'm currently working on (but they're DEFINATELY not complete...let me add). There's both a charcoal pastel drawing of three dogs, and t...
Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 10:01:00 GMT

Flower Child

These are pictures I took of a rare flower I found in my yard.    
Posted by on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:49:00 GMT

Motherhood

My child is going to be six months old this week, and it leaves me sitting here, contemplating motherhood...and what type of job I will do. Everything Abigail does frightens and enthralls me. I think...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:34:00 GMT

Since I so beautifully screwed up my last Blog

I'm BACK. Since I didn't know that even in cyberspace...everything must have a place, and that place...can't get messed with too much. So, Not really remembering which photos I posted in the last blog...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:15:00 GMT