Featured Artist for Curiosites Esthetiques

  A blog by two sisters reporting from California and France about dark fashion and anything cute and spooky called Curiosites Esthetiques has featured me as a silhouette artist.  A pretty good article and some images of my work.  Check it out.

Margopage blog features ME!

I am featured as this week's artist on the blog, Margopage's blog.  It is a nice interview that tells a little bit about me and what inspires me.  Check it out.

Tea Dreams I & II

  Here are my two latest creations.  I did these the old fashioned way, with paper and scissors.  It took me forever!  I thought my hand would cramp up from all the little cuts and holding the scissors so tightly.
  Last time I was in China, I visited a shop that specialized in paper cutting silhouettes and by watching the "seifu" (master), I learned a lot about how it was done.  So using these traditional "Chinese" techniques I created these two new silhouettes.  I wanted to keep a slight asian feel to the design, so I used both cherry blossoms and roses (both traditional motifs), along with song birds on one and butterflies on another.  The teapots are of course, western style.
  Since I am so obsessed with drinking tea, and everything else about it, I decided to revisit this theme in my art again.  The original tea silhouettes ( Tea Silhouettes ) are very popular on my Etsy site, so it seemed like a good time to expand the motif as well.
                      
                     Here's the first one.  These are traditional cherry blossom silhouettes.

                    Here's the second one.  I had fun hiding all the butterflies in the silhouette.  Can you find them all?  There are 5.

Both are for sale on my Etsy site now as prints on 8.5"x 11" paper ( Tea Dreams I ).  They look gorgeous!  I am thinking of making greeting cards out of them.  What do you think?

fan appreciation photo- Twisted Silhouettes

  Kudos to Rachel Metcalf, who framed a set of the "Twisted Silhouettes" (or as I refer to them, as my "ex-girlfriends"), in these really cool frames.

  Thanx so much Rachel!

Featured in a French/English blog, "Curious Esthetiques"

My Clockwork Boy & Clockwork Girl were recently featured in a French & English Blog about Steampunk called, "Curious Esthetiques".  http://www.curiositesesthetiques.com/

20% off SALE in my Etsy store!!!

I am running a month long sale at my Etsy store.  Use the coupon code "marchmadness" and you will automatically get 20% off your entire purchase.  Tell your friends!

ciao,
Milo

Little Birdies on Her Mind

 Here is my latest creation, the "Birdcage Woman".  I couldn't think of a better name, sorry.  I had this vision of a woman wearing a birdcage in her hair with birds flying in and out of the cage.  I made a sketch a few months ago and I never really knew how to finish it, until a few days ago when it came to me.  The key was adding the branch that burst out through the cage and really added to the composition.  I added a few more little cages and some birds and Voila'!  The paper background is an old lace napkin that I scanned a while ago and changed the colors to make it tonally green.
 What do you think?  If I get a good response, I will make a matching silhouette facing the other way and offer them as a set.

Available at my shop; Barking Mad Arts & Curiosities