“High Wired” 6×8″
“Close Carriage” 6×8″
“Desire” 6×8″
“Butterfly Kiss” 6×8″

From time to time I get asked if I sell prints and so far I haven’t figured out a reasonable way of doing them without spending a fortune in set-up. I heard of online “pay-as-you-go” print companies, but would like to see some examples. If anyone has ideas about this, I’d love to hear them.

Meanwhile, I’ve been toying with other forms of duplicating my images while trying to create some originality and making them affordable – a “something new from something old” kind of idea. Here’s more of a description:

Odd Box – Are they original or are they prints? Odd Boxes are both -   digitally designed using existing elements from my own hand-painted original paintings, printed and then transferred onto a new wood surface. Each piece is then hand-painted, meaning no two will ever be the same. There will also be no more than 15 made of each design -just to keep those numbers odd.

These pieces can be found at Dr. Vigari Gallery on Commercial Drive here in Vancouver.

“The Blue Flame”
8 x 10″
Casein & Oil on Hardboard

“The Blue Flame” was an apparently horrible 1920’s play starring, the famous vamp, Theda Bara. Horrible or not, I’m still pretty fascinated with the idea behind it – very “Frankenstein”, and very “Alraune”. Both themes seemed to be popular back then.

Here’s a quote from The New York Times, March 13, 1920:

“The Blue Flame,” in which Miss Bara has been appearing on the road for four weeks, concerns a scientist who believes that he can restore life, and who successfully experiments upon his fiancee when the latter is killed by lightening. This is accomplished, in the play, by an electrical apparatus, but in the process a blue flame, the soul of the girl, is discerned to leave the body. The girl lives, but without a soul and the remainder of the play is made up of her adventures as a vampire”.

The article this quote came from was actually involves a lawsuit involving “The Blue Flame” and another story called “Lola” (1911). Both had the same plot except in “Lola” the scientist is the woman’s father instead of her fiancee. “Lola” a.k.a. “Without a Soul” was also later made into a movie staring Clara Kimball Young in 1914.

In regards to the “Frankenstein/Alraune theme, the very first “Frankenstein” movie was made in 1910 starring Charles Ogle as The Monster.

And the first “Alraune” movie was made in 1918 although it seems to be lost, so instead, here’s a clip from the 1928 version starring Brigitte Helm who also starred in “Metropolis” (yet another “Frankenstein/Alraune  themed movie”).

“Lock & Key”
5.5 x 8″
Casein on Hardboard
Tart Arts and Surly Girl -Ladies First Show