Urbansteam is the name I have chosen for my blog art portfolio because of the movement of art that I have fallen in love with called Steampunk. After mulling it over for some time I came to choose "Urban"steam, it being my last name & my art doesn't have the full rebel feel as to call it punk.

What I will be doing in this blog is posting pictures of all my past art & provide step by step photos of projects that I am recently or will be working on. Please enjoy & feel free to let me know what you think!

Drawings

(So far, that I have pictures of)

"Fairy Mother Nature"

Colored Pencil - inspired by Amy Brown

"Jack & Sally - Romantic Moment"

(first attempt to draw them)

"Urchin"

(Fairy Mermaid - request from friend)

"Nyx"

(Halloween Costume Idea)

"Dream"

"The Impossible" 

Signature Stamp

"Nightmare"

"Doodles"

"Dreaming of Peace"

(Necklace Idea)

"Expression of Feelings"

Paintings

(That I have pictures of, these are also in order of when painted)

"Expression of Feelings" Painted

"Punked"

"Elements"

"Hellboy"

(I need to take a more recent picture, I fixed the facial hair to look like it is in the movie)

"Favorite Things"

"Far Out"

(Will get better picture)

"Infantry Saint"

(Request from Uncle)

(Stencil)

(Spray Painted on Car Roof)

"Refiners Fire"

Glass Blowing

(Absolutely loved doing this, much easier to just rent space & have them teach you)

Paper weight w/blue swirls & white specks

Paper weight w/blue flower with light purple spots & bubbles

Paper weight w/double yellow spirals & shaped into a cube

Clear Cup

(The Tutor asked if it was my first time making one he was so impressed, I was so happy!)

Bowl w/yellow specks

Bowl w/orange/red specks & curved lip

Orange Plate

Yellow Plate w/puffed up center 

Candy Dish w/light blue base, yellow swirls & handkerchief top 

Candy Dish w/Kobalt blue base, light blue swirl & handkerchief top

Vase w/faint blue base, yellow specks, & handkerchief top

Final Project: Clear Green Vase

Jewelry

(I've made jewelry many times, these are just the ones I still have)

"Angaria Delphinus"

(Rainbow braided string w/random colorful beads through out & a purple shell clasped on. I love wearing this to the beach.)

"Seashore"

(These earings are pretty worn out from wear & tear. Made from hemp, wooden beads & sea shells)

"Gizmo"

(Made this in Highschool. Basic black band bracelet, rounded studs, & a random piece of metal I found held on with fishing line. Fishing line is what I use to sew things together to last, such as a pair of pegged pants that  I wore also in Highschool. ;)

"Naturally"

(Made from some leather string & a cut & colored geode)

"Good Things in Life"

(Granted the picture charm frams & stickers came in a easy make craft box but I did choose the colors & put the beaded charms together myself.)

"Oxidation"

(Found this rusted after the flood in my home town, put it on some lather cord with some wooden beads.)

"Daydream"

(I like earings were one is a bit different from the other, so I made my own.)

"Crystal Nature"

(Got these two beads from a festival.)

"For All Occasions"

(I loved how these beads looked in the sun & in a blacklight.)

"A Little Bit of Everything"

(This is my absolute favorite necklace & earings set I've made. It really is made from a little bit of everything, I basically grabbed all the kinds of beads that I loved. Oh, fun fact: the bottom bead on the necklace can spin!)

Projects

(Most recently finished)

 Made from 

Sculpey III® Oven-Bake Clay

Finished Project Painted in Silver 

(Cut these gears out of cardboard)

 (Same with this frame)

(Got to love all the options you have for spraypaint these days)

(Decided to paint a cameo for the clock face)

(These butterflys were in the original fake flower display in this shadow box when I bought it)

Finished Product

(Painted the frame for the box & the numbers for the clock as well)

(Fun random project, from old camera parts & plastic eye patch)

(Sky goggles that my Mom bought me, use to be all yellow)

(Star Trek gun painted to look Steampunk)

(Cameos are expensive so I decided to make my own as big as I wanted from Sculpey III® Oven-Bake Clay, really love that stuff! Carved the face out myself, first time!)

(Two smaller cameos, used a cameo mold)

(Also used a mold for this compass)

(This is the compass after it's painted)

(Used scrapbooking pages for the background, an old necklace for the frame around the cameo, put a hole in the back pannel for a clock & used old leaves along with a key for part of the decorations)

(At first I was going to use wooden gears but they were to fragile to put holes in. Decorated more of the background with pearls & little square mirrors. For the numbers of the clock I used & painted 3,6,9, & 12, then used pearls for the numbers in between.)

Finished Produced Outside of Shadow Box

(Here it is with the metal gears I decided to buy instead of make, put more old leaves in background.)

Finished Produced in Shadow Box

(The only things I bought were the shadow box, the clock pieces, & the gears. Everything else I already had around the house.)

Well that is all I have for you for now. If things go as well as I hope there will be another post once a week on progress for new projects. (Maybe even more photos on past art if I discover any.) Thank you!