Me!

Name: Thea (theodora) Tomczyk

Aliases: ghostdeer/zilveren/raje

Current Medium: Sculpture, Heat-set Oil Painting

Totally fascinated by: Wedding Planning and David Tutera!

Education:

• B.F.A.: Web New Media (expected 2011 ??).
  Academy of Art University – San Francisco, CA.

• A.A.: Special Makeup Effects, 2003.
  Douglas Education Center – Monessen, PA.

Mediums:

• Drawing - Pencil, Charcoal, Dry Chalk Pastels, Watercolor Pencils & Digital
• Sculpting – Oil-based & Polymer clays
• Printmaking – Block print, Lithography & Silkscreen
• Digital Design – Graphic & Website design and coding
• Bookmaking – Stitch binding, accordion & hard cover and box construction
• Special FX – Latex prosthetics, mold-making, casting & hair and make-up
• Ceramics - Hand-building & throwing
• Painting – Acrylics, Oil Paintstiks & Heat-Set Oils

I’m 29 years old (oh god!), and have a black cat & little dog and 12+ hermit crabs. I live with my supre-wonderful boyfriend, who gives me all the support I could ever want or even think to ask for. (his band: i, fanblades)

Seriously though, I’m just an artist at heart. I’ve been drawing since I could hold a pencil, and I take every opportunity I can to dip my hands in other mediums and experiment. I like to think of myself as somewhat a jack of all trades, because I can’t say that I primarily focus on just one thing. I like to dabble in many things. Unfortunately I’m often busy, and I don’t always produce artwork as I want to. My favorites seem to be throwing pottery (it’s so relaxing), printmaking, and sculpting.

In the spring of 2007 I participated in the Periodic Table Printmaking Project, wherein “Ninety-seven printmakers of all experience levels, have joined together to produce 118 prints in any medium; woodcut, linocut, monotype, etching, lithograph, silkscreen, or any combination. The end result is a periodic table of elements intended to promote both science and the arts.”