"When I get an idea in my head, I just keep researching it until I find what I need," Nancy Markle says. For this still life, she wrangled some fruit at the grocery store. Heidi Kurpiela
"I started collecting sculptures when I moved to California and I saw the results of an earthquake," Nancy Markle says. "I realized if you need something that's unbreakable."
"I don't like doing portraits of people I don’t know," Nancy Markle says of the composite. "It feels like an exercise, like when I'm done with it, I just want to toss it out."