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Pierced Bird Window

1 September 2009

This lit­tle cop­per piece is wait­ing for a home.
It’s about 2.5 inches square. The back­ground and fig­ure win­dow are cop­per. The tube riv­ets and spac­ers are brass.
The back­ground pat­tern was printed onto the cop­per using a com­mer­cial pat­tern sheet with the rolling mill. The bird fig­ure is a sim­pli­fied out­line taken from a Dutch tile that I […]

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TGIF — Shrine I">TGIF — Shrine I

1 September 2009

After a long time sit­ting on the table in 5 or 6 pieces the Guadalupe/Sirena shrine has finally come together.
I never did find a place for the rose petals.
A cou­ple of details.
My hand col­ored and glit­tered Vir­gin­sita.
The oddly appeal­ing Chicken Boy.

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TGIF — The Keys to a Broken Lock">TGIF — The Keys to a Broken Lock

13 May 2009

A 3-D piece that I started in a work­shop. It sits on the edge of a shelf.
I don’t like the photo, but I wanted this out before I had to leave town.
I’ll prop­erly cat­a­log this when I get back.

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TGIF — Pierced ‘Single Tree’ Ring">TGIF — Pierced ‘Single Tree’ Ring

10 May 2009

The ring I was work­ing on for JM1 at Pratt is finally done.
The shiny grey-black on the top of the ring is liver of sul­fur patina heav­ily worked with a brass brush. I got as lit­tle of the LoS onto the ring band as pos­si­ble and it only took a few min­utes with sand paper […]

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TGIF: Chickens — The Essay">TGIF: Chickens — The Essay

2 March 2009

The final ver­sion of my photo essay on our chick­ens is up.

Click on this run­ning chicken for more pictures!

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II">Stenciling a Three Panel Screen, Part II

11 February 2009

More on the screen for Jim’s office.
Once the sten­cil had had chance to dry I took the fab­ric pan­els off the screen (yeay vel­cro.) I didn’t do any prep work on the fab­ric  -  poly(?) can­vas. The paint will stick well enough and I don’t expect to try to wash the pan­els. By the time […]

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Elise’s Box

18 July 2008

I made a box for my friend Elise. She wanted some­thing to keep her needle­work sup­plies in — Some­thing that she could leave on the liv­ing room coffee table.

This spine box is 9 x7 x 2 1/2. The box is made of Davey board and cov­ered in an Ital­ian paper. The spine and inner lid liner […]

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One Finished and One Not-So-Much

14 April 2008

Work on the bal­loon seller pic­ture is com­plete. You can see a full-size dig­i­tal ver­sion here.
(no small ver­sion today — can’t get it to resize cor­rectly — maybe tomorrow)

The image in the gallery is a dig­i­tal ver­sion that I made for Jim to use on his desk­top. It mim­ics the effect of being printed on […]

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New Work in the Gallery.

29 February 2008

The final images for the House of Myth­i­cal Crea­tures are up in the col­lage gallery.

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TGIF (Thank God It’s Finished)">TGIF (Thank God It’s Finished)

22 January 2008

The rooms of the House of Myth­i­cal Crea­tures are all con­nected up. I fin­ished just as it was get­ting too dark to work.

Detailed pic­tures in a day or two.

edited 25.june.2008 to cor­rect image links

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