Mothership – one
for a wonderful pack of mothers, running the mothership in brooklyn, this will be a surprise treat to put on their wall. here is a peek at step one. …
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turkle
sat down at my desk yesterday to get the watercolor gears grinding again. they are a tad rusty. i did four brief studies from photos on my crappy paper. the…
Kent – in iron, done
Kent now exists in many forms! He’s been cast three times, and painted a bit. The first casting, in plaster, has been painted and patinaed to look like aged bronze.…
Kent – in iron
There is now a second plaster casting of Kent. He’s been painted with iron paint. And he’s been lightly sprayed, and is rusting! Should look like aged iron soon enough.…
Added ships
There used to be four drawings of ships on my website. Now there are 10. Somehow, I only ever photographed and put 4 of them on, but there were 6…
animal – day 7
Last week I forged a lot more for my mystery animal. The forging process is interesting, especially when there’s no forge! I put up three pictures of the steps: Heating…
animal – day 6
Starting forging the skin. It’s quite challenging because the metalshop I’m working at doesn’t actually have a working forge right now. My process is to heat small areas of a…
Pot Rack – Day 1
Today I spent 5 solid hours concocting and building a new project. It’s a pot rack for my kitchen! It’s got 5 welded-on hooks for pots, and a grid in…
animal – day 5
Astute readers who look at all the pictures that have been taken so far can probably figure out by now what this animal is going to be. However, you’ve probably…
animal – day 3
Over the last two days, I cut and bent a lot more 1/2″ and 1/4″ rod for the animal’s basic skeleton (not in the medical sense). it’s now got a…
animal – day 1
I’ve started a large project, based on a similar idea to the metal bull. This project will also be making an animal, as 3D as possible, from metal, starting with…