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4"w x 4â…ž"h x â…ž" thick
70 sheets or 140 pages counting front & back
made from 24 lb. granite cream paper and cotton thread (with long stitch binding for the paper); cover is made from vinyl wallpaper (from Waverly Finishing Effects Vol. IV), vinyl wallpaper (from designtechniques Express Vol. III) on the spine, chipboard and vinyl wallpaper (from Waverly) on inside cover using case binding to finish it off
for the headbands, i used a small piece of material with 100% cotton ultra dark coffee brown embroidery floss (#938)
Unfortunately, this is not that far off from where we are now (Dec. 6). I got the wire harness installed today that will give the head some reinforcement. The piece of unpainted 2" by 4" you see here will also give some more strength to the body. The back section with the boards along the spine is now finished, painted, and ready to bring down here to my mother's house for the final assembly. The lights are not going to be fun. I'm dreading the lights. The polar bear does have a butt now. I've got some butt construction photos coming.
Woven copper and steel. Pattern and color are achieved with a combination of chemical patinas, tinted lacquers and acrylic paint. 2010. 24"x40"x1.5"
Available as a giclee print. Limited edition of 25. 27"x42" printed on hahnemuhle 100% rag paper with archival pigmented inks
20"w x 3¼"h x 10"d
made from foam board and beige duct tape to organize and store charcoal drawing supplies; the pencils and charcoal sticks are in a tray (about 1" deep) that lifts out for additional storage
Another view of the bear, with some guy who was passing by on the street standing there, to give you an idea of relative size. In the background is the house with the copper roof that never tarnishes, my mother's next-door-neighbor.
This is a photograph of the bear in its present incarnation, albeit in the daytime, when he is not quite in his glory. This fellow happened to be walking by, and we hired him to stand next to the bear, to give an indication of relative size. The house in the background is the home of mrwaterslide's mother. On the right is the neighbor's house with the copper roof, coated with some sort of ludicrous preservative that keeps it from turning to a lovely copper patina. At the base of the tree on the right is the evil sheet of plywood that stubbed mrwaterslide's toe, when he heedlessly flung it to the ground. Blood, agony, and curse words ensued.
The bear in his iconic semi-glory. He achieves nirvana only at night. You can see one minor glitch here---the curve at the back right, where leg meets body, is distorted, as though he had a bad break of a bone that wasn't set properly. There is some room to move that leg forward and correct the error, in his next outing. Right now, there's too much weight to make the adjustment. The base is rough---we know that. However, his name is "Rough & Ready,"----he might be a tad kinky, but he could flat take your head off.
Woven copper and steel. Pattern and color are achieved with a combination of chemical patinas, tinted lacquers and acrylic paint. 2010. 24"x 39"x 1.5"
Available as a giclee print. Limited edition of 25. 27"x42" printed on hahnemuhle 100% rag paper with archival pigmented inks
I was surprised how coherently this sketch turned out. Originally I just set out to scribble down a rough idea for a spherical nest-like sculpture that I planned to weld together from bits of scrap metal.
Usually when I only have a vague idea for a piece, and no actual materials in front of me to draw from, the working drawing can initially look quite vague or messy (as I sketch out a rough image and then redraw over it – working it out as I go). Yet this one came out quite tight and finished, almost as if I was doing a drawing of a finished piece
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The paper pattern for the first model and the cut-out plastic shape to be folded into the second prototype.
Woven copper, plexiglas. Pattern and color are achieved with a combination of chemical patinas, tinted lacquers and acrylic paint. 2010. 16"x20"x3". Available as a giclee print. Limited edition of 25. 15"x19" printed on hahnemuhle 100% rag paper with archival pigmented inks
Using some of the principals we discussed today and a lot of my own ideas, I'm pretty pleased at the way I've managed to keep my own visual language but give it a bit of a new accent! (Can you flag a photo on Flickr for being pretentious?)
Copper brooch with shard of crockery, steel pen-nib, brass bee, silver and (partially) carved billiard ball.
The back left leg. Here you can see clearly the principle on which the legs were constructed. The dark board is a 2 X 4 that was part of a music stand that one of my apt. complex's former tenants had thrown out at the dumpster. It had been out there at least six months, and I had looked at it and wondered why no one ever threw it in the dumpster. This leg is being lifted to come forward. The bear is in the process of walking. The two side 2 X 4's I found at the curb at the house two doors up. There were eight of them, and they were all cut to the same length. I didn't think about it much, but this happy accident proved crucial in the design of the next part of the bear. I had always wanted to build a bear that came apart. If the bear was one piece, and if he was life-size, there was no way I could get him out of my apartment. And then early on I realized that the bear was going to be a component of mrwaterslides Ark, and that he would travel, and that he would have to fit in boxes. So early in the design process, I settled on nine separate pieces to form the bear: the head, the four legs, the platform, front body, back body, and rump.
Unfortunately, the flash on my little throwaway camera shows you the substance of the bear. At night, however, he is reduced to his essence, which is light, to be specific, 2900 little white lights. You can see him up the street well over a block away, and he is just a solid mass of light. It really is something.
Woven copper and steel. Pattern and color are achieved with a combination of chemical patinas, tinted lacquers and acrylic paint. 2010. 26"x 39"x1.5". Available as a giclee print. Limited edition of 25. 29"x42" printed on hahnemuhle 100% rag paper with archival pigmented inks
Found this strange, unusual, and interesting hand-made statue at a flea market. I believe it is from Morocco. It's about 10 1/2 inches (260 mm) tall.
Width: 1-1/2 inches (3-3/4 cm)
Height: 1-1/2 inches (3-3/4 cm)
Thickness: 1-1/4 inch (3 cm)
150 sheets or 300 pages counting front & back
This book is made from 20 lb. blank pastel blue paper and dark brown waxed cotton thread, with coptic stitch binding on the spine. The cover is made from a recycled gift bag and chipboard. The closure is made from dark brown waxed cotton thread and a blue ceramic round bead. The cotton thread used for the binding was waxed with beeswax.