Work In Progress

This is a Screw Art Portrait done in a similar style to the California based artist Andrew Myers. 

In total there are 6,451 screws. 

This is a commission and the portrait is of the customers grandmother. I also did the grandmother on the other side of her family in a string art fashion. 

Both of these still need the borders done as well as frames. 

It should be noted that this is my first time painting. 

Latest and greatest. Custom Chess Board and Pieces

I decided one day, on a whim, without having finished any of my previous projects that I was going to make myself a nice custom chess set. 

I grade a hunk of scrap wood and started whittling away little chunks with my slightly dull knife. After an hour or two I had a minor epiphany and thought that if I did it out of clay I would end up having to make significantly fewer. 

So only two hours into my newest project which cut in front of all others I was already looking for shortcuts. 

Either way, I am having fun. None of the pieces are done. What you see in the pictures that follow are ideas that I am playing around with. I thought if I sculpted a normal chess piece and then manipulated it I would better be able to "pull" the new character from the clay. It is slow going but since it is for me I am in no hurry. 

I made this!

I have completely given up on trying to maintain any kind of regular posting routine.

Today my power went out while the utility men were working on the poles outside of my house. I thought they were shutting my power off. After 2 years of being jobless and waiting for social security I have finally run completely out of money. Natural I found this out in the most inconvenient way possible, while checking out in WaWa 3 days ago. My account today officially stands at -67.38.

So since I could not use the computer I switched desks and grabbed an X-acto and an orange crayon. Never having attempted a feat such as this I picked something simple.

A Pumpkin.

I had a difficult time taking the picture. As if that wasn't enough after getting it displayable I realized that others may not realize it is a crayon and think "the fuck is this lousy pumpkin looking thing?"

I still didn't much care for the picture, plus the more I looked at the photo the more I thought about how unimpressive it looked as a photo. Up close in person it appeared much cooler but hey whatchagonado. 

Remember, I did this in the somewhat dark during a power outage. i want to do more now, it was pretty fun.  Perhaps next I can do a strawberry, or even just put some leaves and vines around the base of this one?!