Beagle Portrait
9″ x 12″ Oil on Canvas.
This is a painting of a good friend’s pet beagle Tucker.
Fly on Rocks
9″ x 12″ Oil on canvas.
Portrait Attempt
This is an attempt to do a portrait using a gray scale under-painting and then applying color washes on top of the under-painting. Now that it is done and I’ve had some time to look at it I can see a lot of problems (especially with the face structure and the lip color) but I [...]
Skull On Books
Oil on canvas 14″ x 11″
All of my pieces are hand turned from solid pieces of hardwood. I love the simple lines of modern design and try to incorporate that into my wood turning. I hope you enjoy my art as much as I enjoy making it. If you do please leave me a comment!
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Turningblanks.com
I have buying bowl blanks from http://www.turningblanks.net. If you are a wood turner and have not visited their site do yourself a favor and check it out. They have a nice selection of wood, extremely fair pricing and great customer service. They also have a facebook page if you’re into the social networking thing. I just I [...]
Lots Of Cedar
Another big thank you for Brian at Enviro Tree Service. He saved us some cedar from a tree they were taking down. This cedar is going to make some beautiful pieces. The tree has apparently been dead for awhile so the wood is already dry and ready to turn. We are thinking about making some natural [...]
New Hook Tool and Faceplate
My father and I purchase some large spalted maple platter blanks about 2 months ago. The wood was pretty green so we have been letting them dry out a bit. We didn’t have a faceplate big enough for the blanks so we just purchased an 8″ 1-1/4×8 RH Faceplate from Packard Woodworks. Some of the vases [...]
I’ve got wood!
There is a house being remodeled across from the neighborhood where I live. Over the weekend I noticed that they were taking down a tree that was in the front yard. I’m not sure what kind of tree it is but it has some really nice silver bark. The heartwood also looks reddish. I’m not sure [...]
