What’s in your head!

It seems my Artist Statement:

“What’s in your head….Comes out your hands”

Is a lot truer than I originally thought.

Goody Two Shoes

(Self Portrait)

I’ll get back here to add a link or two to show what I’ve been up to all this time.

Yes, I’ve been absent since dropping off the Fall Art Tour,

But Art never disappears…

It just gets stronger.

 

Woodblock in progress

Due to my mental/emotional battle with a saddening world.

I seem to have packed this with a world into which I would escape.

Having simply run out of wood to cut, I guess it's time to get it ready to print.

Metal Heads in Progress...and a honey bee bracelet!

 

Really not all that sure what to do with these, yet.

I feel there are more needing to appear.

One by one, their population will grow.

I will enjoy having a pocket full of them!
AND! 
I just finished this Bee Bracelet...
It's someones Christmas present...
I'm so happy with it...I had to post it!!
 

I'm hoping for better photos...well, the best I can do.

Yes...the heads...all my chasing is done freehand...

it's the only way!

Fall Art Tour Artist #22 realizes a sensible working order

 (yes, this mornings realization:

Avoid printing the woodblocks NOW
and airborne sawdust
will not become fastened to wet ink! )

I'm Artist #22 this year! 

Get more Fall Art Tour Information HERE!

who....where...when...

what's to eat...where to sleep

and a great map!

Two more to go, 

a serious vacuuming,

and I can start printing the woodblocks!

chased, repoussed, honeybee in progress

Wondering how to finish a few pieces,

I began experimenting with an unfinished honeybee.

Needless to say,
I got carried away into a completely different direction.
There will be more.

watercolor, chasing/repousse in progress

Haven't posted in a long time...
this is some of what I've been up to.

(22"x30" watercolor...WakeMaker)

There'll be better photos when they are completed.

(various incompleted small poundings)

I never looked at a watercolor with the poundings like this....they feel good together...guess it does make sense...same mind....same world...so these must be some of the remnants of the world I'm always arting...like an historian collecting things from the places he goes to document.

Watercolor in Progress

I was trying to decide between turning this into a multiple color woodblock print
or just stick to one color...but, it needed to get out fast....

(WakeMaker...in progress)

this is the first watercolor I've done since before the house burned down....(it's laying in a flat-file drawer)
it is interesting that I used to think 22x30 was a huge piece of paper....
now I'm wondering why I started on something so small.
It's not done...

Sardine Tins in Progress!

A perfect day:
13 hours in the studio on the last day of the year
preparing SardineTins for a show in Chicago....
almost done....I'll post official photos in a few days...

Waiting Room

Booger WAS at the Dentist...
I suppose my relationship with him is a bit over the line...
(the tech's last words to me as they walked down the hall
were something about
"if there are any serious complications, which happen at times.....")
eeuw...
but, Booger is special...

he was WeberGrill's newsletter, the GrillOutTimes official star
developing quite a following...
even getting fan mail...

he is the dog who was gone 40 days and 40 nights to return on Tony's birthday.....
part one of the tale I'll finish sooner or later in woodblock form...

he died on the operating table the next year when they took his gall bladder out...
but, tough little dog that he is, decided not to leave just yet...
so, he's into his 3rd life...

He IS the embodyment of the Small Dog of Power...

Strong, brave and handsome....in PERSON!

So this is what took my mind off "complications"....

Pounded Copper Christmas Present

One of the latest poundings...
Tony's Christmas Present...

Wiro..the Electric Boy in a 3 3/8" square piece of scrap copper...

It's a work in progress...as I don't know enough about working with metal to be able to take this further...

at least not yet.
I'm figuring it out as I go...
I'm taking Wayne Farra's soldering (riveting) class in February, which will definately help with a lot of these other things I've been pounding on.
I want to know about patinas, so I ordered the book Japanese Patinas, by Eitoku Sugimori.

I found it in the Ganoksin archives.
This next year I'm making the studio friendlier to this whole process.
It's too much fun to be fighting with the awkward nature of how it is now.