SardineTins #13, #14, #15

Sardine Tin #13...6" high x 5"wide

Sardine Tin #14....4.75"high x 5" wide

Sardine Tin #15...7"long x 5" high

Art for Documentary

This is my latest project:

For Dave Erickson's documentary about the Lower Wisconsin River
the Paddlefish is one of the features...
the event and documentary for which this is being done is called
Rhythm of the River...
right now, my concern is this fish.............................................................................................................

"Dave Erickson...
award winning filmmaker...
starting with his first...Raising Crane,
which he made at the International
Crane Foundation
has won several national awards...
(you've probably seen it.. it's about the saving of the Sandhill Cranes...
it's a very cool...very wonderful film)
Dave has produced 40-50 films since...
Many of his films are funded by the Wisconsin Arts Board and the Wisconsin Humanities Council.
"He's excited about he $10,000 Humanities grant he's received for his current river project.

"It's my seed money."
He's trying to raise $30,000 more from corporations, businesses and private donations.
The Humanities Grant is from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
He's partnering with Wisconsin Public TV.
His films are picked up for airing all over the United States on public TV networks. "

Paoli Artisan Gallery Art Show

These were my auction offerings....
Sardine Tins #14, #11, and #10...
they have been sold.


SardineTin#14...sardine tin, copper, hand forged copper

SardineTin#11...(the Fishermen and the Serra), sardine tin, copper, leather, a little paint.

SardineTin #10....sardine tin, copper, aluminum

a Juried show,
"Featuring Art made with Found Objects, Construction Materials, or otherwise Re-Used Things"....

This is a month long silent auction...
bidding will happen throughout the month in the gallery, or on line...
at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore Website.

watercolor #2

It might be done...
needs flattening...
but, I photographed it anyway.

Wedding Procession 22"X30"

Drawing for watercolor #1...

WakeMaker...(drawing)...7.5"X8"

chased/repoussed copper spoon #3

I forgot to get its measurements...

I think no more than 5.75" long...

I'll get exacts and post them later on...

I'll tell it's story later...

right now I'm just wanting to get it up to keep going with a conversation.

more later..

Copper Spoon

I have made a functional item!

~My First Spoon~

chased/repoussed copper,5.75"long spoon on wall hook

The Fibulas

You can see all 8 of the pieces that were in the Mercury show:
Fibulas at the Mercury!

Quadrupedal 2009, Bike through S.W.Wisconsin

Here's information about the 2009 ICHS QuadruPedal Spring Century...
an excellent charity bike ride through the hills of SW Wisconsin...
35-100 miles...routes climbing from between 1500-9000 feet.
All proceeds from this ride benefit the animals at the Iowa County Humane Society.

................and the Quadrupedal t-shirt has CATS!

I wired up a couple pins..........
(cat on left: 4.5"high by 3.75" wide, copper and other wire, aluminum flashing, etching ink and archival varnish........ SOLD
cat on right: 5.25"wide by 4" high, glass eyes, copper and other wire, aluminum flashing, etching ink, archival varnish...SOLD.
The handmade velvet wall support is about 2.5" thick, and each with hook...SOLD)

Watercolor #1

It's done...

(WakeMaker...22"x30" on TwinRocker Handmade Paper )

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.

Fibulas...at the Mercury! Madison, Wisconsin

Here are the Fibulas I brought to the Mercury show...

in the order I made them:

copper wire, sardine tins

Copper wire, aluminum flashingcopper wire, eyes, coke can copper wire, eyes
unknown wire, copper, eyes

steel wire, copper, eyes

steel wire, copper wire, glass eye, some kind of jaw with teeth
copper, chased/repoussed aluminum flashing, printing ink, glass eyes