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 In '94 I was asked to help with the production of a customized surfboard. At the time, the surfboard was being hand sculptured by Roland Surfboards in California, and the client, who requested the board, wanted tie-dye to be the outermost layer in the fiberglassing process. He looked all around for tie-dye artwork that he liked, from the West to the East, and it turn out that when he saw the artwork on my website, his search was over (or maybe I was actually the 2nd place he looked). Nevertheless, my job was to design a 9-foot piece of tie-dye. After some planning, I made a couple pieces so he could have a choice and shipping them over. There the tie-dyed fabric was cut and put into position, and a final layer of UV resin was applied over all. Click on the photo to enlarge it. Check out how they make the surfboards at the Roland Surfboards website.
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 This is the first mural I've done with charcoal & pastels. Drawn directly on the wall of Jon's apartment, it is a variation on a Michelangelo sketch called 'Uffizi'. Done by the grid method to help me with perspective, I enlarged it exactly 5X the size of the original I worked from, making the finished piece 46.25" tall by 36.25" wide. It consists of 268.25 squares 2.5 inches each. Usually when a grid drawing is worked on, the lines are erased or covered up; I decided to emphasize them, and I even changed the colors of some of the squares to give them a cube-ish pixel-like twist. After its completion, I drew a frame around it; the basic look of the frame I took from something else in the apartment. Please click to see up close
"Uffizi on Jon's Wall"
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This is my latest acrylic on canvas painting (finished 9/2000). This 14" x 18" painting I call "The Shell Painting" - not to be confused with "The Shell" Waxworx (the Batik version seen over on WaxWorx). However, I did use it as a model because the person who commissioned me to paint it wanted it "just like the Waxworx version". Click on the shell to see it BIGGER.
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   I always liked the idea of carving wood. Back in December '97 the opportunity to do some came my way when I was given a set of woodcarving tools & some nice pieces of walnut. After some practice with cutting and gouging wood with the tools, I started on my first piece by knocking loose stuff off of a small log to get it ready... for something. In the process, I noticed a big split going through it, which I cracked off; since this wedge of wood I knocked off the log reminded me of a feather, I started to work on it instead of the log. I figured that one difficult step in the process was over: deciding what to carve. I had in mind a quill in an inkwell type thing, and penciled in the general shape. I carved a good bit of wood off the piece before it started to look like something, and then the work became more interesting for me as I fine-tuned its look. When all the carving was done, I sanded it well. To help make the feather part seem like it was a separate piece from the inkwell part, I oiled the feather and stained the inkwell. Later a slice of the log was screwed to the bottom as a base, and that made the total height about 1 foot. Please click the image for a full-size view. "The Quill & Inkwell" .
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  The next addition to the Other Projects area is kind of a virtual painting. 100% mouse controlled & done through Adobe Photoshop. (Click image to enlarge.)
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 Here's a photo I took while at LemonwheeL, a 3-day festive w/ Phish in Limestone,Maine. I submitted it to a photo contest Phish was having along with two other photos I took at the festival. The photo came in 6th place and was posted on Phish's web site. One interesting aspect I want to point out about this photo is that 2 feet of the rock pile is all that is visible; the folks in the photo create the illusion the the rock pile is huge. I call the image "Rock Garden" .
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(This website is under construction. I'll be adding more photos. C'mon back!)
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