Drawings and Finished Work

                                                                                            

Tidal Crop Circles
Finished Piece 

So for as long as I have been making sculptures I have been drawing tiny thumb nails, usually in a small  5" x 8" Sketch book, occasionally I will break down and do a big drawing but I never really liked it.  Usually I draw a series of differnt but similar thumb nails.  After I pin down what I like best I do a better slightly larger I.E.  filling a whole page of my small 5"x 8"sketch book drawing and then I move forward with making the peice.  However, at least with this current body of work my process has changed or at least grown.  I still do my small sketches, usually after the glass is cast and rough cold ground.   Then I take the best of the thumb nails sketches and render them in sketch up.  

Tidal Crop Circles
Sketchup Drawing

A most fortunate trip to the DMV

SO LONG STORY SHORT, I have two peices in a show at

Gallery 55 

55 s main st, Natick Ma

Opening this friday from 7-10

The show is up for a little over a month 

So if your in Natick for some reason please check it out.  

                    
               Now the longer story, and for those of you who dont read there are pictures at the bottom
      
       A most fortunate trip to the DMV, I know this sounds like a contradiction in terms and I assure you... it is.  However this is a story about how my being an IDIOT and trying to go the DMV helped me.  About a month ago I was trying to go to the DMV and I googled the nearest one, apparantly its in Framingham MA.  So I printed out directions and with trepidation in my heart I set out aware that I was in for a terrible day as the DMV is usually the manifestation of hell on earth.  However, I was foiled or saved depending on how you look at it I had neglected to pay attention to what directions google had printed for me and apparntly they sent me to 10 pearl st in Natick, not Framingham.
       So I am annoyed once I get there and realize my mistake, so I resolve to drive to framingham and get woefully lost and hope by black magic I can find the DMV.  But as I am turning around I see a gallery, and if I see a random gallery I like to stop in usually I expect the normal crappy small town gallery work.  But this Gallery... Gallery 55 in Natick has really cool work a bunch of funky large scale sculptures (http://www.gallery55.com/artists.html), they also have an inhouse jewler working at his bench all in all its a cool funky place.  Feeling either more couragous or more fool hardy than I usually do I approach the owner and ask how one shows in there space.  I show her a piece I have in the back of the car because I had forgotten to take it out and think nothing of it.  However, apparantly she remembers me and sends me a link to apply for a show.


Also I just updated my website with the new work I had in my last blog.  Check that out too
DevonMurphyArt.com
Below is a copy of my new homepage because this blogs word to picture ratio is quite off.

New work Lookie-Lookie

 This one as of right now is still untitled, and it will get a metal stand that allows it to spin I think, but when I get it made Ill photograph it myself.  If you have a title suggestion let me know.

 This one I think I will call "off level"

 A front and back veiw of "Tidal Crop Circles"

Also still untitled... Again title suggestions welcome

Asinine Art Expenses

Today I spent about a 100 bucks on copper nails, copper burrs, copper roves, and two male rod end barrings.   No I am not building a boat which is the most logical reason for buying copper nails and what not, mostly I want esteticly pleasing options for fasting the wood and glass peices I am making and surface decoration for a peice I am working on.  The bearings are for making a stand for a peice that wants to be able to spin.   The drawing below was the impetus for buying the copper.  

  

I wish I didn't have a weakness for fancy expensive materials,  but oh well.  I have an appointment to shoot photos this up comming tuesday so if all goes well I should have more images up pretty soon after that.
             The class I T.Aed at massart is over and so is the semesters except for the poor bastards finishing up there reviews and crits.  So no more new castings for a while but I have a large stock pill of cast parts and peices to work with over the summer.  Hopefully I will have finished 10ish peices this semester, all sand cast glass and wood peices and will finish more over the summer.  After I get this next batch of photos I need to concentrate on finding people to buy them or galleries to sell them.   If anyone is interested in a peice let me know.