Digital Drawings or Work in Progress

So I have been teaching myself SketchUp its a google digital drawing tool and while I dont do much the correct or fast way yet it is a new an exciting way to draw and be be able to look at the work in a more three dimensional way.  For instance the piece below is actually done, well the middle part is obviously it looks a quite a bit differnt I didn't end up useing the purpleheart (purple color) but either way sketch up allowed me to rotate the piece digitally which is helping me figure out how the stand should look and work.

The wood and glass is finished for this peice I have a little bit more to do to set the copper on the wood but this one should be done soon as well 

 I actually just glued up the wood for this yesterday and hopefully will glue the glass on this weekend typically I have been glueing the glass in with a silcon glue but since only one face I will mostly glue the peice useing the fancy ubber clear epoxy from epitec (spelling?)

 This peice I am trying a new technique for the wood ... its purple heart and burnt white oak ... I belive the technique is called Suji and the wood looks really nice.  I just need to get the shape of the curves a 100 percent right and then make the copper peices and backing and it will be good to go.

Lastly I figured I would put a digital drawing followed by the finished peice so obviously my drawings are only getting there but ive been enjoying a new way to draw.  

                                   

Hopefully the above peices will be finished and photographed within the next month.  However, I have a lot of other things I am working on as well and been having a small case of project ADD and bouncing back and forth betweeen stuff a lot.  Plus the weather this past week has been glorious and being outside is always nice fortunately for me that means I can do almost all my wood working outside.

Quick Updates and the resolve to post more blogs

So I got my Website updated, I am still debating doing a new Home page.  I have a layout that just features the new work... and maybe I will just put that up for a while or come up with third option.   If I put this up I may make it a wee bit less tounge and cheek ... Also the peices from the last blog got titles ... given all titles are subject to change at least for a little bit, unless the work goes into a show or sells.  Hopefully I will get some more work shot in a month less

New Pictures

 So I got some peices shot today and am working on getting them up on the website... Ironically enough the part that is slowing me down is not the web design but the lack of titles for some of the work.   Hopefully I will figure the names for all the new work and get all the web design done.  But I will put up some new pictures here first.

                                            no title yet,  glass, bloodwood, walnut and oak

                                       
                                       Lines in the Sand,  Mahogany, Bloodwood and Glass

                               

Mahogany Circuit Board,  glass, purple heart and mahogany 

Squeeze Box(tentative title) glass, walnut, and bloodwood 

                    
                                      no title yet, glass, walnut and oak

So if you have thoughts on the works or want to help give me some titles that would be sweet...  hopefully soon ill have a follow up blog when the new web pages go up.

Quid pro Quo

So I have been casting again which is super exciting and I have been blowing glass also amazing.  I had forgotten how much I missed it.  So I will have new pictures and new works comming out.. not that I am not in the the middle of a bunch of peices already, i have been having a wee bit of notfinishing itis.   But hopefully I will get back on track and finish a bunch of things in no time.  But it has been frustrating I deffinately can not work in the way I used to, my wrist wont allow it.  So while getting to cast and blow again at least a bit is exciting its also scary the price my wrist pays to do way less work than I used to take forgranted doing in a week.

Stuff I am working on

These are a couple of peices that are currently in the works... for this one I need to get some maple, or maybe white oak or poplar for the the middle peices of wood ... instead of 2x4s 

I havent figured the wood for the middle of this one and I might just make them single peices 

I need to cast the wax bit in the middle in glass, maybe translucent red or orange or maybe clear, and do a wee bit more chaseing and patina the bronze... I might have the title worked out for this one, bronze talisman I and Ill probally bind the whole thing together with rawhid

Hopefully I have all of them done in the next couple weeks, and get them photographed for real. 

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Mark is more geniuser than I am

 New photos as promised...  shot by my photographer Mark Johnston.  He is awesome.   Hopefully getting some things cold worked and or or cast in bronze or aluminum this up coming week.   You can vote for some of my images for this contest for bombay sapphire... IE my favorite gin on facebook http://www.facebook.com/bombaysapphire look for my stuff or look at other peoples under the Artisan series, mine is posted in NH.  I don't actually know or think the voting counts for anything but who knows and people like to vote on/like stuff on the facebook.