two dimensional art making is strange

So I have been making some 2d Art this is very strange for me.   I sorta have been thinking about them like wood doodles.  They are pine, plywood and sometime poplar all made from scrap wood from my job.  It is also strange for me to be working with pine and plywood normally I have a weakness for fancier wood.   It is kinda nice and lots less spendy.  The last image is an End table which obviously feels less like a doodle.

New Table

Still needs staining a natural stain, most likely danish oil.   I also need to glue in the legs they are in and hold a goodly amount of weight but I doubt you could stand on it not that I want people to stand on my furniture but it deff could happen.  The wood is walnut and oak and the copper is 1/2 inch copper pipe with the lip folded over and flared it.  It might get a repousse texture or it might not

Real Person Job .

          So I started a new full time real person job, with a company called Artex... I am currently classified as temporary and hopefully that will change in a couple of months and will actually have a real person job.  My job right now is Art Handling at the Peabody Essexs Museum (one of my favorite museums if you have not been check it out its in Salem Ma) Mostly the job is white glove packing... IE take an object wrap it in plastic, or put it in a bag, wrap it in bubble wrap or foam or any number of things to make sure it will not... no matter what break in the box you put it into... plus keep a strict super accurate record of what you packed.  Sounds boring but it isn't because of the things we pack.  We are currently packing the nautical collection, highlights of stuff include, swords, cannons, boat models and cool nautical instruments.  The only down side is that including my commute, it is a 12 hour day 5 days a week which is a lot of hours.  Manageable but still a lot.  The other downside is being that I now work effectively 60 hours a week that means I have a lot less time to make things.  But after the first full week I still wrangled a little time for art making and rock climbing... not as much art making as I would of liked but I guess live for the foreseeable future will be 60 hours of work a bit of art making,  a day of rock climbing outside and maybe an evening of rock climbing inside.   So this blog post is a bit of a departure being that I am actually talking about my life and not just the things I make and my creative process but I figure thats ok.        
           I  still have work up at that show at Gallery 55 in Natick if your in the area check it out (better yet send your wealthy art buying friends to check it out) and I apply for a lot of shows and such but hopefully I will hear back in the positive from a show I applied to a couple months back as a curator at the New Art Center the end of this month.   My normal additude is quiet pessimism about anything I apply to but I am slightly hopeful for this one which means I think there is slightly more than a miniscule chance but hear is to hoping.


Cheers

Devon

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.