Chairs

This is a miniature chair. I made it out of twigs and sticks from the backyard. It's about 7" tall.

The joints are glued with superglue using baking soda as the accelerator. I'm also using a fair amount of 5-minute epoxy here and there.

I decided to try weaving the chair seat. At first I tried to do so with pine needles, but that didn't work so well. Then I tried strips of masking tape, which worked great. I joined two strips of tape, sticky side to sticky side, to make a ribbon. Then I cut thin strips with an X-acto. Then I started weaving.

 

After it was done I added a thin wash of oil paints to the seat to make it not look so ... clean.

Soon this little guy will be heading for Free Art Friday in the ATL.

Anglerfish - In Progress 1

I've always had a thing for strange sea creatures. I have a particular affinity for deep sea oil rig remote submersible footage - where oil rig technicians send little remote controlled probes equipped with cameras down to deep sea pipelines and rigs to check things out or make repairs. Every once in a while one of these submersibles captures something crazy on their cameras. This makes my heart jump. Here are a few favorites.

I mean, come on. Who makes this stuff up?

I particularly love anglerfish - bizarre fish who live way deep down in the ocean where no sunlight reaches. They have a sort of fishing lure that extends off of their head that glows and wiggles, attracting smaller fish right up to the anglerfish's mouth. Clever.

I wanted to build one, and I wanted it to have lights.

The piece is built from brass and copper tubing and wire, soldered together at the joints.

I started this piece years ago, and it's time to finish it. I'll show you the base of the sculpture soon.

Fishing Lures

I'm in the process of finishing up the Ma.K Krote diorama, and thinking about what's next.

I decided that before I'll let myself dive into another scale model project (Ma.K Fledermaus is on deck), I would complete a different project that I've been working on lazily here and there for the last few years.

More soon.