Showing posts with label art show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art show. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

art show ...

 6/13/2023

the dorset field club, where i play golf, paddle tennis and tennis is having its first 
one day member art show.  each member/artist was invited to show two paintings,
two drawings, or two photographs representing their artistic leanings ... 
the list of participants is lengthy, and i look forward to seeing the show tomorrow.

i had trouble selecting just two works from the many drawings and paint splashes 
i have made over the years ... there is a slideshow at this link of 
some of the paintings, drawings, pottery, and woodburnings i had to choose from.
  use your arrow keys to click quickly through it.

in the end, i selected a couple of small ones for the show, like 7" x 11" or so ..
over and out ... more after the show
 
6/17/2023
ok ... the show's over, and what a hit it was!
it was a very rainy and dark afternoon, but when i got 
there at 5:00 the place was full!  so full, i couldn't really take any 
pictures of the art til the party ended at 7:00, and folks filtered out.
there were over 30 members contributing, and the outpouring 
of  'hidden talent' most folks found 'pretty amazing' ..
who knew?
below are some photos, without all the people ...
click the photos to enlarge them ...
those are mara and kristian's sheep in the lower left corner
a few of the larger works ...
a close up of one by nancy howe
my two small paintings look a little lost there 
to the left of dr. henley's dog portraits and just to 
the right and below pam marron's barn ...
the 'pirate' was a hit with me ... 
i spoke to the artist and she said it was one of her 'smaller ones'
it's a wrap! a few folks still at the bar, 
but by the next morning it was all gone ...

thanks to leida rodenburg and patti campbell for putting this all together ...

lots of furniture photos to see on my website and blog ....


Sunday, March 1, 2009

While I Was Working

Metal drill chip and cherry/walnut edge curl .... Click to the photos to enlarge them

I have always wanted to do a little show of stuff that happens while I'm working ... Not of the stuff I make intentionally, but of the scraps and side effects and by-products of the stuff that I'm making. The unexpected interesting little visual bonuses . Will was planing some edge inlay Friday and handed me a little piece of the shavings that came off the hand plane and it made me think of that show concept again. Somewhere, I have a cardboard box of stuff I've saved, waiting for the show to happen, but today I couldn't find it .... In the meantime, I looked around a bit and there was plenty of items, accumulated over the years, decorations with a story .... Here are a couple of my images, but feel free to send me yours too and we'll see what happens. I think this could be interesting ... Thanks ...

Offcuts of tapered table legs and a bowl on the sawdust shed

The shape over the door of the finishing room is the plywood left after we cut two 32 x 64 1/2 circle mockup parts for a table we were building
The table mockup mentioned above
The bird on the porch ... more scraps from tapered bench legs ...
More to come ...