heatin' up

things are starting to look up for the work schedule. the stump grinder job is in paint, should have pictures up by Tues, today was spent cooking some chili and building a sign for tomorrows chili cook off at church, and I've been working on a three or four color t-shirt design for Strictly Foreign, and I've got a wheel cover to paint for another long time friend.

the cook off sign is pink styro foam for the chili, it was shaped with a pneumatic die grinder, and beaded white foam for the flames. the lettering is hand painted using Sherwin Williams resilience paint, it will be hanging in the shop after the chili cook off as another sample of whats possible for my future clients.

the t-shirt has a little more work to go, change the rims on the bus and add a bug, and determine colors and amount of colors, and then get it printed in time for a car show on the 28th of April.

and addition to all that we went to Medford today and picked up a little chihuahua for my girlfriend

Stump Grinding

A long time friend recently purchased a stump grinder to augment his landscape maintenance business, so I am making a sign that will sit at the edge of his property on a well traveled road here in Grants Pass.

I've had the framework done for a few days, and today I got started coating with fiberglass reenforced concrete and an epoxy clay called magic sculpt. Hopefully I can get this done in the next 4 or 5 days.

Grants Pass Museum of Art

the March 2012 issue of Art Matters put out by the GPMA has an article of yours truly.

Janet Higgins a fellow artist at the Bear Hotel wrote the piece, I think she did a great job? what do you think?

Christmas presents

Just got done making a sign for my step dad. thought I would show how I did.


I started with a pencil sketch and then inked it in.
I then scanned that into my computer and scaled it to size and printed it out on 6 pieces of 8.5 x 11 paper.


I transferred that to the plywood and cut it out and started painting
I also took an old weathered 1 x 12 that had been outside for a few years and sketched the lettering on


after it was all painted I put a plywood spacer behind the truck and mounted it to the 1 x 12, I then added a french cleat to the back of the sign and sanded it a little to make it look like it's been around awhile



here's a picture of the truck after it was built 2 years ago, I also pinstriped the flames and lettering on the truck

and here it is with the sign I made earlier this year.

work, work, work

well work has been a little busy, my personal life has taken a turn, and things in general are fantastic.



I redid the Cary's of Oregon candy store signs as they had repainted the building, got the go ahead on repainting and refurbishing some signs for a property owner, repainted the sign at Oregon Swiss Precision, and finally installed the for lease sign I did a month or so ago. Also did some logo signs for Oregon RV Outlet, and some t-shirts for the robot club.



I will also be doing some more work for Thrive wellness, and some inside signs for OSP. And got another sign for the baseball field, gotta get to it before the rain starts.

gonna get some bills paid.

casting call

Couple of weeks ago I got a call from an older lady wanting some copies of a primitive hand carved wall hanging. not having done something quite this large I severely underestimated materials, but now have a little better idea how much material these things take and how much they cost.




the one in the center is the original, and the customer was very happy.

updates

A couple of weeks ago my work computer went belly up. I was using win98 and it was harder and harder to keep working online as there was getting to be less and less support for that OS, so all is good except that I lost 10 years worth of work, but no one died and now I get to start all over, some fun and some not so fun.

work has been piling up as I get the new system talking to my old hardware, which has been a little frustrating at times, but mostly everything seems to be working, now it's on to rebuilding files many from memory, and as I get older that's starting to go, so I'd better hurry :)

despite no computer and plotter I have been doing some molding and casting and hand painted signs that I took to the local rat-rod show.