Two images within the process of a drypoint of Moses in the rock. The voices of steel and copper.
technique and process
Jacob Wrestling With God
Recent progress on the painting of Jacob wrestling with God, and some details.
Thomas
The Thomas panel with light shading. Soon the underpainting will begin.
Thomas Touching Jesus’ Side Panel
Left side detail.
Center detail.
Right side detail.
Cedar Bar In Progress
Middle stages of an eastern red cedar bar designed with my associate.
Thomas: New Characters
Here is the Thomas panel in it’s present state, and a detail of three new characters to the left of Jesus and Thomas.
From left, bearded disciple (not sure who), John, and Mary Magdalene.
Ash and Walnut Headboards
Working out the first of a series of headboards in ash and walnut.
What relationships work?
Fitting the scribed pieces.
Possible locations for butterflies.
Detail of scribed “joint”.
Thomas Panel Update
Below are three details from the Panel of Thomas touching Jesus’ wounds, with the disciples gathered. The panel is 54″ x 32″.
A large group of figures making up the right half of the composition.
Thomas and Jesus.
Peter.
The working drawing.
Walnut Long Table
The following are a series of photos of the construction of what I have chosen to call a “walnut long table”, featuring a large center cut black walnut slab about 2″ thick from Fall River, KS. The legs are also black walnut from Boaz, KS.
Butterfly sockets along the seasoning check.
Removing material for a large sliding dovetail and dado for the cross brace.
Sawing the slope inside of the dovetail-dado (dovetail bit in router not deep enough).
Legs.
Fitting the legs. Lower right is a view of the end of the sliding-dovetail on the brace.
Settled on steel bolts over mating the legs to the brace with another sliding dovetail.
View from the “South” end of the table.
From the “North”.
Studio Easel
Below is a series of photos of a new counterbalanced studio easel in quarter-sawn red oak, white oak and black walnut. The two cooperative disciplines of painting and woodworking meet in a special way.
The easel consists of a base, a frame which tilts forward and back, and a counter-balanced carriage which holds the painting and slides up and down on the frame.
Some of the carvings on various parts of the easel.
The base and frame in the shop. Primary joinery is mortise and tenon for all of the components.
The carriage frame.
Haunched tenon of the carriage frame.
Chamfering the tilt-slides with a spokeshave.
“NEW LIFE” carving on the top rail of the frame.
Roman “V” carving on the central stile of the carriage frame.
Counter-balanced using pulleys, rope and 50 pounds of weights, allows the painting to be easily moved up and down without using any type of stops or knobs to hold the carriage in place..
Holding the Thomas panel.
The School of the Transfer of Energy 