Fall is approaching, and work on painting is resuming as well.
Below are some pictures of the small painting of Moses in a cleft of rock when the Glory of God is passing by. The under-painting or under-drawing arguably, is egg tempera, the subsequent layers are oil. The most recent work is taking place in the rocks above Moses in the upper right of the painting.
Below in an essay of photos is the cherry and walnut (red cedar, maple, and white oak as well) hope chest assembled, sanded, and awaiting hardware and finishing.
We milled a large quantity of black walnut, red cedar, and green ash with a neighbor and his band-saw mill earlier this summer. Below are a few photos of our operation.
Some of the logs piled in the field.
Slabbing off a decent quality and sized black walnut log…
some of the boards 25″ wide…
some lead slugs from deep in one of the 100 plus year old red-cedars…
the slugs, still in the tree…
A hay loft full of lumber, almost everything was plain-sawn into boards and slabs from 4/4 up to a few 6″ slabs, all with natural edges remaining.
Below are some significant numbers and letters carved on the sides of the cherry and walnut hope chest.
Below is the nearly completed tree carved in relief upon a cherry panel- for the front of a commissioned cherry and walnut hope chest.
A detail
Thanks to Bridgit Yinger, the Onion Tree in Wichita, Kansas is now carrying some of my bowls for sale.
I have begun the carving on the main front panel of a cherry and walnut hope chest. This carving is in cherry and features a shallow relief of a stylised tree.
Below is a gratuitous workshop picture with a goofy three-legged stool I turned out this week. The carved panel is held to the bench with hold-fasts.
Here is a grouping of photos of some of the puppets that students made in a recent puppetry workshop.
More paper engineering. This time a paper kestrel puppet in progress. Here is his head. There is a lot of cutting and folding and gluing to develop the shape.
The wings; almost ready to be attached to the body.
The Russian Jonah now with eyes and hands.
Another view of the kestrel’s wings.
In preparation for a short workshop I will be doing on paper puppet construction in July, I have been partially building a few paper folk.
The paper man, possibly a Russian Jonah.
The School of the Transfer of Energy 