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 most recent work on Jacob Wrestling the Angel of the Lord (26″x22″ oil on canvas).
Below is an earlier photo for comparison.
Here are a few photographs of the three drawers in the cherry and walnut hope chest currently in the shop. The faces on the drawers are walnut, while the secondary wood is white oak.
The nearly completed under-painting of Walking Man and Jonah.
Below is a group of photos of some details of the construction of the black walnut drawer carcass and the drawer fronts for the cherry and walnut hope chest. Please click on any of the pictures to view larger.
The lower web/ frame for the bottom of the drawer unit, it is constructed of white oak with the front (visible) rail being walnut.
The drawer case with the web installed with tongue and groove
The main chest rests upon the drawer case
Flattening walnut drawer fronts with a jointer
A forged bench hook (I learned from Peter Follansbee)
The flattened and drawer fronts ready to be marked and cut to length
The drawer fronts wedged in their spots to see how they look. Also the dividers have been installed with stopped dovetails.
Milled a large Green Ash, Fraxinus pennsylvanica, log last week, which was recovered near Fall River, Kansas a little over a year ago.
Five 2.5″ slabs and two 1.25″.
Me holding one of the boards. The grain, although hard to see in the pictures is very nice.
Below are a few pictures of the frame and panel lid for the cherry and walnut hope chest.
A section of the cherry frame with a piece of walnut as a test panel.
The lid, dry fit with the panels installed.
A detail showing the hard maple ogee molding – all dry fit and held with gravity and friction at this stage.
Over the past week, the white oak panels for the painting cabinet were gessoed using a traditional cooked recipe of rabbit skin glue, and ground calcium carbonate.
The panels dry fitted in the doors.
The panels with the masking removed.
Gessoing the panels.
The thickness of about 12 coats of gesso.
Go On, Terrestrial Version, 2000, oil on panel.
Wild Dog messenger
Provision
Trinity
The Dark Night
The School of the Transfer of Energy 