Two mystic animal messengers with banners that say “appointed” from 1999.
Wild Dog Messenger, 1999, oil on panel
Bird Messenger, 1999, oil on panel
Jonah and the Gourd Vine
A painting of Jonah and the Gourd Vine, from 1999, painted on a mdf panel with mahogany veneer. Done while I was still in school, I had previously omitted it from the archives on this blog. It is in the same line of the paintings I am now doing- and have been doing since around 1999, so it now seems appropriate to add this and a few others from the last few semesters of my schooling to the paintings archive page.
Walking Man and Jonah Underpainting
White Oak Painting Cabinet
A dovetailed painting cabinet in quarter-sawn white oak. The tree grew along the Van Horn Branch just south of Boaz, Kansas, until it’s bank gave way. The panels will be gessoed and receive an oil painting. The cabinet is only dry fitted. It will not be glued up until the panels are fully prepared. In order to eliminate the center stiles of the frame and panel doors, the inside inch and 1/2 is a full tenon into the rail, while the rest of the panel will float in the customary grooves.
Hope Chest
Pictured below is the beginings of a hope chest in cherry and walnut, primarily. The pictures depict the joinery of the upper case of the chest, which is cherry, and will lit atop a narrower walnut case with a row of drawers.
Here the dovetails have been cut and the piece is clamped together in order to mark precisely the corresponding pins.
cutting the pins with a dovetail saw…
cutting out the majority of the waste with a coping saw…
chopping out the rest of the waste with a paring chisel…
the board with pins cut out on both ends…
the case dry fitted.
New Three Legged Stool
Pictured is a recently completed stool made from red oak and black walnut, harvested from Boaz, near Fall River.
Walking Man and Jonah Underpainting
Here is the beginnings of the under-painting -the first layer of many layers of paint- of the Walking Man section of the panel depicting Walking Man tromping across the ancient ocean and Jonah in the ancient ocean.
a poor shot of the entire panel
Osage Orange Bowls
Here is an osage orange, or hedge bowl. It developed a small crack in the sapwood during drying.
Another osage bowl in various stages on the lathe.
Chair Repair
Repairing a hickory and oak chair that was brought to me with a broken front leg.
Riven white oak leg, turned on the lathe then bent green in the form.
Marking the tenon on the top of the leg.
Splitting the waste from the tenon with a chisel.
Cleaning up the tenon with a rasp.
Workbench top with the leg and tools.
Drilling the holes for the stretchers with a brace.
The chair with its new leg.
New Work For Sale Page
The Work For Sale page has been updated with new work and clearer descriptions of the items. Current pieces for sale are prints. There will also be some bowls added over the next few weeks.
Jacob Wrestling the Angel of God, 2009, signed edition of40 prints
lino-cut printed on acid free rag paper; image size is 7.5″x9.5″ and paper size is 11″x15″
$50.oo
The School of the Transfer of Energy 