The marriage certificate that I was honored to do for my friends Genesis and Terry’s wedding. In the last picture you can see the signatures of all the attendees/witnesses. It is done in graphite, sumi ink, colored inks and watercolor on a smooth watercolor paper. The main picture and details are missing a few of the final touches of color which I negelcted to photograph.
Completed hickory stool and chair with hickory bark seats. For some pictures of the seats being woven in see the Traditional Woodcraft page.
Hickory chair and stool frames, awaiting their seats; to be woven of hickory bark. Inquiries welcome, please contact playbanjo@gmail.com.
Black Walnut nesting tables in three different positions. Inquiries welcome, contact playbanjo@gmail.com.
Unfortunately, not a perfect photograph, this is the painting entitled, The Stoning. Based from a story in the Gospel of John, often refered to as the Woman Caught in Adultery, in which Jesus writes in the sand. The frame is made of cherry wood.
A trestle-type black walnut bench for the Big Horn River Lodge in Montana. Of all the production pieces I have been building, the benches are the strongest design. All mortise and tenon joinery, there are no metal fasteners or glue used in these benches. The grain and figuring on the wide slabs of the old black walnut is very beautiful. The white oak butterfly joint helps control the split in this piece. Much of the walnut in the furniture I have been building over the past 15 months came from a stack of wood in a flooded basement in an abandoned house in South East Kansas.
Benches like this one can be built on request, though it is hard to come by walnut this wide in Kansas, so the price is some-what subject to availability of the lumber. playbanjo@gmail.com
An unfinished black walnut bench for the Big Horn River Lodge in Montana. Incorporating a lot of mortise and tenon joinery, I have built quite a few of these over the past year.
Asher Lev and the Messenger, oil on Linen, 22″x 30″
John the Baptist, oil on panel, 8″x10″
The Stoning, oil on canvas, 22″x25″
The School of the Transfer of Energy 