Sketchbook Project

I'm working on my contribution to The Sketchbook Project. The library is located in Brooklyn and the project will travel starting in March.

Some drawings done using pens I received as a Christmas present, (thanks Lisa and Mark!). 

Paris

Church door, Paris.

Brooklyn

Door spotting in Brooklyn

Skyscraper

Final result of the gold leaf process.

Into Drawing, 2012

Gilded wood

This piece is finished with traditional oil gilding.

Preparing for gold leaf

Some of the work that goes into a gold leaf finish.

I'm working on two pieces at the same time.

Rabbit skin glue being warmed in a water bath. 

 Applying the first coat of rsg.

 First coats of gesso, also warming in water bath.

After several (6-7) coats of gesso.

After drying, sanding cutting and polishing.

After this I'll be sealing and adding color before leafing.

New Orleans

NOLA Gas Meter 

No Bright Line

I finally had some time to sit down and get some gold leaf on this piece. The work is constructed of bass wood and birch plywood, roughly 12 inches tall.

Femme, (after Picasso), 2011

After the Pablo Picasso painting in the collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. 

http://www.themodern.org/collection/artists/Picasso

The piece is constructed of wood.

It is painted with enamel in a style similar to the dazzle camouflage series of mine.

An earlier dazzle piece.

Bronze casting

So lately I've been building the equipment to outfit my foundry. I'll be using oil bonded sand (a formula called K-bond). The idea is to cast bronze pieces. It will take a while to get everything together.

 This is a molding bench in progress.

 A pair of lifting tongs to get the crucible out of the furnace.

A pouring shank to hold a #16 crucible, about 50 pounds of bronze.