Summer Sampling of Student Art

Theme: Forest. Why not create tools to use from the forest?

Ink / Wet on wet / Draw the seed pods using your seed pod tool

Ink on dry paper / observation of grapevine while drawing with a grapevine

 Ink Monotypes / using a stick to draw a stick

monotype

close-up shark

Jellyfish

Good Year for Free Publicity

Selling at Five Crows Gallery, Natick, MA

Selling from The DrawingRoom
 at Anthi's,  Marion, MA

also won PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, Post Road Art Center, Marboro, MA

Sudbury Design Week group event
mentioned in NEHome

Drawing Room's window displays six of my creations

Result after working 3 hours CubScouts /
 a recycling project, now displayed at
Peter Noyes Elementary School, Sudbury, MA 

Leather Art

Sea / on display in a bank near Cape Cod, MA

Fade To Blue

Can't help myself. 

Free-motion stitching on 
repurposed leather.

My mod squad was working over-time
with my thing for circles spreading to squares. The turquoise life is ever present. 

detail

Desert Sun 

Sand / displayed in a bank near Cape Cod, MA

New Art Gigs: Music To My Ears

Red Suede Blues: cello sonata

Danforth Museum School Faculty Show, 2015
Oh, Susannah! and Troubadour

Bit-O-Honey with the red and turquoise trim

cello comprised of 1867 pump organ parts

#sudburydesign 2015

#sudburydesign

Coming up;  Sudbury Art and Design 2015
Opening Reception: March 21,  4-8:30pm
Show/Sale March 21-29, 11-4 by appointment
60 Nobscot Road  (off Rt.20, in the big barn!)

Sand / leather wall art / 48"x36"

It's all in the details!

Sea 

Bits of Books Produce a Whodunit

Whodunit, is third in this particular series of my found-object assemblages.  Much of the series' content originated from discarded library materials.

Whodunit, 7x24"

 Musty books were sliced-n-diced to create this patchwork drama, including tintype portraits of mysterious ancestors, and a vintage delivery crate from Funk and Wagnals. 

Page curls are due to a wispy bandsaw cut

 The worm-worn timber substrate was salvaged from the dark underbelly of a century-old barn. Its lengthy intricate texture and bronze patina have earned unexpected exposure after a gingerly cleaning and sealcoat of varnish. 

Notice the character in the hat sharing her un-portrait-like hand gesture
---not withdrawn at all.

 A footnote from this gumshoe:  --- Train your eye to spy.  Seemingly tattered and tainted minutia  ---covertly rich in uniqueness, often goes unappreciated by the untrained eye and left on the cutting room floor. Clue in to rough edges, stains and doodle marks; they add character.

Pass-It-On Wine Wraps

 My design.  Totally original.  This is it.  The way to gift wine.  (Copyright 2014)

write a message and pass-it-on

made made salvaged leather / no two exactly alike

Selling now at Sudbury Art Association Holiday Market, MA
Five Crows, Natick, MA
Wellesley Holiday Gift Shop, MA
*almost sold out in two days at Maynard ArtSpace Holiday Market 

Owls Are A Hoot

Reclaimed timber, leather, piano hammers, odds and ends ...

Bandsaw, hand drill, hammer, sander ...

All these owls have flown the coop, but more are

perched at the Sudbury Art Association's Annual

Holiday Market at 421 Boston Post Road
(aka Rt. 20) until December 24.

Free-Motion Stitching Has Me Climbing the Walls

Ovals, leaves, surfboards ... call the shapes that you want.  Applying FMS to colorful, textured, pliable, lightweight leather shapes and then exhibiting them on a wall brings a new mind-set to the uninspired term, wall-hanging.

detail of FMS (free-mtion stitching)

Leather wall-hanging, 30"x 45"

previously made earthy pillow with similar shaped motif

This large leather wall-hanging SOLD recently at Anthi's Drawing Room, Marion MA.

The earthy colors  and textures in this wall-hanging reminded me of stones in a river or creek bed.
The tricky part in this project was figuring out the path for attachment.

River Stone Flow, 40"