work in progress
Starting a new assemblage box by painting a white primer coat. I’m being more vigorous with brushing this one. After this primer coat dries I will paint the actual colors using a brush and spreader card.
This is what you get when you hold the camera in one hand and brush with the other. At least I have the option of saying “cheese” to snap the image instead of using a finger or thumb.
A controlled still posed shot.
The finished primer coat on the inside and outside of the box.
I've had the front of this one put together for a couple of years and leaning against various walls. It would have been easier to use 45° angles for the roof but I chose to use what ended up being 72° angles. That made for some challenging cuts with the tools I have at my disposal. I used a hand saw and my mini table saw.
The sides being glued to the front.
Finishedwith a small base. I had to fix the front top point of the roof that got dented when it slipped out of my hands and hit the floor. The wood for the facade is very soft. I used plastic wood to rework the corner.
Or at least it will be a version of Clementine the cat.
This is the initial drawing with colors quickly filled. I will rework the colors as the painting progresses.
Here are the finished buckets I have been post about. Although you can’t see it there is a hole drilled in the bottom of each bucket from which paint will leak out of.
I have had the basic structure of this piece sitting around in a corner of the studio for several years now and it suddenly came to me today what I want to do with it. This will be one that can hang on a wall or be free standing. I haven’t quite worked out what I want to do with the windows. More to come.
I’ve had the front facade put together for a few years now and today I added some reinforcing pieces in the back and sides and a base.
Equipped with hanging hardware.
Here is how the piece will hang on a wall. A white coat then an off white coat of paint have been applied.
This is when scraps of paper come in handy.
A strip of card stock left over from trimming printed postcards. The length of the strip is the circumference of a bucket. The line in the center marks the circumference divided in half. The mark at the end of the strip is where I want to mark the holes in the two sides of each bucket for the handles to be inserted.
Marking the handle holes.
Here is the finished work from yesterday’s post. For more details of this piece go to the new work section of my site.
Title: Noodling for cats who live on the sandy bottoms of reservoirs.
This one uses parts of a recycled hanging sculpture. Stay tuned to see how it turns out.
I made some handles using some old copper wire that will be attached to three small buckets. I needed to straighten the wire with pliers and my hands. It was fairly easy to do and I wasn't aiming for super straight. I made a simple jig to help bend the ends of the handles so they will be the same length.
The handles shaped and ready to bend.
The mess of copper wires that I needed to straighten. You can see just how much straightening was needed.
A couple of finished handles and one in the bending jig. I made the jig from a scrap of wood and some nails with heads cut off so the wire can be slipped in and out.
In this post I’m showing how I change colors slightly after adding some texture with the Old Oil brush I made a slight modification to. Infinite Painter gives one lots of options to make changes to brushes or create a completely new brush.
Detail of the top right corner of the painting showing texture created by brushing over areas with the same color. The Old Oil brush leaves streaks of light and dark versions of the color as you can see in the blue purple color.
I typically use the fill tool with a tolerance between 1 & 3. This time I set the tolerance to 1 so it would fill only the closest matching color that I choose to click on. This brings out a bit more of the brushed textures. Overall the color changes may appear to be rather subtle but compare the darker blue areas.