North Coast Open Studios 2015 - Week 1 complete

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It was a fun couple days for the first week of Open Studios, I demonstrated first on how to make one earring, then the next person in line made the other. Fun process to see everyone get all happy and into the small fish earring they were making.  I lost count at how many pairs of earrings were made. Kicker? Everyone who made theirs took them home with them, free fun!  See you all next week.

North Coast Open Studios 2015!

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Hello everyone, I'll be open both weekends for Open Studios 2015.  If you're in Eureka I'm out by the Eureka golf course, easy to find.  Tons of new works I've recently completed. Original goal was to have 30 sharks by the time Open Studios rolled around, at the time I had only maybe half a dozen.  I reached my goal of 30 well ahead of time, duh; so I modified my shark goal to 40.  I hit that number a couple days ago and wow, how things change in such a small amount of time, very cool.  Needless to say the SharQuarium is at full capacity and over flowing. Hope to see everyone out and about.   Cheers!

Arts Alive! May 2015

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Busy weekend if you're an art lover. I'm showing at the following locations starting early Saturday evening: The Monster Pop Up show Gallery 622, right in between Smugs Pizza & Pinate Art Gallery, show starts at 5:30pm goes till 9:30pm. All art monster themed & $150. or less you take with you. Brenda Tuxford Gallery located upstairs and behind Sirens Song Tavern. Sharky the HammerHead makes his first gallery debut. Sponsored by Ink People in conjunction to Open Studios next month.  Lastly I have a completely stocked fish tank located at Funk Shui, new earrings too. Mention you saw this and I'll give you 10% off your purchase. See you out there somewhere!

Sharky - The Hammerhead

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Recent idea was to go big, make a big shark. I decided on a good design, then blew it up on the overhead projector. Size was limited to the size of my studio hence his present size. Wiring in the shape of Sharky took ten hours to complete then the skinning process began. This is where I cut and weld on piece by piece copper, very time consuming.  This one I wanted to be different and asked a buddy who works with glass to make the eyes. Eyes by Topher Reynolds of Copious Glass came through.  Sharky has over 50 SHARP teeth, blistering blue eyes & is ready for a new home.

Rutabaga Crown 2014

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That's right the Rutabaga Ball is just around the corner whats a Queen with no crown? No problem, the Kinetic Universe gave me the contract once again this year. This years design I liked the sketch with a big rutabaga in the middle, hence this copper one.  Doing the letter was a bit frustrating and the letters just kind of fell into this position, that's when I said, thats it!  Stones were donated from a local friend, thanks Wende.

For The Glory!!!

 

Back to reality

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Sorry for my tardiness, too much world travel does one good. I'm back from my travels to SE Asia and am back in full art mode. Ideas to paper, paper sketches to copper sculpture.  Presently I'm showing at the following both located in Old Town Eureka.

Funk Shui located on F street in between 2nd & 3rd, next door to Old Town Coffee. Then there's "The Siren Song Tavern" located in what used to be Old Town Bar & Grill. Please stop by and give a gander and take some incredible art home.