AIRPORT BENCH--painted steel---6 ft long (1.5m) Designed for a local park. Children can use their toy airplanes and "take off" and "land" on the runway painted on the seat. This is based on my memories of going out to the old Raleigh Municipal Airport at the intersection US401 and US 70 as a child. This bench was tremendous amount of fun to do!
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AIRPORT BENCH--close up 4
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AIRPORT BENCH --close up 3
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AIRPORT BENCH-close up 2
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AIRPORT BENCH--close up
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ARMADILLO BENCH--close up--see details below
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ARMADILLO BENCH--Better, "ARMAZILLA'S REVENGE." A bench made for a local park. Six feet long (1.5 m) and two feet deep (60cm);made in pained steel. Armadillos are small animals in the American Southwest that just don't move fast enough to get off the highway--rather like possums in the American Southeast or hedgehogs in Europe. Cars run right over them. NOT ARMAZILLA, THOUGH!
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ICE CREAM "GLOW CONES" for the garden. Who cares about "gazing balls" when you can gaze at ice cream???!!! For my wife's birthday, I made a "glow cone" for her garden. The 12 inch ( 30cm) blown glass ball is set in a steel cone 4 ft high (1.2m) painted a golden brown just like a sugar waffle cone. The steel "drips" painted white coming off the side, act as a sort of wind chime.
The smaller Blueberry and pralines cone is in the back. The crowning touch is when I ADD LIGHTS TO THE INSIDE OF THE GLASS BALLS TO LIGHT THE GARDEN AT NIGHT!!!!
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ICE CREAM "GLOW CONES" for the garden. Who cares about "gazing balls" when you can gaze at ice cream???!!! For my wife's birthday, I made a "glow cone" for her garden. The 12 inch ( 30cm) blown glass ball is set in a steel cone 4 ft high (1.2m) painted a golden brown just like a sugar waffle cone. The steel "drips" painted white coming off the side, act as a sort of wind chime.
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MY DOG, SPLOTT--made in scrap wood.
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MY DOG, SPLOTT--not really a new piece. Actually ten years old. Made of unaltered scrap wood found in a friend's cabinet shop. A lady who had bought it through a gallery years ago traced me and asked I do some minor repairs. I was delighted to do so, since I had never gotten good photos of "Splott." He stands just under a yard high (about 90cm) and is very friendly.
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THE PERFECT HOSTESS--a very recent commission piece. "Life size" in steel scrap. The lady told me she enjoyed entertaining at home and drinking red wine. She has curcly blond hair and good sense of fashion. This sculpture will go in her dining room. The wine glass is made of old scrap parts and her bracelets and rings are old nuts and washers.
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PERFECT HOSTESS--close up. Note the earrings made of the ends of bent spoons and welding rod; the necklace of washers and screws.
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Perfect Hostess--side view.
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VULTURES--I made these recently for the entryway of a private residence of a family that definately did not weant their home confused with the entryways of srrounding golfers' homes with boring cement lions and dogs. These vultures in steel are perched over a dead cement garden gnome! Each vulture is a bit more than 3 ft tall (1 m). Eventually, this family had five of my steel vultures around their property.
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OIL CAN MAN---a cheerful fellow--even in the snow! About 2 ft 6 inches tall ((75cm). He's an old oil can, scrap welding rod, washers, bolts, odds and ends, and doll's eyes.
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SUNFLOWER ANGEL--steel scrap 5 ft 6 inches tall (1.65m) A commission piece from earlier this year. The client's father raised sunflowers to feed the birds. In this piece, I used old screen and moor parts to make the sunflower blooms and the sunflower leaves are pieces of twisted steel which detach from the flowers and become the birds flying towards the sun cut out over the angel's heart. The whole piece will slowly oxidize to a rich golden brown, so I tinted the photo sepia.
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MAGIC PEN--brass and solder. I made this fanciful calligraphy pen with an end so one could change drawing and calligraphy nibs. The pen is 9.5 inches long (23 cm) and 3 inches wide (8 cm). It balances very nicely in the hand and has a feel of being both futuristic and fantastical--rather as if it had come from one of Remedios Varo's paintings.
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Close up of the angel. Wings are made of knives, washers, welded to old freeon can handles welded to its sheet metal body. The head is a piece of cut off pipe, the halo, and electric motor part and the hands are the ends of forks bent to shape while he blows a trumpet made of an oil can tip and part of a campaign poster holder. Welding rod for hair and ornaments. Washers for eyes, nuts and bolts for nose and mouth. Note the little "Saturn" behind the angel and the stars and moon in the other shot. The great arc is made from an old piece of awning.
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HEAVEN OR HELL "Whether Vane" Who cares which way the wind is blowing--we just want to know whether we're going to Heaven or Hell. Well, that depends on which way the wind is blowing! Moreover, since the spinner marked heaven or hell is backwards on the other side, the way to either depends on your point of view! The scrap steel angel itself measures about 4 ft (1.2 m) long and the whole thing is about 8 ft tall (2.4m)
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This is the original concept drawing of the "Heaven or Hell" "Whether Vane" As you can see, I leave myself considerable latitude between the concept sketch and the way the piece actually turns out.
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