Spring Garden Festival

Oregon Grape -State Flower

Spring has finally arrived in Oregon, after record rainfalls everything is blooming and green.

It is time to get out and enjoy some gardening and shopping.

http://madisonavenuetaskforce.org/springgardenfest.html

Woven metal Heart

medium fish

small fish

large fish

Boxes of Birds

I have been getting back to the metal shop, trying to come up with new ideas.

 One of the best ways I know how to do this is to work mainly from material that I have squirreled away over the years. One of my goals this season is to only use metal I already have in the supply shed.
It forces me to get out of my comfort zone of working with the same old parts that I know "work". 

It also encourages me to use those precious pieces that are "too cool" to use, I figure they might as well exist in a piece of Art where other people can enjoy them instead of some dark dusty corner of my shop.

Bunches of Bird heads

old Craftsman toolbox

Red cover off of a Electric fence charger

Red electric fence charger box

old breaker box

Spring Garden Festival - Corvallis

Spring Garden Festival
link to festival info.

Sunday May 1 is the Spring Garden Festival
I'll have this new table and many more new things.

Table design choices...

"Ghost print" from the heat, welding and oil.

Spring Garden Festival

 

Join me at the Spring Garden Festival

http://madisonavenuetaskforce.org/springgardenfest.html

 

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Spring Making

Nature inspires art...I grew poppy flowers last year and became enchanted with the "Pod" shape.

So I decided to give them a try in metal.

Big rusty orb...each disk is about 4" across.

Some comical birds happen....kind of a tall pelican?

Others are elegant, cranes.

And some small cuties.

 

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Spring!

The long winter is over, the First Festival of the year is coming up on Sunday, wheewww, where did the time go. I have been busy making new things, and learning new thing. Not all sculpture related, I usually focus on quilting during the cold wet months, and most of this Spring has been consumed with Dyeing fabric for future quilt projects

 

I also have been busy out in the metal shop....to busy to blog obviously.

This project has been on my mind for a while, it was a fun transition from quilting to metal it reminds me of a quilted feather design.

 

The fern cutout will become part of a garden bench, in the near future.

And of course I could not resist rust dyeing it.

 

It is such a great peice. Now to find the perfect use for it.

 

You all are welcome to come visit me Sunday at the Spring Garden Festival

Sunday May 4th 9-4

http://madisonavenuetaskforce.org/events.html

Events

 

 

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Spring Garden Festival

 

 

http://madisonavenuetaskforce.org/springgardenfest.html

 

New items for the Spring Garden Festival , Sunday May 5th

 

 

 

I have been interested in Mixed Media and Collage, lately. So I was inspired to try a little "scrap" metal collage. I have ideas to include some quilt rust pieces in future Metal Collage. These will be available at the Spring Garden Festival http://madisonavenuetaskforce.org/springgardenfest.html

 

I will also have my Garden critters and a few tables