Corvallis Fall Festival

Corvallis Fall Festival September 22 &23

http://www.corvallisfallfestival.org/

The Fall Festival is fast approaching.

After some very successful summer art shows, I have been busy busy getting ready, and making some fresh Art for the last big show for the season. 

Plasma cut Viney Ferns - 

I have made a series of these over the summer from some old sawmill blades I inherited from my Great Uncle Lige. Back in the day He would cut some very artful knife blades from the steel and add carved wood or antler handles, I think everyone in the family is a proud owner of one of these knives. 

Vase Hearts, my sunflowers look so perfect in them.

Spider Season

Tropical Fishes

  

Garland Art and Wine in the Garden

It's time for a Garden Party!
I'll be showing at Garland Nursery on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th.

https://www.garlandnursery.com/

https://www.garlandnursery.com/classes-and-events/art-and-wine-in-the-garden/

I'll have some of everything on display in the Garden this weekend, bugs, birds, heart, snails, you name it I might have it.

CowBirds on Guard Duty

The stand is made from an old cattle guard...it is a cattle guard that I tiptoed 
across many times in my youth. This sculpture will be going back to its roots to live on the ranch from where the cattle guard scraps originated.

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!

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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