Show Preview, Antique Bird

I was going for a bird a little out of the ordinary with this guy, he is only a few feet tall. I have been trying to use some of these door knob I have had laying around , they present a bit of a challenge for welding, so I encased the main plate with some antique harness rings to avoid welding right on the plate.

The base on this bird is apparently from an antique jack stand? I am not sure what the beak/face is. Also the door knobs and key plate are oldies. And of course the good old standbys rake tines, pulley chains and various farm parts. I am pretty happy with how he turned out.

Holiday Market Place 2010

New birds and getting ready for a Exhibit

You can find this bird (and some others) at the Handmade in Oregon Exhibit, now on display at the OSU Memorial Union concourse.

Summit Festival --- Fern Sketches, and New birds

We are all packed up for the Summit Festival, It is a one day, small coastal mountain community festival , it is always great fun and good entertainment , an old fashion dessert auction, quilt raffle, many talented people live in these hills and a lot of them turn out at the Summit festival to share the creativity. Come join in the fun!

    

    

Fern Sketch

Double fern sketch

Flower

Bird with antique hook and pulley

Bird

Summit Festival this Saturday

 The Summit festival is on the 21st of August this year, it is loads of fun and this year my cousin is going to have a booth also,so it should be double the fun. This is where I first started showing some small artwork 10 years ago! Me and My Cousin and Aunt all shared a booth, now 10 years later I have to decide what to leave at home...it won't all fit. I am thinking of leaving two guys at home:

(so if anybody in interested in these guys let me know and I can squeeze them in)

And don't worry I am making some smaller critters to fill in for these giants at the festival.

PS. I think my Quilt is traveling to England right now ! See the Rust-Tex sidebar link at the top of the page for updates.

New Items to show

 Big Birds and Small Birds

Snails , Four ways...

Other Critters

Show coming up at Garland Nursery

 I have a two day show this weekend at Garland Nursery.  Garland  it located between Corvallis and Albany on Hwy 20. It is a Wine and Art in the garden event , stop by and say Hi, I will be shooting pictures of my new items today so check back for a preview of the show.

http://www.garlandnursery.com/events.html

August, Sat 7th & Sun 8th 10 to 4pm - Art and Wine in the Garden

New Stuff For my Show on Sunday

Just some pictures of the new item that will be at the show on Sunday, There will be alot of other stuff that was previously posted on this blog.

Spring Show in Corvallis Sunday May 2nd

http://madisonavenuetaskforce.org/springgardenfest.html