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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Whipped up a quick drawing for a friend's property deal.

Sometimes people ask me to draw quick conceptual ideas for whatever. This was one of those times.

Batchelder tile repair

Working on this. Need to have one tile woked on off site. And their cat is pretty awesome. ALways good to have cat pictures on one's blog.

Started to restore old spanish style door and then...

I left for the day, came back a few days later and the painters had promptly painted over everything. So it lives on here.

Set build for "The Protector". Keep in mind she's a mom AND a cop.

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wood replacement

Doing some wood replacement using scupltwood, carving in the grain and then faux painting to match surrounding area.

baseball scoreboard for my friend's kid

I will admit he showed me a pottery barn pic. But pottery barn ripped it off from somewhere else I bet. Two wrongs don't make a right but they do make a pretty sweet scoreboard.

dome of a dining room light

Found this big dome. Made a light out of it. Thats how me and Josiah roll.

recent commercial set-lots of scenic painting

film work is always a sort of hellish fun. i did a sort of sunrise affect, stencils, glazing like a wild animal and all in all it came out nice.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

The anatomy of a mural

Here is a cheesy fly fishing mural I did somewhere in the I.E. so I had to at least give the post a cool title.

Carving low relief

Here are some random pictures of various things I have carved in low relief. I think they call it relief because its such a relief when it is finally finished.

Stenciling and more stenciling

I have had my fair share of stenciling mainly of the spanish revival variety. Its a wonderful technique and I would like to use it on other projects as well. I think the right pattern and color palette would look stunning on even a modern home. Not these of course but they are nice in their own right.

Founders building sign Pomona CA

Also did the Founders building sign around the same time as La Bomba.

Sign for "La Bomba" vintage clothing store in Pomona CA

I did this many moons ago (2000 or 2001?) and it is still there as of Jan 2011. I painted the rest of the facade as well but you cannot see it very well in this photo. I drew up the shape on two sheets of plywood, cut it out, painted and installed it. (It is the sign that says la bomba. The halloween costumes sign was someone else's handy work!)

Old studio

Its so neat to see a past workspace. This is when I was working on other pieces for "House".

Paintings I did for the TV show "House" a while back

I call these "Squarescapes". I did a lot of other paintings for the show but these were my favorite. I think this was back in 2005 or 2006....? Its acrylic medium and paint on plywood. They are pretty large pieces.

Coffee table from reclaimed wood

Yep-the title pretty well sums it up. Its all wood from inside the wall of an old house in Pasadena.

Large L.E.D. Light sculpture for Sababa Restaurant Long Beach CA

We designed and built the light sculpture for Sababa and wrapped it around an existing column. After we framed in the circles we had to take them all down and veneer them. Then we reinstalled them, put the L.E.D. lighting inside and then installed the plexiglass. It was a lot of work but it paid off. THe result is pretty sweet.

Custom lights designed, fabricated and installed Huntington Beach CA

These two lights were designed by me, drawn in full scale and sent off to be fabricated. They came out very nice. It was a little intimidating as these things always are but the clients were very happy and they appreciated all the hard work that went into getting these things completed.