transport box

We made three - for the signs

process photos

Sometimes - especially when you need to take breaks to wait for something like paint to dry - you can not help to notice the beauty in the process.

so much more ...

... than just mounting the paintings ; fix with cables, wall montage, plexiglass back side,build transport boxes, paint the covers white, fix extensions and extra florescent light tubes ...

in darkness

more to come ...

Merry-go-round I

Did I ever tell the title of the laughing turning sign, that I completed in June? It's "Merry-go-round I" (there will be three merry-go-rounds). And here is a proper photo of it taken the other day. I have another one too - soon I'll share what that one looks like in a dark room.

decisions decisions

last week before vacation.  I have four days to take some decisions about what I should prioritize to finish in August. But my studio is a total chaos and I can not think clearly there ... and I don't feel like cleaning. Luckily photoshop can help me picture what it could look like (above) ... (not what cleaning would look like)

... and the final result

... with and without the lamps on. Both ways have their special advantages, and how I show this art piece will depend on the specific circumstances I finished this sign two weeks ago and looking at it now I can finally see it as a whole piece, not just the details. Two more signs to go (there will not just be laughters!)

slicing laughing faces

for the real thing

those little details

Some days it feels like you don't achieve much, even though you work all day ... but very often it is those important little details and preparations you need for a great result in the end. Like the day I painted the frame of my sign white (degrease, mask, paint, wait, paint, buy more spray paint, paint, wait - and ready) and prepared watercolor paper (measure, cut, wet, wait, tape).

Just white results, not a single line. And I did a lot of waiting

paint

wait

the results of a hard day's work: 4 white watercolor papers ready for painting and a white border on my sign

second trial (recorded)

... and it worked

first trial (recorded)

it turned out to be really sensitive when turning ... anything uneven and sticking out even the slightest stopped the machine. I had to cut more paper aways and use glue and not double folded tape ...

sketches for testing

May 9, 2012

First step was to perform a test. So I made some simple drawings and cut them up. One of many questions to consider: should I just slice them and glue them (getting a broader image because of the distance in between the slices when mounted), or should I cut away a stripe in between?

could it be a sign?

Actually there were three signs in the big box - with light and that fantastic possibility of changing in between three images. I've always been fascinated by them - and now I was to make these babies mine ... To be continued ...