Getting it up, & then, how is it hung?

(Above is a short look at what I did this Friday afternoon...(feed trumpeter Swans wild bird seed...) This is what makes my winters great!)

Semillon grape with noble rot...sculpture...

the dragonfly sculpture...

me...just before Xmas...



We hung the show yesterday...yesterday was 12/12/12...

So, I decided, since the number was close to the lowest price I could offer, that I would make the price for each work exactly $1,212.12 ...

The solo show, (me), is titled, or called "Magnolia & Tempesta"...& that is what you will see when you go...

The painting Magnolia & the painting Tempesta...

You see, these are very good paintings...They took me a long time & much work both inside & outside the art world...

Maybe you want to see a plethora of work...But that is not what I want you to see...

I want you to be able to just look at one work...Then the other work...

What makes them different...What makes them the same...

How do they make you feel?

What do you think about the price? The number $1,212.12? Is that neat?

By the way, 20% of that number goes to the not-for-profit Scarborough Arts...

The library where the works are is called Agincourt Library...It is on 155 Bonis Avenue...There is free parking...There is a bathroom...It is the busiest most popular probably the best for books & resources library in the entire city...Yup...In Scarborough...But Scarborough is now part of Toronto, so that includes Toronto libraries...

Semillon Grape with Noble Rot...12 inches deep to wall, 12 inches wide across, 19 inches long with strands of Mason's line nylon dripping to 40 inches down(picture does not show drip)....Other materials are copper strapping 1/2 inch, 10-24# galvanized threaded steel rods (galvanized means that the metal is covered with a zinc dip so that it won't rust)(threaded means you can thread bolts or nuts or couplings on it), 10-24 galv. coupling bolts, galv. locking bolts, galv. acorn bolts, galv. washers, elbow grease...All thread is a Mason's line type of nylon thread...(Mason's line is what stonemasons use to ascertain whether their brick line is straight...)(I get my nylon from Creative Yarn Source in Ohio & they are awesome!)

still working on the marble raccoon...

made the grape better...

Update jan. 24, 2013: I added these 4 pictures...

The first is the prosthetic thumb & index finger for the left hand...The MorezMore store on Ebay.ca sent me a free sample of skin coloured polymer clay with my order of artificial moss & grasses...So I made a thumb of it & tried it on the steel model...Wow, looks so realistic! Should I do more?

This was my first try at the left hand prosthetic...It got covered in marble...I was going to cover it in flexible Plasti-Dip...But the material was stinky & I didn't feel like working with it...Turned the thing into a sculpture instead...Actually it is two pieces one on top of the other...What I learned was that cooking my homemade marble a bit makes it more like porcelain...Which may lead me to a new medium...Homemade porcelain...?

My grape below...The stem got turned brown...I also took another free sample of grey polymer clay that Morezmore sent me & used it to cover any copper strapping that was sharp...

I joined this sculptor site called Sculptsite.com & have been using this app called InstantMask to isolate images then lay them on different backgrounds if I want...Mostly just to isolate images...Here is the Dragonfly in a field of grass...

Saturday Jan. 24th, 2013 below:

I am adding mosses & grasses (artificial but natural materials) to the marble wolverine...This is a sort of day by day detail work, which may take a little while...