We have just been accepted to the 46th annual Salado Art Fair in Salado, Texas- our first juried art fair! Link
It's October 27-28 on the banks of Salado Creek. We're honored- this is considered a very good Texas art fair. Please consider the drive to Salado to see us and the other artists at the end of October. It's a gorgeous little art town about 50 miles from Austin.
It's October 27-28 on the banks of Salado Creek. We're honored- this is considered a very good Texas art fair. Please consider the drive to Salado to see us and the other artists at the end of October. It's a gorgeous little art town about 50 miles from Austin.
An update on the octopus box: We have a gorgeous grenadillo box with a wave pattern (and a fish in the grain!), and a beautiful spalted pecan top with tiny turquoise inlays for the top, and we have a piece of bone carved like fishes for the lift. We taped the crap out of it so it is watertight to the octopus base and poured in epoxy so that part of the base of the box is glass and the part that overhangs the glass is clear epoxy- it needs some fine sanding, but it will be great. We'll add some tentacle-like wood pieces that will go from the box down to stabilize it without covering up any of the glass. The wood is some of my favorite in our recent work- it's just perfect. And the octopus was one of those etchings that just worked really well with the glass piece.
Tom is also finishing a box he's been messing with for a while- a mesquite and wenge deal- weird and lovely as you can see. He finally found the right wood for the top- a walnut burl with some weird edges. We're considering several lid lifts for this.
We have way too many projects and not enough time to get them done- there's a lot of parts of boxes sitting on the shelf. It would probably help if I didn't have a part-time day job (and if I weren't scared of the saws), but I do love teaching. It's probably weird to like spending time with 14-year-olds, but I do (if any of my students are reading this- go study! We have a test on Monday).
We have way too many projects and not enough time to get them done- there's a lot of parts of boxes sitting on the shelf. It would probably help if I didn't have a part-time day job (and if I weren't scared of the saws), but I do love teaching. It's probably weird to like spending time with 14-year-olds, but I do (if any of my students are reading this- go study! We have a test on Monday).
We saw the catalog proof for the East Austin Studio Tour, and WOW! There are a ton of amazing artists participating. I'll have to slink away from the shop during the tour so I can see some of the other folks myself. I'm particularly impressed by the metal workers (Brady Foster at metalshopstudio.com, Colby Brinkman at metalmantis.com/, Colin McIntyre at sculptureforge.com/-, and the intriguing Foster Talge with no website). I've been wanting a really wonderful unique metal front gate for our house (which currently has a nice standard Home Depot gate- blah). It doesn't look like I need to go far to find someone to do it. Fortunately for us, though, there do not appear to be any other box-makers involved, so if you like boxes, we're your folks.
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