Blue Lace

Hello Every one!

It's been a wonderful summer, and I almost got the wall mandala painted.
But now the rains have set in, and now I'm back to work on the latest shadow box.


This is a nice little circle - about a foot in diameter.

I'm going to try to keep it airy and light so the blue will show through.




Peace and love

Concentric

Hi ya'll,

Really moving along on this one.


I made a bunch of concentric circles.


And I tried them out inside the triangles.


I like it so far.
See ya tomorrow
Peace and love

Haint

Geometric Beauty

Hello and a great day to all out there

I'm coming along with this new section.


Added some overlapping red triangles.



You can barely see the red and yellow beneath when looking straight on.


The patterns of the thin triangles makes the piece feel airy.

peace and love
Haint

The Inner Circle

Good Morning folks.


Today I am working on the inner wall of the mandala.There will be a circle attached to these ribs.


I use a scrap piece of matboard to smooth out the glue blobs.

See ya later
peace and love
Haint

Box and Ribs

Hello everybody,


The box is finished and painted.


Now I am making ribs of foamboard.


Then I reinforce the foamboard ribs with matboard.
More tomorrow - have a great day!
Peace and love
Haint

Bandanaland

Hello folks,

It's getting close. It might be slightly over 100 boxes to make the piece.


Bandanaland
This one was done with modeling compound.


Fluctuation
And this is another layered matboard piece.


Fruit Salad
These little fruits were made from modeling compound.

Back tomorrow with another round
peace and love
Haint

Blue Spheres

Hi Folks,

I'm still filling matchboxes -almost to 100!


Blue Spheres
Modeling compound balls


Holey Ground
Playing with texture and modeling compound


Crinkle
This is the inside of another envelope

More on the way
peace and love
Haint

Plastic Albatross

Hi everyone

So far I still have ideas for more matchboxes

Plastic Albatross - Sea of Garbage
This one includes weedeater cord and WS40 nozzle snips, hot glue and styrofoam with markers and acrylic paint


Flower Power
Matboard flowers with clay leaves.


Free Flight

More later

Peace and love
Haint

Tangerine Worms and other things

Good morning people,

Today we have 3 more pictures of the hot glue globs.


Tangerine Worms

and the


Wormy Blues

Along with a batch of


Sugar Beets

Peace and love
Haint

One Shy

Happy Halloween,
Hope you are all having fun doing your things.


A close up of the silver one and a multicolored box.


One shy a dozen,

Lookin for inspiration

November tomorrow

Peace and love
Haint

Hey Colorful Day

Hello everybody,

This is a colorful day.


I filled up the purple box with a mini - 'Festive Circle Carnival'


This red box is painted pink inside and filled with red tentacles made from papermache.
The orange one is crammed with gold pipe sections.


I filled the green one and a blue one. It's been a busy day. Time to crash.

Peace and love
Haint

The Pink One

Good day all,


I'm off to a good start,


The pink one is filled


And I have to paint backgrounds on some more matchboxes.

Peace and love
Haint

Variety

Howdy folks,

It's been a crazy week, but getting back to normal


I want to do a variety of different boxes and I have 12 of them to fill,


Some metallic elements are here too


Checking out the colors so far.

Till tomorrow
Peace and love
Haint

Back to work

Hello folks -
And a great Sunday


I have started on a new piece using matchboxes.


I made me a jig out of some foamboard to fit inside of the matchbox cover.


Then I cut out the center of the top of the cover to make a miniature shadowbox.

Will start filling them up tomorrow.
Peace and Love
Haint

Metaphorical Echoes

Great fall morning to ya'll,

This piece is about done.


I have installed the right side and have the pieces lined up.


Next they are painted.


And I think the thing is close enough to be given a name - Metaphorical Echoes in a Manmade Mechanical Environment.

A few little touches and I can put the cover on it.

See ya

Peace and love
Haint

Covers

Greetings all,


I made covers to fit over the ribs.


But this looks a little plain. ho-hum


I had spaced the ribs symmetrically and neatly, so these cut outs are cool. It's starting to look like some sort of mechanoid butterfly.

Have a good one - and then another one

peace and love
Haint

Making Circles

Hello folks,

I have a vision for the two sides of the centerpiece.


This is a small piece that I had done a couple of years ago and I like the shadow effects of the plain silver triangles.


I had to turn the two rounded rectangles into circles. So I made ribs to put a circle wall around. And I boxed around the central elements.


Now the inner circle walls are in place. These circles will be where I will build the saw-blade type designs.

more later
peace and love
Haint