Mostly boat and ship portraits, eagles and other marine art come out of my shop. I am as much interested in the philosophy of what I do as I am in the art and technique.
Way back, before your time indeed. I hung out with others of a similar twist of character, although many at the time thought us more than a bit twisted. One of the idiot games we enjoyed playing was called sacrilegious roulette. The rules were simple. We sat around and blasphemed. The first struck by lighting …
Almost every week Sensei says this in practice: "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." — Confucius Studied deliberation seems harder than going fast. But, at this time I'm under little economic compulsion to produce in haste, and going slow allows me time to master what I …
What's old is not necessarily discarded. Not in tools nor skills. My shop is soooooo small that I can only fit one of those tiny 6-inch jointers in it — this is fine for most of the hoop tray portraits that I do. But, the carving of the Cunard liner Servia is much larger, and …
A set French Curves are only the beginning when laying out curves
