A push for the New Year.

Here are some larger pieces I just completed. I hand build boxes with russian birch plywood, and depending on the size of the piece 1x3 inch siding or 1x2 inch siding- all mitered corners. I build layers on the wood by painting and sanding and painting and sanding. The photos are printed on overhead transparencies and tiled together to create the larger image. I then scratch into the image to manipulate the photo and to add texture then elaborately paint the back side of the the transparent master image. The master image is then trimmed to fit its wood "frame" and gelled to the wood with a clear gel. I then coat all the pieces with a clear epoxy resin. The resin gives the final piece an almost three dimensional look to it as well as a high gloss finish. I allow the resin to run over the edges as i feel it gives the final piece a unified feel. Here are the pieces. Almost 2014!! Truckee Train Depot 15x24 acrlyic, transparencies, pencil, epoxy resin, wood. (smaller detail images shown to display hidden message!) The Rubicon Trail 15x30 acrylic, transparencies, pencil, epoxy resin, wood.

Year Enders.

Put a little holiday push in to the mix. Just finished a few pieces before the new year. One for my mom for Christmas to send her a piece of the local landscape and three more to hang in Lorien Power's Studio here in old town Truckee. I'm looking forward to the new year and my 40th. I've got some prospects for some commission work on a larger scale. I'll keep you all abreast of that. Here's the new work. The Panoramic is taken from Donner Summit looking out over the Rainbow Bridge and Donner Lake.

The "Miner Shacks" piece is taken from West River Road of some historic miner shacks that are still lived in today. There may be a piece or two here still to come. Both pieces are smaller in size the Miner Shacks is 10x12 inches, The Donner summit piece is 12x16inches.