Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Summer Commision

Summer is a busy time, the weather here in Truckee is insane. Between 75-85 degrees and sunny- every day. Mountain lakes, mountain bike rides, lots of active friends, trips to the coast to surf. Ok, ok you get it. So I've been slacking a bit. I haven't been so productive on the Artistic frontier. BUT... I did make this piece which actually was spoken for before it was ever finished. This is the new framing technique that I'm using. I'm no longer pouring resin over the edges when a piece is finished. I stepped up my game and bought some carpentry tools. Pieces are now framed in with birch plywood showing edgewise and moving in a clockwise flow. The painted panel with the photograph on it is sunk about 1/8" into the frame so that it creates a reservoir that the resin sits in. This is one of my favorite pieces completed to date. I'm so happy that my work feels like it is progressing. The image was taken from a drying lake up on Donner Summit. Multiple stumps were exposed from the receding waterline. All the stumps were bleach white and looked like ghosts or tombstones. It was a pretty powerful spot to visit and to take some photos. I'm pretty sure we'll be seeing more work from this shoot/location. The finished piece measured 22x36". Thanks for looking.