Water birch bark and re-purposed steel wall light

I found this piece of water birch bark along a remote section of the Deschutes river a few months ago. While I had to hollow out the decayed inner wood, the bark was left pretty well intact. Then it was off to find the perfect piece of metal to compliment the colors and aged look of the bark. Courtesy of a local scrap metal yard and their endless piles of rusting metal I found that ideal piece. A little finagling here and there and the end result was this...

April First Friday in Bend- Artwork @ Feather's Edge Finery

Just finished (and still finishing...) up a few projects for this month's First Friday Artwalk in Bend, Oregon. I'm the featured artist at Feather's Edge Finery located at 113 NW Minnesota Ave in downtown Bend. I'll have lights, photo frames, photographs mounted on bamboo blocks courtesy of Plywerk of Portland and more!! Below you will find an assortment of the new items I've created for the show. If you're in town come on down from 5-9PM Friday April, 6 2012 and say hi.

New Light and Slatboard

Finished up another couple of pieces this week. The slatboard was a long time coming, as I couldn't quite get the octopus stencil the way I liked. Stencils ain't easy! But lo and behold it eventually got done. And the light was made out of a cool little kids tool box from the 50's or 60's. The picture of the kids playing with their tools is kind of funny, as we all know how advertising and their corresponding toys have changed quite a bit from then til now.