My efforts at "craft making" seem to be on a slightly larger scale than the average handy dandy craft maker.
Sure, I have done some drawings with markers...
...and some with pastels:
...even some with oils and acrylics:
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| oil copy of a Vermeer painting |
...and one or two mixed media:
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| Black spray paint on silver painted paper background |
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| Pen and Ink on silver painted paper with airbrushed "streaks" |
At one point, I even had a model railroad. Which, as I see it, is the ULTIMATE craft hobby. Here is one shot of a scratch built building from that.
Sorry, the layout got dismantled in a move and never got reassembled. Maybe when I get older and have lots of time (Which most likely will not be until after these damn social networking sites die, haha!)
But the truth be told, those were done a long time ago. I'm not sure if I could do them now. Mostly because I think I have used up my allotted amount of God given patience for such time consuming endeavors.
There was a time when I made some "country style furniture".
This started when a friend brought me some scrap lumber. He found it/pilfered it somewhere and asked me if I could use it to make a corner shelf for him.
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| Isn't the heart shaped door latch cute? |
Of course, being the oddly curious sort of fellow I am, I eventually tried to take that one step further. I had worked for a company that produced point of sale displays (think high production) and tried to think of a way to improve the efficiency of construction. The basic concept was modular furniture based on a country style.
Please pardon the quality of the photos. These were shot with my very first digital camera which, as I recall, came out of a cereal box. So, in all their radiant 20 x 30 pixel glory:
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| Heart end table bases |
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| This shows the modular concept: Interchangeable base, center and top. |
The main reason this never got pursued more than a few prototypes, was that I am not really that big of a fan of country style furniture...even thought I do live in an old farm house.
Oh, there have been other crafty kinds of things:
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| reindeer made from honeysuckle limbs |
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| Canon. Made to fit the "ship" bed I once made. Couldn't find that picture. |
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| Beach themed seat |
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| Forced perspective model: it's about 2" thick. |
But I seem to do best with full sized construction type things. Since October is just around the corner and I am a "bit" of a Halloween nut, here are a few things I have built and are stored at my house:
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| Electric chair with loud buzzer and flashing lights |
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| I'll add a motor to this one of these days so it opens by itself. |
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| This works! It won't really chop your head off, but when you see that blade come down, doubts set in. |
So, that is some of my handy dandy crafty crap.
Whut U got?
