Already gone

Last weekend a good friend of mine turned 41 and celebrated this in Arnhem (the Nethertlands) making it possible for me to take some additional pics of some of my work in it's finished state. You probably have seen these 3 items before if you regularly keep track of this blog, nevertheless i'll post the pictures again. The table top is polished, on the picture I posted earlier it wasn't, the kitchen's supplement is working and put up, as well as the "wastafel-armatuur". Tomorrow I'll be on my way to visit my sister in Los Angeles, gotta pack some stuff and buy the last presents and all that stuff. You all be good and Have A Nice Day.

Cheers

Bo

easy day

Today I Started where i left off yesterday. That was the pieces you see above. However, I'm so not content with them that for now I decided to put them aside. Instead I opened Flash and drew the decorations above. That's about how they should be, more or less. When that was done I was thinking about how unproductive these last days were, and thus prepared the two supports "orchid" to the white-marble-sand terrazzo shelf. Now it's just some cleaning, gonna have a few days in which I won't have much time to work, and it's also quite dusty here. Right, I'll keep it at that. Have a nice day.


Bo

almost finished

*SIGH* Well, that's done i think. Need to put in the hanging mechanism, but no more today. Once more, from the top-side viewpoint

just another sunday

Today I started with drilling holes in the supports of grafplank. Also where the leg broke i drilled a hole. This might sound easy, but stone is quite tough and it takes a long while, in total about 1 to 1.5 hours. After that i made the reenforcements of pieces of steel. After I roughened these pieces up and brushed them of I mixed some epoxy and put the epoxy and steel enforcements in the holes. Let that dry for a day, next to the heater, and then tomorrow i can clean up the epoxy from the repaired leg, and shape that whole support as one. It's definetely taking shape. Need some more grinding and sanding tho ....

Also I ground the terrazzo shelves open. Quite a few holes and in the middle of the white shelf there's a piece of green marble ! Damn that shit. And I decided that the supports should be used on the white shelf. So, maybe cast another shelf ? or the probably 3 new shelves ? I'll keep you informed. The green one is nice too, but i definetely don't like the yellowish/brown one. Gotta find some use for it nevertheless, drop it somewhere with someone who likes it.

update grafplank

hat i feared would happen, happened.
One of the legs broke. Have to repair that, the other will probably break too. Anyway, a productive day, not in the least dust. Gotta clean a bit, there's a veil of grey on all the horizontals, scary thing is that it's all petrified little critters ground to dust.
Howerer, her's a pic of how it's coming along. Some things i'm not yet satisfied with, but with 1 more day of grinding and sanding ......

Dilemma

Yesterday i finished 1 support, which brings me to this dilemma .... The left 1 is probably less prone to break when i start grinding it into shape. Also it looks more like the stone "grows" out of the wall. The right one is how it was meant to be from the start. I almost want to make 2 different supports ..... If only i had more tombstones ;)

Grafplank 1

Also today I started on a new project, called "grafplank" or "tombshelf" in english. I have this tombstone which I recovered from a container 20 years ago in The Hague. Some Graves were cleared and the stones with all the stone was just discarded. Me and some fellow sculptors were low on money so it sometimes happened we got into these containers to salvage whatever useable piece of stone we could get. This stone i have been carrying around now just a bit too much, time has come to do something with it. So a new ..... u already might have guessed it.
Also bougth some blades for the decoupeer-saw, hoping that it would work on stone ..... It doesn't, so i'm back in the sawing by hand mode. On the upper part you can see a line, curved. Have to saw it, will take approximately 5 to 6 hours for each support .....

terrazzoshelves

Made the casts, got all the marble dust, sand and granulate, the white ciment, made 3 mixes;
1 verde granulate with white sand and whitedust
2 white sand and white dust only
3 crema granulate, crema sand and white dust
In short one will be quite green, one white and one yellowish brown.
Now keeping it wet for about 3 days, then let it dry for about another 4 days. Then sand it open so the granulate and sand will reveal it's true color. Hate the waiting, but alas, part of the process.

encore

This is as far as i go with these supports. The shelf I will make later, right now i think terazzo of wtihe and crema marble-sand, maybe some marble-powder too to make it more velvety, bound with white ciment. I feel not like working today, however, i know myself and there are these other designs for supports still waiting, crying out to be released. It's driving me crazy. So today i start work in wood again for a bit, make the cast for the terrazzo shelf too probably.

supports raw

Another day, eight hours of hard labour, the pieces each 9.5 x 9 cm. kinda need a drink .... I think I'll call this one "Orchid", and hope mich won't say that it is so Giger.

sunday

Today, sunday, i finished one shelf by grinding a hole for the hanging mechanism, and glueing it. Akso i started a new shelf, as you can see the raw form is developping. Not satisfied as of yet, but quite hungry. And dusty.

Shelf with Halogen

Hier weer een collage van een projectje. Net alles geinstalleerd, foto's van finished product volgen nog. Maart 2006

3D Grafitti

Opdracht Deltainc. voor de Veemvloer. Februari 2006

Planki

Planki, eiken en multiplex met olieverf. December 2005

Cornerflower

Dit is nog een project waar ik mee bezig ben. FF op een laag pitje, eerst weer even naar de Poly-shop .... Wordt vervolgd.

Moyca's book

Boek, Bladgoud, zilver, olieverf, Giethars. Februari 2006

Wendo's table

Tafel, Teak. Januari 2006

Black marble shelf

Hier een planki voor boven een wastafel. Net met epoxy de steunen op het marmeren planki gelijmd, ff drogen en dan t ophangsysteem dr in plakken ....