automata, mechanical sculpture, sun sculpture, wooden gears | 0 Comments
I’m set to turn this pile of parts into my current finished piece, “The Big Picture”. As long as I assemble them in the near future things should go smoothly – wait too long and you sit there staring at a piece wondering where it goes. Or the sequence gets out of whack and the puzzle
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automata, carved curtains, decorative metalwork, folk art metalwork, kinetic sculpture, mechanical sculpture, nailing on metalwork, sketch for metalwork, southwest tinwork | 0 Comments
After sketching a swallow motif with leafed branches on a piece of box shaped black construction paper I decided to go for it. I scribed, cut, and sanded the metal after making templates of the design, then nailed it on with small brass escutcheon pins. Metal nailed onto wood has a great look to my
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art show, artwork, mechanical sculpture, thomas hughes, tom hughes | 0 Comments
Please come join me at the artists reception December 3, 5-8 pm for Thomas Hughes: Mechanical Theatres + Pinhole Photography: Juried Exhibittion at the Brian Marki Fine Art Gallery 2236 NE Broadway, Portland, OR The show is up until Jan. 29, 2011 Brian, Carla, Tom, and Morgan are great hosts and supporters! We look forward
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artist, automata, kinetic sculpture, kinetic wall sculpture, mechanical sculpture, mechanical theatre, tom hughes | 0 Comments
I finished up the current mechanical theatre tonight but have to change the White Bird Black Bird name because the birds are golden! I am pondering ….. it may take a few days. At any rate it is done for Portland Open Studios and none too soon I might add. I will get some good studio photographs
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artist, automata, craft, folk art, kinetic sculpture, kinetic wall sculpture, mechanical sculpture, mechanical theatre | 0 Comments
I feel I might be at about midway on the White Bird Black Bird MT. It hasn’t been a straight crow fly exercise, but rather a circuitous route to the current state. The mechanics are working out pretty well, with the decision today to mount the two lower pulls side by side underneath the cam. The
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