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| Painting sawblades at Seattle Center 'Folk Life festival' 2002 |
I have a lot of wonderful crosscut, handsaws, and bucksaws as well as some really nice rounds in lots of sizes. Unfortunately saw blades don`t last very long. I can only do one at a time and they are very labor intensive. I try to do as many as I can between my other paintings.
There are as many different saws as there are Ideas. I have never painted a new blade. Part of the magic is hunting for them. We find them in antique stores, flee markets, and tucked away in barns and shops.
Roy and I love to take off in our little pickup with a bag thrown in the back and let the road take us. We usually find something to add to my enormous pile of blades. I have people who collect them for me. I have carpenters who throw them in a pile and bring them or call.
A lot of the blades have a story. Someone will bring me one and tell me a story of their great grandpa using the blade to clear their homestead. Sometimes I can recreate the memory for someone on the blade.
There are as many different saws as there are Ideas. I have never painted a new blade. Part of the magic is hunting for them. We find them in antique stores, flee markets, and tucked away in barns and shops.
Roy and I love to take off in our little pickup with a bag thrown in the back and let the road take us. We usually find something to add to my enormous pile of blades. I have people who collect them for me. I have carpenters who throw them in a pile and bring them or call.
A lot of the blades have a story. Someone will bring me one and tell me a story of their great grandpa using the blade to clear their homestead. Sometimes I can recreate the memory for someone on the blade.
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| Winter sawblades |
The crosscuts are very popular as well as dramatic. When someone visits my studio the reaction is usually "WOW". I had the same reaction the first time I saw blades painted.
I still have a deep emotional attachment to blades. Still after 20 years of painting blades I can never seem to to keep one on my wall.
I will be putting new ones on the site as I finish them I will send a notice to everyone on my mailing list. I hope you enjoy them as I do
I still have a deep emotional attachment to blades. Still after 20 years of painting blades I can never seem to to keep one on my wall.
I will be putting new ones on the site as I finish them I will send a notice to everyone on my mailing list. I hope you enjoy them as I do