The Other Half...

After a few more hours in the garage, the other side of the face is mostly put together. Tomorrow I should be able to get the eyes, nose, and mouth finished :) I'll still have a few things left to do after that, like cleaning it up a bit, treating it, and figuring out a clever way to mount this thing... Not sure if it'll be free-standing on a pedestal or if it should be a wall-hanging...

Taking Shape

More Metal!!

After getting home today I was in the garage for a few hours and added more metal :)

Anybody guess what's up yet?

And for My Next Trick...

I have a Manakin head... hmm....

Good Lord, what happened to this guy?!

And what is that odd piece of metal?!

Strange things happened in the garage today, hmm..... Must go contemplate what I could possibly be doing, it's a mystery :)

Yamaha Tail

Here's a few pics from the Yamaha SECA project bike with the new tail section mocked into the frame :)

Yamaha and Comics

The Yamaha project bike, an XJ750R SECA, finally has a tail on it again! This is the first thing I did today in the garage after a 15 month hiatus from working on the bike. I'm very excited to have finally gotten the tail hoop of the frame done (almost) after the first two attempts were so horribly wrong and were scrapped. The hoop mimics the shape of the gas tank and has a slight kick-up in the rear to allow room for the tire if the suspension bottoms out, and it looks pretty snazzy too. Also, because the frame tubes (one from the footpegs going up to the tail, and the other running along the bottom of the seat area) on either side were stacked on top of one another, I did some funny things and tapered the top tube into the bottom. This makes the sides of the tail look like oval tubing, and also reinforces the frame waaaaaay more than stock, and the rear part of the tail is regular round tubing like the rest of the frame. It is strong enough to grab onto an lift the whole bike by the tail, I am so giddy with my welding :)

Also, I had a weird dream a few months ago and it was extremely vivid. I told a few friends about it who said I should make it into a story, as coincidence would have it, I then had an English class at school with our final assignment to be writing a short story. The other class members seemed to be pretty intrigued, and after talking with a few of them they wanted more. So I talked to more people and got sold on the idea of doing an independent comic book :) I have the storyboards done, the writing and rewriting is where I am now, and soon I'll start sketching and making up some page layouts. I want the artwork to be fairly special, a little different than normal books on the market today. In the eyes of a publisher, I'm not sure if this would help or hinder the work, but I need this to be a very emotional and grabbing piece, so every panel is going to be treated like it's own solitary piece but also made to match up with the rest of the story, and without effecting the pace of the story. Should be interesting to say the least!

I'll post up pictures of the Yamaha project and get some more sketches up as well once they're done-ish :)

From the 2011 6x6x2011 Exhibit

Some pieces from the 6x6x2011 show last year, at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center. Many of the artists, it's sounds like, will be coming back and participating again this year as well. So here are a few to give you an idea of the artwork you can expect to see in June at RoCo :)

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The Rochester 6x6x2012

Here's a link to the 6x6x2012 show in Rochester, NY at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center.

The information is there for anyone would like to enter some work and be a part of a great show with a great cause. The entry form and other info is on the top right hand side of the page. It's pretty good at answering any questions you might have and whoever wrote the FAQ section has woven in some humor as well :)

Take a look!