Dentin Garrett makes whimsical and poppy digital art (NFTs), but this was an IRL work on paper using marker and paint. He wanted me to make my whitewash maple cube frame and add a sky blue accent on the inner lip, a detail you would only see from an angle. The...
Cajun artist George Rodrigue sought to “graphically interpret the Cajun culture,” by preserving its land, people, traditions, and mythology on canvas in the face of a progressive world. In the early 1990s his Blue Dog Series, based on the French-Cajun loup-garou...
My client had a clear idea of how he wanted to frame his beautiful print of “Centennial” by Kadir Nelson. Could the frame be made to evoke the bat in the painting, he asked? I milled up some solid ash, cut a rounded profile on my router table, cut the miters on my...
This one is one of my favorites. Such beauty nature provides, the medullary rays, or ray flakes cross-hatching the white oak’s prominent grain that only quarter-sawing reveals. And the comparative density of the flakes resists the stain making them lighter, a...
For this tiny, snowy landscape, I used a cube of varnished walnut and added a tapered whitewashed liner made of ash, a naturally whiteish-yellow wood. The sweeping grain pattern adds a subliminal icy-cold breeze to the viewing experience blowing from left to right. ...
