Friday, June 30, 2006

stuff, thingies and such

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Eric C. Keast at Saatchi Gallery.CO.UK
A new gallery of mine at another online gallery site


Update to large canvas; Krustayn versus Mecha-Sasquatch. Bingorage studio; Broken Vulture Art, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.
Update to large canvas; Krustayn versus Mecha-Sasquatch. Bingorage studio; Broken Vulture Art, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.

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My father and I went out on Rainy Lake for a couple days fishing and a night of camping. The weather was beautiful, the blueberries are ripening early and cowboy coffee is the best stuff, evar. The fish put in cameo appearances and some were eaten with a pub-style batter. Yum.

Dad fishing and sunburning.
Dad fishing and sunburning.


I had one serious adrenaline injection on the trip.
After dinner, I threw a minnow on a tiny jig and dangled it under a small bobber, about an inch and a quarter cross.
The lake was like glass and the bobber was sensitive enough to show ripples from the motion of the minnow below.
After one cast, the bobber drifted near shore. I noticed that the bobber wasn't showing any ripples, so I figured that the minnow flew off when it hit the water.
So I started reeling it in.
Whammm!!!!
A Northern Pike broke the water, taking the whole bobber in its mouth, then dove straight down. After a couple short lunges, it spit the bobber out and took off.

That was the best fish of the whole trip and it was probably under two pounds heavy.The bobber had been pulled down to the jig and the line was frayed by the short battle.

Bobber pike sketch.
Bobber pike sketch.


On the way to finding a camping spot, Dad and I found a pictograph site on a south facing panel. There is a large moose in the whitish mineral precipitation at the upper left associated with a circular design (see sketch below).
Much of the panel consists of a deep red "wash" over entire portions of the rock face. There are also many finger drags and handprints.

CrowRock Pictograph, on Rainy Lake.

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CrowRock Pictograph, on Rainy Lake.

These paintings are found all over the Canadian Shield/Boreal Forest from Quebec, through Northern Ontario, Minnesota and Manitoba. Probably in Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories, as well. The pigment is made from a heated iron ore oxide known as red ochre, thought to have been mixed with bird eggs, fish oil and other organic binders.

CrowRock pictograph sketch, on Rainy Lake.


Our camp
Our camp

Sunrise, burning the fog off Rainy Lake.
Sunrise, burning the fog off Rainy Lake.

I can only hope that you get out camping in such beautiful surroundings yourselves. It's my privilege to live so close to these places and I have to do it more often.





Monday, June 26, 2006

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Papier Mache Bass sculpture for Canadian Bass Championship.

Update: July 6, 06
There is now a gallery link in the sidebar for this project.


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Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship

I got the nod to go ahead with this piece two weeks ago and began by experimenting with what would have been one "hemisphere" of a bass form, but scrapped it in order to build the primary shape, "in the round". Later I will add the tail, fins and other details.

Styrofoam form for papier-mache Bass sculpture; for Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.

Styrofoam form for papier-mache Bass sculpture; for Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.

Styrofoam form for papier-mache Bass sculpture; for Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.

Styrofoam form for papier-mache Bass sculpture; for Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.

After the styrofoam blocks were arranged, I used acrylic paint to bind them together. Not a great idea; it took quite a while to dry and is not a great glue, but it works on the foam. It would have been better to do this with a single large block of foam, but the stuff is quite expensive and I'm doing this on the cheap.

:-)

Styrofoam form for papier-mache Bass sculpture; for Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.

Styrofoam form for papier-mache Bass sculpture; for Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.


Styrofoam form for papier-mache Bass sculpture; for Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.

Starting to saw away at the form. I'll knock the "tail bit" off, and redo it later.
Will update soon; the Bass tournament starts July 23!
The clock is ticking.





Saturday, June 24, 2006

FrankenPanda Doll - 6/23/06

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FrankenPanda Doll construction; Bingorage studio, Broken Vulture Art, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.
Initial leather pieces.

FrankenPanda Doll construction; Bingorage studio, Broken Vulture Art, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.
Sewing the arms in, inside-out.

FrankenPanda Doll construction; Bingorage studio, Broken Vulture Art, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.
Sewing head together and ears, inside out.

FrankenPanda Doll construction; Bingorage studio, Broken Vulture Art, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.

FrankenPanda Doll construction; Bingorage studio, Broken Vulture Art, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.
Trimming and resewing the arm-ends, inside-out.

FrankenPanda Doll construction; Bingorage studio, Broken Vulture Art, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.
Cutting belly piece and hole. Through belly hole, you can see the slit I cut in the back of FrankenPanda. This is where the final inside-out sewing of belly and legs will be done through; then sewn up last, after stuffing.

FrankenPanda Doll construction; Bingorage studio, Broken Vulture Art, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.
Sewing the belly patch.

FrankenPanda Doll construction; Bingorage studio, Broken Vulture Art, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.
I had previously sewn the legs inside-out, then reversed them to be sewn from the inside, through back slit.

FrankenPanda Doll construction; Bingorage studio, Broken Vulture Art, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.
As you can see; I wasn't able to properly wrap my mind around the twists and inversions that I had subjected my FrankenPanda leg to... and ended up sewing it on backwards.
I was not about to pull out all that stitching, however, and trimmed the legs to eliminate the cute little foot detail. I'll try not to mess up the next one.

FrankenPanda Doll construction; Bingorage studio, Broken Vulture Art, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.
Stuffing the FrankenPanda with aquarium filter polyester fibre.

FrankenPanda Doll construction; Bingorage studio, Broken Vulture Art, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.
Sewing FrankenPanda shut.


FrankenPanda Doll construction; Bingorage studio, Broken Vulture Art, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.

Buttons for nose and eyes.

Happy FrankenPanda!






Thursday, June 22, 2006

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Adding details to "Pyre" panel:
Detail of: Krustayn versus Mecha - Sasquatch. Bingorage Studio, Broken Vulture Art; Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.

Detail of: Krustayn versus Mecha - Sasquatch. Bingorage Studio, Broken Vulture Art; Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.


Before and after redoing the outline; "Introductory" panel:
Detail of: Krustayn versus Mecha - Sasquatch. Bingorage Studio, Broken Vulture Art; Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.

Detail of: Krustayn versus Mecha - Sasquatch. Bingorage Studio, Broken Vulture Art; Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.


Update: Krustayn versus Mecha - Sasquatch. Bingorage Studio, Broken Vulture Art; Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.
Update: Krustayn versus Mecha - Sasquatch. Bingorage Studio, Broken Vulture Art; Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.

Update: Krustayn versus Mecha - Sasquatch. Bingorage Studio, Broken Vulture Art; Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.


More masky monkey-business:
Mask lineup.

Bingorage monkey.

Bingorage smoking mask

Bingorage smoking mask


Sunset.
sunset


Leather doll body parts.

Working on hand-stitched leather doll. I made a few of these last year and sold them all at the Farmers Market befor they were even finished. No ics, though, I was between cameras.

Leather doll body parts.

Leather doll body parts.






Tuesday, June 20, 2006

My NEW galleries at Zoto.com

Bingorage / Broken Vulture Art Papier-mache masks and sculpture Gallery at Zoto.com

Bingorage / Broken Vulture Art Artsy-Fartsy Gallery at Zoto.com

Bingorage / Broken Vulture Art Beadwork Gallery at Zoto.com. The beadwork gallery mostly contains my work, but also some pics of inherited pieces or work found 'out there'. Comment or email for clarifications.

brokenvultureart[at]gmail[dot]com

I will be adding more galleries, soon; and adding direct links to galleries in the top of the sidebar.





Sunday, June 18, 2006

Update on large canvas: Krustayn Versus Mech - Sasquatch

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Krustayn versus Mecha-Sasquatch;Bingorage studio, Broken Vulture Art, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.

Krustayn versus Mecha-Sasquatch;Bingorage studio, Broken Vulture Art, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.



I am starting a new site, called Bingorage Cartoon, main page link.

This is a direct link to recent (June 16) sketch called Benway's Surgery.





Saturday, June 17, 2006

Playing with masks, bike and cruddy ol' door.

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Broken Vulture Art: Papier mache mask with background. Bingorage studio, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario.

Broken Vulture Art: Papier mache mask with background. Bingorage studio, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario,

Broken Vulture Art: Papier mache mask with background. Bingorage studio, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario,

Broken Vulture Art: Papier mache mask with background. Bingorage studio, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario,

Broken Vulture Art: Papier mache mask with background. Bingorage studio, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario,

Broken Vulture Art: Papier mache mask with background. Bingorage studio, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario,

Broken Vulture Art: Papier mache mask with background. Bingorage studio, Fort Frances, Northwestern Ontario,

I have been asked: "Aren't you worried about putting your images on the internet?". The worry being that someone else will use them without permission.
I had decided, shortly after starting this blog, to publish my images online using the relatively new "Creative Commons" license versus unmanageable Copyright demands across the web.

I have chosen to publish these images under a "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Canada" license. Basically meaning that you can share and use the pics, with attribution to me; but, not for commercial purposes. I retain copyright for that.