Guitar Step Two

A quick post just to show images of the guitar in process.  I consider this the second step, the body has been totally stripped down and finished in a deep satin black oil base.  This is going to form the surface for portions of the back and will also be used to provide some tooth for the area's I'll be collaging onto.  While I begin the next portion of the work I'll also be stripping the paint off the neck screws, strap post and the pot nobs in order to give them better paint jobs (and in the case of the nobs a wicked cool paint job) and seal them for protection.  Joe



New Project, Dean Electric Guitar

First off I want to apologize to everyone who watches my blog or visits it frequently. I’ve been horribly busy lately and as a result I haven’t been able to update in quite awhile but I assure you I’ve been working hard on quite a lot of work and I hope you all look forward to seeing some of it in the near future. However, this post is dedicated to my newest project, a piece I have just started working on as a collaboration with my friend Kevin Hall. Kevin is a guitarist and enjoys collecting and refurbishing guitars. It was his idea to work together and he was kind enough to provide me with a blank canvas, a Dean EVO XM model electric guitar to be exact. I’m super excited about the project since it’s the first time I’ll be applying my art to an item like this, creating a fine art guitar that will look awesome and remain totally functional. In fact I’m so excited that this time around I’ll be doing a little something extra for my blog, something that I know several people have expressed a desire to see before. Over the course of working on the guitar I’ll be posting work in progress images all the way up to the end result. So I hope you’ll all check back often to see the WIPs and please feel free to leave me some input and let me know how you think its going. For now here are the before shots of the Dean. Joe



Can An Artist Get Some Help?

First of all I want to thank everyone who has been viewing my blog, my page views have taken off over the past month and I've watched with a great amount of joy.  I continue to work on improving the blog and hope you all look forward to seeing more work, more variety and a series of workshops over the next month.  In the mean time I'm putting up this post to request everyones help.  I'm putting together a submission to a show at the BJ Spoke gallery, the show is a contest that will be doing more than showing artist work, the winner of best in show will get representation, something I am actively seeking and would be more than excited about, and the top three artist will recieve other showings, PR and cash prizes.  The bottom line is that I need to select my top 5 pieces for both their individual look and their ability to convey the message of my body of work overall.  (For information on my art read my post discussing the direction of my collages)  I'd really appreciate anyone who can take a short time out of their day to make a list of their suggestions for my top five and leave them as a comment to this post or email them to me at Nordicsummit@gmail.com  Again, I appreciate everyone who has been viewing my blog and I hope to improve things even more over the next month.  Salut!  Joseph

Updated Photos

The following four works have appeared in my blog before however in their previous photos the works had not yet been coated in the polymer I use to "finish" my works.  Because of this they lacked the surface quality and the enhanced "pop" of color so after finally finish the works I've reshot the and this post serves to update the previous images.  Enjoy!

69 3.5" x 5.5" Acrylic and Collage on Wood

Every Girl Loves A Rabbit 3.5" x 5.5" Acrylic and Collage on Wood

Fish! 5.5" x 3.5" Acrylic and Collage on Wood

Fire and Police 3.5" x 5.5" Acrylic and Collage on Wood



More New Collages

Orbit 5.5" x 11" Acrylic and Collage on Reclaimed Wood

The Latest Figures 9.25" x 5" Acrylic and Collage on Reclaimed Wood

Pee Wee's Big Memories 11" x 5.5" Acrylic and Collage on Reclaimed Wood

Silence Is Golden 5.25" x 7.75" Acrylic and Collage on Reclaimed Wood

Punch Drunk 5" x 8" Acrylic and Collage on Relcaimed Wood

On Sale Now 5.25" x 6" Acrylic and Collage on Reclaimed Wood

Bonnie And Clyde 5.25" x 4" Acrylic and Collage on Reclaimed Wood

New Collages

How To Be More Charming 8" x 10" Acrylic, Gouache and Collage on Canvas Board

Iron Man 7.75" x 9.25" Acrylic and Collage on Gessoed MDF

NAZI 8" x 10" Acrylic and Collage on Canvas Board

"No One Can Agree Precisely When It Started Let Alone Where It Starts" 8" x 9.25" Acrylic and Collage on Gessoed MDF

Little Black Dress 8" x 9.25" Arylic and Collage on Gessoed Canvas Board

More New Collages

Here are five of my newiest collage works, there are several more still unfinished that I should be able to post soon.  Contact me at Downtowndrummer@aol.com Joe

"Be A Man" approx. 5" x 9" collage and acrylic on reclaimed wood 

"Blue Attractions" approx. 5" x 10" collage and acrlyic on reclaimed wood

"Goodbye Horses" approx. 5" x 10" collage and acrylic on reclaimed wood

"Princess" approx. 5" x 9" collage and acrylic on reclaimed wood

"Selective Personality" approx. 5" x 9" collage and acrylc on panel