Paint My Words

Artist: D.B. Williams

Everyone needs a table to rest their work upon while enjoying a lazy day in the sun. These Flintstone style tables now adorn my porch. Over the Christmas holidays I scavenged about 10 feet of fallen cedar timber which a neighbor had lovingly left on the curb for the trash man to pick up. Such a waste I thought.  Five of those ten feet have been converted for use as drink rests, homework holders, or foot rests.  Each piece has a cherry wood top finished with tung oil for protection. The bases are free-hand routed ceder stumps with cement inlays.  The wood left showing has had a veneer of colored oil applied to further highlight the inlaying affect.   These took a few weekends to complete with the odd hour here or there. I have enjoyed the project, and will keep an eye out for more wood.

Artist: D.B. Williams

Over the Christmas holidays I pilfered  a bundle of wire from my parents house. The remainder of the unused wire was discretely returned.  The used portion become fused with spent grains from home brewing and a gallon of left over paint from my wife’s parents.  The resultant creation of this odd marriage of materials is a 1 foot square man pretzel.  He (if you look close enough?) will be mounted on the bricks of my house overlooking the back porch.

Artist: D.B. Williams

This figure is carved from found cedar wood located in Durham, N.C. I loaded the tree trunk into my car two months ago after spotting it lying on the curb two miles from my home in a suburban neighborhood. In Ashville, I saw some cedar sculptures which changed my impression of carved wood as a medium. The artist hollowed out a 10 foot tall tree and created a double helix by further reducing the woods outer layer.  Taking off with the idea of negative space, I created this 3.5 foot form.  The sculpture is mirrored on both sides by organic shapes which frame the main form – a bust. The figure is mounted atop acid stained cement.

A human form can be seen arched forward either in the process of standing up or of sitting down.  The man is composed of bound steel filled with paint encrusted coffee grounds.  He sits atop a welded hubcap base.  He is roughly 3.5 feet tall.

Sculpture while once the step child of my art endeavors has slowly become a normal part of my nightly artist repertoire.  I had a desire to carve stone two years ago after seeing some of Robert Mihaly’s classical themed marble sculptures. I have yet to try my hand at a traditional sculpting style, however, through trial and error, I have come to develop a style unique to me. Often colorful, extremely tactile, and medium in scale my sculptural works display a common theme of harmony with their environment. They are born from the origins of French “trash art” where by found object are incorporated into the works or make up a major component of the works. Why buy materials, when Mother Nature, time and a bit of scouring fields can produce any number of useful artistic objects.
The piece above came from a number of joined sources. The central trunk of the sculpture is a green pine timber which was left over construction refuse from a rails to trails greenway. I freehand routed spaces to form a zebra like composition and filled in the holes with acid stained cement. The base of the sculpture is comprised of a carved cement base.  The top of the sculpture is hand carved limestone which is pitted with tiny pockets of quartz. I ruined a few carving tools working on this piece.  The stone was found while taking a vacation in the mountains of North Carolina in Boone.  The supporting rocks on the piece were collected across the U.S. by my wife – Lindsey. I decided to utilize them as stability rocks without her knowledge, and after much pleading, she eventually agreed to let me have them so long as I stayed away from the remainder of her collection.  This piece took a while to finish, given its totem pole construction and unplanned design. I am happy with the result – although I am unsure as to how to move it and look forward to the day it rests peacefully unmoved in a garden enclosure.

Artist: Silga

Website: http://www.etsy.com/profile.php?user_id=5749284

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Commentary: Colorful often yellow, red and blue in tone forms are present on Silga’s canvases. Miniature in scale, his works often use animals, flowers and cats as the primary subject matter. His works in clay and jewelry mirror his fragmented painting style. Splashes of color which seem random, yet add balance emanate from the works.

Artist: Colors of South – Yuriy Petrov

Website: http://www.etsy.com/shop/colorsofsouth

Commentar: Colors of South finds a balance between discord and symphony.  Acrylic colors disperse in Dionysian passion.  Colors are often separate, unmixed, contained within white lines.  Thin veils of black further highlight this color seclusion by tracing the outline of the white dividers.  Subject matter often includes fruit, cities, flowers, drinks, and plant material. The paintings while seemingly approachaple at first, astonish with details upon closer inspection. For instance ice cubes dance in the glass above, painted in such a way to only give the impression of there appearance.  Blue, yellow, red along with the obligatory white/black dominate as the main color schemes.  The works, given their vibrancy and size (window size) would well suite a kitchen, or bright living room.