There is this glorious period of time that exists between the moment you tell someone you can do something and the moment you actually have to step up and do it. It’s also super stressful. Sometimes it is reveled that I am an artist of sorts, that I graduated from art school with a degree in woodworking … Continue reading L7 Weenie…
One of the gifts I found under the tree this year was Nick Offerman’s book Paddle Your Own Canoe. I started reading it immediately. After months of researching my art history minor thesis topic on how motherhood and societies view of motherhood effects woman artists, I was happy to read something that had nothing to … Continue reading The Nick Offerman Effect…
While studying photography in Philadelphia, I remember taking a class a few quarters in that was meant to bring us back to the basics of photography, allowing us to revisit the rudimentary exercises we learned in the very first Introduction to Photography class we took in our first days at the school. In the first … Continue reading Past, Present, and Future methods of building…
Here is a slide show of my latest project. So happy to have finished my very first coffee table. The coffee table was made out of poplar and oak. The base is stained with coffee and the top is painted with espresso milk paint. Enjoy and thank you for your support. -r.n.a. Continue reading Coffee Coffee Table…
It has been such a hectic and busy two weeks that my mind is having a hard time figuring out what to write about. Having an overly loving boxer trying to lay on your lap during the process makes it hard to focus. This past week saw my first critique in my view camera class. … Continue reading Catching Up…
…and why you don’t try to build stuff while your appendix is simultaneously trying to explode. I wasn’t aware at the time that my appendix was trying to explode, I just thought I was coming down with the flu. So I was trying to get work done before it completely took me out and went to go … Continue reading Boxes…
There is no greater feeling then finishing a project. That feeling is even greater when you spend most of the project thinking it will never get done. This week I finished my first project for the bending wood class I am taking this semester that was a week and a half over due. (special thanks … Continue reading Finishing work…
The first month of school is wrapping up and I wanted to share with you what I have been working on so far. It also may be a homework assignment for a class I am taking to update a blog weekly but thats not important. This is my first semester as a junior in woodworking. … Continue reading So far this semester…
Growing up my dad always told me how important the basic fundamentals were to be successful; he was usually referring to baseball but I think it applies to just about any situation. How can I become a successful furniture designer if I don’t understand how basic joinery works? I mean, Cal Ripken Jr. would never … Continue reading It’s All About the Basic Fundamentals…
Today I got annoyed because I have too much free time. Well I have been annoyed about it for the last few days but today was the first day I was able to identify why I have been so grouchy. Who gets grouchy over finally having free time after months of being so busy there … Continue reading Grouchy and Boxless…
Behind The Funny Curtain 