Brooks803
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Each piece has it's own story of how they came to be:
We'll start off with a handmade cradle gifted to me from Bill Sampson here on IAP. Bill and I became good friends through IAP and later on in person after I drove up to Virginia for their pen turners meeting. Bill made this cradle many years ago and upon hearing of me and my wife having our first baby he called me up saying it's ours. Bill then took it apart and refinished each piece and put it all back together. Oh, I forgot to mention it's entirely made of Cherry. I recently made the drive up to VA to pick it up and got to see it in person and got to spend part of the afternoon with Bill. WOW is it beautiful! These pictures were taken by him. It's truely a piece of art and will be cherished by our family and for generations to come! Thank you so much Bill. Words cannot being to show my appreciation :biggrin:
Next is an oil painting done by my lovely wife Shea. She's been out from work on maternity for a couple of weeks now. Well, she's usually a VERY active person and that's mainly outdoors riding her horses. Well, with the baby she can't do all that so she's been stuck in the house and VERY VERY bored. Since I also work from home (when my back isn't making me want to jump off a bridge!) we now spend much more time together than we normally would. So, I told her she needed an indoor hobby so we wouldn't end up at each other's throat. Hence I persuaded her to get back into doing some painting. She agreed and here's her first finished piece that we got back from the framers today:
Last is a pen and ink drawing done by IAP member Shawn Newton (aka: Watch_Art). Way back when he first joined the forum he put up an offer of a pen and ink drawing in exchange for finished fountain pens. Well I contacted him about a custom piece of my wife riding her lifelong friend and horse Buck. Well...as you all know by now Shawn started turning his own FP's and so we changed the deal into the drawing for pen blanks. I still sent him a couple custom FP's to give to the students though. We also just got this back from the framers today. We went with hunter green and gold matting because when Shea was eventing/showing Buck his colors were the same. I'm including the original picture that I scanned for Shawn to work with and he absolutely nailed it! You're an amazing artist Shawn and we can't thank you enough. When we get our new house this is going over the mantle on the fireplace. I'll be sure to send you a pic when we get there. Thank you again so much!
We'll start off with a handmade cradle gifted to me from Bill Sampson here on IAP. Bill and I became good friends through IAP and later on in person after I drove up to Virginia for their pen turners meeting. Bill made this cradle many years ago and upon hearing of me and my wife having our first baby he called me up saying it's ours. Bill then took it apart and refinished each piece and put it all back together. Oh, I forgot to mention it's entirely made of Cherry. I recently made the drive up to VA to pick it up and got to see it in person and got to spend part of the afternoon with Bill. WOW is it beautiful! These pictures were taken by him. It's truely a piece of art and will be cherished by our family and for generations to come! Thank you so much Bill. Words cannot being to show my appreciation :biggrin:
Next is an oil painting done by my lovely wife Shea. She's been out from work on maternity for a couple of weeks now. Well, she's usually a VERY active person and that's mainly outdoors riding her horses. Well, with the baby she can't do all that so she's been stuck in the house and VERY VERY bored. Since I also work from home (when my back isn't making me want to jump off a bridge!) we now spend much more time together than we normally would. So, I told her she needed an indoor hobby so we wouldn't end up at each other's throat. Hence I persuaded her to get back into doing some painting. She agreed and here's her first finished piece that we got back from the framers today:
Last is a pen and ink drawing done by IAP member Shawn Newton (aka: Watch_Art). Way back when he first joined the forum he put up an offer of a pen and ink drawing in exchange for finished fountain pens. Well I contacted him about a custom piece of my wife riding her lifelong friend and horse Buck. Well...as you all know by now Shawn started turning his own FP's and so we changed the deal into the drawing for pen blanks. I still sent him a couple custom FP's to give to the students though. We also just got this back from the framers today. We went with hunter green and gold matting because when Shea was eventing/showing Buck his colors were the same. I'm including the original picture that I scanned for Shawn to work with and he absolutely nailed it! You're an amazing artist Shawn and we can't thank you enough. When we get our new house this is going over the mantle on the fireplace. I'll be sure to send you a pic when we get there. Thank you again so much!
You can always take up block printing. I'd use blick water based printing inks to avoid the stink of the oil based inks and thinner for clean up. It's a lot of fun.