We'll get to the Model 500 later on. But first let's discuss the elephant in the room. My brother's kids decided to put some of his art work on the memorial postcard that got handed out at his service.
One of which was a pen and ink he did while being a teachers assistant for his Architecture Professor in Austria 1970-1971.
After the Europe trip, my brother came back and painted. His stuff was stunning, visionary, new, fresh, exciting. From the early 70's to 2010's I held my brother's artistic stuff in the highest regard. Coming back from a daytrip in the wine country somewhere in the 2010's Annie and I decided to stop in one more winery for a tasting. We picked it randomly while driving back down the Silverado Trail.
It was set way back from the highway, couldn't see it until you came right on it. The winery looked like it came out a Dr. Seuss book. On acid. We go inside and the place is covered with my brother's artwork. Reality was quicksand, could not figure it out.
Well, it turned out the building was designed by an Austrian architect, Friedensreich Hundertwasser. And it turned out that Hundertwasser was also a painter.
Got home and called up my brother and said WTF. He came clean, he was captivated by Hundertwasser and copied his style. Brush stroke for brush stroke.
And with that, the luster was gone from my eyes about how great my brother was.
But I cut an engraving block of the pen and ink. Traced and tried to follow the construction/path of his pen. It was a nice exercise of getting inside his head. Upon careful thinking about it, each figure was mostly done without taking the pen off the paper. At least the major outlines and whatnot were done in one path.
The block, the memorial postcard, a quick proof pulled
Jules came back to for a quick bay vacay. Four of us @9Agnes
Now to the elephant in the display cabinet.
An old friend had a collection of little elephants that I think she got tired of dusting off and wanted them inside something. That's what this is all about.
It's made with some left over maple from a bigger project. I glued them together to get them thicker. Dovetailed on the WoodRat.
Ok, that's it. Now for the bonus pics.
Traffic sign emphatically says do not turn this way. And I agree.
This block plane gets used a hundred times more than the other planes.
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