This studio happened by accident and has been the best. Thanks to Emily Jordan.
Life can be a surprise in the worst and the best ways. I never dreamed of having a studio but this happened and it has defined me. My boss at Blick Art Materials (that was another best surprise) needed someone to take over rent space in this character-rich studio only six blocks from my house. I didn’t think it would work because of expenses but my wife was pleased to have a place for me to work on resin, other than the picnic table or the garage. This studio is ideal! The outside is charming and the windows beckon people from Leavenworth Street to stop and come inside. I have been here for a year now and made many resin artworks to test my ideas and show my abilities. I’ve taken a couple commissions but I hope to have more, to sell resin art that I build and keep this going in my retirement.
Open House Saturday, November 30th, 2024. This is my grand opening! If you are here in Omaha or nearby, please stop in to say hello. We can talk about art and share ideas. There are so many reasons to make art, mine is simple decoration, but I would like to hear what inspires you. I do follow my interests which are oceans, mountains, geometry, windows, and anything transparent and colorful.
“Window Pane”, blue tiles of water inside a 9 cell grid of shined copper pipe cut to fit.Window panes and snowflake molds laying on a home-made light table. The backlit illumination shows the potential of these window panes to screen the outside but transfer the light inside.Objets d’art. My recent resin works: lighthouse with spiral staircase, ocean wave with sea shell, electric candle, flowers in an illuminated cylinder, and a yellow resin bowl which looks like a wild tulip.Twelve point star cut from multicolored resin slab and overlayed with gold to form background. This is hanging in my studio at 5069 Leavenworth St, Omaha. Please come to the Open House on Small Biz Saturday, Nov 30th. #smallbusinesssaturday #resinart #art #omaha #resin #resinartworkClose-up view of copper window panes holding blue wave tiles. The tiles are 4″ resin squares and the copper pipe is 1/2″ diameter soldered together and shined.Clear resin snowflakes on a cotton fiber bed inside the white 5″ x 7″ box. These are sold in pairs of the largest ornaments or in assortment of six.Close-up view of yellow resin bowl. The bowl was formed over a 12″ diameter ball using sheets of poured yellow resin. The base of the bowl is a 6″ diameter brass ring. The bowl is extremely transparent and has a dramatic look under light.Close-up view of a 4.5″ diameter clear resin snowflake hanging in the window of my studio at 5069 Leavenworth Street in Omaha.Close-up view of top of model lighthouse. This is the lens or lantern room. The light hasn’t been installed yet but will be set atop a brass tube running through the center of the lighthouse and supporting a brass spiral staircase. The black and white box is the “widows walk” in a hexagon shape like the walls.Wildflowers cast in clear resin walls of model lighthouse. The walls are 3/16″ thick in the shape of a hexagon on a blue resin hexagon base. An LED light illuminates the inside of the transparent lighthouse.“Electric candle” formed from resin casting and set on an LED puck light. The interior of the light is lined with 1/2′ square glass tiles in yellow resin, giving it a candle look.close-up photograph of green ocean wave crest, the wave is a cast from a silicone mold. A grey volcanic rock is set into the base to illustrate the hard coast causing the big splash.Resin paintings lined up on the wall of my studio at 5069 Leavenworth Street in Omaha.Photograph of an area of my studio with various resin, plaster, watercolor, and oil paintings as well as drawings on polypropylene to be used as resin painting molds.
