Desk Nears Completion

Although many days have elapsed since my last post, plenty has been going on , including a sudden, complete, computer hard drive melt down last weekend. That was fun.

Luckily I had not too long ago backed up about 16 gb of photos, Pamdesign website data, and other things, so there wasn't too much to worry about loosing. However, all of the photos of the elevator lobby (see blog entries for May) were at risk! Fortunately, we were able to transfer all the data from the old computer onto a new one. Nevertheless, whole thing was very traumatising.

My advice? Gentle readers: Back up your files. All the time.

Back to work......

Here you can see the planned for trompe l'oeil touches: cup, letter and pen....

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Did I mention there is a chair, too?

More Critters....

Here you can see some more little animals adorning the front drawers of the desk....a couple of more rats, some bugs, some more birds.....this section is now just about complete..
I chose to allow the drawers to be independent of the surrounding furniture, IE:, they both show little cameos of action, separated from the main body of the desk....the latter will feature insects in the bottom corners, (see catepillar)... In this way I can show the insects large scale and make it clear that the birds on the drawers are in the FOREGROUND, and the rats looking up are in the background, in a little clearing. The Fuchsias blooming on both drawers unite the two pictures... It seems like a terrific effect!

More Wildlife Comes To Desk...

The delicate work here really lends itself to a lot of detail images for this blog....it may be hard to understand the context, but soon I will have more overview photos of the desk, as it nears completion.




Here I have added these little ''mice type creatures'', per request of the client.....I am very fond of small mammals, ( including, and especially rats) and it always gives me great pleasure to include them in my artwork.... mice are nice. REMEMBER! By clicking on the images, you can see them really large!