"What's for Lunch?"

 

Watercolor, pencil, ink and collage on watercolor paper.

"All This is Mine!"

Watercolor, pencil and ink on Arches 140-lb. 100% watercolor paper. 8 x 10

Sold!

I sold 2 pieces in the last 2 weeks. One to Louisville, Kentucky and one to Toronto, Canada!


Street Dog Art Studio
© 2012 Phyllis Harland
Moon Over my Slammy
Wood, Plastic Goofy Toy
14 inches x 11 inches x 7 inches
This one went to my friend Nan, in Toronto, Canada.




Street Dog Art Studio
© 2012 Phyllis Harland
Michelle
Wood, Music Box Mechanism, Plastic Toy Cow and Dog
12 inches x 5 inches x 5 inches
This one went to Louisville, Kentucky.

A Few of Ben's Favorite Things

I never saw Ben without his cap on. The ball was a give-away at one of the Padre games, and the mit...we played catch every time we were together.

©2011 Phyllis Harland
The Entertainer
Wood, Music Box Mechanism, Plastic Toy Pigs
11 inches x 4 inches x 6 inches

I had built a cheezy carnival booth with popsicle sticks for this trio of plastic pigs I got at the Goodwill Thrift store. I liked the way it looked, but it wasn't built very well...so I rebuilt it with better wood and installed a music box mechanism inside that plays The Entertainer.

I'm pretty happy with it now...happy enough to go ahead and varnish it.

Dennis

©2011 Phyllis Harland
Baby Elephant Walk
Wood, Music Box Mechanism
11 inches x 4 inches x 5 inches

This piece has a hand-cranked music box inside. It also has a plastic pig from my collection of little plastic toys that I pick up in thrift stores, on eBay, etc. I get the wheels and some of the wooden parts from an on-line woodworking store. The other wooden parts, I cut from wood I buy at Home Depot.

I've made about 6 music boxes so far. I'll post more photos today. Sue is helping me get better photos than the ones I take myself. She has the skill and equipment.

So, Now What?

I have been making all these silly little machines. But how do I show them? Sue took the spinning chair piece to work to show Jacob. Jacob and Marvin own the sandwich shop where I have shown and sold a lot of my work in the past. But these can't hang on the wall. Marvin still has the piece and is trying to figure out a way to display them for a show. I have come up with an idea I think looks pretty good:





I've simply built a crude box around each piece and voila! It can now hang on a wall or sit on a table or shelf with or without the box. I can get the wooden slats at Home Depot for about 33 cents each. It only takes me about 15 minutes to measure the piece and build the box for it. Then I stain it with watered down black acrylic paint.

I'm pretty happy with this.