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RWBY BeoWolf Grimm (Unfinished)  18″ Tall X 22″ Wide

I absolutely love the RWBY animated series and have been wanting to create a 3D Piece of the shows BeoWolf ever since I first saw it.  I made the WereWolf that I entered into the California State Fair to work the design out so I could design this guy.  This is made from 1/4″ Baltic Birch plywood and like all my other 3D pieces, there is no glue holding this together.  This piece is already sanded and will start painting it.

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POP Han Solo in Carbonite.  I decided to seal my POP Han Solo in Carbonite, so I made a wood frame, cut off Han’s arms and re-glued them, then used a hot glue gun to tilt his head.  I also used a rotary tool to give him a mouth and used puff paint to give him eyebrows and added drool coming out of his mouth.  I added layers of glue over a month to let it dry.  Painted him Hammered Silver.

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POP Darth Maul with Spider Body  8″ Tall  12″ Leg Span.

With inspiration from Star Wars Clone Wars Animated Series (where Darth Maul was found alive and pretty much insane) I designed my own spider body for my POP Darth Maul figure.  I cut the figure in half to make the piece more realistic.

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Chewbacca’s At-St (2016)  18″ tall.  I love POP Bobble heads and have have a large collection.  A couple of years ago I decided to give some of them “upgrades”.  I made this Imperial At-St Walker for my Chewbacca.  I designed the At-St with exaggerated proportions.  I entered in the 2015 California State Fair woodworking competition and placed 2nd in my division.

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Optimus Prime (2017)  24″ Tall  350 pieces.  This is my entry for the 2017 California State Fair woodworking competition.  It is made from 1/4″ and 1/8″ Baltic Birch plywood and took 4 months to design and build.  This is by far the most complicated piece I have designed because everybody knows what Optimus looks like.  His design is a combination of several reference pictures.

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Alien (2015)  28″ Tall  250 pieces.  I like to design my own 3D models using 1/4″ Baltic Birch plywood.  I made this Alien for the 2015 California State Fair woodworking competition and won 2nd place in my division.  There is no glue holding this together, only 6 locking pieces.  This guy took me a month to design and build.  I used about a dozen reference photos...I liked the tail in one picture, the head in another, the month in another.  So it is a combination of several pictures.  I absolutely love how this turned out.  It was my daughters idea to use hot glue for the drool around his mouth.

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Light and Shadow 8″ X 17″

This is a pen and ink I did way back in the 80′s for a college graphic design class.  It was a study of light and shadow...got an A

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San Diego Co. FireFighter  14″ X 17″  1989

This is one of my favorite firefighter illustrations.  When I went to the San Diego Fire House to take the pictures for the art, the sun was starting to set and it was casting these shadows.  I was worried about it at first, but when I started the illustration, the shadows made the art more dramatic.

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Santee Fire Dept. Ladder Truck  14″ X 17″  1988

I have been doing illustration for fire departments since the early 80′s.  This art was done for the Santee F.D. in San Diego County.

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Roseville Fire  14″ X !7″ Bristle Board 2001

I love designing black and white art.  This is an illustration I did for the Roseville Fire Dept in Northern California.  I have drawn a lot of Fire Apparatus.  To get this pictures I used for the artwork, I got to ride in the basket so they could put me on the top of a 4 story building...a lot of fun.

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Red Eyed Tree Frog  12″ X 16″  2000

I love Red Eyed Tree Frogs because they are sooo colorful.  This piece was inspired by a photo in a nature magazine and I thought it would look good in wood, I love the way it turned out.  It won an award at the California State Fair Woodworking Competition in 2000.

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Minions  11″ X 18″  2015

Bello, sai pa che?  Yo ne tahu, ma se bias el los para tu.  Translation; Hello, who is that?  I don’t know...but if I could touch them.  Minions are sooo adorable, I just had to design a piece of them.  What would you do if you noticed someone was watching you...in your world.  

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Scorpion 3D Model  12″ Tall X 16″ Length  2008

3D wood models have been a passion of mine since 2002.  I started seriously designing my own 3D pieces in 2007.  I studied dozens of pictures of scorpions to come up with this original design.  I won and award at the 2008 California State Fair Woodworking Competition.  Made of 1/4″ Baltic Birch plywood and using interlocking slotted wood pieces, there is no glue holding this piece together.

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Vivi  12″ X 16″ 2015

Vivi from Mystery Skulls “Ghost”.  My daughter was cryingat this part of the video because it was so heartbreaking...so I naturally had to do the scene that ripped her poor little heart out.  Made from a 3/4″ pine board, cut out with a scroll saw and painted with acrylic paint.

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Dr. Strange, Sorcerer Supreme  16″ X 22″  2014

In his Sanctum Santorum, Dr. Strange uses his Cloak of Levitation, Eye of Agamoth and Book of Ashanti to fight evil.  This is the biggest piece I have done so far.  I really love the way it turned out, especially the cloak.  This is an original piece, using reference material to make sure I got the detail right.  I loved Dr. Strange comics when I was groing up and could’t wait until the next issue.

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Rocket Raccoon   22″ X 12″  2015

This piece was inspired by a Skottie Young “Rocket Raccoon” comic cover, I really love his style of art.  I had to modify the original art, the moons are smaller (or is Rocket bigger?) and I had to change the coloring a bit, but I tried to stay true to the original art.  I really enjoyed doing this piece, even so some of it was a bit tedious...there were over 300 pieces to cut out and some were very small.  Just keeping track of everything was a chore.  Made from a 3/4″ pine board and painted with acrylic paint.

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Venom

13″ X 18″  2015

The Venom symbiote is a sentient alien that bonds with humans to survive and in return it endows enhanced powers (and turns them psychotic). My girls were very excited when I told them I was going to do this piece.  It was inspired by a Chris Oz Fulton drawing.  I had to redraw the body to clarify all the muscles, change the face a bit and add all the gooey tendrils.  As with all my other pieces, the image was drawn on a 3/4″ pine board, cut out with a scoll saw, shaed with a Dremel tool and painted with acrylic paint.