These vases and container sculptures are lathe-turned and hollowed, carved and textured. The painting is in acrylics, hand-painted with some getting a bit of a torch burn. All Are overcoated in polycoat for cleanability.
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“A Family Negotiation” It’s verbal and it’s intense. It’s red hot, flaming hot. It’s twisted and it’s tangled. And the future is hanging in the balance! 50″ x 15″ Vase is Birch with Corkscrew tree branches. Ravens carved from ginkgo. airbrushed acrylics. Signed by jsbarany Call me!509-949-5973 E-mail me! $2,100
“You Go, Girl” This is Jackie Mitchell, the second lady to play in professional league baseball. She was 17, a member of the Chattanooga AA Baseball team, the Lookouts. During an exhibition game with the Yanks in 1931, she consecutively struck out Babe Ruth (yes, the Babe) and Lou Gehrig. She signed a professional league contract, but it was torn up by the baseball commissioner because “baseball was too strenuous and women were unfit to play it.” Jackie suddenly became an unprecedented example for women in sports. It was over 50 years before another woman played pro baseball. Women have since then gone into virtually all the so-called male sports but it took a few pioneers, a few giants, to finally break the mold and claim their places in a previously man’s world. You go, girl! Maple, Redwood burl, quartz. The finish is satin lacquer buffed to lustre. 11X13X40” Signed by jsbarany Call me! 509–949-5873 $3,800
“4 Chalices and a Near T-totaler” A set of 4 normal-sized maple chalices and a tiny ‘liqueur’ chalice for a near t-totaler who just wants a sip. All fit on a serving platter, also of maple. The chalices are all about 8X3X3” and the platter is ~10X10X1 ½”. They are lathe-turned and hollowed and all the bowls are surfaced with variegated gold leaf. The main bodies are all carved, textured and painted. Then, each chalice is covered with a thick film coat of marine epoxy, a technique developed for the set. They are food Safe, eminently durable, functional, cleanable for daily use. Signed by jsbarany Call me! 509–949-5873 $675
There’s only room for one at the top. Ain’t that the truth? There’s a lotta climbers in this world, me included, but Most of the hard cash, all of the glory, the big prize, The Green Jacket goes only to the #1 dude on the Pinnacle. But we all try to take first at Talledega, eh? That’s part of the ambition, the will, the hope, the wish, The process we all go through to be our best and hope That’s good enough to survive and thrive. A collaboration between me and Deborah Ann, fabric Artist, signed by both of us.
“2021: The Cure” Dragonflies are voracious hunters/eaters. And they are Immune to human respiratory viruses. They have secretly Promised me their personal covid-19 pandemic cure after Demonstrating in this work that they can ‘Take a Bite Outa Covid’. It goes like this: he does the devouring of each virion (as he’s showing) And she offers N-95 masks to every person in our world (as she’s showing).
What a thrill waking up in the morning and seeing a Bluebird in the window bringing good luck to the day.
The paint is airbrushed masked acrylics topped off with Satin lacquer for easy cleaning.
“Hummingbird Heaven” In October when this tree blooms, the hummingbirds come from Afar to buzz, sip, cavort, and duel with eachother for blossom Rights. The pink flowers sit for three weeks, beckoning the tiny Birds before the Fall migration is brought on by cold November Weather. ~26X8X4”, a carved lidded vase. The dome and the vase are Carpathian Walnut. Painted in acrylics, clear coated with Polycoat for easy cleaning. Signed. NFS (Private collection) Ps. Can anyone remember the name of this tree that Has massive pink blossoms in the fall?