"Blue Blood" at the Saratoga Arts Annual Juried Exhibit 'Saratoga 150 years: Then, Now and Beyond.'

https://plus.google.com/u/0/113353060862776555148/posts/ACfjFYw7h1U

 to see more please go to the web site -
www.michellevara.com

Cherry –mixed media series

Cherry 2012- A mixed media series- 2pcs just finished one sold.

http://mvarametalandpaint.com/site/blog/

This one is available
 for purchase but in the works of finishing 6-12 more.  
Of course they are different sizes and attitudes of life’s process and story.

Material:

recycled background (this piece Cherry bed head board)
paint(enamel, poly), brass chips, vinyl,
1970 Bingo chips- Highlighting spirit points & the energetic and intuitive relationship to unique therapeutic function of moving energy , healing.(does anyone remember these bingo chips with the metal edge and magnetic wand to pick them up with. I found a bag in the Schuylerville used store and had to have them. The woman who runs the operation for the school told me they were from the 70’s and what would I want with them?

 I Love the Visual hunt for material items to incorporate in my process of life and digestion, encapsulating a new vibration of visual intent.

Sculptor to bring new life to old metal

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http://www.poststar.com/news/local/article_b871664c-8b9c-11e0-b966-001cc4c002e0.html

Michelle Vara says she enjoys when a piece fights her to "get the conversation out." An artist for more than 35 years, Vara, of Ballard Road Art Studio in Wilton, says metal sculpting is not only her job, but her life.

  Grinding, cutting and pounding pieces into shape, she welds them together, working to express "a flow and dimension beyond words." The rigidity and resilience of the material is why she chooses the medium adding that once the metal is "concurred," it is soft and subtle enough to convey deep meaning to a variety of audiences.

Integrated into many of her sculptures are items with a history: A hammer used for years by a stone-mason friend who has passed on, an egg basket whose owner simply adored her chickens, a piece of keepsake glass saved for years and brought from one continent to another. Vara says she enjoys not only the hunt for the piece, but the story of the piece, and by integrating these items they lend "new life to a new project."

  Vara is constantly sketching ideas for projects. Her library contains more than 3,000 sketchbooks of concepts, some realized, many yet to come to fruition. She says her ideas never end because the world starts anew every day.

Julius the Moose Sculpture and Mailbox.

We went today to check on the moose sculpture I made in 2000 and he is induring time well. Although the snow plow hit the base, the sculpture its self is doing well having been installed on River Road in Fort Edward NY.

Sculptor Ready for Albany Tulip Festival

Flowers all painted up and ready for the Albany Tulip Festival this coming week end!

Outstanding motorcycle comes for sale.....

We met Lock Baker in Florida, enjoyed good art fabrication conversation and looked at every aspect of his motorbike creations. His work is to my delight and very stimulating. He now has his personal bike for sale at a very reasonable $14,000. The bike is called Steel Butterfly Check it out-

Chop Cult article
Chop Cult is a cool blog that was kind enough to feature a few of  Lock Bakers Motorcycle creations. Click the link below. Once there, scroll back and the “speed fetus” (my Favoriate) is on there too, as well as his friend Leo’s “steel panther”. Thanks guys!
http://www.chopcult.com/news/articles/lock-bakers-steel-butterfly.html

Or Email him at-
www.easternfabrications.com

Exploring Gray

Funny- The color of weather influenced my direction as an artist at this time.


  My style is normally very colorful but in this time I have explored the grays brought on by February. The white in color has stimulated 8 new painting.  My first thought of exploring the interiors of expression using little or no color was that it would be confining and limited to me.  But quite the opposite happened I found it freeing and intoxicating.  I started and I didn’t want to stop.

So you painters a fun thing to try is pick a color and stay within its values.

Thanks!