Posted on 08/19/2015 7:50:21 AM PDT by fishtank
As we all know, a well-stocked workshop is a beautiful thing. Its the place that keeps and collects all the tools and hardware you may someday need to fix something you love or make something new.
When Lee John Phillips grandfather passed away, he left behind a tool shed packed with a lifetime of old tools, hardware, and odds and ends. As an artist by training, Lee took inspiration from the dense, seemingly limitless stash of unique artifacts and began organizing and drawing collections of them in his sketchbook.
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(....and I must say I think it'll look pretty good...as well as being an interesting conversation piece).
Leni
I do blame the instructors! In a painting class we were given a short story to read and then create a painting. The title was The Pot That Was Not A Pot.
It was stupid beyond belief and made no sense at all. A druggies dream.
My husband has a bit of a belly so I had him pose for me and I painted a ceramic pot with a belly button that looked like his belly. It was obviously a pot and a belly.
The instructor acted like he was confused when he looked at my painting and said he could not make sense of it. I think the story he had us read was actually written by him while he was high as a kite.
THAT I can understand and relate to. My grandfather was a big-time tinkerer himself. He would bring home stuff people threw away, fix it, and give it away to friends and neighbors. I wouldn't think of getting rid of his tools that he used and cared so much about when he was alive. But to painstakingly draw every scrap of stuff he owned would, frankly, be a bit weird, IMO. And I was an amateur landscape painter earlier in my life, so I do appreciate the art aspect.
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