1adminjohnhuisman This was intended to be a quick sketch.It is not very large, only 9″ high by 12″ wide.It is intended to be a pre-sketch for a larger project… we will see… _______________________ __________________ Winter is not letting up here at all.We got 13″ of new snow last Friday and now we are back to temps … Read more
Back in November we finally finished a remodel project that was, for the most part, completed except for the kitchen. We had been waiting for some custom made tile for the back-splash behind the soapstone counter-tops. I just realized I never did get around to posting these completed pictures. The tile was custom made in … Read more
“Table Conversation” 13″ x 20″, pencil drawing by John Huisman. A quick sketch of the boys, my two oldest, in relaxed conversation at the table. _____________________________________________ ____________________________ http://huismanconcepts.com/artwork-gallery/
I gotta say it was a bit painful to wake up this morning to the disheartening news that Bob Dylan had done a Superbowl commercial… I watched the commercial on the internet, (I did not watch the game and don’t even know who was playing)… The commercial was well done and even almost touched on … Read more
We never acquired much for the kids to play on outside around here when they were growing up.I think we had a little plastic thing with a slide on it at one time, but they never did much with that really. What we did have was these huge rocks sticking up beside the driveway varying … Read more
Last Friday January 3rd, I was heading to town and saw a wolf with coming out of the sandpit two miles south of Ely on Highway 21. He seemed to pause and not be moving so fast so I turned around and went back. As I approached, he came down the bank into the road … Read more
This is a last minute project for a Christmas present for my wife. It started with a “stepping stone” project that my daughter did in 7th or 8th grade art class, about eight or nine years ago. It was a concrete disk with glass chips imbedded in a design she came up with of a … Read more
When I started building things 28 years ago or so, I had very little in the way of tools, or money to buy them. I remember when taking a hundred dollars and buying a tool required a long discussion between my wife and I. The first raised panel cabinet doors I ever made where on … Read more
Someone was telling me the other day that I need to post some shots of these projects from the lake side rather than the driveway side. Once I got over the shock of realizing that there is actually someone who might occasionally read my blog or parts of it, I realized that that is true. … Read more