You can already feel the light shifting. Days shortening. Especiall when I am up north…winter’s already waiting in the wings. I was reading The Art Spirit again the other night and this line grabbed me: “You will never get form till you WANT it.And wanting to want it is not wanting it.” That feels about … Read more
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about learning, what it means to improve at something, even late in life. Drawing, especially. I’ve been doing more studies of the same image, experimenting with different approaches. Color has been tricky for me. I tend to overdo it and end up with mud. So I’ve been going back … Read more
So I cheated a little this past month.That’s how I’m starting June. I had planned to share an oil painting I’ve been working on, but things aren’t going well there. It may need a complete reworking, so I’m putting it aside for a while. Instead, I’m cheating a bit and using a small charcoal drawing … Read more
On a plane ride back from visiting my daughter’s family, I was sketching from a photo on my phone of our six-month-old granddaughter. During that quiet, awkward period while waiting to “deplane” (what a strange word), a woman across the aisle commented on my sketch. I hadn’t realized she could see what I was doing, … Read more
This is a door project I have been working on. It is basically a frame and raised panel door made of Alder. I made several sketches before I started , this is what we settled on: At this point the hard part is to be patient and not rush it. It needs to take the … Read more
Here are some of my better sketches and I will also put them on the sketchbooks page on the website, (a page that has been neglected lately). Some of these I think actually turned out OK. I am happy with the volume of sketching I accomplished over the last 365 days or so. Still not … Read more
I recently had another fun project carving this fireplace mantel for the home where I had built a couple other mantels over the winter. This one is on the main great room fireplace. It is made of western red Cedar. _________________________ _______________________ http://huismanconcepts.com/ https://www.john-huisman.com/
Here are some pictures of the structural insulated panels, (SIPS), going on to the timber frame: They are not extremely heavy but most of them are a bit much for three guys to handle efficiently… a crane makes the process much easier. The wall panels are all in place here Swinging the roof panels over … Read more
