...and SHOW TIME!

Such a fun opening...I am glad my little sculpture found a place to shine! :)

Off to the show!

Soon after finishing the dragonfly sculpture I realized I had no place to put it.

Luckily there was an art show taking place at the Gallery Della-Piana.

So, I boxed up my prize bug...

And dropped him off just in time for opening night!

Just smile and style...

And behold, the completed contraption!

This is the first time I've left a sculpture all raw and metallic looking. I kinda like it!

Unfortunately, this isn't stainless steel, so I had to put on roughly a million coats of lacquer to protect it from rusting.

Maybe someday I'll be bold enough to just let my sculpture rust away with the weather, but until then I'm going to trust this glossy finish to none other then the fine folks of the polyurethane industry!

The end???

A few finishing touches...

Absolutely the finest corrugated cardboard money can buy!

It's a funny thing about welding, it tends to make things really, really hot. So, I decided that using cardboard in lieu of my finely finished oak wings might be a good idea...especially if they were to say, spontaneously burst into flames!

Luckily everyone survived the ordeal.

Hey! This could actually work!

So, after the wings were dry, I carefully placed them into the brackets.

And then I tried to figure out a good angle for the wings to attach to the body of the dragonfly.

The brackets were a little rough, and I didn't want to scratch up the freshly finished wood.

Soooo, what's a guy to do?

Make cardboard copies of the wings, of course!

brilliant! ;)

Wright brothers, eat your heart out!