Goodbye for now, blog.

I'm going to focus on my website for now. Please visit www.jonsalo.com.

These are some small sculptures I finished recently. 

"Circle Boat", 2011, wood, steel, aluminum, enamel, 20.5"x5.5"x4.5"

Side view, "Circle Boat"

Back view, "Circle Boat"

"Pull", 2011, wood, rope, enamel, 3.5"x31.5"x2"

I also recently made wedding rings for some friends. 

Wedding rings, 2011, argentium sterling silver

I just finished these...

Necklace, 2011, argentium sterling silver, aluminum, copper

Necklace, 2011, argentium sterling silver, copper

Necklace, 2011, argentium sterling silver, wood, steel, rubber coated wire

Necklace, 2011, argentium sterling silver, iron

I just finished this necklace. This is the last of the fish hook jewelry for now.

Necklace, 2011, fish hooks, steel

 The gods of actually finishing something have shined their life giving light upon me and I have for you actual images of actual completed work.  It might help that I've had a lot of extra time on my hands lately.  This isn't all I've been doing and I'll hopefully have some more images to share soon.

 This first piece has a branch segment in it that I've held onto for a long time because, if you can fall in love with a branch, i was deeply smitten.

"Return", 2011, wood, wire, enamel paint, 16.5x8.5x2

These next four pieces have been gestating in my studio for awhile, but were only recently born into their wooden homes.

Untitled, 2011, wood, wire, enamel paint, 3.5x4.5x1.5

Untitled, 2001, wood, wire, acorn top, enamel paint, 4.75x3.5x2.25

Untitled, 2011, wood, wire, acorn top, enamel paint, 3x4.25x1.5

Untitled, 2011, wood, wire, enamel paint, 4.5x4x1.5

I just completed these pieces which were made using fish hooks which had belonged to my clients father. This was a challenging project for me, lots of trial and mostly error.  There will be more projects with these fish hooks in the future, but for now I think I'll take a break and work on some printing that has been in progress for months now.

Necklace, 2011, fish hooks, argentium sterling silver

Detail, necklace, 2011

Brooch, 2011, fish hooks, argentium sterling silver, enamel paint

I just shot pics of some jewelery that I made during the summer that has been hanging above my desk unfinished since then.  These are mostly argentium sterling silver with some additions of copper, steel, wood, and stone.

The two previous posts contained work that is a year or two old at this point. Now it's time start to focus a little closer to the present with the goal of eventually being up to dateish with what I'm actually doing now. This drawing, print, and multimedia work was all completed within the last 6 months or so.

Untitled, Gouache, woodcut, collagraph

Untitled, gouache, woodcut, collagraph

Untitled, gouache, woodcut, collagraph

Untitled, etching,woodcut,monotype

Untitled, etching,wood block

Untitled, etching, wood block, monotype, cut paper

Untitled, pen, gouache

Wow, that was a lot of "Untitled"'s.

These very simple rings were all basically practice for making our wedding rings. They are all fused argentium sterling silver.

Well, it never seems to stop snowing so I can't really use that as an excuse anymore. These prints and drawings were all in a show in April of 2010.

Untitled, Pen, gouache

Untitled,mezzotint, collagraph,woodcut

"Intersection", plexiglass drypoint, woodcut, cut paper

"Flocks", monotype

"Map 1", linocut, woodblock,etching

hello, intertubes.

Well, the time has come to shed a little light on what it is i do... but not today because now i'm going to shovel.