Jon Robertson Art Blog

I’ve finished the last two…..

This one matches the big spider, and the last one I made into a jewelry box.

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I think I’ll call this one Edna….

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Second Kiss is a piece that was partially a reaction to some of the feedback I received for First Kiss.

Its also your typical love story: boy meets shark….

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(this is an update of the little spiders post)

I think I’m gonna name these smaller spiders after the real Latrodectus Mactans models that I used for the original. Therefore, this one shall be called Edna. 

Welding on some legs…..

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Finished One!!!

-for the first one, I’m just going with a simple black patina, and I polished and masked the little hourglass on her tummy.

More photos below the fold…..

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Finally got ‘em in metal!! (update of the little spiders post)

Still got a long way to go, but…..

-Check out them buns -SHINY!!!

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First Kiss was one of my earliest large-scale bronzes.

It is based on a story I heard a few years ago…

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Charade Rest is a piece that I started a long time ago…

I was working on it before 9/11, and after that happened, I put it on hold for a while.

as time went on, however….

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God’s children is a two-part piece I finished in mid 2008.

Despite its simplicity, or perhaps because of it, I think that ideologically, it is my strongest piece to date.

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This is an update of the New Spiders post…

Starting to get the gating & spruing together…

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So it seems to me, that everyone’s favorite piece of mine is the spider. Unfortunately, it is huge, and somewhat expensive. In an effort to bring the joy of useless metal spider ownership to more of my fellow humans, I’ve started working on smaller versions…….

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