Easel

[Tyler Tim]

Robert

The art glass looks nice.

About the easel... whats the logic behind the floating rods? Seems it would be easier to adjust if they were fixed together on the ends.

[Dan Seese]

Wow.
Robert, that is really great. Hopefully you're able to cinch down the rods securely. With the weight of glass that large it would be a mess for things to come loose.
It looks like nylon screws or something to hold the glass inside the top & bottom pivoting channels. Is the rod adjustment secured by tightening bolts holding the wood clamps together?
Ingenious. Thanks for sharing this.

[erik winkler]

Haha Robert that is a WHOPPER!!!
Looks very rigid and professionaly made.
I do not know if it somethin for me since I am very tall (6 feet 5 inches) and looking at your setup with the glass inside I would have to lie on my belly to work on the bottom of the glass.

Having mentioned that, I would love to have your easel when I can put my glass panels horizontal in them and place them on my table top!
It would be much better then fabricating wooden frames like I do now....

[Dan Seese]

Robert,
That carved piece is killer.
Mucha has become so popular and often you see his work reproduced rather shabbily. You've nailed it.
Are the pictorials in the glass pieces all reverse painted or are you applying any canvas to the back. It looks to me like it is reverse painted. I know from experience how difficult that can be but it's quite rewarding when you get it right.
Thanks for the close-ups on your jig - that makes everything pretty clear.

[Anthony Bennett]

Wow, I never seen photographs on concrete before, except projected stuff.
How !!!!!!

[Kelly Thorson]

I'd like to see a closer view of that carving as well as the panels. I've always been fond of Mucha, but since being at the Mucha museum in Prague, even more so.
The think I keep thinking when looking at the easel is how it looks like it protects the glass from accidental bumping. Looks like a fair amount of thought went into it's creation.

[Ron Berlier]

Robert, those Mucha pieces are just wonderful! I have several books with his work and from time to time page through just soaking in the details of his work. What type of wood is the carved piece? Are you planning on doing more carved pieces as well?

[erik winkler]

I do not know how Robert made his concrete, but I do know that you can paint your concrete with a black paint and then sandblast it photographicaly with a pre-exposured sandblastmask made by Pat Mackle decoglasspro@yahoo.com .
You could send your tif- or eps- pdf- jpg- files to him and within a few days receive a perfect exposured sandblast mask so you can sandblast concrete, bricks, glass or anything else you can think of photographicaly with a high resolution.

[Anthony Bennett]

I do not know how Robert made his concrete, but I do know that you can paint your concrete with a black paint and then sandblast it photographicaly with a pre-exposured sandblastmask made by Pat Mackle decoglasspro@yahoo.com .
You could send your tif- or eps- pdf- jpg- files to him and within a few days receive a perfect exposured sandblast mask so you can sandblast concrete, bricks, glass or anything else you can think of photographicaly with a high resolution.

Thanks for that info Erik, it made me think though, I'm in the UK and a washout film of the size of Roberts work would cost a lot of money in shipping alone.

[erik winkler]

Pat delivers it on a roll. Shipping could be around 45 dollars and it would take about 5 days.

[John Frankel]

Hello Robert,

I have a couple questions for you, does your easel rotate right to left, or spin in 360 degrees, I see that it rotates up and down. I also would like to know what books or reference books that you use for Mucha. Do you make a reverse pattern of the subject matter when you make a 24" x 60" reverse glass. Could you give a detail pictures of your current Mucha art piece. So I can get a Idea what you are doing, etch, glue chipped, gilding and painted artwork.

Thank you,
John Frankel
deadmanshand.frankel@gmail.com

[Dale Johnson]

Can anybody tell me what Mucha wood is. I am sort of new to this and it is an unfamiliar term to me.

Thanks, Dale Johnson, Ormond Beach, FL

[Tyler Tim]

Can anybody tell me what Mucha wood is. I am sort of new to this and it is an unfamiliar term to me.

Thanks, Dale Johnson, Ormond Beach, FL

The Wood piece above is a Mucha design.

[Anthony Bennett]

I do not know how Robert made his concrete, but I do know that you can paint your concrete with a black paint and then sandblast it photographicaly with a pre-exposured sandblastmask made by Pat Mackle decoglasspro@yahoo.com .
You could send your tif- or eps- pdf- jpg- files to him and within a few days receive a perfect exposured sandblast mask so you can sandblast concrete, bricks, glass or anything else you can think of photographicaly with a high resolution.

Erik, I forgot to ask, do you mean a halftone when you say photographically please?

[erik winkler]

Yes that is what i meant.
A photo made of little dots: blasted or not blasted.
Pat his masks are of such high quality that computer chip makers use his resists to make their circuitboards!