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Updates: The New Website
I have redesigned this 3d Arts site and expanded it to include the many new miniature dioramas I have been working on. If you are interested in any of my original art pieces please Contact me. I also offer high quality Giclee Print reproductions of most of the images of the pieces, see the Store Page for more information.
3d Art
Art & Coffee
Living on the Edge
Around 1980 I had done a series of miniature art tree pieces for a show in Dallas. About ten years ago I quit painting as frequently because I was spending more time on commercial design work drawings. About two years ago I started working more frequently on miniature art pieces again and wall reliefs and I started creating small scale dioramas that were fascinating to me as they were like small stage sets with themes and frozen stories.This isn’t all of my thee dimensional work, but
it’s what I feel are the more interesting
pieces, I hope you enjoy them.
The Diorama creation process:
The following is a brief explanation of what is involved in creating my diorama miniature scenes.
There are very fine scale kits of buildings, most based on actual buildings that exist. I use some
of these kits for the convenience of having bare strip wood and textured bare wood siding for
the walls and they include detailed cast doors and windows from other sources along with some
cast detail parts like chimneys, barrels, etc. I alter the design on most of these and add to them
and add my own original signs, advertising, etc. I also paint them in colors I find will work
better for the model and I then use these to create unique scenes in a very limited space with
original terrain and available scale model figures and vehicles, which I also alter or paint and
weather. The planning on the whole project is crucial to the final photo shoots I do where I
combine these with background images of sky and landscape that I have taken photos of or that
I have found on line and altered. Most of these also have detailed interiors with lighting, which
also must be carefully planned for the final photo shoots.
The final result is not a constructed, duplicated kit from another creator, but a unique, original art
piece akin to a fine arts multi media construction; each one with a story to tell. Below are a few
photos of the working materials and process I use to design and build these.
3d Art
Art & Coffee
Living on the Edge
Around 1980 I had done a series of miniature art tree pieces for a show in Dallas. About ten years ago I quit painting as frequently because I was spending more time on commercial design work drawings. About two years ago I started working more frequently on miniature art pieces again and wall reliefs and I started creating small scale dioramas that were fascinating to me as they were like small stage sets with themes and frozen stories.This isn’t all of my thee dimensional work, but
it’s what I feel are the more interesting
pieces, I hope you enjoy them.
Updates: The New Website
I have redesigned this 3d Arts site and expanded it to include the many new miniature dioramas I have been working on. If you are interested in any of my original art pieces please Contact me. I also offer high quality glicee reproductions of most of the images of the pieces, see the Store Page for more information.
The Diorama creation process:
The following is a brief explanation of what is involved in creating my diorama miniature scenes.
There are very fine scale kits of buildings, most based on actual buildings that exist. I use some
of these kits for the convenience of having bare strip wood and textured bare wood siding for
the walls and they include detailed cast doors and windows from other sources along with some
cast detail parts like chimneys, barrels, etc. I alter the design on most of these and add to them
and add my own original signs, advertising, etc. I also paint them in colors I find will work
better for the model and I then use these to create unique scenes in a very limited space with
original terrain and available scale model figures and vehicles, which I also alter or paint and
weather. The planning on the whole project is crucial to the final photo shoots I do where I
combine these with background images of sky and landscape that I have taken photos of or that
I have found on line and altered. Most of these also have detailed interiors with lighting, which
also must be carefully planned for the final photo shoots.
The final result is not a constructed, duplicated kit from another creator, but a unique, original art
piece akin to a fine arts multi media construction; each one with a story to tell. Below are a few
photos of the working materials and process I use to design and build these.
