3d Art
Art & Coffee
Living on the Edge
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.
AVAILABILITY:
If you are interested in any of these 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.
Around 1980 I had done a series of
miniature art tree pieces for a show in
Dallas. Several years ago I quit painting as
frequently and I started working more
frequently on miniature art pieces again
and wall reliefs, and then I started creating
small scale dioramas. They 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.