Gaperville Creative

Log Sitting Area

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:44:19 +0000

Mountain Goat Carving

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:36:21 +0000

Glad to have my son helping this summer. He just turned 11.

Breckenridge Wildlife Carvings

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:24:58 +0000

Whittle the Wood

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:24:43 +0000

This is the 10' tall pack rat I carved for the Whittle the Wood carving competition in Craig, CO last week. Didn't win, didn't expect too, but had a great time meeting other carvers and got a lot of great tips from them. And Craig really went over and above taking care of the carvers. I'd definitely do it again.

Summer Festivals

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:07:22 +0000

Front Page

admin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:27:17 +0000

Artwork for carvings

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:28:28 +0000

A few new drawings

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:14:46 +0000

Budweiser International Snow Sculpture Championships

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:28:38 +0000

Breckenridge Snow Sculpture

Log Bed Mod

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:39:03 +0000

Aspen Log Candles

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:44:11 +0000

My 10yr old son Shawn and I made more than a dozen of these for Christmas presents.

Breckenridge Snowflake Challenge

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:06:50 +0000

I took a diversion from my usual medium and entered an amateur snow sculpting competition in
Breckenridge. I didn’t win, but I was pleased with my sculpture and the effort got me signage on Breck’s
main street through the holidays. The sculpture is titled Short Lived Success and consists of a miner
who strikes it rich, comes to town with his burro to celebrate, and has his gold stolen.

Massive Log Deck

admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:09:13 +0000

This 500 sq. ft. log deck is just about done. Plexiglas is going where the banisters would normally be,
and I’m just waiting on hardware to come in to put that up. It’s 14′ wide and 33′ across the front of
the main structure. The stairs are 12″ diameter half logs. The decking is full length 14′ cedar 2″x6″.

What’s next?

admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:12:13 +0000

How I spent my summer

admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:43:53 +0000

Hardwood Floors

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:23:32 +0000

Before

After

Wash basin

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:13:52 +0000

Threw this little wash basin together to put in the little cabin I built last fall. It's made from relcaimed old barn wood, which had already been reclaimed into a shacky little shed on the side of my house, and the skid my new hardwood floors came on.

Log Porch

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:10:34 +0000

See more photos in the wood gallery. Also doing a large log deck on the back of the house. By the way, these are beetle-killed lodgepole pine logs.

Made the front page!

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:05:40 +0000

Summit County artist carves trees on the spot

Latest Web Project

admin — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:47:10 +0000

Practice Drawings

admin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:09:33 +0000

A collage of some recent work; practice, unfinished, unsatisfied, etc... The old building was coming out ok, but just ok, so I'm planning to start over again on it in a larger format paying extra special attention to getting the perspectives right. The gold panner taught me that when you're working with ink it's a good idea to get the face right first. I was pleased with the 2nd attempt, focusing on the shadows. I could have finished him up, but he's just a little sketch and the face was the hurdle, at least for me, the rest was all downhill.

Plymouth Custom

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:10:29 +0000

I went to reprint the drawing on watercolor paper with my bubble jet printer and I was out of black ink and the yellow cartridge was clogged. It came out in purple, so I scanned that back in and converted it to black and white in Photoshop and this softer pencil like version is what I got. Kinda cool.

I fixed the yellow cartridge, flipped over the watercolor paper, and printed again, minus black ink. The results weren't good, but I just wanted to play around with some watercolor over it and with a little ink work, this was the result.

Limber Pine

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:03:15 +0000

Pen and Ink Actually, I did this with a plain old rollerball pen. I've been playing around with a lot of different pens lately, weighing the pros and cons. This was a .5mm Pentel. I like the ink of the Pentel as it's crisp, deep black, and blends well. Better than the Pilots I've compared. But when I went to erase a few lingering pencil sketch lines the ink smeared. Not good. Also, I can't get as fine a line as I like with any of the consumer pens I've tried. Still, the drawing turned out pretty good I think, for work on the cheap.

Bristlecone Pine

admin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:15:33 +0000

Lodgepole Pine

admin — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:06:01 +0000

Wood Carvings

admin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:33:26 +0000

Log Cabin Playhouse

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:39:27 +0000

Carving Complete!

admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:23:11 +0000

Yes, finally done!

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Two bears gettin' after the honey carved out of this dead spruce

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Here's how it fit. Doesn't look like it would to me either. Glad it did."][/caption]

Fireplace Mantel

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:10:11 +0000

Trout Fly Studies

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:48:30 +0000

Cabin in snow

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:47:21 +0000

Web Project

admin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:23:13 +0000

Bench on Snake River

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:45:01 +0000

Bench on the Snake River in Keystone.

Totem Pole Featured in Summit Daily

admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:44:10 +0000

This is what Gaperville Creative is about, taking beetle-kill and making something beautiful out of it.

I recently completed a massive bench, which I installed along the Snake River in Keystone. Currently, I am tackling a log cabin playhouse, also using beetle-kill trees

Completed totem pole; raven, sun, elk, bear, beaver.

Blue Goat

admin — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:29:21 +0000

Sharpie and colored pencil. A mountain goat from the minds eye. The result seems to capture the precarious precociousness of real mountain goats and our own lives, of life on the edge, living on the brink and being subtly aware of it, yet only mildly perturbed by it, in our and the goats innocence, ignorance, and day-to-day callous. And most of all, being there, on top of the mountain, for no better reason than just to be there. Or it's just a silly blue goat.