Theater seat end-caps designed in Rhino and laser cut from 1/8″ steel sheet for the Capitol Theater at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Projection mapped Parthenon frieze for the Gods in Color exhibit at the Legion of Honor Museum.
Parthenon Panel. Projection mapping by Grant Diffendaffer
Earrings from my new Steadcraft line. Now available!
Bronze Earrings. Available soon from Steadcraft.com
Examples of my 3D printing, mold-making, and metal clay workflow:
Bronze belt buckle with torch patina. Face model captured with Autodesk Memento. Model sculpted in ZBrush, 3D printed, molded, and re-created with metal clay.
Bracelet clasp designed in ZBrush.
3D printed prototype for a bronze belt buckle.
Bronze Belt buckle pre-patina.
3D printed belt buckle model. Custom job for a friend. His face. Upper Manhattan. Yes–lightning. To become bronze.
This is my Printrbot 3D printer. Modifications include 16 separate printed parts. Shown printing a calibration pyramid. Proper machine calibration is necessary for correct sizing and finish of 3d printed parts
Here is a pair of finished bronze earrings, along with 3D printed model and mold.
These are earring parts being fabricated from metal clay. There is a combination of bronze, copper, and steel here. Some parts are experiments in married-metal technique. After creation in one clay, the part is back-filled with a contrasting metal clay, then sanded and fired.
Textured Tube Beads:
Textured Tube Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Relics of the Raygun Gothic
Inspired by the Raygun Gothic Rocketship, and created for the “Sculpting Color” exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum. An additional set was installed in the R.G.R. Polymer clay, with wood and metal armature.
Inspired by the Raygun Gothic Rocketship, and created for the “Sculpting Color” exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum. An additional set was installed in the R.G.R. Polymer clay, with wood and metal armature.
Inspired by the Raygun Gothic Rocketship, and created for the “Sculpting Color” exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum. An additional set was installed in the R.G.R. Polymer clay, with wood and metal armature.
Inspired by the Raygun Gothic Rocketship, and created for the “Sculpting Color” exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum. An additional set was installed in the R.G.R. Polymer clay, with wood and metal armature.
Inspired by the Raygun Gothic Rocketship, and created for the “Sculpting Color” exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum. An additional set was installed in the R.G.R. Polymer clay, with wood and metal armature.
Inspired by the Raygun Gothic Rocketship, and created for the “Sculpting Color” exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum. An additional set was installed in the R.G.R. Polymer clay, with wood and metal armature.
Inspired by the Raygun Gothic Rocketship, and created for the “Sculpting Color” exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum. An additional set was installed in the R.G.R. Polymer clay, with wood and metal armature.
Inspired by the Raygun Gothic Rocketship, and created for the “Sculpting Color” exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum. An additional set was installed in the R.G.R. Polymer clay, with wood and metal armature.
Inspired by the Raygun Gothic Rocketship, and created for the “Sculpting Color” exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum. An additional set was installed in the R.G.R. Polymer clay, with wood and metal armature.
Inspired by the Raygun Gothic Rocketship, and created for the “Sculpting Color” exhibit at the Fuller Craft Museum. An additional set was installed in the R.G.R. Polymer clay, with wood and metal armature.
“Recursive” Sculpted Beads.
Recursive Pin
Jewelry designed for my book, Polymer Clay Beads:
Extruded and Lathe Turned Beads
Lathe Turned and Textured Beads
Textured Tube Beads
Carved Mica Ingot Beads
Mandrel Formed Collar
Carved Mica Ingot Beads
Ghost Image Beads with Turned Toggle and Heishi
Mica Beads with Lathe Turned Heishi
Lathe Turned Millefiori
Hand formed Millefiori Beads
Recursive Molded and Lathe Turned Beads
Recursive Molded Beads
Textured beads with Turned Toggle and Heishi
Turned and Textured Beads:
Silver-Capped Lathe-Turned Beads:
Necklaces and Pendants:
Ghost Image Beads
Pendants:
More Jewelry from the Archives:
Vessels and Sculptural Forms:
Sculpture
