Buffalo
A myrtlewood cutting board for vegetables, bread or buffalo mozzarella!
Door harp 1
This door harp is affixed to a door, and when it swings shut the acorns bounce against the strings and play a melody
Door harp 1
A view of the door harp from above
Dragonharp
Dragonharp made from cherry, strung with 22 bronze strings
Dragonharp
Close-up of dragonharp
Stone sculpture
Five views of a soapstone sculpture called Footfall
Chiming fountain
When running, water bubbles up from the top of the central pillar of this fountain, collects in the small dish, and spills over into the basin. Some of the water splashes into the "mouths" of the bird-like tippers, and when they are full they overbalance forward and spill the water out into the basin. When they come back upright, their tails strike one of three differently-tuned chimes.
Wire harp
Wire-strung lap harp with original artwork
Wire harp
A hound who was a little too ambitious when chasing his tail!
Wire harp
Slightly overexposed close-up of the handpainted knotwork at the base of the soundboard. It is green with gold outlines.
Moose 1
The original moose. 5 inches high from toe to antlertip, it's body is hollowed out to hold jewelry or other small things. Plus there's a drainage spout at the bottom, if one wants to use it for a small plant.
Moose 1
The artificial moose in its natural habitat
Moose 2
Commissioned by someone who'd seen the first moose and knew that it was just the start of a whole herd.
People
People carved out of two oppositely-curved legs of a wooden settee that had been bashed-up (accidentally) and donated to me as scrap wood
People
Same people, different pose
Interlocking rings
Carved interlocking rings on a burl base
Interlocking rings
One ring is engraved with the Greek words for "God is Love" and the other ring has the intials "A F E C" which stand for C.S. Lewis' four types of love (Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity)
Interlocking rings
Another configuration of the rings
Squid table
A mosaic squid tabletop made for my sister, a certifiable cephalopodaphile.
Door harp 2
My second door harp. I'm going to need to get some more doors!
Door harp 2
A close-up of the dancing people.
Bohemian harp
Made at the Klangwerkstatt weekend harpmaking course in Germany. The photo was taken overlooking Loch Roag on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland.
VW Van
A friend of mine wanted desperately to buy a van and go road-tripping, so I made this for her to tide her over until she could afford the real thing.
VW Van
It's about 4x7; just big enough to hold some car keys and a few road snacks!
VW Van
Everyone needs a vanity plate! My friend's name is Reem.
Sculptures in wood and stone
Light Sculptures
Dragonfly lights
Leaf-embedded paper wrapped on copper wire frames.
Dragonfly lights
Each dragonfly has an LED behind it, so as not to ignite the paper and turn them into fireflies.
Dragonfly lights
The copper wire "legs."
Asian inspired lights
Strips of bamboo overlaid on handmade paper (not made by me). The heavy duty tin foil on the sides has circular cut-outs to make shadow patterns on the wall.
Silk fabric attached to the pull chain.
Two lights, one over each of a pair of twin beds.
Sculptures in String
Micro Mini Red Panda
Based on a design by the experts in micro mini animals: SuAmi.
It was made with a crochet hook only .04mm wide.
Chameleon
Wire in the limbs and tail make it poseable.
Crocheted cat
Based on the "Amineko" cat.
Stands about 3 inches high.
VW Fast rabbit
My friend drives a VW rabbit, and asked me to make a copy of the little mascot for him.
So much faster than you, this is the only view of him you'll ever get!
Space scarf
Looks like an ordinary, if slightly lumpy, striped scarf from close up.
Starting to reveal its secrets...
Seen from a distance at an angle, the image reveals itself. The grey stitches that make up the images and the blue stitches that make up the background are raised. The corresponding blue stitches in the images and the grey stitches in the background are flat. Therefore, when viewed from an angle, the raised stitches block the flat stitches, and the image appears. Magic!
Squid scarf
Another "illusion knit" scarf, half hanging on a wall and half laid on the floor. Both the vertical half and the horizontal half are identical, but this layout allows you to see the image and the camouflage at the same time.
Patterns
Faux Stained Glass Windows
Maple leaf
Sunflower
Trillium
Trillium
Lizard
Lizard with the sun shining through
Scarab
Scarab in the sun
Squid
Squid in the sun
Squid in the sun
Peacock
Peacock in the sun
Name Pictures
Handmade paper "frames" with tissue paper "glass," laminated in plastic to keep it all together. All of these pictures turned out to be more ephemeral than I realized, since tissue paper degrades quite rapidly in the sun.
The first two were presents for my niece and nephew on their first birthday. The subsequent ones were made into small books for their third birthday. And the rest were because once I started making name pictures for people I found it hard to stop.
Cartoons
Here are a bunch of drafts of cartoon ideas I've thought up over the years. I'm not a great artist, so most of them are pretty sloppy, but I hope the ideas come across. Usually I just sketch up the ideas when they come to me, but there was one point when I was intentionally thinking up cartoon ideas, playing a lot of harp, and dating a beekeeper, so those topics have an unusually large representation at the end.
It's all gone horribly pear-shaped!
Waiter! There's a Flyer in my soup!
Rapunzel's later years.
1 Fl. Oz
Axolotl Rose
Why people moved out of caves.
("Hi Honey, having a bat hair day?")
The bottler did it! [I liked this joke so much I reused it years later. But I won't tell you where...]
[I think my handwriting's pretty legible for this one]
Occam's 5 'o clock shadow.
Cher and Cher alike.
Don't do it! It's a trap!
"Gossip, rumor, or hearsay, sir?" -- The Scuttlebutler.
Tin Cannibals
He's a brilliant architect, but he suffers from Turrets syndrome.
To get this joke you have to be both a crossword buff and and astronomy geek. I'm guessing the intersection of those is going to be pretty small.
x-ray department. No flesh photography, please.
Our least successful hominid cousins -- the Meanderthals.
George just doesn't see the appeal of B keeping.
She seems to be saying there's an azalea patch due south of Des Moines being overrun by epileptic/diabetic killer whales.
I thought we came to England to see the special BEE FEEDERS!
When bees get tattoos
Herbert sells only premium combed honey.
Smoker vs. non-smoker.
The bride misunderstood Eddie when he said he was available to play harp for her wedding.
The Marquis de Sade's harp.
Which one's the clutch?
Didn't I tell you? She's a natural!
Andrea Blumberg
Picture Books
For my niece and nephew's 6th birthday I wrote and illustrated a book for each of them. I decided to make it easier on myself by only drawing one set of pictures and using them for both. But to make it more interesting, in one story the pictures run in one order, and in the other story the pictures run in the opposite order, making two completely different (but related) stories.
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Copyright © Andrea Blumberg 2016