A friend’s open house!

A wonderful local potter, Lyndi Grubb, and her jeweler friend, Heather Ward, are having an open house & sale on November 19 from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. I haven’t figured out how to load the actual postcard so you can see a sample of their work, but I did want to tell you all of this event and welcome you to stop by.

When: November 19, 2011
Time: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Where: 4802 Chervil Court, Indianapolis, IN 46227

Stop by and start your holiday shopping! If you have questions, you can Lyndi (317-372-6279) or Heather (315-439-6387) directly.

Have fun!

Great Indy Star article!!!

Greg was featured in the Indy Star in late September.  Both Dan, the reporter, and Zach, the photographer, did such a great job showcasing Greg and his work.  It was a really exciting opportunity, and it’s been neat getting comments from people who recognize Greg from the article.

Check out the link below for the article and pictures!

http://www.indystar.com/article/20110921/LOCAL01/109210369/Creative-spark-Welder-turned-sculptor-among-artists-creating-careers-Carmel

All new critters!

Inspired by my southern aunt who recently hauled about a hundred old horseshoes up to my house, I worked out a new design!  Presenting…Armadillos! Each is 100% recycled material, involoving 9 horseshoes, 2 plow tines, and 2 washers each.  I couldn’t decide on whether to paint them or not, so I made one of each.  What can I  say?  They make me smile!  I hope that you enjoy them as well!

New critters: Armadillos!

And remember to come and see us at the Carmel International Art Fair on Saturday, September 24!  As always, we’ll be on the sidewalk in front of the Old Town Antique Mall, in the heart of the Arts and Design District!  Come by and see us if you can!

-Greg

What time is it?

Well, Greg has been hard at work getting ready for his show in September.  He had made a couple of really neat clocks out of old hubcaps last year, and he has decided to look into making other clocks.  It has been a challenge with trying to reuse clock mechanisms, but it has been fun seeing what he comes up with as ideas.

Here are two that he has finished recently.  I will be “borrowing” the second one for my office at work.

Greg continues to have great opportunities come his way!

Hi!  It’s Dawn.  With everything going on with Salvaged Beauty and “real life”, Greg and I are going to share handling the blog, to try to be sure that we stay on top of it.  So, let me catch you up!  SoHo is going great; we continue to showcase new pieces every month.  Stay tuned for new pictures in the next week or so of some great new pieces that we just dropped off there.

We have also been in discussion with a new business venture down in Franklin, Indiana.  We have mostly stayed up north of Indianapolis with the shows that we had done to date, and we had been having discussions of moving to other areas.  An opportunity came up for a new shop opening in September down in Franklin, and we are currently working with the business owners.  Stay tuned for more details.

Now, show-wise, we have had to cancel our August show, but we still plan on being one of the artist-in-residence in September through the Carmel Old Town Antique Mall.  As always, we appreciate Roman and Linda’s support and invitation for this every year, and we look forward to it.  Which means that Greg has been quite busy though, as this is always a successful and wonderful weekend for him.

Next show coming up!

Zionsville’s Brick Street Market is around the corner, 14 May.  I have a couple of new pieces in the works for the show, larger and brighter ones which I really think will be crown pleasers.  Stay tuned for pictures!

Hope to see you at the show.

Great day at “Meet the Artist”

Today was the “Meet the Artist” at SoHo!  The gallery looked great!  Here are some pictures of new works currently on display.

“Meet the Artist” – SoHo Cafe & Gallery, 12 March

It’s official!  The Meet the Artist event is scheduled at SoHo Cafe & Gallery on 12 March, 2011, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.  If you are in the area (620 S. Rangeline, Carmel), be sure to stop by!  I have about ten pieces exhibited, alongside some other great works from other local artists.

Gallery opening!

Well, as luck would have it, when the magazine article came out a few weeks ago, I stopped in a new coffee shop with Dawn and my parents.  It is a new venture, and it is actually a cafe and gallery.  We talked to the owners, set up an appointment, and…  I’m in!  My pieces are officially on display at the SoHo Cafe and Gallery in Carmel, through August.

This is so exciting for me, as I have wanted gallery representation since I started down this artistic path.  The owners are great, and are so supportive, and I can’t wait to see where this path takes me.  It all happened so quickly, so I took in some pieces that I am really excited about too.  Stay tuned for pictures in the next few days.

If you are in the area, the “meet the artist” night is scheduled for 12 March, 2011!

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Salvaged Beauty Studio, the art of Greg Knipe

As a scrap metal artist, I combine my belief in recycling with a deep appreciation for old metal.  I draw my inspiration both from the world around me, as well as from the scrap itself; sometimes I set out to find a particular shape for a project, and sometimes a particular shape suggests its own eventual form.  Beyond the actual construction, I enjoy the problem-solving aspect of working with found objects.  Matching the shapes of the materials to my artistic vision presents a set of constantly changing challenges.  Somehow it is these very challenges that always make the finished results so rewarding.

Perched

 

A favorite piece.

From my wife’s personal moose collection

A use for all of those washers…

Exhibit – Fort Wayne

I am working with the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne for a showing of my work next month.  I am really excited; it is with their children’s wing, bringing art and recycling to their youngest patrons. 

If you are in the area, please check it out; I will have my work displayed from November 5 through November 26.  For directions and hours, the library’s website is http://www.acpl.info.

Giraffe

Giraffe

Here is my latest creation that I have been working on.  It is a giraffe (without his spots yet).  What do you think?  My wife and I have been discussing what the true color a giraffe really is, as this little guy is a little on the orange side.  I say yellow; she says orange…

Allen County Public Library exhibit

If you are in Fort Wayne, stop by the Allen County Public Library downtown!  I have quite a few pieces exhibited in the wonderful cases in Children’s Services.

Featured on fellow Etsian’s blog

I have been featured on a fellow Etsy member’s blog!  Thank you, Craft Girl Alli!

Check it out:  http://craftgirlalli.blogspot.com/2008/11/featured-seller-salvagedbeauty.html

Giraffe – update

I found the perfect “giraffe” color and finished him for the Fort Wayne show.  He has been shipped off to his new home for Christmas. 

 

Sacred heart

I am currently working on something very different from my regular work.  There is a show coming up in Zionsville, Indiana whose theme is “love”.  I am currently scavenging my reserves of parts to make an interpretation of a sacred heart.  Come back this weekend to see pictures of my progress.

Sacred heart – picture

Here is the picture I promised of my latest work-in-progress, a sacred heart (still in progress).

Fort Wayne Museum of Art Art4Sale (05/2009)

It’s time to head back up to Fort Wayne again!  There is a three-day art sale, and my tribal mask has been entered.  If you are in the area from May 8-10, be sure to stop by.  Check out fwmoa.org for hours and directions.

Zionsville First Come First Hung (02/2009)

The weather was miserable, the wait was long, but I am in!  From January 17 through February 28, my “Broken Heart #1″ will be hung at the SullivanMunce Cultural Center in Zionville, Indiana.  The piece took a little bit of a different path than I originally intended (it was originally “Sacred Heart”), but I went with the “less is more” approach. 

If you are in the area, the opening reception is this Saturday (January 17) from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm.  For more information, the center’s website is http://www.sullivanmunce.org/

James L. Cunningham Award – Zionsville show

The opening for the SullivanMunce “First Come First Hung” show was yesterday, and I won the award for the artist who “best stretches imaginary boundaries”.  I couldn’t believe it; it really wasn’t until last night that it started hitting me.  My first award!  

Funky Finds – featured

I was lucky enough to be featured on the following site: 

http://funkyfinds.blogspot.com/2009/01/salvaged-beauty.html

Stop by and check it out!

Fellow Etsian post

Thanks to indie*galore for the nice post on her blog:

http://www.jrosebud.com/designs/catalog/blog/?p=500

Check it out!

New line – jewelry

I have broken from my usual style, and made a couple of rings.  What do you think?

Bird series – #3

Here is the third in my bird series:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What do you think?  I am currently working on #4, which I will post “work in progress” pictures next week.

Latest in bird series

As promised in my last post, here is a picture of the latest in my bird series (#4):

He stands just over waist high, making him my largest bird yet.  Stay tuned for a progress report next week.

Update: here is a picture of my latest completed “feathered friend”

Zionsville Country Market show

Time to freak out!  I have been accepted to the Zionsville Country Market (May 16, 2009)!  It is a large, one day show in a little town north of Indianapolis, so I am locked up in my studio every chance that I get.  There are art pieces scattered all over the house right now in various states of completion.  Dawn hasn’t killed me yet

Best in series

Here is a picture of my latest bird creation.  I am really quite proud of this one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am going to paint him a vibrant green.  I am struggling to find the green that I have in mind; no luck so far.

Latest pieces

I have been locked up in the studio getting ready for the Zionsville show.  Here are a couple of pictures of my latest creations.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Featured on a blog

The Photographers of Etsy picked up my ruler easel to include on their blog.  Take a look!

http://photographersofetsy.blogspot.com/

Thanks so much, Ann!

New pet

Okay, I have been doing dogs for a while, and I thought that wasn’t fair to the cat lovers out there.  So, here is my first cat.

54th & the Monon (06/2009)

I just confirmed that I will be in the Reese Kitchen 54th & the Monon show in June.  Do you remember the horrible rains that hit the midwest last summer?  The ones that basically flooded Indiana?  That was when we had the show last year.  And it was one my best weekends!  You have to love dedicated art lovers

Great weekend!

I have been a little busy lately, and haven’t had a chance to update the blog.  The good news though is that the time that I wasn’t updating the blog, I was getting ready for my show!

First of all, the art show in Fort Wayne was great!  They did a wonderful job displaying my piece, and it sold in the first hour!

This weekend was the Zionsville Country Market.  The weather was questionable all morning, which kept people away, but overall I did really well.  The reaction was very positive, and I handed out plenty of business and events cards.

Well, I had better get to work.

Latest in moose collection

So what do you do when you have an old metal lunchbox?  You make a moose out of it, or course!

A month since my last post…

I can’t believe that it has been a month since I posted last…  It has been crazy!  Zionsville Country Market was gray and rainy, but I still did really well.  The best part was watching my very heavy tortoise being taken away on a cart down the sidewalk.

 

Then it was Reese Kitchen’s 54th and the Monon Art Fair.  This is a great show for me, and it was sunny and bright this year!   From there, I had the Noblesville Garden Tour, and I was assigned to the best garden! 

Now, it is time to prepare for my next shows (not until September).  Stay tuned for new critters!

I forgot to show you the finished parrot!

Well, after much agonizing over the color, I finally got the parrot done in time for the garden show.  I didn’t even have it for an hour, which Dawn wasn’t happy about since she didn’t even get to “own” it as her own art for any time at all

Visual Fringe!

One of my pieces has been accepted to Visual Fringe, as part of the Fringe Festival in August!  The piece that I am submitting is Convivial Flumux, which was such a fun piece to create!

Okay, I promise… I am back…

I realize that I haven’t been online in quite a while, but I promise that I am back.   I had a wonderful end of year, ending with the Carmel International Arts Festival, which I did very well.  Here is a picture of one of my newer pieces, my butterflies.

Right now, I am working on scheduling for next year, and filling a couple of commissions.  Stay tuned.

My first bottle tree

I have been wanting to do a bottle tree for quite some time now, and I got a commission to do one!  The client wanted a very simple design, so this is what we came up with.

It looks great in her garden, and now I can’t wait to make one for Dawn.

Help! I need a title

Here is my latest piece, which I am going to submit for the Fort Wayne show this year.  It is still in the works (it needs to be cleaned), but I am struggling with a title.  Any ideas?

 

We’re heading back to Fort Wayne

I haven’t been working on anything in the last week, due to the holidays, but I have been thinking about the Allen County Library in Fort Wayne.  I have been invited to showcase my work again, and we are trying to organize a weekend event with the kids.  It should be a lot of fun, and wow!  the display space is fantastic.  The picture above is from last year.

Happy holidays!

Happy holidays to everyone!  We decorated the house yesterday, and we decided that the Convivial Flummox should be part of the decorations

Art4Sale Show

I’m in!  I will be heading up to Fort Wayne in May with two of my pieces, Broken Heart #2 and Untitled #1.

Updates!

Well, the 2010 show season has officially started.  We just got back from the opening for Art4Sale in Fort Wayne.   And yesterday, we received our acceptance letter to Christmas in October in Fishers, Indiana.  This is a rather late show in the year for us, but we thought that we would give it a try.

I have been working hard getting ready.  My latest (and biggest piece to date) is a dragon that will be displayed during Zionsville’s Brick Street Gallery Walk on June 25.  We attended the event last year as one of the artists hosted by one of the local merchants, but we decided to change it up this year and participate in the sculpture garden.  We will be matched up with a poet, which should be a lot of fun.

Here is the piece being entered, named ”Xuanlong”. 

Great weekend

We had a great weekend.  Mother Nature cooperated with us, and just sprinkled a little bit both Saturday and Sunday.  Saturday, we were in Zionsville, which is always a great show.  The crowds came out early! 

Today, I was one of the demo artists at the Broad Ripple Art Fair.  Again, the morning looked a little questionable, but it didn’t stop the crowds!

We have a gap before our next big show in September.  We are getting our gardens in shape to hopefully have an open house in June.  Of course, getting our gardens in good shape is a full-time job. Ha! Ha!

Stay tuned for more updates!

What a month!

What a busy month so far!  I met the poet assigned to my dragon, Xualong.  His name is JL Kato.  I am really excited to see what he comes up as a match for my piece for the show later this month.

Dawn and I have spent time just about every day continuing to work on the gardens for our open in house.  We are down to about two or three yards of mulch, down from nine!  If I am not pulling out grass (our ultimate goal is to have nothing but gardens), I have been working on commissions.  I had made a business card holder last year for me, the only piece I have every made for me, but people keep trying to buy it at shows.  I did accept a couple of commissions during my last show to make similar ones, which are fun to do.

Busy couple of weeks

Well, we got through the last couple of weeks!  Last weekend, we had an open house at the house, where my studio is.  It rained the night before, making part of the garden a little soggy, but the day was great! 

Last night, we were at the Zionsville Brick Street Art Walk, in Lincoln Park.  Ientered Xualong, and I had two wonderful poems written by JL Kato and John Sherman.  John read his poem last night, and gave us permission to print his poem.  We hope that you enjoy it!

WHERE THERE BE DRAGONS

befuddled by lack of knowledge

old map makers

marked areas unconquered with the note:

where there be dragons

zionsville outside 465

beyond the pale marion county mapmakers

is where a dragon there be

not so befuddling perhaps

with antique stores and ice cream cones

lacking swamps and demons

(for the most part)

but possessing ever so temporarily one dragon

in the midst of a sea of green

its jaws open ready to tease those who think it tame

its salvaged beauty its spinal chains intertwining

a creature feared in past by sailors who longed to return

to that terra that was oh so much more firma

afraid that such creatures would rise up from the fog

and snatch them in their mouths

pulling them to the bottom of the ocean

pulling them off the edge of the flat earth

instead: I suspect the dragons of yore

told knock knock jokes

and posed easy to answer riddles

offered a pack of fireproof cards

calming the fears of their new friends with gin rummy

having just swallowed a whole boat of norsemen

not hungry  just bored

knock knock

whos there

dragon

dragon who

draggin you down to the bottom of the sea

if you don’t let me win this next game

now this savage beauty

poses with its gears and rust

looking in vain for salty sailors

finding instead art connoisseurs

and ice cream coners

longing for the sudden rush

of rising out of the mist

scaring the bejeezus out of seafaring types

who had wandered off the map

then off the earth

seized and taken into the far down lair of the dragon

to be part of a sailor salad

festooned with moss and seaweed

resting after too many bites

the happy dragon

failed to spot the nearby nina pinta and santa maria

sailing warily westward

hoping that day to hear land ho

reading comforting scriptures that invoked the god of the land of zion

far oh my so very far from four sixty five

Copyright © 2010 by John Sherman

Little critters

Lately, I have been focusing on my little turtles and little  snails.  It’s funny how people are so attracted to these little guys.  To my wife’s chagrin, they are starting to pile up in the office, needing pictures taken and to be entered in inventory.  I do think that they make her smile though, or she would have them already put away!

Catching up on commissions!

It’s been a busy week.  I have had more time off my “real” job lately, so I have been working on commissions.  I have a couple of more to work on, then I will need to get busy.  Dawn has me scheduled for two shows (one is a two-day show in September), and she just told me today that I have another one in November! 

Stay tuned for the latest creations!

Junkyard Dogs

I am ramping up for my next show, which is in a month.  In addition to my normal “critters”, I have made a couple of assemblage pieces, Junkyard Dog series.  I had made one a while ago.  These are the next two in the series.  Stay tuned for more pictures over the next few weeks.

Exciting news!

I am so excited!  I received a call last week from the Hamilton County Business Journal, requesting an interview with me about my art and studio!  I met with the interviewer this week, and the article should be posted around March or April! 

What a thrill!  Stay tuned!

Have a wonderful and safe holiday!

Article out and possible gallery showing!

The article is out with the Hamilton County Business Magazine!  Check it out at www.hamiltoncountybusiness.com.  Dawn and I are really happy with it! 

The night we got the magazine in the mail, we stopped by a new coffee house down the street from us, SoHo Cafe & Gallery.  The weather was miserable, and we were the only ones there, so we struck up a conversation with the owens.  And now we have a presentation scheduled for this Wednesday to see if they might be interested in exhibiting some of my work in an upcoming month! 

It’s been a great start to the year!

“Meet the Artist” on the 12th! – SoHo Cafe & Gallery

It’s confirmed!  The “Meet the Artist” event at SoHo Cafe & Gallery is 12 March, 2011 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm!  If you are in the area (620 S. Rangeline, Carmel), be sure to stop by!