Here are some pictures of Christmas presents that I made for my awesome twin brother, Mike, and my wonderful friend, Peter. The first 2 pictures are of a hand-made (hand-carved and hand/power-drilled oak, hand-sanded, hand-painted (acrylic), protective-spray-gloss-finished) cribbage board that I made (it took me about 25 hours to do) for my brother. I ordered the pegs from Pete's Pegs and I couldn't be more happy. My family all loved playing cribbage with the board this past weekend when we visited them, and I'm sure it will be around wherever Mike's soul tells him to go in his life. The other 4 pictures are some photo-manipulations I did and printed out 4"x6" copies of and put into individual little basic black frames to give to Peter for part of his Christmas present. I got the idea to manipulate photos of my hands in some way for him because he always tells me how much he likes my hands. I decided to name them, "Why..." (left hand), "...Create?" (left hand), "...Create?" (right hand), and "Why..." (right hand), as some sort of artistic message to the world, or something like that... I don't really know. I wanted them to be viewed as one whole composition in this specific order, even though I framed them in individual frames.
Click on the thumbnails to open up the full sized images in a new window. Please post a comment if you like any of these, but don't steal any of my art, because I'll come and kill you.