Wheel of Fortune - Painting the Wheel!



I am touching up the Wheel of Fortune wheel backstage as they are setting up for recording the show. By the way the Wheel is an amazing machine!



Carnival Games!

Here is another Mt. Airy Village Fair game! It is called "Dousing Tiger" and is a take off on the classic dunk tank. The carnival goer throws a ball at the target and when it connects, the arm with the spikes on it drives into the water balloon and splat! Yea!

Carnival Games!

This is a carnival game I made for the Mt. Airy Village Fair. You spin the wheel and then toss a ring onto the hook with the same number. I will be repainting this piece to be "The Mysteries of Cleopatra!" for renting out!

Carnival Games!

Carnival game with the classic "punks"! Throw a bean bag and knock down a hinged punk and win a Village Fair Dollar! I designed built and painted this unit that breaks down flat for rental transport.

Carnival Games!

Carnival games for the Mt Airy Village Fair in Philadelphia! Steve Donegan designed these guys and I constructed and painted them. They are "The Ring-a-lings" with a bell in the hole that rings when you throw a ball and it makes it into the hole!

Monkey Paintings!

The person who bought this thought it looked like a grandma pirate!

Monkey Paintings!



A monkey painting I did for a show in Philadelphia.



Child's Room Mural

A friend and I painted this childs room between movie work. It was a blast!

The Ring - Scarey Barn Set

This was such a creepy set to work on in person! We had to take a high-lift crane to reach this room at the top of the barn location, and then create a little girls room in there! Not to mention painting the tree and then wallpapering over it and then drippy blood. Yikes!

"Annapolis" Flood Tank

The set department made this steel tank, and I spent a week painting the railings, viewing platform and sealing the metal. I had no idea what they were going to do in this set though! It turned out to be a training excersize for plugging holes in a flooding ship!

Shows I've Worked On - Posters!

This was a fun movie to work on! It had huge sets, boxing, fake navy ships, heck yes!

Rocky Statue

Here I am rough measuring the base of the Rocky Statue for replacing the Cement base. We moved the statue from in front of the old Stadium to the top of the Philadelphia Art Museum and then after shooting the scenes moved it to the grassy space in front of the famous museum steps. I like the bronze statue quite alot!

Miniatures!

The top of the tent on this sign is motorized and rotated on a cam so it had a nice tilt as it turned. I love the crime watch sign on the no parking pole!

Miniatures!

Close up on the base of the Shaky's Tire Shop sign.

Miniatures!

Close up on the Happy Moon Drive-In, one of my favorite pieces in the show

Miniatures!

The casket on this funeral home sign is motorized to rotate. The buyer opted for the red lights instead of flickers.

Miniatures!

Here is part of the show of miniature signage I had at High Point Cafe

Shows I've Worked On - Posters!

The rubber rock movie!

Signage Design and Painting

I designed and painted these signs for Cat Studios, an interior design firm in New York.

Dramatic "Peek Through"!

I Painted this peek through for the two people you see peeking through! It was for their wedding party, they are both ballet dancers and the greatest friends!

Portrait Painting





I painted this portrait of an amazing lady!

Miniature Commission Art Piece

I was commisioned to make a wall hanging miniature of the house a very sweet brick row home in Philadelphia.

Miniature Commission Art Piece

Here is the miniature awaiting crating and delivery to the buyer.

I love adding details like the flower pots and door hinges!

Creatures! Scary Pirate

I made this jaunty fellow for a video game box cover prototype. I did the costuming and painted the backdrop. He is one of my favorite creature creations!

Creatures! Swimmin' Salmon

Here is a Latex Salmon I made for "Jack Pictures" Company for a TV ad. I sculpted the fish in clay, made a mold, then built a frame work inside that mold. I then used two part foam for the "flesh" and latex for the "skin". For filming I was underneath that bluescreen table making the salmon swim back and forth while my assistant used cables to make the mouth and fins move!

Creatures! Orange Alien Tooth Test Fit

I am test fitting the acrylic teeth I made for Mr. Orange Alien. We opted to not use the bottom set.

Creatures! Orange Alien

Here is another rubber alien! This time I am wearing it for the shot. I also did the background "ship" which is in fact a pretty small set. I made the acrylic teeth as well.

Creatures! Talking Animatronic

Here is an articulated skull that I made to have eye movements, lip movements (of the rubber mask over it) and eyebrow movements. The jaw was hinged and had springs and all the movements were controlled by cable.

Creatures! Dancing Skeleton

I made this skeleton for Larry Pisoni aka Lorenzo Pickle, a world famous clown and co-founder of the Pickle Family Circus. He used the prop to dance with and the skeleton was articulated to follow his dance moves.

Creatures!

Here is a creature that I sculpted and cast in rubber. For the ad I also painted the small backdrop and did the costuming (no sewing required!)

Faux Furniture Finish

This is another new pine piece from the prolific scene shop! This is one of my favorite faux finish jobs because I think I really got that wood inlay look. I should have aged the hinges on the lid down a little though. The keyboard came from a sad little broken piano...

Faux Furniture Finishes

Here is another new piece built by the scene shop for a production of "Uncle Vanya". I painted this to have a nice antique Russian folk feel.

Faux Furniture Finishes Fhew!

I did alot of faux furniture finishes when I worked in Theatre, Here I painted a pine "desk" the scene shop had built and painted it to look like brazilian mahogany. One part of the ingredients is roof tar!

Backdrop Painting

A Backdrop I painted for a production of "Funny Girl". The archway got cut out for an entrance door.

Me On A Ladder! #3

Here I am painting a backdrop for a great friends wedding ceremony!

Me On A Ladder! #2

Here I am (I spend alot of time on ladders!) painting a hard cyclorama for Pinnicle Productions. I like these dreamy clouds! Oh and my bleached blonde hair......

Me On A Ladder! #1

The set designer wanted the backdrop flats for this play to look like stock quotes in a newspaper. So I took steel frames and cutout stencils of numbers and letters and had them interchangable so no visual pattern could be seen. Then airbrushed them and gave the whole thing a grayisn newspaper colored wash. The play was "Other People's Money".