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Author: bluthin
Hey, my name is Brad Luthin. Let me tell you a little about myself. I currently live in South Florida and hold BA in Art from SDSU. My two passions in life are painting and woodworking.
On Painting:
My biggest influence as an artist is Édouard Manet. He once quoted: "A painter can say all he wants to with fruits or flowers, or even clouds. You know, I would like to be the Saint Francis of still life." I too believe you can express everything in your life through objects we see everyday. My hope is that people who see my paintings will begin to look and appreciate the little things in life.
The works are painted with a thick application of paint along with a balance of expressive and controlled brush strokes. Along with Manet, I have also learned a great deal from the old dutch masters, such as Vermeer and Rembrandt. I take their techniques and mix with my own. I add a lighter palette of colors that reflect my life here in South Florida.
Painted Cigar Box
Rustic wood-carved boxes
Rustic wood-carved basswood boxes.
Rustic woodworking tool shed
Here is a tool shed I built for my outdoor woodworking studio.
Rustic Wood Plant Stands at Etsy
Rustic Wood Table Lamp
Here’s a table lamp made from Black Olive tree branches.
Rustic Pine Shaker Rocking Chair
This rustic wood chair is based on the classic Shaker rocking chair but made from small pine trees. The pine trees were cleared from a ranch in Davie, FL. I gathered the trunks then shaved off the bark. The rungs were shaped with a drawknife. The chair is put together with mortise and tenon joinery with pva wood glue. The seat is woven with cotton wrap. The rustic chair is then finished with several coats of a mix of satin oil-based polyurethane and mineral spirits.
Rustic Tree Branch Wood Adirondack Chair
Here is a rustic wood Adirondack chair made from pressure treated dimensional lumber and shaved tree branches. The tree branches were harvested from a Black Olive Tree on the property. That sounds better than I was trimming the trees in my backyard and had some branches. The basic design was taken from a plan in some woodworking book I got in some library or bookstore. I really don’t keep accurate records on all things wood and wood-like. I’ll let some of you ‘history detectives’ figure that out. The rustic wood chair is more comfortable than it looks. This chair is my first experiment with
‘green woodworking’. What is green woodworking? I’m assuming you’re asking. I shall cut and paste a description of green woodworking for you. Because that’s just the kind of guy I am. The following is from Wikipedia. Which they got from the British Broadcasting Corporation. I don’t know why the BBC would have information on woodworking. But it is the BBC, so it must be good. Enjoy!
Green woodworking is a form of wood craft or in broad terms, carpentry, that works unseasoned or “green” timber into finished items. Unseasoned wood is wood that has been freshly felled or preserved by storing it in a water-filled trough or pond to maintain its naturally high moisture content. Green wood is much softer than seasoned timber and is therefore much easier to shape with hand tools. As moisture leaves the unseasoned wood, shrinkage occurs and the green woodworker can use this shrinkage to ensure tight joints in their work. To enhance the effect of the shrinkage, one half of a joint may be forcibly over-dried in a simple kiln while its encapsulating component is left green. The components tighten against each other as the parts exchange moisture and approach equilibrium with the surrounding environment. The swelling of the dry tenon inside the shrinking “green” mortise makes for an incredibly tight and permanent joint despite a lack of adhesives. Bodging is a traditional green woodworking occupation, where chair components were made in the woods and exported to workshops where the complete chairs were assembled by furniture makers (called cabinetmakers in the UK). Green woodworking has seen a recent revival due to its increased media coverage and the renaissance of hand tool woodworking in general. [1]
Reference: [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qsc3j
2 Modern Wood Chairs
Here are 2 Rustic reclaimed wood bungie / rubber hose or whatever strechable rope / hose / bungie you can find that will support a big boned Walmart shopper and still be comfortable, chairs. The design was taken from an instructable plan from the instructable website which was taken from the book ‘PlyDesign: 73 Distinctive DIY Projects in Plywood (and other sheet goods)’. The chair plan from that book was designed by Wil Holman. Maybe from Mother Earth website. It might be an offshoot of the lanyard chair or loom chair. But, you know, I really don’t have time to do all the research. Anyway the red one looks just like the on from the forementioned places. The other one is a variation on the same idea. When it comes to comfort… Comfort is a relative term, is it not? However, both are pleasing to the eye, are they not? The wooden chairs were made from reclaimed, recycled and repurposed wood. I used a ‘discount’ rubber hose from the Harbor Freight store. The quality of the stuff that they sell can be somewhat subpar. This ‘subpar-ness’ of the “rubber-like” hose has translated into a slightly less than ideal level of comfort. The original chair plan calls for a recycled rubber hose that you clean. I imagine you should really, really clean a used air hose before you use it in your chair. To acquire this used air hose for this wood bungie chair, you need to persuade a mechanic to give you one that is broken. Which means he/she would have to have a broken one on hand. The other option would be to go “dumpster diving” behind auto mechanic shops. Both options seem incredably un-appealing to me. So, as you can see, my decision to buy one at Harbor Freight tool store was a “no brainer”. The other wood chair was made using clear flexible water piping bought at one of the big box hardware stores. The really cool pillows were made by Grandma Luthin.