Another Icon!

Hi!

This autumn I took another icon-painting course, I felt that Luke wasn't all that happy with my last icon, so I gave it another shot with Luke the Evangelist! This time I had a full color replica by my side so I could clearly see what I needed to do. That was a BIG help!

I'm not completely done with it, I will do some writing on it later on and there are some small things that I will fix, but for now I and Luke are going to get some well deserved rest! Below you will see how it all came together!

Take care!

the repair of violins

Hi everyone!

This update will feature what I've been doing during this autumn. And as always there is a story... My older brother found this old violin in his house... it's built in Lidköping in Sweden, the 14th August, 1903, by E. Pettersson! If there are someone that's knows something about this Luthier it would be nice to here it! We don't know how long it's been laying there, our theory is that the owner has gotten a new violin and then taken some stuff from this violin.
This has been my first repair-work, and I have enjoyed it very much!

(sorry for my homemade violin-english...)

I've done  four new tuning screws/stämskruvar.
A new stable/stall.
Polished it.
Restringed it.
Put in a new sound-pin/ljudpinne.
Put on a new string-holder/stränghållare.
And constructed a new over-saddle/översadel.
Put on new shoulder-rest and cheek rest(?).

Well that's about it, yesterday I tuned it and it sounds good, at least in my ears! I played on it, mostly out-of tune but that's my fault and not the violins... at least my neighbors didn't bang on the wall...

Take care!

Here's some before and after pictures:

Hang-Ten!

Here is another of the basic-animation-assignments that I'm working on. This time it's a wave. We're also supposed to put in a boat, that's riding on the waves.

Take care!