Steve Cooley Fine Art

This was too cool not to repost:

I have a small show called “through the prism of San Jose” in the windows of Works/San Jose while it is preparing for an upcoming members show. Check it out!

Check out higher res photos and more of my artwork on flickr.

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I did this painting at this month’s First Friday live painting event at Works/San Jose. I’d be happy to sell it to you.

And then I’m into all kinds of new new new new stuff thanks to my training at Techshop. Here’s some acrylic test pieces. I’m over the moon on the cut quality on these. I have some fairly big ideas that I’m going to try out on this front.

Here are some larger hardboard abstracts that I’ll be sealing and painting. I’m so excited to be able to get this level of precision into my build quality. Once I paint them, I think that will be a nice combination of machine precision and human imprecision :

And then we’re working on a mobile for our coming addition to our family. Here’s the first pass at the cast of characters. I output these at 100% of the design spec, but we both agree that I can redo these and bump up the size. A lot. Although, I’m totally shocked at the fidelity to the design that the combination of the laser cutter working on the 1/4″ hardboard can reproduce. I probably just got lucky with where I put the holes and how much space I added around them.

check out the detail:

Note the circles at the white arrows. No problem at all. Every one of the holes I put into the pieces produced a clean 1/4″ thick hardboard peg. I love this machine. It’s freakin’ awesome.

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Rackable is buying one of my wall sculptures! Thank you, Justyna at Rackable!

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Computer controlled CNC machine @ SEARS:

A few makers sent this in… SEARS now carries a a computer controlled CNC machine for under $1,799 (USD)

“Compact, computer-controlled, 3-dimensional woodworking machine with an easy-to-use interface. It allows a novice to make a complete project without a shop full of tools.The unique configuration allows it to perform many other woodworking functions, including ripping, cross cutting, mitering, contouring, jointing and routing. The CompuCarve can work in most soft materials, including wood, plastics (polycarbonate or cast acrylic) and certain types of high density foam. Set includes CompuCarve machine, (1) 1/16 in. carbide carving bit, (1) 1/8 in. carbide cutting bit, CarveWright Memory Card, starter software package, (2) 1/4 in. bit adaptors, vacuum bag adaptor, bit removal tool, hex wrench, owner’s manual and Quick Start Guide.” – Link.

Perfect for the home Fab-Lab…

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I love sketchup. I’m starting to use it to prototype my sculptures out before I start laying it out on real world materials. Way cool.

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we did a preliminary round of photography tonight on the latest works. Here’s one shot as a teaser:

this is a new sculpture I’ve created. It’s made out of Teak and stainless steel. This actually used to be a futon bed that I bought used from a coworker, held on to after we bought nicer furniture, and eventually harvested / reclaimed once I had a thickness planer. The metal parts are from a new light we installed in our kitchen… they were the extra extension tubes that we did not use. Originally I was trying to make a tool to help me make repositionable, repeatable rubber stamps for some of my other sculptures. The thightening mechanism is pretty good. Loosen up the wingnuts and they all can slide around on the rails. Anyway, I think I’ll be listing this on etsy soon. You saw it here first.

Us and Them: a tribute to growing up and finding someone to love. I intentionally spaced the objects as I did to suggest personal space boundaries and a couple’s rejection of the herd. In spite of the split from the group, they are remaining connected by the common rails of humanity.

I’ve just created a second account on etsy.com to list my fine art items for sale.

Check out Steve Cooley Fine Art on Etsy.com.

And of course you can check out my other etsy site for the… more affordable every-day art projects.

Hey, I’ve listed the remaining photo holder/flower vases that I made on Etsy.com

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