Just barely had the garage cleaned up and organized enough to work on something, before I was contacted by an ex-coworker who wanted to know if she can have a box made for her childhood friends' birthday. I have to say that that was quite good timing on her part, because I already had an idea in mind for a new box series:
Series: 2011
Box : 01
Materials used: purple heart, maple, abalone inlay, oil glaze, foil, origami
Duration: 3 months
This box actually took a lot longer than anticipated. What was supposed to be a one month project didn't get finished until mid June. There were so many complications and delays, which were quite frustrating at times. But the frustration was not so much the construction, though there were some hitches there as well, but mostly due to the delay of the abalone inlays that I asked the ex co-worker to ordered. I had her order the inlays in the first place because mine were running low and lost somewhere in the garage - another story, another time.
Other complications arose when figuring out what to do with the inside of the box. I wanted to try something different, and that process snowballed to a very time consuming process of glazing with layers of translucent oils and bits of gold foil - I wanted to have a little flavor of the inlay look carried into the inside of the box.
Photos are quite crapy - color's not quite too accurate, will have to color correct at a later time.
