One of our featured artists is Houston artist, Mitch McGee. Mitch McGee’s artwork lives between painting and sculpture. I wanted to share the process he goes through to create his current series of Birch (wood) artwork.
The first step is creating the illustration, digitizing it, parsing it out layer by layer and printing it out to size.
Each layer of birch is then hand cut
Then layer by layer the artwork is sanded, stained, glued and brought together to create the final dimensional artwork.
On average, it takes Mitch about 30-40 hours to create each piece.
Mitch and I recently appeared on cable TV's "Open with Rhina Valentin" on January 27th. You can see and hear Mitch talk about his work.
And I talk about the show, My Hero, on exhibit through March 31st , 2012.
After the show, we were photographed with Open Host, Rhina Valentin:
And the group behind the scenes who brings it all together including Shirley Arrieta, Dalia Gonzalez, Angel Ramos are captured here with Rhina and I
I loved that they all wore their favorite Superheroes shirts in honor of our exhibit!
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