its that time again .. the 2nd annual dorset artists show. this year, there are (again) the regular dorset artist who are living and working here now, and, thanks to the vermont country store, there is an excellent selection of deceased vermont artists from their extensive collection. last year, the show was all dorset artists, and it was great ... this year also looks like a good one. i cruised through today and took a few snapshots which are posted below ... the public opening is tomorrow, august 4th, from 4 to 6, and all are welcome. ill be sitting the show sunday from 11-6. come on by and have a visit if you are in town. click the photos to enlarge them ...
georgine macgarvey and barbara melhado organized the show again this year, with assistance from penny and jim viscusi. they rounded up the usual suspects, including above and below, matt harding. his painted steel sculpture is out the front door, on the town green.
inside, we have steve holman and dan with a couple pieces of furniture. thats our coffee table and steves chairs.
a nice arthur jones
a nancy howe russell ... alchoices fantastic
a bill laberge coffee table
an oil by georgine
more of steves chairs and some penny viscusis ...
our bethlehem steel bureau by sam, will and dan, and a handhooked rug by meliina wall, yet to be hung.
and several by brian sweetland
upstairs, there is an astonishing selection of deceased vermont artists. several by churchill ettinger ...
some nice gene pelhams. gene was a contemporary of norman rockwell, and they both lived and worked, for a time, down the road in arlington.
a room full of harry shoklers
and other fine artists too numerous to mention ... the show runs through september 16th ... stop in ...
ok, heres a big one ... 40 " wide, 12 long, with our standard steel shaker base. this time we did the steel in our new rainbow finish. we purchased this new patina color from our friends at sur-fin chemical company. its a little fussier and more unpredictable than our regular blackening chemical, but the results are quite striking. browns and blacks with subtle hints of other colors in the right light. looks great with the expresso finish on this table ... .
the expresso finish was a request from the designer, and we had to make a number of samples before we got one we all liked. the finish that we used this time appears thinner, and more like an oil finish, and we plan to try it on some of our upcoming natural finish tables.
there was also a request for no cracks, which led us to advanced repair technologies no shrink, tintable, epoxy filler. after a little experimenting, that new product is also a hit with us. it takes a couple of days to dry really hard, but if we hit it right, we can do it on a friday and flush it up monday ... 
as seen on this old house
the filled crack after leveling ... trevor loosely fitted some pieces of walnut with similar grain into the largest of the cracks before filling them. 
this crack is in one of the other, natural finish tables were working on and we filled this large crack with smaller pieces of the darkest wood we can find, which was also an effective technique ... more on that table later ...
the slab was too big to get to the cnc upstairs, so trevor routed for the bases by hand with a bearing and a template.
the bottom of the 10 natural table ...
and will in steve holmans spray booth before the final topcoats over the expresso stain ... nice booth ... nice finish ...
