A Face On The Wall

2008-08-07T23:11:00.000-07:00

2008-04-21T22:55:00.000-07:00

Lets have some wine!

Metals Brew metal art

marco e. franco

2008-02-29T20:03:00.000-08:00

ringo

2008-02-29T18:36:00.000-08:00

George

2008-02-29T18:24:00.000-08:00

Paul. finished mask.

2007-12-15T22:30:00.000-08:00

The Beatles metal art project.

Here is Paul painted in white gloss enamel. This is the first of about 5 coats.

2007-11-27T21:58:00.001-08:00

The Beatles Project

Metal Art by m.e. franco of metals brew

It's been a while since my last post but I have been very busy on finishing Paul McCartney. I am now in the painting process as you can see. I've spent several hours cleaning all of the metal with thinner to clean any dirt and rust before I apply any paint. Note: If you look at the last picture you will notice how the frame is above the ground with a cast shadow below it. I thought it would be very interesting to designed a frame that will visually float away from the wall when mounted. Whats even neater about this frame is that any light source that hits it will form a cast shadow against the wall and make it even more appealing to the viewers eye.

The photo in the middle is me applying some paint on the frame. I am applying several coats of gloss black. It takes a number of days to allow the paint to dry and re-coat to achieve a nice glossy appearance. The photo above shows both Paul and the frame painted in black. The black is painted on the backside of Paul. The front will be painted white and I will post more photos when I get him started. I hope you will check back soon for updates on my Beatles metal art project.

Thanks,

m.e. franco

2007-11-17T17:37:00.000-08:00

The Beatles Project

Here is the image mounted on a metal backing. The metal backing is hand cut and brackets are welded on the back for wall mounting. The face will float off the backing about four inches (notice the shadow behind the face). The backing will also float off the wall at about one inch.

2007-11-10T18:45:00.000-08:00

The Beatles Project

Just to give you an idea on the size of the Beatles faces. In this photo I am holding up the face of Paul McCartney.

2007-11-09T20:41:00.000-08:00

The Godfather

2007-11-09T20:03:00.000-08:00

The Beatles Project (Paul, work in progress)

You are looking at the face of Paul. I cut this out from a piece of sheet metal shown below. Cutting the face out by hand is very tedious and there is not much room for error. Each cut has to be very precise or the face will not look like the person. Paul's face in this photo still needs much work to be done and it is still in a very abstract form. The size of the face is about 3 feet high by about 2 feet wide. Please check back soon as I will be posting more pictures of the Beatles project.

2007-11-09T19:48:00.000-08:00

The Beatles Project.

Okay so this is the starting stage of the creation of a Beatle Face. You are looking at a large sheet of metal that will hopefully transform into a face of Paul. This part will take some time and no mistakes can be made during the cutting process or I will have to scrap the whole piece.

2007-11-04T18:45:00.000-08:00

John Lennon at the big Fresno Fair. I will be making the other members of the group and all will be the same size. I will be posting new pics of the work in progress.

2007-11-04T18:43:00.000-08:00

This is a large work of John lennon

2007-11-04T16:59:00.000-08:00

Cry Baby

2007-11-04T16:57:00.000-08:00

Brue Lee

2007-11-04T16:54:00.000-08:00

John Lennon number 2

2007-06-30T19:32:00.000-07:00

Jerry Garcia

2007-06-30T19:26:00.000-07:00

Jimi Hendrix

2007-06-17T20:52:00.000-07:00

John Lennon

2007-06-10T20:58:00.000-07:00

Mary In The Night

2007-04-15T16:35:00.000-07:00

Mush Head

2007-03-25T20:06:00.000-07:00

Hair Spray

Created for the month of April

2007-03-15T22:49:00.000-07:00

Dancing Man

2007-02-03T20:29:00.000-08:00

Bart's Wife This is a work in progress metal sculpture face of a woman who is the wife of my friend Bart.

2007-01-27T17:02:00.000-08:00

IndioCreated for Feb. 2007

2006-12-30T18:58:00.000-08:00

Dr. OzDr. Oz Created for Jan. 07

2006-12-17T13:57:00.000-08:00

Rad Dude

2006-11-19T15:11:00.000-08:00

James

2006-11-13T22:28:00.000-08:00

Jim

2006-11-13T22:15:00.000-08:00

Monroe

2006-10-26T23:25:00.000-07:00

Titled-"I See You" This face had me laughing in the making! I had no idea how the face was going to turn out when I was designing it, but it came out very well at the end. I decided to call the piece "I See You" because of the eye up on top. "I See You" will be posted for bidding in the next couple of days. Good Luck.

2006-10-26T23:05:00.000-07:00

Titled "YO!"I really like the way the mouth came out on this mask. It took me a while to figure out how I wanted the mouth to look like and I think the title for this mask speaks for itself. "YO!" will be up for bid very soon.

2006-10-18T20:10:00.000-07:00

Titled-"Winky Blinky"

2006-10-14T22:40:00.000-07:00

Titled-"weirdo"

2006-10-14T18:34:00.000-07:00

Titled-"Mumbo"

2006-10-04T21:07:00.000-07:00

Titled-"Dreamer"

2006-10-04T20:59:00.000-07:00

Titled-"Chubs"

2006-10-04T20:50:00.000-07:00

Titled-"Sparky"

2006-10-01T15:28:00.000-07:00

Titled-"Mr. Nerves"

2006-10-01T15:17:00.000-07:00

Titled-"Mz. Drama Queen"

2006-09-29T20:09:00.000-07:00

Titled: "Jo Jo"

2006-09-26T18:38:00.000-07:00

Sorry for not posting any new faces today. I was spending the whole day doing a mass cleanup in my shop. I will be posting new faces in one or two days from now. Thanks for stopping by.

2006-09-22T22:27:00.000-07:00

Titled-"The Cool Lady"

2006-09-21T23:03:00.000-07:00

Untitled-5

2006-09-21T22:08:00.000-07:00

Untitled-4

2006-09-19T20:50:00.000-07:00

Untitled-3

2006-09-19T20:18:00.000-07:00

Untitled-2

2006-09-18T20:26:00.000-07:00

Untitled-1