Take a look at the new pages in the Shop. More will be added throughout the year making it easier than ever to find dagdart’s art and designs.
These pages will instantly connect you to Zazzle’s Turkey, Holiday Greetings, Every Day is Christmas
Dag Dart licenses her designs to Zazzle, a leader in online retail since 1999.
This will be my every day T-shirt indefinitely.
Ricardo has been my most complex and colorful sculpture to date…….. At just over 6 feet he’s pretty darn charismatic.
The layering of powder coated aluminum plates has been one way for me to achieve multiple colors in a sculpture.
In the future I hope to be able to combine two or more colors on a single plate of aluminum through some very creative powder coating. Stand by!
photo credits: Janet Minker, Minker Design
The Sheeeep! are back at the studio for some much needed baths and R&R before heading back to pasture. Huntley & Brinkley have weathered 3+ years in the field. Aside from being really, really dirty they have held up beautifully. Powder-coating is an amazing finish!
The turkey will disappear soon only to be replaced by the ever popular, rapidly approaching Christmas season.
It is a messy sad world today. So very many are suffering through wars, genocide, and famine. I truly wish that was not so. While it is important to stay connected and know what is happening. It is also important, to take time for family, friends and yourself to enjoy the life you’ve been given. In some way I hope the designs I create will bring you and yours smiles, laughs and a teenie bit of happiness at this time of year.
This year I have some favorites and all can be found at the dagdart studio on Zazzle.
The letter card is one. It’s a perfect way to send your seasons greetings letter on the back of my gator “Lily” tangled in lights! It is so easy to customize! BUT, if you must have a photo card this is not for you.
“Lily” my gator dressed elegantly for the holidays. She has hung around for so many years and never stops getting the biggest smiles. This year, the year the Giant Pandas Americans have loved for more than 50 years, are leaving the U.S. is monumental, not to mention very sad but absolutely worthy of a place on your tree! And then there are “2 Bucks Moose” – always a hit and ready to hang out.
I have lots and lots of seasonal fun you can look through on this website’s Christmas page with links to the dagdart studio on Zazzle. If nothing else, just browsing through, I guarantee, will be a cheerful few minutes in your day.
And,,,,,, if you are looking for really, really, really special buys on any of my original note card lines and poster prints you’ll want to visit the Dart Shots store………
Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and a wish for a New Year in a more peaceful world.
It’s my children’s book and it’s now available to read in its entirety here!
Click on the book cover to begin……..
This installation will most certainly brighten a neighborhood. Good it doesn’t come with audio! Ricardo is six foot tall and quite handsome………..He’s been a labor love. He is paired with the Pickettes, two rather gorgeous hens.
I designed him a number of years ago for a public installation that never happened. This year I was thrilled to be commissioned to fabricate him for a private installation.
I had a few challenges though to overcome with this one. I had to re-engineer the pieces to suit a residential site and because of the pandemic I had to work remotely.
The designs and vector drawings I produced on my computer went via email across the country to my metal fabricators in Florida. They fed my designs into the control system of a waterjet machine that precisely cut sheets of aluminum into the parts of the sculpture.
It’s quite a fantastic process and there is no room for error in the drawings. It cuts exactly what it sees! I was on pins and needles awaiting the assembly of the raw parts! So relieved they came together without a hitch!
The sculpture parts are now off to be powder coated. From there my installer takes over, assembles, delivers and carefully installs on the site.
The powder coating came off beautifully and the trial assembly was a success!
The installation is scheduled for this week!
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