A friend of mine is an art collector and he recently got really into the art of Micheal Godard. Google the name and you can see the style. His stuff is all over cruise ships and selling apparently very, very well as pop art. Given the idea of martini olives/alcohol and the bar/Vegas theme, it's funny he says he honestly doesn't drink. Even if you don't like the theme, visiting his site shows he is a really talented artist as he has much that is more "traditional" as well.
Anyway- my job was to take the Godard idea and make it something my client would like.
So I took the martini olives and had them all doing some of the other hobbies and professions he has had.
He is a folk singer/guitar collector, was a professional chef and owned a restaurant (wings were his specialty), is an avid biker, and had myself and Larry Robinson over for dinner during the April Newport Miami show- those three olives below are Larry R with the jeweler's saw, the client, and myself as olives (he really wanted that on there
) On the headstock I made the olives and fruits all doing something I like- visiting an aquarium, where the martini glass is the tank, and the lime wedge is making a strawberry do "dolphin " jumps.. a lime, strawberry and lemon swim below while an olive watches in amazement. The glass is gold pearl, wire bezel, ebony, all sorts of stuff in this one. It was more complex then it looks.
Anyway- does this beat Optimus Prime for most different inlay? (I am quickly becoming a transformers fan due to my son, so don't be surprised if one day...)
Here are the pics- finally..
Thanks for looking!
Craig L
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