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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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What is this????? no fish????

Sorry.


Not today. The closest I could get was the headstock.

Know this is a bit different and maybe not to everyone's taste, but it's what the customer ordered!

Try to see it for what it is- "cartoony" fun...

CL

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Well, you have given new life to the Stuffed Olive! What great work. You could have added a stuffed crab or a stuffed flounder. MMMMMM - Seafood!

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Sound Clips of most of my guitars

I like it, especially the one with the martini!

Pat

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Hah! My son too.
I'd be surprised if you didn't!


Pat

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WOW! Very cool, Craig!
The scene with the stove is a hoot!

long

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"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” -Heraclitus of Ephesus

I am a huge fan of your seascapes...but I really like the olives for their "quirkiness".

The scale size of each diarama (vignette?) really works as you move up the fretboard.

The headstock is my favorite..the glass is awesome.

Although the guita player is close. I really like how the light comes in from the left and the guitar looks like it is lit from the same angle.

No white highlight areas on the 3 olive dudes together?

Joe

Joe were were in a dark room at the time of the modeling.. Does that work?



Craig

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That's way cool....

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

As always Craig my friend your work is fantastic!