Yard Art, Oh No

On Sep 24, 7:40 pm, [email protected] (J T) wrote:
> Well, looks like it's my turn in the barrel. The older son asked
> me to make some figures for his yard for halloween; Grim Reaper, witch,
> ghost, couple of pumpkins. The dau-in-law and grand-dau are very much
> for it too, so looks like I'm stuck.
>
> I did a google image search on halloween yard art, and came up with
> a myriad of pictures. Printed a batch out, and took them over
> yesterday, for them to choose what they wanted. Last I counted they'd
> picked out 9 (nine), and counting. I told 'em I ain't making 9d. The
> kid is supposed to be picking up some OSB or plywood, probably scraps.
> As soon as I get the wood, and choices, I'll start. Should be able to
> sketch them out, cut 'em out, and paint. No biggie. Except it's YARD
> ART. Urk. I've got a NOS pantograph I could use to scale up the
> pictures, but I'd really hate to sully it so. So, it'll be freehand,
> and if push comes to shove, could craw a grid on the picture, then a
> larger grid on the wood, and scale up that way. That's a handy way to
> do it if you don't have faith in your drawing skills.
>
> Yard art. How could I have sunk so low? What Gods did I piss off?
> Alas, alack, woe is me.
>
> JOAT
> What is life without challenge and a constant stream of new
> humiliations?
> - Peter Egan

Hello All, last year I ended up with a large box from a printer
(plotter) at work and wanted to do something with it. I took it home
and hd my wife stand in front of a section and put a spotlight at the
other end of the room and traced around the outline. We did the same
with me holding an ax like I was going to swing it down. I ended up
putting them in front of two windows with a light shining on 'em. A
little sheer fabric in the windows gave it more of an eery look.

If you dont have access to a plotter to print out each picture full
size you may be able to make a small cutout and shine a light from
across the room (or garage) to trace the image. Hope this helps.

Hey Jake, I had to join a different newsgroup server to reply this
time

Dave

J T took a can of maroon spray paint on September 24, 2007 07:40 pm and
wrote the following:

> Well, looks like it's my turn in the barrel. The older son asked
> me to make some figures for his yard for halloween; Grim Reaper, witch,
> ghost, couple of pumpkins. The dau-in-law and grand-dau are very much
> for it too, so looks like I'm stuck.
>
> I did a google image search on halloween yard art, and came up with
> a myriad of pictures. Printed a batch out, and took them over
> yesterday, for them to choose what they wanted. Last I counted they'd
> picked out 9 (nine), and counting. I told 'em I ain't making 9d. The
> kid is supposed to be picking up some OSB or plywood, probably scraps.
> As soon as I get the wood, and choices, I'll start. Should be able to
> sketch them out, cut 'em out, and paint. No biggie. Except it's YARD
> ART. Urk. I've got a NOS pantograph I could use to scale up the
> pictures, but I'd really hate to sully it so. So, it'll be freehand,
> and if push comes to shove, could craw a grid on the picture, then a
> larger grid on the wood, and scale up that way. That's a handy way to
> do it if you don't have faith in your drawing skills.
>
> Yard art. How could I have sunk so low? What Gods did I piss off?
> Alas, alack, woe is me.
>
>
JOAT doing pukey pumpkins, who would have thunk it.
;-)
--
Lits Slut #9
Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.

I've been there, and done that too.

If you can copy your art onto 8 1/2 X 11 transparent film and you can borrow
a projector someplace, it'll save a bunch of time. It's easy to enlarge and
transfer the images to the wood this way. After putting the image in the
projector I positioned the projector so that it projected at the size that I
wanted onto the wood and then I used a marker to trace all the lines. Then
with a roto zip bit and a 1/8-1/4 bit adapter in my plunge router, and the
plywood lying flat on a piece of foam insulation, I followed the perimeter
lines to cut them out. Then the part that I despise, painting (I hate
painting). I managed to get the grand daughter and daughter in law to do
most of it. The roto zip bit works much better than using a sabre saw or the
band saw and I found that using the foam insulation as a backer behind the
wood keeps the wood from splintering and protects the bit, making the job
much easier than trying to saw them out and then having to sand the
splinters off the edges.

Charley


"J T" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Well, looks like it's my turn in the barrel. The older son asked
> me to make some figures for his yard for halloween; Grim Reaper, witch,
> ghost, couple of pumpkins. The dau-in-law and grand-dau are very much
> for it too, so looks like I'm stuck.
>
> I did a google image search on halloween yard art, and came up with
> a myriad of pictures. Printed a batch out, and took them over
> yesterday, for them to choose what they wanted. Last I counted they'd
> picked out 9 (nine), and counting. I told 'em I ain't making 9d. The
> kid is supposed to be picking up some OSB or plywood, probably scraps.
> As soon as I get the wood, and choices, I'll start. Should be able to
> sketch them out, cut 'em out, and paint. No biggie. Except it's YARD
> ART. Urk. I've got a NOS pantograph I could use to scale up the
> pictures, but I'd really hate to sully it so. So, it'll be freehand,
> and if push comes to shove, could craw a grid on the picture, then a
> larger grid on the wood, and scale up that way. That's a handy way to
> do it if you don't have faith in your drawing skills.
>
> Yard art. How could I have sunk so low? What Gods did I piss off?
> Alas, alack, woe is me.
>
>
>
> JOAT
> What is life without challenge and a constant stream of new
> humiliations?
> - Peter Egan
>

Grandkids make us do the craziest things, I'm betting she rolls her eyes
just right and Granddad will make them all. Only say this 'cause I've been
there lol.

Mike
Watch for the bounce.
If ya didn't see it, ya didn't feel it.
If ya see it, it didn't go off.
Old Air Force Munitions Saying
"J T" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Well, looks like it's my turn in the barrel. The older son asked
> me to make some figures for his yard for halloween; Grim Reaper, witch,
> ghost, couple of pumpkins. The dau-in-law and grand-dau are very much
> for it too, so looks like I'm stuck.
>
> I did a google image search on halloween yard art, and came up with
> a myriad of pictures. Printed a batch out, and took them over
> yesterday, for them to choose what they wanted. Last I counted they'd
> picked out 9 (nine), and counting. I told 'em I ain't making 9d. The
> kid is supposed to be picking up some OSB or plywood, probably scraps.
> As soon as I get the wood, and choices, I'll start. Should be able to
> sketch them out, cut 'em out, and paint. No biggie. Except it's YARD
> ART. Urk. I've got a NOS pantograph I could use to scale up the
> pictures, but I'd really hate to sully it so. So, it'll be freehand,
> and if push comes to shove, could craw a grid on the picture, then a
> larger grid on the wood, and scale up that way. That's a handy way to
> do it if you don't have faith in your drawing skills.
>
> Yard art. How could I have sunk so low? What Gods did I piss off?
> Alas, alack, woe is me.
>
>
>
> JOAT
> What is life without challenge and a constant stream of new
> humiliations?
> - Peter Egan
>

J T wrote:

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>
> Yard art. How could I have sunk so low? What Gods did I piss off?
>
>

We all slow down a little as we age and I here that a few of those
slightly used virgins that people send you have been complaining. ;-)

--
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA
[email protected]