John Dingler posing in front of one of the Baroque Series works at the RAP exhibit; a close-up w/arms folded; a pict of Timothy Geithner shaking Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd's hand which will serve as the basis for my model for the Diaphanous Geithner Project.

Preparatory sketch, aluminum rod bent to shape, tools & nails, and a typically reinforced joint. These are what I used to make the bust. I used 1/4" Aluminum rod purchased from Klure and Harris, Riverside for the framework. I reinforced the frame with three 1/8" rods. It's extraordinarily flimsy, floppy, like a big blade of grass. When a neighboring artist pick it up, he used more muscle than he needed and jerked it up, thinking that it weighed way more; It's large. I had to reinforce each of the four joints with fillets made from steel sheet, and pour resin into each to lock them into place. It then took me about six weeks to figure out the right glue to use for the fabric. I settled on SuperGlue, the most liquid form, not the gell-like. The brand did not matter, and then to apply lines of automotive pin striping tape. I used black, 1/4" for the outer edge and 1/8" and narrower for the lines within the area of head and body. So far, I regard this projects as a drawing. Once finished, it will be a construction approx. 9' high and about 8' wide once the third element -- a hand that waves -- is included.

After completing the two facings, I had to draw the plinth consisting of an entablature supported by a Doric colonnade, on which they would rest, using Photoshop.

I am now working on the two Doric order entablatures consisting Doric columns, architrave, & freeze. How to take elements (entablature, cornices, color schemes, acroteria, antefixes, column order, etc.) from a Classical temple and adapt them to the plinth while making these fit visually, is the current problem.