The Beatles metal art project.

Here is Paul painted in white gloss enamel. This is the first of about 5 coats.

The Beatles Project

Metal Art by m.e. franco of metals brew

It's been a while since my last post but I have been very busy on finishing Paul McCartney. I am now in the painting process as you can see. I've spent several hours cleaning all of the metal with thinner to clean any dirt and rust before I apply any paint. Note: If you look at the last picture you will notice how the frame is above the ground with a cast shadow below it. I thought it would be very interesting to designed a frame that will visually float away from the wall when mounted. Whats even neater about this frame is that any light source that hits it will form a cast shadow against the wall and make it even more appealing to the viewers eye.

The photo in the middle is me applying some paint on the frame. I am applying several coats of gloss black. It takes a number of days to allow the paint to dry and re-coat to achieve a nice glossy appearance. The photo above shows both Paul and the frame painted in black. The black is painted on the backside of Paul. The front will be painted white and I will post more photos when I get him started. I hope you will check back soon for updates on my Beatles metal art project.

Thanks,

m.e. franco

The Beatles Project

Here is the image mounted on a metal backing. The metal backing is hand cut and brackets are welded on the back for wall mounting. The face will float off the backing about four inches (notice the shadow behind the face). The backing will also float off the wall at about one inch.

The Beatles Project

Just to give you an idea on the size of the Beatles faces. In this photo I am holding up the face of Paul McCartney.

The Godfather

The Beatles Project (Paul, work in progress)

You are looking at the face of Paul. I cut this out from a piece of sheet metal shown below. Cutting the face out by hand is very tedious and there is not much room for error. Each cut has to be very precise or the face will not look like the person. Paul's face in this photo still needs much work to be done and it is still in a very abstract form. The size of the face is about 3 feet high by about 2 feet wide. Please check back soon as I will be posting more pictures of the Beatles project.

The Beatles Project.

Okay so this is the starting stage of the creation of a Beatle Face. You are looking at a large sheet of metal that will hopefully transform into a face of Paul. This part will take some time and no mistakes can be made during the cutting process or I will have to scrap the whole piece.

John Lennon at the big Fresno Fair. I will be making the other members of the group and all will be the same size. I will be posting new pics of the work in progress.

This is a large work of John lennon

Cry Baby

Brue Lee

John Lennon number 2

Jerry Garcia

Jimi Hendrix

John Lennon

Mary In The Night

Mush Head

Hair Spray

Created for the month of April

Dancing Man

Bart's Wife This is a work in progress metal sculpture face of a woman who is the wife of my friend Bart.

IndioCreated for Feb. 2007