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Dynamic Vase |
Singled Out |
Sleeping Bird |
Tree Trunk Gals |
Tropical Pathway |
Back Light |
Mother Orb |
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Other Stuff
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UNH Beirut Table |
UNH Beirut Table- This is a board that I made for my friends and I up in college so we could study the art of “beer drinking” (I’m not as innocent as you might think…I also studied occasionally). I’m sure people of my generation know how this table is used, but for those who don’t lets just say it is a gaming table for the weekend indulger. The table took me about a month to make in a room that was maybe a foot longer than the actual length of the table. Talk about an arduous process. I began by putting a couple coats of primer on the birch veneer board (sanding between coats) and then putting multiple layers of white high gloss enamel paint on top which is the surface for the acrylic painting. After painting the UNH wildcat and other symbols on the enamel I put on 7-8 coats of plastic polyurethane to seal the image and protect it from wear and tare. After 2 years of excessive use it is still in good condition and this is definitely a project that somebody would have to pay me a million dollars to do again! | ||
| Wooden Utensil- This was a project I did for my woodworking class up at UNH. Our assignment was to make a wooden utensil out of basswood that had a unique texture and a concave dip. My idea was to create a semi guitar/serpent creature where the body of the guitar was the serpent’s face and the neck of the guitar was the serpent’s forked tongue. | 
Wooden Utensil |
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Coffee Table |
Coffee Table- This is another once in a lifetime project I did up at school. This lovely table took about a month and a half to make and I made it out keeping all of my fingers surprisingly. After laboring over the art of making mortise and tenon joints for a whole semester I give woodworkers all the respect in the world. The table is made from rich mahogany wood and features a marble board game (similar to that of Chinese checkers) in the middle of the surf board top. I also added a grooved track around the board game where you can deposit the marbles after you jump them. Again patience was definitely a virtue when creating this masterpiece. | ||
| Line Etching- This was a line etching I did for my printmaking lithography class up in college. The technique used here was dry needle point on a copper plate. After taking a semester of printmaking I again have all the respect in the world for professional printmakers. Since I don’t have access to a printing press this is probably the last line etching I’ll ever do but I just wanted to show people that I could do it. | 
Line Etching |
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 My Tattoo |
My tattoo- This is probably the only thing on this page that I would contemplate doing again in the near future…designing a tattoo. I am completely fascinated by the whole tattooing process and I truly consider it a genuine art form. This is a tattoo of my family crest that I put on the center of my back and evolved into my own individual icon. My last name “Long” comes from both England and Ireland so rather than favoring one coat of arms over the other I combined them together keeping only the images that I liked most from each. Since I consider my family to be very artistic and musical I added a paintbrush and musical note in the shield to add my own flare to things. I definitely had my doubts about getting a permanent scar on my body but now that I have a scar that defines the epitome of who I am and what holds meaning in my life…that’s badass! | 
Long Family Crest |
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*All artwork on this website is the artist's original
work and is copyrighted by James C. Long, Jr. © 2008
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