Amazed Creations

New video of some old progression pics

2010-04-06T00:16:00.000-07:00

My artwork on display at Lululemon

2010-03-27T22:41:00.000-07:00

..The cool folks at the Lululemon clothing store (a Canadian chain of yoga/activewear) have allowed me to put up my artwork in their store. A twist of fate allowed this, but they've been awesome. I can put in as many pieces as I want, and change it as often as I see fit. They loved the fact that my artwork matched the colors in their store.

Here's the first 4 I put in there lately. I'm doing another 14-20 paintings (possibly scrollsawed pieces) in there (they have a lot of high wall space to fill. The first 4 are 3 of my scrollsawed pieces (all made out of hundreds of pieces of painted wood, and one acrylic and spraypaint canvas.

The store is in the Coquitlam Center Mall in the outskirts of Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Enjoy,

Dave

Ford themed Eternity Box

2009-09-18T23:37:00.000-07:00

I was asked to make an ashes casket for the father of a friend. His father had a '56 Ford, so this is what I created.

Made from Pine using only my scrollsaw. 11"x11"x5"

The Wooden Flowers - a scrollsawed project that moves

2009-05-13T15:52:00.000-07:00

Check out my latest creation, all wood parts, no nails, no screws, no glue, and it moves!

Cheers!

Dave
www.amazedcreations.com

Wrinkles - progression pics of a wooden face

2009-04-06T22:48:00.001-07:00

Started with a doodle on a piece of normal sized paper. As always, I have to make sure every line is connected (so it can all be cut out), gotta be creative with eyeballs.

Spray glued it to a piece of pine:

Cut out the outline using the trusty Dewalt Scrollsaw

Then traced the outline onto another piece which will become the backing board:

Both the project and backing board cut out:

Time to start cutting out the 94 (I think) pieces. You can see the blade just above the black air blower. The blade width is about the same as the line drawn with a pencil or pen:

Then my son Zacky Potter told me it was time to come in for supper:

Half cut, well okay I only had one beer:

Fully cut out:

Glue peeling time, the spray glue comes off pretty easily. If I use too much glue, a bit of Mineral Spirits makes it come off without the residue:

Fully peeled, but unfortunately a bit blurry, perhaps it was the second beer?:

The start of sanding each piece, gotta love the new belt sander, although I did lose a piece for about 15 minutes, gottta keep the shop floor dust free I suppose:

Most of the sanding done with the belt sander, just need to do some hand sanding to tidy everything up:

Side angle view:

The eyes have it, another blurry one, sorry!:

Is this one better?:

Then I bought it inside for the night. I might just leave it like this, all I'll have to do is glue it all together, or I may decide to paint each piece, but I kind of like the wood grain showing. What would you do?:

Not a bad day, good weather, and on top of working for 8 hours at my day job, I got all of this done as well (by 10:00 at night)

Cheers!

Dave

www.amazedcreations.com

I'm featured in a new magazine, and would like your vote in a poll they have

2009-01-23T18:09:00.000-08:00

Hey there,

I'm currently featured in the new Scrollsaw magazine, and they've added an online gallery and a poll which if enough people vote, I could be doing some feature articles and possibly a book on how I do my woodworking.

If you could drop by and vote, I'd appreciate it. Pass it on...

http://www.scrollsawer.com/issue34/Sawdust.php

Thanks,

Dave

Jamaican Lighting Bolt Shirt design

2008-08-20T19:46:00.000-07:00

Congratulations Usain!

This design available on about 90 different items More reggae themed shirts at:

http://www.cafepress.com/amazedcreations/2661024

Cheers!

Dave

http://amazedcreations.makemoneywithfreebies.com

I finally signed up to Freebie Force, and here's why...

2008-08-17T00:47:00.000-07:00

Well, after not listening two months ago and joining then under a fellow artist, whom I just talked to again, who now has 27 direct referrals and 9 indirect (so he's making $38/month now), I signed up to Freebie Force.

Here's the link:

http://amazedcreations.makemoneywithfreebies.com/

I was a bit apprehensive as most of the freebie's they have to offer are for US residents (I'm a Canadian eh!), but my friend said he hasn't really bothered yet with the free offers, and yet he's still profitting.

He also sent me a link to a new site which is going to be used to promote Freebie Force and Global Domains International (GDI), another great site that I did sign up to a few months ago. It's $10/a month (7 day free trial), but you can build your own website, plus get $1/month for each referral you get:

Here's the new site:

http://www.viralpond.com/p.cgi/295/

and here's the GDI information (in movie form):

http://movie.ws/amazedcreations

I have high hopes for these and will be promoting them heavily.

Care to join me?

Cheers!

Dave
http://www.freemoneyteam.ws

Beer, it's cheaper than gas! - new shirt design

2008-04-29T23:16:00.000-07:00

More drinking, less driving...

Check out all the available merchandise featuring this design at: www.cafepress.com/amazedcreations

A recent commission - 24 scrollsawed trims

2008-03-16T18:08:00.000-07:00

Had to make 24 of these trims for a house in Port Moody. They have a bunch of posts on their porch, and are going to paint these and use them as trims on the top of the posts.

It was quite a bit of work, kept me busy for quite a while. Each trim is about 9 1/2" x 15 1/2"

and here’s the leftovers. Gonna have to make something with these eventually. Notice the drill hole in the pieces. I have to drill a hole, feed the scrollsaw blade in, cut, repeat....

On to the next project...

Dave

Go on, buy yourself one of my shirts. I’d appreciate it.

Buy posters of my artwork, or sell them...

2008-01-19T23:34:00.000-08:00

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Danchuk, Dave
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2008-01-07T21:01:00.001-08:00

My Dimebag Tribute

2007-12-28T22:55:00.000-08:00

Taken from my website at: www.amazedcreations.com

Finally done, this took a long time, but I got to listen to a lot of Dimebag solos, and kick ass tunes.

Here it is all cut out, ready for paint.

Taking out the first pieces to paint.

You can see the reference pics I used, and here's the finished piece 4ft x 2ft:

...and here's some pics from when I met Vinnie Paul and he signed the back of it...

There's a video on youtube of the meeting, and prints are available at www.art.com and www.allposters.com

Cheers!

Dave

Making your own stonehenge - by yourself!

2007-12-22T11:17:00.000-08:00

Very cool!

Wally Wallington has demonstrated that he can lift a Stonehenge-sized pillar weighing 22,000 lbs and moved a barn over 300 ft. What makes this so special is that he does it using only himself, gravity, and his incredible ingenuity.

Tribal Faces

2007-12-15T19:12:00.000-08:00

Here's another doodle which was cleaned up using photoshop. Two faced?

Shirts, posters, and other assorted merchandise is available

2007-12-06T21:29:00.000-08:00

Here's a video of Vinnie Paul of Pantera signing my Dimebag tribute piece last year.

Stop Bitching & Stop Whining shirts and other merchandise

2007-12-06T21:20:00.000-08:00

I just made a couple new shirt designs, each of these is available on about 90 different items, click on the images to see all the selections.

A little something to make you dizzy...

2007-11-30T23:42:00.000-08:00

Just playing around with photoshop, and came up with this mind and eye teaser. Let me know when you're hypnotized and I'll as you for your money then...

Discount coupon

2007-11-20T21:12:00.002-08:00

He nailed it!

2007-11-19T19:09:00.000-08:00

I don't know the name of this artist, but he definitely has a lot of patience.

Created entirely out of nails!

Enjoy!

Update:

A MySpace friend of mine sent me this info:

I looked this guy up on Google. His name is Saimir Strati and he is Albanian. Here is a link to a page about him. Thanks for sharing his work.
Billie

http://www.mosaicart-sast.com/index.html

If the link doesn't work, try googling his name, he's making a giant horse out of toothpicks right now, both pieces are Guiness Records!

A Fly in your Soup?

2007-11-19T19:04:00.001-08:00

Another doodle, scanned and colored using photoshop.

Cheers!

Dave

Click on the pictures if you're interested in shirts, prints, mugs, or other assorted merchandise featuring this design.

The Scream

2007-11-12T11:43:00.001-08:00

I was doodling while watching TV earlier tonight, then scanned the result and colored it in photoshop.

Click on the pic for prints, shirts and other merchandise featuring this design..

Enjoy.

Dave

The Scream

The new sections of the Amazed Creations online shirt store

2007-11-03T18:18:00.000-07:00

Each design is available on about 90 different items, including a wide variety of shirts and other clothing apparel, prints, bibs, onesies, and much more.

Click on an image below to see all the available products and designs in that group.

SCROLLSAWED ARTWORK

All these pieces are original scrollsawed "paintings" by Dave Danchuk. Each colored section of these was cut out of wood using a scrollsaw, then hand painted using acrylics.

THE REGGAE SECTION

Various reggae themed designs

ACRYLIC PAINTINGS

Various acrylic paintings created by Canadian artist Dave Danchuk.

More of Dave's artwork can be found at: www.amazedcreations.com

LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET

Teaching someone the alphabet? Here's some shirts, bibs, creepers and other assorted merchandise that should help them learn their letters, while promoting their favorite things.

WORDS AND PHRASES

This is the largest section I have, lots of various phrases and words, some more humorous than others

VARIOUS GRAPHIC DESIGNS

An assortment of graphic designs

ZODIAC SYMBOLS AND NAMES

For those that follow their horoscope and astrology

ART SHIRTS

The art shirt section, for artists old and new

AIR, INK, WATER, GRAVITY

A series of prints created using recycled inks, water, an air hose, and gravity

NUMBERS AND LETTERS

Looking for an initial, or your favorite number? Available in a varsity style font. Great for athletes and sports teams, or spelling out the letters of your favorite team

THE SPORTS SECTION

Find shirts and merchandise featuring your favorite sport in a varsity style font

Reggae Shirts and other assorted merchandise and apparel

2007-10-21T14:42:00.000-07:00

I have quite a few reggae themed designs available on a wide variety of items, available at: Amazed Creations : Reggae Designs Click on the pictures to see the items available for each design

New Facebook group for my designs

2007-10-16T21:27:00.000-07:00

Amazed Creations Shirts Group on Facebook

Drop by and take a look at all the designs which are available on about 90 different items of clothing and merchandise.

Cheers!

How I do what I do...

2007-10-15T23:40:00.001-07:00

Here's an older piece I made of Bob Marley, with progression pictures along the way:

So here it is. All the pieces are now cut up (using a scrollsaw) but assembled on a backing board. Took me a couple hours to draw out, and about 8 hours to cut it all up. I then take out pieces and paint them individually, one color at a time, then reassemble them after they dry. It's a slow process, but it works for me, and I don't have to number the pieces, just have to do a bit of a puzzle to keep it assembled. then I just glue it all together, and move on to the next one.

Once it's glued, we get the kitchen table back for a few days....

Prints of this piece and others are available at: Artistrising.com

Where to find me...

2007-10-15T23:08:00.001-07:00

Hey there,

I'm Dave Danchuk, a Canadian scrollsaw artist, who creates artwork by drawing an interconnected line design on a large piece of wood,plywood or MDF (multi-density fiberboard). I then cut the design in to hundreds of little pieces using my Dewalt scrollsaw. The pieces are then each hand painted using acrylics, then glued to a backing board, and hung on a wall somewhere.

I have most of my work on display on my website at: www.amazedcreations.com or on my Myspace page at: myspace.com/amazed_creations

I also have an evergrowing online shirt and merchandise store featuring my artwork as well as various graphic and word designs: www.cafepress.com/amazedcreations