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Patrick Ferriter

I'm a retired engineer. Always liked to draw, paint, build model-type stuff - hands need to be 'creating' , building, fixing something - for my own personal desires and, hopefully, sometimes (depending on how it works out) satisfaction. Never had any art training. Tried lots of media: oils, watercolor, penci, wood, toothpicks, marble, granite, acrylic - no one is a favorite - although toothpicks is the most fun; they give the 3-d part, and the 'building' part; but since model building requires more time and planning and glueing than paint, oils is my next best favorite medium.

The photos of the (Boldt) Castle show a project that took 3 years and 30,000 toothpicks. The photo of the intarsia multi-colored design is made of 10 different, natural color, exotic hardwoods, 3/8 - inch thick, approximately 360 pieces.

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