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The Speed Camera Woodpecker is Max Magnus Norman’s new creative sculpture/display art.

The Speed Camera Woodpecker is a bird which enjoys pecking on speed cameras pole. The artist picked very right pole in my opinion. It will definitely get attention from passing motorists. Don’t forget to check out other art work by Max Norman.

Don’t like speed cameras or red-light intersection camera? Make one yourself.

How to make your own speed camera woodpecker?

Follow Max Norman’s step by step instruction.

But think twice before doing this in The States, it’s quite likely that someone will mistake it for a bomb or something.-Max Magnus Norman

Who is Max Magnus Norman?

Max Magnus Norman (b.1973) makes his own path in the world of art.
Sometimes when - if - you meditate or right before you fall asleep you might have seen clear pictures or scenes flash by in front of you eyes. What you see when you look at Max Magnus Norman’s art is that kind of visions. Norman paints or sculpts the images he sees before him in the same manner as a scientist; without additions or subtractions. The result is a very personal art, at the same time it is not uncommon that astonished exhibition visitors recognize details from their own dreams in the paintings.

Max Magnus Norman covers several creative fields. Besides being an acclaimed painter and sculptor he is also the creator behind the highly popular computer game Abashera, a game in which the player wanders through a convincing three dimensional world solving a multitude of clever puzzles and riddles.

Max Magnus Norman’s Home Page
Abashera computer game web site.

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Here are some pics (courtesy of Jesse Draper) of last Saturdays head painting demo, held at my studio in Salt Lake City. Thanks to everyone who came. I hope it was of value to you. I think it went really well. I only shook a little and I don’t think I offended anyone too badly.

‘The robot stage’- I was tempted to call it done here, but I kept going for my students’ sakes.

Here is a shot of me getting Jiggy-with-it.

They are always so interested when I’m getting Jiggy-with-it.

After about 6 hours it was done. Cut me some slack, there were a lot of questions (Joann).

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Well, here it is- the finished product. I probably should have posted a few more stages but I got some momentum going and kept forgetting to shoot it along the way. I think I posted plenty to give you an idea of how I work though.

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This is where a painting gets exciting. I’m over the hump and starting to get some things close to finished but much of it has still hardly been touched. I’m starting to see its potential at this stage. Usually I like a painting best at this stage, not because it looks best here, but because I haven’t been around it long enough to be sick of it yet and enough of it is finished to really begin to appreciate it.

After I brought the two front characters to a fair level of completion. I began to see that I was going to have some very boring negative space between them. This is the problem with painting large. In a sketch even the smallest, most insignificant negative spaces can become big problems. This space was really becoming an area of concern for me till one morning I woke up with the image of and angry dog between the men. I was relieved to have found a solution to say the least. I then invited a friend and her dog to my studio to get some pictures (not just any dog, but one that fit the characteristics of the dog in my mind) . Of course I couldn’t get the dog to do what I wanted but with the pictures and an animal anatomy book I was able to come up with the above sketch, which I will work from in the painting. As you can see below, I then drew him in white (so I can see him against the dark clothing of the man behind him) and began to lay in some fur patterns. Monday I will go into some detail if the paint is dry. It often seems that I get the best results when I’m forced to solve problems like this. This dog will really help reinforce the mood of the painting as well.

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One of the difficult things about doing multifigural paintings is composing the figures so that they are aesthetically pleasing, relate well with one another spatially and conceptually, and best tell the desired story.
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