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Finishing up the new commission for Santa Barbara County Bowl, which is Santa Barbara’s premiere music venue, soon to be grouted and placed amongst the newly landscaped hillside leading to the open air music canyon that all Santa Barbarans have grown to love for many years. This is a memorial boulder for Rex Marchbanks, who was instrumental in helping the County Bowl as their all around man for many years. It’s been said that Rex Marchbanks was the person Jeff Bridges modeled his character Dumbowski, in the feature film, The Big Dumbowski. Please check out this music venue if you’re ever in Santa Barbara  www.sbbowl.com enjoy! Dan Chrynko

Here’s a stained glass mosaic commission just completed for the Mc Laine family of Santa Barbara. Mosaic glass sun design inlayed into a beautiful sandstone boulder at the foot of customers front stairway. This is a beautiful and interesting way to add a little spot mosaic to a boulder, without covering the entire boulder….as I usuall do.

Here is a recent all glass mosaic  I’ve completed, ready for purchase and installation almost anywhere. Each of these mosaic  panels are made with mortar and galvanized expanded metal lath wire for the ultimate indestructiability! Can be used as or sold to you as individual panels or as a complete mural that would span twelve feet in length. Thickness is aprox 1.5 - 2 inchers. If interested, please contact me at (805)569-2419 or sbmosaics@aol.com. Other designs can also be rendered for you choosing. Enjoy!

Next time you come to Santa Barbara visit the Old Mission and see the newest addition to their new beautiful front garden with the artistic accent of one of Dan’s Sunflower Boulders. Just one mile west of the Santa Barbara Botanical Gardens.

Dan Chrynko’s latest commissioned memorial bench. The Elenor Wright Memorial bench honors Mrs Wright for all her contributions and financial aid to Phoenix House of Santa Barbara and the Mental Health Community.There will be a dedication to Mrs. Wright and her family in June.

Tea Fire Lizard now nicknamed after hero Lance Hoffman  has been totally transformed from fire damaged lizard to superhero lizard. He beat the odds and survived the hurendous wild fire of Santa Barbara’s, recent Tea Fire of 2008!

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In November fo 2008 Santa Barbara had a wildfire that was fueled by Sundowner winds of seventy miles an hour. In short time, the blaze consumed over 200 homes in the Santa Barbara and Monticito area of Southern california. Two people were seriously injured and one death as a result of the fire.

 Here is one of my many mosaic lizards commissioned by a customer years ago, and how it fared in their private sculpture garden, after the fire. Their home fifty feet away, burned to the ground. The metal trowel you see in the video was found not more than ten feet away from the mosaic lizard on the ground.

 I am very proud of how well the sculpture held up…but then I never take short cuts on how I put my artwork together, or spare using good materials.   sbmosaics@aol.com

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Next week and weeks to come, I will be posting fun Gurilla art and other artistic expressions from my community in support and solidarity to artis everywhere that challenge the meaning of public art. Drop by for the fun, or maybe you’ll have something to share of your community. Now go out there and make some public art of yourself….with your family and friends!

DAN  sbmosaics @aol.com

Have you always seceretly liked dragonfly’s, but have been in denial about wanting to get to know them? Well, here’s your chance to free your inabitions and make friends with one…as you can see, it can be done!

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Watch a video of the sparkling, Interactive “Celestial Realities” Boulder at Dan’s Chrynko’s hidden studio, nestled next Santa Barbara’s Mission Creek, a few steps from Santa Barbara’s Historical Old Mission. This is an “Interactive Boulder,” where the artist wants to have some kind of interplay with the artwork and the people who are viewing the artwork.

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