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    Default Art from the heart

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    Copper and brass wire, unravelled nylon rope, cotton nylon and linen thread, wool, fresh water pearls, tea tree roots, glass beads, oil and acrylic paints, MDF, LED lights running via 12 volt power.
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    Don't normally like this stuff but that is very good!!
    The person who never made a mistake never made anything

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    Quote Originally Posted by rwbuild View Post
    Don't normally like this stuff but that is very good!!
    Thanks Ray, its always good to get a compliment from someone outside the art world (that is if you really are)

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    what size are these? and for sale? or not.... just ticks all the boxes for missus.
    I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tonto View Post
    what size are these? and for sale? or not.... just ticks all the boxes for missus.
    The base is 250mm dia x 64mm high, the tree is approx 400 wide x 450 high. Sorry Tonto it's not for sale as it was made to give as a gift for a birthday and it's three months late I still have to make another then a grove of them within a village in a country scene by this September amongst other things

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    Quote Originally Posted by springwater View Post
    Thanks Ray, its always good to get a compliment from someone outside the art world (that is if you really are)
    I'm about un-arty as they come but when I see something I like ....yep its good
    The person who never made a mistake never made anything

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    I found these pics while attempting to sort out my menagerie of other pics. Just thought you may be interested. The wood is coastal Tea Tree (leptospermum laevigatum). I cut it more or less up the middle with a jig saw and yes I broke a couple of blades doing it. I stripped the bark off with a hefty knife and used it and smaller knives to scrape it smooth then used sand paper to remove any knife chatters. Lining up the holes for the rungs is the hardest part, difficult to explain but you really have to just trust your eye, hold your breath and go for it. I used a spoke shave to taper the rungs and rasps to put a twist in the base and top of the legs. It was painted in oil paint and varnished and the non- painted areas I applied a few coats of linseed/turps mix and buffed.
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    This is one of a pair standing together. It's about eight foot tall. it's structure is of found copper wire woven through holes drilled through tea tree roots then stitched with various lengths of unravelled boat rope which I gathered from our shores where it had washed up. The pom poms are also made from washed up rope. Sorry IMG_0408.jpgIMG_0410.JPGIMG_0415.jpgIMG_0419.jpgPics aren't very good but its all I can muster at the moment.

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    I finished another request for a wonky ladder today. It's made from a different "tea tree" that I've previously used and its difficult to find a usable stick of it. It likes to crack! It even cracks readily, right through sometimes, more often down to its core when it's growing. It often sends new brach shoots up from within the cracks. Most bushes in the environment I find them in are spindly, rarely more than 75mm thick and did I mention, mostly cracked. But the wood is a beautiful colour and the grain has great character.

    The request was for flowers so that's how it went. The unpainted wood is finished in sheeps tongue oil.
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    Well, here's some pics of the latest production line. The first trees' branches hanging out of the way while others are made. This will take some time as I intend to make a forest of them. They're made from copper and brass wire, coated with epoxy glue, wrapped in Mohair and tipped with Rayon threads. Que Sera, Sera...
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    Some raw branches ready for assembly and some nests soaking in brine and armature for others near by...image2.jpgimage1.jpg

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    Just about finished the branches of the third and fourth tree. There's a pic of the holding jig which is used while wrapping wire and a birds eye view on the nests awaiting eggs and stitching into the trees.
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