Molten wood

[Caril Chasens]

I'd love to see feedback from you folks on the digital collage with wood sculpture I have been making..
See Molten Wood, digital collage with wood sculpture

[underfoot]

Hi Caril, it's always nice to have another carver around here.
I really like your carvings and am intrigued with the digital imaging and carving combination, tell us more.
oh, and welcome to the forum

[Caril Chasens]

Thanks...
I did the water in blender 3d.... fascinating and weirdly unreal compared to working with wood..
The wood is from "Sound in Water", deep relief in 2" birch selected and collaged in Gimp software.

Caril Chasens
http://www.chasens.ca

Sound in Water

[artme]

G'day Caril and welcome to the shed!!

A wonderful and fascinating body of work you have there.Love the etherial quality shown in some of the works.

[Claw Hama]

Welcome Caril, fascinating pieces, you have a great imagination. Lovely to see more artwork on the forum.

[wheelinround]

Carl I love you work

[Frank&Earnest]

Excellent site, Caril. Allow me to quote your words:


Sanding is not a substitute for clean tool work. In most cases, it is much more efficient to remove wood by cutting than by sanding.
Tool cuts lend an expressiveness of their own to apiece of work. A face, for instance, with a sanded finish, may require much more toolwork, much more shaping, to achieve a subtlety of expression comparable to that achieved by sharp tools alone. Sanding can remove toolmarks, or when done lightly, simply touch them with the hand of time. Even light sanding may cause a profound change in appearance. Sandpaper is a shaping tool, suitable for removing small amounts of wood, when one wants the effect it produces.

It is nice to see an artist who understands woodcarving.

Now I'll just sit here and wait for the volley of rotten tomatoes.

[Caril Chasens]

Again, thanks...
Correction... the slabs of birch I joined to make the Sound in Water piece averaged about 2 1/2 inches, but one retained the natural flair at the base of the tree which gave the depth at the top right.

Re sanding, I don't think I have any argument with those who promote no-sanding styles of work. It is, simply, a difference in style and taste, a choice. I have suspected that no-sand might have developed at the hand of masters who had to deal with apprentices who might have tried to substitute abrasion for proper finishing of the work with sharp tools.

[underfoot]

Re sanding, It is, simply, a difference in style and taste, a choice. .

there you go...concise and correct...and I can't imagine how anyone could argue the point.

[Frank&Earnest]

there you go...concise and correct...and I can't imagine how anyone could argue the point.

Indeed. I was pedantic, not argumentative.

I was agreeing with "Sandpaper is a shaping tool, suitable for removing small amounts of wood, when one wants the effect it produces."

Shaping, not carving. Different result, as Caril says eloquently.

BTW, I saw once a good article on an old issue of a woodcarving magazine which illustrated this concept by making the example of a masculine, angular face being better suited to carving and a feminine, smooth face being better suited to shaping with sandpaper.

[gabloid]

I'd love to see feedback from you folks on the digital collage with wood sculpture I have been making..
See Molten Wood, digital collage with wood sculpture

Wow they are amazing!