Thread: Benches and Bottles

I really like the finish on the arm/legs. Seems so consistent with the texture of the edges of the top slab.
Might there be a way to build the bottle table as a set of shelves with a smaller footprint? Hoot of a concept!

Whilst not meaning to hijack this thread , I would love to know what you had in mind when designing the carving on the right hand side of the bottle table.
From the limited view I have from the photo it looks to be about the effects of the contents of the bottles !
Mike

You have a vacant corner!?

R.V., There is a way to do tiered shelves with the bottles, just say you had 3 square shelves the same size, the first shelf has holes and a bottle in each corner, the second shelf has holes and a bottle in the middle of each length and the 3rd shelf same as 1st shelf, 12 bottles so get drinking . I'm not great at explaining things but I think you'll get my drift.

Mike, the carving your talking about I called "Torso on a mission" I originally just carved the torso because I'd never tried a male torso but I thought it looked a bit boring and I questioned why artists carve just torso's, it was explained to me by Underfoot I think that it is a teaching method for younger sculptors. Anyway I decided my torso was going on a mission to find more body parts, hence the head and feet but yes it could easily be related to alcohol, I've certainly been off my head a few times with it

Whittling, what you don't see in the photo is the pool table close by so in order to play there can't be anything much in the way, the bottle shelf being low doesn't impede the players.

L o v e the bench

Originally Posted by Robthechisel

I questioned why artists carve just torso's, it was explained to me by Underfoot I think that it is a teaching method for younger sculptors.

I read years ago by a old school classical sculptor that there were no carvings of torsos anywhere before many broken classical statues were brought back from Rome & Greece in the late 17th/ early 18th century in the classical revival of the time.
They were in fact broken statues & if there was only one leg left intact - they chip off the other off to balance things up !

What was though definitely the single most powerful influence by far in establishing he torso as a genre in sculpture was the fact that at the time many thousands of plaster busts & torsos were made for art schools for artists to draw & learn the classical line & to feed the new idea of having museums.
Also it allowed ladies of the time to draw nudes, it was considered improper for them to see a naked model .