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20th March 2008, 08:16 PM #76
Wow...any more nice comments like this and I wont be able to fit through the shed door to do some work! Thanks though, its always good to get positive feedback.
Your right about the names. I used to at the start, as you 'had to'.
However, after a short period of time, no more names.
Causes a problem with the galleries, as how else do they tell each piece apart if they have no name? Damn Dualisms! They have to manage though with the peculiarities of us workers of art.
These forum smilies are !"Ya cant trust a pig with watermelon ya know"
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21st March 2008, 02:41 PM #77GOLD MEMBER
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Well, then, to restore a bit of balance and allow you to fit through the door again... the flipside of not conveying a "message" with your work is that the viewer has no opportunity to appreciate how well your work does indeed convey it and feel gratified for sharing your vision. The purchaser can only pick up your work if attracted to it, like s/he would pick up a pebble nicely polished by nature, whatever the amount of work you put into it to take it to that point. The same as with Mongrell's stump above, for example, and he does not call himself an artist. Maybe he should.
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21st March 2008, 07:09 PM #78
Here's some more balance:
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
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21st March 2008, 08:07 PM #79
Your Spot on!
I dont have a name for my Sculpture/Art...because I personally dont have a name for it. Useing your analogy of a seaside pebble, thats how I look at the pieces I assist to form, what would be the use of naming an attractive seaside pebble? Im just doing what the piece wants. Sometimes I do put my intentions into the piece, but again, no name could label that intention. If someone likes the piece for its attractiveness, for its form, for its 'balance', thats what the piece needs. If someone needs a name to appreciate a piece of Sculpture they will probably buy someone elses...thats fine. Tis Allllll Gooooood.
Mongrell is most definetly an artist.
Juliet has the words. Good quote Springwater"Ya cant trust a pig with watermelon ya know"
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29th March 2008, 07:21 AM #80Senior Member
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Here's some of my latest stuff-it still needs the finishing(wax), and some discreet metal base-hope by that time I'll have learnt how to use my new camera(what a toy!), and take some better pics:
It's a slow and painful process...the secret is, dont mind the pain.(Ian Norbury)
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29th March 2008, 07:53 AM #81
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29th March 2008, 08:11 AM #82
Artesano,
thank you
you have just made my day as well,
absolutely stunning
by the way, when you get the hang of your new camera
could you post a few pics of where you live
Toledo is a pretty special place
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29th March 2008, 09:36 AM #83
nice artesano, what tools did you manly use
smile and the world will smile with you
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31st March 2008, 04:12 AM #84Senior Member
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Thanks, guys.Underfoot-I live in the county of Toledo, not in the city itself; no problems taking some pics, of course; you were absolutely right about never carving pine again, I'm so sorry I didn't use some decent timber for this piece!...Fortunately now I can have all the ash I want, and at a very nice price as well, and with the posibility to do all the machining myself, which means being able to chose color and grain when gluing the wood
SPIRIT-its made the old way-gouges and mallet, only for the finish I used a Makita mini belt sander(belt is 9mm. wide),and even then I had to do most of the sanding by handIt's a slow and painful process...the secret is, dont mind the pain.(Ian Norbury)
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31st March 2008, 06:44 AM #85
Great work Artesano. That piece has something special about it, very pleasing lines.
Terry
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31st March 2008, 01:23 PM #86GOLD MEMBER
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Love it, Artesano, and would like very much to see it finished and placed in a complimentary setting, but what I would have really loved is to have seen you developing it from the piece of wood, to understand your thought process behind it, something like the way Underfoot delighted us with his winged statue's WIP.
At least,please please please, could you tell whether you saw it complete in your mind or it developed under your gouge, did you join partially shaped pieces or start from a square/cylinder... did you name it?
Thanks.
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31st March 2008, 11:31 PM #87Senior Member
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I did a model in plastilin(is this the word in English?), I find it much easier than drawing 3D stuff, than, in the process of carving I can do some improvisation, if I feel like it, but the model is important to me as it saves time and costly mistakes later.Also, when you have the finished model, the idea you liked so much" in your mind", may not look all that great, you know...I started from a 15X15 cm. piece of pine (sorry about the metric mesures, guys), the laminated kind used in construction-what about art made of working-class materials, still thinking about the name...It's a slow and painful process...the secret is, dont mind the pain.(Ian Norbury)
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15th April 2008, 03:53 PM #88
newish piece, made from
red cedar, sewing machine, typewriter, photocopier, blender, hairdryer,
vacuum cleaner and a toaster
it's about 4x lifesize
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15th April 2008, 06:56 PM #89Cliff.
If you find a post of mine that is missing a pic that you'd like to see, let me know & I'll see if I can find a copy.
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15th April 2008, 07:20 PM #90
Love it
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