Thread: carvers gallery - questions and answers.

here's some other angles, I'll try and find some other pics of other things I've made which you may not have seen and post them soon
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Originally Posted by Harry II

thanks, I must say first I'm resisting to shorten your name to undy, ......

Lets call him Reg.

I like the bike too, it is a beauty.

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Lets call him Reg.

I like the bike too, it is a beauty.

thanks Cliffy, Grundy it is then

Two very good threads.
I like flicking through all the ideas and pieces.

My imagination needs lots of help.

Spirit I like the figures coming out of the timber. It adds extra interest.

Another WIP would be good Underfoot. I find seeing how someone progresses very useful. That ranting figure could be lots of people. I know the feeling too well.

hay scally how is the fish commimg on scally that looks great, cedar is nice to work with a bit soft sometimes but the look of the grain how it comes out when it carved makes it a joy

Thanks Arty??
I appreciate your interest in my fish.
You are showing more interest than me.

I have done more shaping and it wouldn't really take much to finish the carving.

My problem is 'deciding' how best to put it together with the weather dials.
Other projects have been easier to finish or work on and there are no shortage of distractions.

Maybe this weekend???
I'll keep checking these threads for inspiration.

the fish is like my 2 hands carving WIP,l hit a hurdle didn't like what l have done tried a butterfly,bird,the nude woman with a big belly now gone back to my first idea of a tree even that has seen so many changes and still not happy
and l have made a 1/2 a chess set and started a new carving

pics from my one and only exhibition in 2005:
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good work harry
load them up in the gallery work like yours will have everbody looking in

geez harry they are stunning...
tell me more ,where was the exhibition?
was it succesfull? when is the next one?
I love em all specially the last image ,is the base a boat form?
hard to see on that pic. just great work
cheers underfoot

Originally Posted by underfoot

geez harry they are stunning...
tell me more ,where was the exhibition?
was it succesfull? when is the next one?
I love em all specially the last image ,is the base a boat form?
hard to see on that pic. just great work
cheers underfoot

Thanks Spirit and Underfoot.
The Exhibition was at the Frankston Cultural Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, they kindly put it on for nothing except 10% commission on sales and I paid for food and drinks on opening night, it went for one month and all five out of eight works were sold. I had others there which were either not for sale (personal reasons) or had been sold before and included in the exhibition because they belonged to the group of work as a whole. I made about $2000 which was good but certainly didn't pay for the hours I put into it, actually if I worked it out I probably got about $1.50 an hour for the labour, but alas it was a labour of love so it didn't matter that much. I got alot of good feedback and later talked to a group of about twenty people about my work.

It took alot of work to get together as I work full time (and the rest) for someone else, so it took about three years of most weekends and two to three hours a night to do. I was exausted after all of it and took months to get going again. It was a strange feeling letting them go for mere money to strangers, like losing something of yourself but at least I now where they all are for now.

Since that exhibition I've gone to ground, and given away to family only, on occasions of birthday milestones and the birth of my nephews first child (the first great grandson of my mother). I'm now happy to take my time working on a few artworks, doing them well, with no rush and seeing where they take me. One of them will for some reason will include nine hundred hearts hand carved from Huon, something I can gradually do in little bits of time I get. I try to do twenty a week and I'm past the half way mark. I'm not actually putting the world on fire with my rate of production but it suits me at the mo. It would be good to devote to full on but it doesn't pay the dreaded bills and I like to look after my small family better.

The last image was influenced by seeing a television doco on some people in Chile (Sth America) who suspend huge fine fine nets on top of their mountains to catch the mist at night as their major source of water.

The base is Blackwood, you can't see it that well but the top of the base is the lighter sapwood which contrasts really well with the almost black heartwood.

I hope by showing you some of my artworks it helps to get you going with yor own work just like by seeing yours gets me going. Thanks for your interest, I got to go and do something now IT'S THE WEEKEND! see ya.

yes l liked the net one also ,also like the larst table what is that at the end of it love to see a close up a friend and l were going to go into a gallery space she is a painter but the dead line came to fast for me working flat out you loose a bit of the feelings for the piece when under the pump