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28th March 2012, 09:39 AM #1GOLD MEMBER
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The Frog Dish & the Humpback Whale
The dish is designed as a lilypad, supported by a frog = 20 x 20 x 5cm, western red cedar, you might notice that the front legs are released from the rest of the dish, the dish is 2.5cm deep, the floor is 9mm thick and flat, so the frog feet extend further to support the dish. Solid copper eyes and abalone shell for the ocean coast.
The Humpback whale is a slab of Western Red cedar, about 45 x 65 x 5cm. Knots, rot, chocolate brown, very badly tangled grain and 50+ yrs old. In less than a minute I saw the whale almost exactly as you see it here. Front fin(?) is 18mm thick.
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28th March 2012, 05:34 PM #2SENIOR MEMBER
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Love the frog. I like how you have cut the feet proud of the bottom. My wife, being an official whale spotter during their season here, prefers the humpback. Everybody happy!
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29th March 2012, 01:09 AM #3
Creative stuff...well done
Mapleman
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29th March 2012, 04:23 PM #4Member
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I like what you've created RV. The shape of the whale especially!
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30th March 2012, 04:42 AM #5GOLD MEMBER
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Whittling, Mapleman: Thank you. My sense of shapes has been strongly influenced by the art of the Pacific Northwest coast for more than 50 years.
Thank you, Jack. No thinking or planning involved. What you see is the shape of the whale that I saw in the wood. The realization was quite sudden. I drew the form with a crayon and went straight to the bandsaw.
The Frog Dish is a gift for a Kwakiutl (midcoast) woman of Frog Clan. She's a very good friend of my D2. She traveled from Vancouver to N. Yorkshire last August for the wedding.
Oddly, I have never felt any ownership of the Whale. When he turns up in another month or so, I'm going to try to give it back to the guy that offered me the wood in the first place.
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7th April 2012, 04:23 PM #6GOLD MEMBER
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The Kwakiutl woman of Frog Clan now has the dish. I believe that she is pleased.
She honored my little family. I have never found more reason to finish a carving.
I am satisfied. Case closed.
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7th April 2012, 04:45 PM #7
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