Thread: WIP carving talk back show

Originally Posted by underfoot

thats so you can have a major solo exhibition at a prestigious european gallery and become famous and ferociously wealthy and hire dozens of assistants to do all the hack work and then forget all about us on this forum and .......

You sholdn't give me this sort of ideas, mate-they make a bad day even worse -I have ehough "what if's" to deal with. I like your new work-strange as it may seem, the thing I look first at is the base-iI find it's a real pain in the @$$, and you've found a simple but nice solution here.(Right now I'm struggling to fit a stone from the local river as a base to a sculpture-Urghhhh)

Originally Posted by SPIRIT

ok boys and girls this is going to be the last photo for a few weeks the other half is takeing the camera on holies

just have to finish the hair it is going to a mass of curls don't know how l am going to go at this and her dress that she is holding up in her hand put a few folds

It's my favourite so far, I know your thoughts on the subject, that's cool, but if it were mine I'd colour her. Ever thought of doing a circus troupe?

underfoot how about skeghead

l had a go at getting enough pieces for a show at gallery a friend that is a painter were going to share the space but l fund to much pressure to get thing done and ittook the fun out of it a bit ,if l get a little bit better at carving l may have a go again .

good to hear from you again springwater nar l cant bring myself to paint my carvings
talking of colouring in carvings l was thinking could you use one of them wood burning tools and use it to shade in with to make like shadows on a face

ok what do you do when you stuff up and really the carving should be chucked in the bin To hard to fix running out of wood

so what happened you know her top arm well l made her wrist way to thin and when l was working on her dress that she is holding which was going so well l went strait though so now there is a hole just below her hand

Originally Posted by SPIRIT

underfoot how about skeghead

l had a go at getting enough pieces for a show at gallery a friend that is a painter were going to share the space but l fund to much pressure to get thing done and ittook the fun out of it a bit ,if l get a little bit better at carving l may have a go again .

good to hear from you again springwater nar l cant bring myself to paint my carvings
talking of colouring in carvings l was thinking could you use one of them wood burning tools and use it to shade in with to make like shadows on a face

Originally Posted by SPIRIT

ok what do you do when you stuff up and really the carving should be chucked in the bin To hard to fix running out of wood

so what happened you know her top arm well l made her wrist way to thin and when l was working on her dress that she is holding which was going so well l went strait though so now there is a hole just below her hand

Maybe your too concerned with getting things too anatomically correct?
Let light cast the shadows it's an expert at it No chuckn in the bin allowed here, improvise at all costs to keep her alive, do something off beat, you might find she starts singing again

Originally Posted by underfoot

playing around with a piece I was asked to do for a surfing art/memorabilia exhibition,
themed on old 70s Tracks magazine kitsch,(which I used to read from cover to cover twice)
haven't titled it yet , thinking of "pipe dreams" or maybe "wet dreams"

ps. kevin in pic for scale

What's a piece about Tracks without surfing pig of steel, Captain Goodvibes?

Originally Posted by SPIRIT

ok what do you do when you stuff up and really the carving should be chucked in the bin To hard to fix running out of wood
so what happened you know her top arm well l made her wrist way to thin and

now you know why I make so many torso's
my only suggest would be to make her out of plasticene first
and make all the mistakes there,
every piece I make still starts with plasticene (love the stuff)
its available in big blocks too

Originally Posted by springwater

What's a piece about Tracks without surfing pig of steel, Captain Goodvibes?

this piece is going to the states , (the land of the culturally bereft)
I'm not sure they would understand the significance of Captain Goodvibes
influence as a 70s surfing icon (minor deity)

Geeeze Undy!!
Turn my back for a day or two and look what you come up with!!
LOVE it! Just love the melding of the physical body, mind, (spirit), and ocean,-the curl of the wave appearing to be so anatomical , hand-like so that all become one. And the play of surf boards like chiefly feathers. Amazing.

Originally Posted by underfoot

now you know why I make so many torso's
my only suggest would be to make her out of plasticene first
and make all the mistakes there,
every piece I make still starts with plasticene (love the stuff)
its available in big blocks too

its not the case of not knowing how to do it, it was more like sh@# a bit came off that l didn't want to come off, maybe it was my lack of carving skills more like it

Originally Posted by SPIRIT

its not the case of not knowing how to do it, it was more like sh@# a bit came off that l didn't want to come off, maybe it was my lack of carving skills more like it

Nah, I reckon its the wood mate, get yerself some white beech or huon or something that carves properly

Originally Posted by underfoot

Nah, I reckon its the wood mate, get yerself some white beech or huon or something that carves properly

l know l know but im a tight ass one day i will

the wood l am using was cut from my dads place 3 years ago cedar logs about 15cm thick it has a grain every now and then it looks like end grain and is hard to get a clean cut

That is easy to say Undy,and I agree with you. I find it very hard to find Beech in any decent block size, but I never stop looking.

l have never paid cash for wood so how much would you pay for a good carving block

h/30cm w/15cm ?