Thread: New here

Welcome, Beryl!

I don't know much about scroll saw work, but there should be plenty on here who do. Have you checked out that part of the forum? Woodworking in any form is a great hobby, isn't it! You'd be able to do some really original designs with your artistic skill!

Cheers,

Jill

Welcome indeed, Beryl.

I hope that when you say you "imprinted" you mean onto a piece of paper so you still have a set of plans of it? A nice piece indeed. What timber?

As Jill said, there are quite a few people in the scrollsaw section, although it has been a bit quiet lately. Maybe you could spur 'em on into another flurry of posting?

Nice work there Beryl, not the sort of pattern I like doing myself but it looks good.

Jill- Thanks! I have acually drawn my own design from scratch. I may do that again some time. Might be a while though since I'm getting busy, partially with art. I have 4 portraits to do at the moment and more that are asking! I'm about to post one of those.
You should try scrollsaw work, I bet you'd be great!
Skew- Yes it was a piece of paper. You know I can't remimber what kind of wood...
Oges- Thanks! It took time because of the detail but it's fun to do!

Very very nice work!!!

WELCOME !!!!

REgards Lou

Gidday and welcome Beryl

One thing Id like to say if I may?... you say you are busy with other things such as "art" as in painting portraits?... I sorta tend to take issue with that sorta arty pharty discrimination

See to me what youve created with the scroll saw IS art... as much an artform as any painting is an artform... I know even my signature says "woodbutchering" but to me thats a joke a laugh at myself and my meagre attempts at this artform... and many here and elsewhere think of their wood workin as a hobby or a past time... but to me that scrollsaw work you show is ART!

See the work Jill has done with her hubby in the scrub building their home is a kind of art as well... Its beautiful its form and function perfect the execution taking into account detail and color... its ART

What Skew does what Lig does what Wongo does what that young boofhead Auzzie Turner does what Lou does what Wendy does HECK even what I do with the timbers IS ART... of a form... as timber workers woodbutchers or whatever we create things as visually asthetically wonderful as any painter weather landscape seascape portrait or other has ever done... and the sooner we individually and collectively come to terms with that fact the sooner we can realize our own potential and that of those who would buy or appreciate our works... we are woodartists... or artists of wood... simple!...

We are too often denigrating our work by using terms such as hobby and craft that we dont appreciate the work we do... as wood artists we self depreciate what we create by using terms that mean less than art... so... as an artist do you respect the paintings you do? of course you do! it is ART... as everyone knows art to be... but do you really respect the scroll saw work you have created? no you treat it as a hooby something youve done in your spare time not worth a lot other than something you created... but Beryl... IT IS ART! Its beautiful its form is perfect its function is to show and looks attractive to any who see it just like any painting is... its meant to be shown hung on a wall or in a sconce just like... a work of art!!

Sooooo the cross you have created is AS WORTHY of being called ART as the portraits your busy with Please lets not denigrate what we create by the use of terms that depreciate the amount of time effort skill and love that goes into their creation... lets make our work as appreciated as respected and as accepted as the ART it is! By us ourselves talking about what we create as art every time we talk about it to whoever were talking to at the time we will begin to believe it is art ourselves this will then lead to those who are interested or into art per se begin to also appreciate and respect our work on the same level as painters and sculptors! But it begins with us and our own perception of our work

I have had this same discussion MANY times with my sister who is an artist in Broome... who initially viewed what I created as "nice" "thats loverly" "it must be nice having a hobby like that Shane"... it was only AFTER I came to terms with my own creativity and respected that what I did with timber was ART that I came to a point where I would do as she herself as an artist did and demand she respect my work as I respected hers... as ART... since then she has and now is one of my biggest sources of display and sales of my work... it took quite awhile for ME to come to terms with the beauty of what Ive created the work entailed the thought the ideas the time the effort and the sheer exhileration of creation of something anyone would be proud to have on their mantle or wall... once I did... so to has she and so from there have the artists of Broome who she mixes with! Its ONLY when WE ourselves appreciate and RESPECT what we create that we can get above and beyond the "hobby" and "craft" denegration of what we create from wood.

Ahem... sorry to digress

Welcome and well done!

PS... please note the new improved signature and profile... in deference to my own comments above

Have to agree with you there Mr Dingo

Ireckon what you said ,is a piece of art ,dingo.

Originally Posted by Billylad

Ireckon what you said ,is a piece of art ,dingo.

I reckon with all that typing, he's probably still soaking his hands in cold water.

Cheers for that but really I was only warming up!! :eek: You oughta hear me when I really let rip

NewLou- Thanks for the comment!

Wild Dingo- I DO consider my woodwork as ART! I don't think of it as just something on the side that I do. You asked do I respect my scrollsaw work that I have created and answered it no... the answer is Yes! I do agree that woodworking, painting, drawing, and sculpturing is all art. By the way, my portraits are drawings. I call my scrollsaw work "wood art" all the time. My art includes my woodwork along with my drawings and any other thing I have created. To me, Art is something created and original. Which includes my drawings, my woodworking, building, painting, ect...
This piece is hanging on a wall proudly displayed! I made this for my friend and was just as thrilled with it as I am my drawings.
I have and always have considered my woodworking and Art. I know it to be just as much of an art as my drawings. In fact I did woodworking before I ever seriously did drawing.
My woodworking is and has always been ART in MY eyes!
Beryl
ps- Thanks for the comment

Beryl nice job. Dingo nice point.

Pete

Originally Posted by Beryl

My woodworking is and has always been ART in MY eyes!
Beryl

Whew~~~ thank goodness for that then! I love it when a plan comes together Seriously Im glad thats how you feel I simply wish more would feel the same way

Beryl - nice scroll work (though I'm no authority on it) - it just looks good!

Dingo - if you put as much time and effort into your woodarting as you put into your typing, you could have done Leonardo's ceiling in marquetry by now!