Rainbows End

[Les Symonds]

The horse chestnut in the first pic gets my vote....it's got that ephemeral quality that I never thought you'd achieve in  a solid piece of timber....I think it works really well.
Les

[georg]

        Thank You Pete and Les
        Tony voted for the olive one......    i tweaked the combination a little and tapered the edges. Happy with it now
         Di and Tony

[John D Smith]

Hi Di & Tony,
                     Olive for me everytime
                                                              Regards Popeye

[Graham]

I would go with Les, it has to be the horse chestnut.

[Eric Harvey]

I like the look of the Horse Chesnut,but the Olive one looks better to me.

[edbanger]

Horse Chestnut burr get's my vote 
Ed

[georg]

       Hi Guys  and  thank  you  for  all  your  interest.  Its Much Appreciated.
         
        From the beginning I wanted to be able to see the wood in the Rainbow.
        The Horse Chestnut ( blue wash ) is more how I envisaged it.
          Kind Regards Di and Tony

        BOOERANGS     What`s  BOOERANGS
        Yorkshire for BOOMERANGS

       

         
 

[jabba2003]

I know the piece is now finished, but for next time had got thought of turning an off centred or off balanced disc to stand behind the pot. With concentric groves turned on a face plate, you could hint at a rainbow instead of having it as solid form. The problem for me is that rainbows fade at the ends. Your first version was too literal. Indeed the natural attempts as opposed to the coloured painted/stained ones are much better in my opinion.

[Rlewisrlou666]

Just to add my 2p worth.

From a design stand point I think that if the pot of gold was pushed to the edge of the plinth and the rainbow coming in from the side joining to the board at the centre would make it feel more real.
Giving the impression of the pot at the end of the rainbow rather than just a pot under a rainbow. Clear Acrylic painted on the backside might also give you the impression of transparency and if you wanted to push it even further check out this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MysCLdE6-dI&list=TLsv7_BoOGTv_Ayp2wxARBEdwDL27A0yIF

I agree with what everyone else has said the Pot and the Gold are excellent pieces.
 

[georg]

 Hi John and Ryan........Thank you for your comments ......always open to suggestions and there has been some very good
 and imaginative ones made yours included.
 I came into embellishing texturing  pyro  painting some of Tonys  work about 3 years ago with a 15 month break.
 Rainbow is my interpretation of my imagination of a pot at the end of a rainbow. Our chosen medium is wood and I also wanted
 the rainbow to be wood as we like to show as much of the natural grain as possible. We have however tried to incorporate

 plastics in our work but for us it did not work. Thank you Ryan for the link
 Its always good to have other opinions And comments are welcome
  Di and Tony