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General Category => Gallery => Topic started by: Mark Sanger on July 22, 2013, 01:33:09 PM
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Hi all
This piece is a marquette for a sculpture. It is turned from sycamore, carved, sprayed with acrylic, sits on a black sprayed based and stands around 300mm high.
Thanks for looking. Comments as ever welcome.
(http://i572.photobucket.com/albums/ss166/fullcircle1/1intsig_zpsc9850c2f.jpg)
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Hi Mark, this is striking in it's simplicity of form, is it round or oval. You say this is a marquette so what's the likely size of the statue.
Gwilym
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Wow, really nice, Mark! I have been thinking about something similiar and maybe now you have inspired me. I can only hope I can make somethings that looks so good. Robert
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Hi Mark, this is striking in it's simplicity of form, is it round or oval. You say this is a marquette so what's the likely size of the statue.
Gwilym
Hi , thankyou very much.
It is oval. I am aiming for a full size height of 4 ft ish including plinth. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
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Wow, really nice, Mark! I have been thinking about something similiar and maybe now you have inspired me. I can only hope I can make somethings that looks so good. Robert
Thank you very much. Sculptures are fun and height is not so much of a restriction as width.
Have fun doing yours.
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Mark,
you are curing me of my 'no visible wood' phobia. This is stunning in it's abstract simplicity.
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Simplicity of shape and design but not in the making. Really eye catching Mark. Is the full one going to be textured?
Pete
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Hi Bryan
I hope you are well and I will hopefully see you at the end of the month.
Wood is a beautiful material and I enjoy very much the grain and colours associated with it. I do fear at times though, the opportunity of working in other ways can be missed for fear of covering the wood and others setting fire to us on the stake. :) Sycamore is a great to work with as it is a weed pretty much, has a pretty dull look to it (as I know you know) but turns and carves like butter, it is pretty much all I turn these days, that an beech.
Although I do find it beautiful in it s own right, just knowing it is in abundance means I don't worry about covering it. :)
Thank you for your comments, they are much appreciated.
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Simplicity of shape and design but not in the making. Really eye catching Mark. Is the full one going to be textured?
Pete
Hi Pete
Thank you very much for your comments and I hope you are well. The full size one (the wood for which I am collecting tomorrow) will be either exactly as this one, or left natural and set on a scorched oak base, depends how I feel at the time. :) Or I may just turn a massive chilli and spray it pink. :)
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The pink chilli sounds good LOL. Probably find it would sell as well. I'm doing OK thanks.
Pete
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The pink chilli sounds good LOL. Probably find it would sell as well. I'm doing OK thanks.
Pete
Hey nothing like a pink chilli to heighten the senses :D
Good to hear you are well. Must catch up for a coffee some time, are you still located at your beautiful workshop setting. ?
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Here is a slightly different angle pic, not great on contrast, I have yet to get my photography light sorted. you can see here the texture on the base in contrast to the smooth main form.
(http://i572.photobucket.com/albums/ss166/fullcircle1/BWlowres_zps0716161f.jpg)
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Hi Mark, A piece at it's best from you as always, you keep on pushing the envelope and the thinking of we lesser mortals. Well done.
Cheers David
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Hi Mark, A piece at it's best from you as always, you keep on pushing the envelope and the thinking of we lesser mortals. Well done.
Cheers David
:D Thank you David, it is kind of you and don't get me wrong the kudos is appreciated, but every now and then I am just fortunate to hit on something that works, you should see the hundreds of sketches and designed I have that are a 'c wrap'.
It is rewarding if people enjoy my work (and helpful to pay the bills as well), :) , hopefully I can spread the obsession I have in creating and coming up with new ideas.
Thank you again. Take care.
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Mark. That's another amazing piece from you. My first thought on seeing this was Space Age. It makes me think of a futuristic rocket. I'm sure you didn't intend that but that's what came into my mind initially. Beautiful, simple and, as ever, extremely well executed. Malcolm.
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My first thoughts on seeing this was a bird skull ! and nothing wrong in that ! A lot more carving than turning I suspect but striking result ! lots of careful hand sanding as well . Terry .....
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Hi Malcolm
Thank you for taking the time to comment. Much appreciated, if you see space age that is fine and this is the pull for me of making sculpture as each person will see what they see, and that is fine by me.
Thank you again.
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Hi Malcolm
Thank you for taking the time to comment. Much appreciated, if you see space age that is fine and this is the pull for me of making sculpture as each person will see what they see, and that is fine by me.
Thank you again.
Hi Terry
thank you for taking the time to comment. Most of my work is slowly moving more and more over to sculpture with the lathe being used for a part process for the producing of the base form with some offset turning, I enjoy the process of this work and the lathe alone is limited, but an excellent tool just like any other when used in part.
Sanding wasn't too bad as I have carved parts and the tools were so sharp the finish required little refinement before colouring.
Thanks again
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... great work Mark ... many compliments .. :)
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... great work Mark ... many compliments .. :)
Thank you very much, appreciated.
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A beautiful piece of work. Lovely flowing form, great how you have blended the carving and turning together. What was the inspiration behind this? Thank you for inspiring us.
Haggy
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A beautiful piece of work. Lovely flowing form, great how you have blended the carving and turning together. What was the inspiration behind this? Thank you for inspiring us.
Haggy
Hi Haggy
Thank you for your comments.
This piece was a development of a previous piece. The one shown below,
(http://i572.photobucket.com/albums/ss166/fullcircle1/inst.jpg)
There is not such an inspiration behind the latest piece, more an exploration of form and process, to look at developing solid sculptural forms using the lathe as a tool to achieve, if suitable the end result.
The designs I have been developing for quite some time in the background so it was high time I got on and took them from the sketch book to the solid.
Thank you again for taking the time to comment.
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Thanks Mark for going to the trouble of posting another photo and your thoughts, I know exactly where you are coming from. My problem is my finished work often doesn't end up looking like my sketches!
I love the simplicity of form and how you have pushed things to the limit on your lathe.
Regards Haggy
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My problem is my finished work often doesn't end up looking like my sketches!
Regards Haggy
That is important, in that sketches are just a point of reference. I believe sticking to them can hold back creativity, if we as we work want to go in another direction, then I believe it is important to follow our instincts and just go with it. I have come across many good ideas in this way.
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Mind you I have come up with some rubbish ones too ;D but it is the process of creating either on paper or in the solid that is the important part, and I believe in the long run it is more important than the end result.
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When I am making specific things for clients I have to make something the way that they want, when trying to be innovative I often find that the idea I had in mind when I start turning evolves as I am working. The shape that takes form can suggest other ideas as can the wood.
Pete
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Pete
That is the way I work all of the time, hence I don't do orders as such. If you order something from me it is a bit like Henry Ford, 'you can have what you want as long as you want it my way.' :)