Re: Carving Jurney 2011 - Dec 18. Last addition

[southerly]

looking good Kurt, you just keep getting better and better. Amazing and fun to watch. Thanks for posting your progress.
David

[pete]

Awesome Kurt. Loving it

[ScarlettoSara]

What incredible imagination you have Kurt:)
To take a lump of rock and turn it into this beautiful lizard:)
You are amazing:)

[lonelygems]

 .....i don't want to imagine this forum without you Kurt......Amazing start as always.....

[mehoose]

 

[asianfire]

Thanks everyone,

next update will be delayed by more actual work than expected. Most likely final shape will be established by the coming weekend. I'm still pondering if there would be an advantage to detail this piece. If I do so, it will serve most likely no other purpose that practice to do miniscule work. If I do scales it will have to be in the range of 120 per square inch (2 square millimeter each) to fit the seize, and that seems a challenge still way out of my range.

Daniel: there are a lot of people (yourself included)  who are more than able to take up the baton. We got so many fantastic specialists in many different areas, that carving is nothing more than a little detraction from the whole. 

But thanks for the thought 

[ScarlettoSara]

Hey I wanna hug too:) 
We know you are very special Kurt:)

[39don]

Great looking lizard coming along there Kurt.         I know it would like some scales and Mr Patience can do it.            

Don

[Helene]

Very three dimentional.  I know how hard it is and you make it look easy.

[Enchantra]

Pardon my French..
Kurt that is F***ing amazing! 
I could see that with bead embroidery around it done to mimic Native American designs, since many Native cultures held lizards (Especially the Southwest) in high esteem.

[asianfire]

Hi there, hope everyone is enjoying the weekend and is save from the fires we see on the news every day.

Finally managed to get presentable legs (if not realistic) onto my lizard and was grinding the base into shape, as disaster struck.

A 3 point break


Not all is lost, the breaks can hardly be seen, even if you look for it. There are seams at the tail-section that would more likely draw ones eye when one is looking for breaks.

Shadow-play walk-around


In full sunshine


That was the plan as to how I imagined it to be worn. Grabbed my son to model for a change.


Considering that he was on his way out to work, and he wanted to take off with it, I'm quite happy with the overall look. After being told why he could not get away with it, he searched for fractures and could not find it. :)

So now instead of being worn, it going to be the first piece of mine to go onto one of two walls of mine, reserved for my collecting habits.



I always collected small jade figurines, but I never realized just how big they where in comparison to the things I'm trying to make. Man, suddenly those figurines are huge!!! :)

So in the end, everything considered, I'm not sure if I should not be actually glad that it broke. I keep imagine that it could have been worn and break into a hundred pieces without chance to recover. At least, now I got a keepsake example, even though I can not wear it safely.

Best regards, and thanks for looking, Kurt

[southerly]

Great stuff Kurt, bummer about the break, some rock just want to come apart. Love the lizard well done.

David

[pete]

Kurt, it's fantastic. Nevermind about the break, a bit of epoxy and then it's a great practice piece to finish those technical ideas no doubt you've discovered.

[39don]

Job well done Mr Patience, sorry for the  break but nice recovery. Super polish you  have there too.

Don

[3rdRockFromTheFun]

Way to go Kurt - nice fix and hey, things break sometimes - aren't you glad this wasn't a two year project and you were on the final polish?!!!

I see great things in your future, you improve hugely with each carving!