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spiritwoodturner
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I don't actually know who started with the Rotini pasta, but Eugene's the first I've seen, so I'll give him credit and my thanks for lighting the match in me to work on these!
I had a dream one night. I'd been asking the Universe where my art should go, I was a bit frustrated that I just coudn't come up with anything "Mine", so in my dream I started making bowls with ancient rock art reproductions in them, carved out and then filled with shell or stone. I guess the spark for that came from an article I read a few years ago by Stephen Hatcher, who does inlay in bowls. The guy is wacko great, and he's actually teaching at Anderson Ranch right in my backyard of Aspen this summer. But I digress. I bought myself a Mastercarve carver/burner, and am working on my ideas as we speak.
But then, this pasta always looked like Petroglyphs anyway, so why not work on a background media like stone to set them in? First, I tried black sand. WOW, what a crummy idea! On the first cut on my Proxxon table saw with carbide-tipped blade, it looked like that old bucksaw off The 3 Stooges when Moe ran it over Curly's head!!! Teeth every which way! So tossed those (and had my blade UnStoogied), went to black glitter, hated it, tried a mess of colored glitter, looked like something one of my kids yacked up when they were 2, so was getting flusterated. Then, I went to my local Plastics dealer and they had Castin' Crafts Faux Granite. It comes in a bag and dang, it looks a lot like stone, kinda like Corian. They make about 6 varieties, so of course I bought them all. I'm like the rube at a carnival, if they said they had 60 different ones, I'd have bought them all, sight unseen.
ANYWAY, here's the first finished product. My color balance is a bit off, it's really a nice grey, looks surpisingly like Granite. Not fanatical about the kit, but right now I'm concentrating more on the medium, and had a bunch of these handy.
As always, comments and criticisms/critiques welcome!
Thanks,
Dale
I had a dream one night. I'd been asking the Universe where my art should go, I was a bit frustrated that I just coudn't come up with anything "Mine", so in my dream I started making bowls with ancient rock art reproductions in them, carved out and then filled with shell or stone. I guess the spark for that came from an article I read a few years ago by Stephen Hatcher, who does inlay in bowls. The guy is wacko great, and he's actually teaching at Anderson Ranch right in my backyard of Aspen this summer. But I digress. I bought myself a Mastercarve carver/burner, and am working on my ideas as we speak.
But then, this pasta always looked like Petroglyphs anyway, so why not work on a background media like stone to set them in? First, I tried black sand. WOW, what a crummy idea! On the first cut on my Proxxon table saw with carbide-tipped blade, it looked like that old bucksaw off The 3 Stooges when Moe ran it over Curly's head!!! Teeth every which way! So tossed those (and had my blade UnStoogied), went to black glitter, hated it, tried a mess of colored glitter, looked like something one of my kids yacked up when they were 2, so was getting flusterated. Then, I went to my local Plastics dealer and they had Castin' Crafts Faux Granite. It comes in a bag and dang, it looks a lot like stone, kinda like Corian. They make about 6 varieties, so of course I bought them all. I'm like the rube at a carnival, if they said they had 60 different ones, I'd have bought them all, sight unseen.
ANYWAY, here's the first finished product. My color balance is a bit off, it's really a nice grey, looks surpisingly like Granite. Not fanatical about the kit, but right now I'm concentrating more on the medium, and had a bunch of these handy.
As always, comments and criticisms/critiques welcome!
Thanks,
Dale
