Daniel
Member
Hello Penturners. It has been a very long time since I came to this site. So thought I would re introduce myself. My name really is Daniel. I was one of the very first members of this group. Way way back. I remember when Yahoo groups for penturners was the best thing going on the net. Me and a few others started making comments about how many conversations got lost and had to be revisited. and a couple of very bold souls gave birth to this place. I still recall my personal invite by one of them. And my first visit to the forum that resulted. there where maybe 12 forum topics and maybe half a dozen posts. My original introduction was one of them. It seemed to take of with an explosion from there. Becoming the single greatest example of an internet community I have yet to witness to this day. I hope it has retained that characteristic. IN addition I pretty much gave birth to the group buy idea. Starting with the CA group buy that I hope is still functioning today. A project that required I get people to trust me for paying me up front for a $150 order of CA. it took me over a month to get the first set of orders in the bag. Many due to a few very good friends and people that simply put their trust in me and wanted to see the project succeed. Most of them did not nee glue. After the first order the program took off. I fairly quickly turned it over to Monty. I went on to develop the group buy idea over quite a few products. my last being a huge order directly from India for leather pen cases. That one almost ended in a huge disaster and required over 8 months to complete. Thank goodness I had a well established reputation by that time and a large group of people that where sympathetic. That group buy as well as other things I saw starting to happen within that who idea caused me to rethink where the group buy mentality was leading my friends. In short people here trusted the group buy process and it began to make the vulnerable to fraud. so I removed my support of it. Group buys where also pretty much my entire reason to participate in this group. So without doing them. my participation dwindled to non existence. I did make one other attempt at supply some out of the mainstream supplies by rearing chickens for feathers. back when feather blanks where the latest and greatest thing. But that turned out o be about a two year adventure that flopped. So life has gone on. I do not do a lot of turning lately because my son lives in my shop. But I have gone on with my creative and artistic bent. I used to comment a lot and get into debates with other penturners about the artistic merit of penturning. is it an art? Does it require any artistic skills. Back then I did not have a lot to offer as far as my experience with art. Except my pens. and it is a bit hard to demonstrate artistic knowledge of a pen when all you have as an example of art is a pen. Well in the last 19 months I have applied myself to a lifelong desire to draw highly realistic portraits. Now I have always done various forms of art. wood carving. ceramic. clay sculpture. drawing painting etc. But I was one of those that always said. I cannot draw people. I wanted very badly to be able to set down and do a good likeness of a person in charcoal. Like the artist will do of you on the sidewalk for $40. many years ago I found a book that I attempted such portraits just long enough to be convinced that I could do it. but I never attempted it. Then 19 months ago I found a book title. Drawing Lifelike Heads. by Lance Richlin. I purchased it brought it home and was off. Now learning to draw is much like learning to turn. it si a process and you do what you do at first. identify what needs to be improved and purchase a bunch of crap to make your creations better. Except pencils are far cheaper than turning tools. I want to share with all of you this. it is one of my latest finished works. I have 11 more drawings currently in progress. But for the old salts that remember me I think this will be something fun to see. This is a pencil drawing done by me. Her name is Adriana Cernanova.
And with that. I also say turning a pen is an artistic activity.
And with that. I also say turning a pen is an artistic activity.
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