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Old Jul 28, 2009, 11:06 PM   #1
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Old Jul 28, 2009, 11:13 PM   #2
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Hey, nice! Quite expressive. You're really versatile!
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After my surgery on my tendons in my hand I had something to prove to myself so I fiddled with this for a few weeks and then I sent the dog carving to my brother in Germany and put away the one of my second ex-wife for old times sake. I was a cathartic sort of demonstration of my resolve to get over a couple of things. Dont ask me what I did for the third wife..LOL
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Just don't tell me you're into taxidermy as well...
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Re: alabaster carving from five years ago
grandpa sure was, he did his share of deer heads, elk and pronghorn sets for hunters and some want to be hunters. He used to have a box of eyes, tongues, fake teeth, sewing thread, paper stuffing, sawdust bucket, needles, etc. and wire frames for the whole kit and kaboodle. They are all sitting in a museum somewhere in Big Timber Montana I am told. Like his huge copper still and his Indian Motorcycle and sidecar. LOL
Grandpa aquired things before and after the war to supplement the income when times was hard.
He never raised cattle but used his land for grazing and charged a bit of a fee I think and he had the water rights up the east boulder river as far as the eye could see till you get to the oil road on the way to McCleod bar.
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Jeff you are an eccentric, and extremely gifted. They sometimes go hand in hand.
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Re: alabaster carving from five years ago
check out my resin I did of my second wife.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...reginawar1.jpg

whew, I thought you said I were going to say I was illiterate, LOL
I know for a fact my parents were married before I was born........ROFL
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lol, they are quite good, ... are you related to Da Vinvci by any chance???
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No but my father insisted I study the masters from the Romance period and Di Vinci, when I was ten I built my first ornithopter. My father is an engineer and he insisted my brother and find our talent, My brothers is women and photography and weapons. Mine is just wenching and attempts at creativity. I spent years trying to copy styles, and now I am just trying to find my own. I am afraid I have to become friends with my creative side stop beating it up. I have to be happy with my own skin, my own abilities and find some balance, then I think I can afford to be creative and enjoy it. I admire anyone with tthe courage to try, because I often lack that and just try to do what is popular. Like my humor, my artwork is of a singular taste, ROFL.
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lol, i believe copying is the greatest form of art, and the most difficult! as you need to be born with the skill! some would say that is your style
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Re: alabaster carving from five years ago
My father said the same as well, there are great lessons in the best works of man.
If a transformation occurs and the person achieves a sense of enjoyment or is disturbed
by something but maintains their interest, the I guess its art. I hope some of what I did in my life was as good. I did relief carvings for a home in Colorado Springs from white sugar marble and alabaster, but the home went unsold . I used my best technique and was very proud of it. but it was just a copy of some Italian mantlepiece and facade that I had seen.
I went to Ickworth Gardens and saw their famous Italian work as well and learned the painful truth that even theirs was carved in Italy and then shipped over to be assembled in a factory, LOL
But I did learn some patience.
Now I cant even carve simple letters in alabaster or sandstone, I simply cannot hold a chisel long enough, and the air chisel is out of the question as it makes my hand swell.
Now one day I hope to show my grandson how to carve and build furniture in wood and appreciate the soul that is in the wood and in the stone.
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sorry couldn't reply earlier was just in and out with.....

but teaching your grandson, that will be very noble of you!!, hope he will appreciate it i never got to meet my own, so he better... , some styles is better refined when its passed on!
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My grandfather was an accomplished Mason and Carpenter and many other things I suppose and he made good corn liquer too, LOL.
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so you come from a very gifted family!,

my mom makes good wine from most fruits,... i haven't learned how to do it may be i should ,... do you want to teach them how to make liquor? lol
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I think I come from a family of resourceful people, LOL
yeah, I do have an aunt that carved and painted, I never met her
but we still have her work in the house, she was a crazy Norwegian woman.
I guess an "eccentric" by today's standards.
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resourceful you say! lol... "eccentric" you say, i would say she should be very gifted they always are.... even you are!
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