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[Amazonian]

I don't particularly like all of Van Goghs works  of art, but he was still a great artist. Some of his works are sold in excess of like 80 million plus....wow hey.. 

 

Talking about other 'artists',some stuff in art galleries are like they are  done by a 2 year old and everyone gushes over it,lol. Like the sculptures that are erected in town squares and things i see as a bit of junk.lol. Even new buildings and the arty abstract style,,, i rather the old style architecture that has character.

 

Anyway..

 

By the way, i am interested in the story in_spirit, but the link you added was for something tottaly  different.You lol

Edited by Amazonian, 19 January 2013 - 09:27 PM.

[in_spirit]

Lol link modified, lol technology

[Amazonian]

There was one guy in Rio i think it was, there isa giant landfill- dump and he got the workers to collect junk and he used it to compile pictures of the same workers, i am talking about people who literally have nothing. He took photos ofhis compilations and they were displayed in the art museum. He gave each person a photo of his work an it was like they were given gold. It was a simple plan but itworked an was great art because it had abig effect on people. I will find alink to some maybe

Yeah i get ya now... , great idea. They have used the rubbish to create a picture ( I was thinking abstract ?!,) that is quite clever. I used Google images and searched up "Waste Land Art".

[bogfrog]

Nice, i have a beautiful rubbish-portait of an woman on my wall that i cut out from the newspaper, clever dude he was.

Amz, the thing that i find so special about carvers is they can see things other people dont see.

I see a block of jade, you see a mushroom,
i see a block of wood, my mate Dave sees a frog climbing along a delicate blade of grass,
I see a lump of rock, my partner sees a little creature eating a pinecone.
Sometimes turning your vision into reality is a long road fraught with distractions and frustrations, but so is life.

I bet your 'minds eye' is a very healthy and well-developed part of your brain

And as for artists..
Is a dancer, a spiritual master, a musician, a loving parent or a devoted teacher anything less than an artist?
Anyone who conciously works with a medium, especially the medium of self, is continuously creating an evolving, living art form and becoming an embodiment of the universal creativity.
You are art and you are an artist

You are opportunity incarnate.

[Amazonian]

^

I think we are all artists in one way or another.

Edited by Amazonian, 20 January 2013 - 10:00 AM.

[in_spirit]

Nice, i have a beautiful rubbish-portait of an woman on my wall that i cut out from the newspaper, clever dude he was.
Amz, the thing that i find so special about carvers is they can see things other people dont see.
I see a block of jade, you see a mushroom,
i see a block of wood, my mate Dave sees a frog climbing along a delicate blade of grass,
I see a lump of rock, my partner sees a little creature eating a pinecone.
Sometimes turning your vision into reality is a long road fraught with distractions and frustrations, but so is life.
I bet your 'minds eye' is a very healthy and well-developed part of your brain
And as for artists..
Is a dancer, a spiritual master, a musician, a loving parent or a devoted teacher anything less than an artist?
Anyone who conciously works with a medium, especially the medium of self, is continuously creating an evolving, living art form and becoming an embodiment of the universal creativity.
You are art and you are an artist
You are opportunity incarnate.

Thats a very good explanation of divine essence and spiritual cultivation

[in_spirit]

^
I think we are all artists in one way or another.

Not bullshit artists

[Amazonian]

Amz, the thing that i find so special about carvers is they can see things other people dont see.
I see a block of jade, you see a mushroom,
i see a block of wood, my mate Dave sees a frog climbing along a delicate blade of grass,
I see a lump of rock, my partner sees a little creature eating a pinecone..

You mean like this bogfrog....

Here is a bit of wood I saw, and I thought it looked like a bird...

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And after a little bit of sanding...
It became a bird

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[jwerta]

I really like the bird! How big is it?

[bogfrog]

Yeah thats what i mean Amz, good spotting!
I had a really nice eel stick which i found on a west coast beach, perfectly formed mouth and eyes on either side, i couldnt believe my eyes. I will try find a pic, as my friends dog crunched it up

[Amazonian]

I really like the bird! How big is it?

It's about the size of a sparrow,,,small, sits in my palm of my hand.

[in_spirit]

What happened here, did you lose interest Amazonian? I enjoyed seejng your newest creations, and bogfrogsstopped her posts in herscrim thread????

[Amazonian]

^ Nah, mostly just caught up with family duties and stuff .

 

I have been doing a bit of carving actually, but i don't make everything public... It keeps it a little more special for the receiver  that way  i think.

Edited by Amazonian, 25 February 2013 - 09:28 AM.

[GoOnThen]

I haven't looked through this thread for a while but every time I do I am amazed by what you do Amaz . You have a great eye for scale and texture.

You see a bird in that piece of wood that I see as fire wood.

 

Cheers

Got

[bogfrog]

Hey Amz, just wondering if you have heard of tagua nuts, could be a great craving material for you.

 

from wiki:

 

"Given trade restrictions in elephant ivory as well as animal welfare concerns, ivory palm endosperm is often used as a substitute for elephant ivory today, and traded as vegetable ivory, palm ivory, corozo or tagua. When dried out, it can be carved just like elephant ivory; it is often used for beads, buttons, figurines and jewelry, and can be dyed. More recently, palm ivory has been used in the production of bagpipes.

Vegetable ivory stimulates local economies in South America, provides an alternative to cutting down rainforests for farming, and prevents elephants from being killed for the ivory in their tusks."

 

they are really quite cheap if you can find a decent supplier, if you can't find them easily in OZ i can get an email address for you of a very reliable and cheap supplier...i think he charges about 20c per nut and they have already been baked to make them sufficient density for carving

 

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Heres one that my keeps watch over my heatpad.

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[Amazonian]

Yeah, i am familiar with Tagua nuts. I have a few and they cost me $5 each !!! I sent one to someone i know, and they carved a skull out of theirs, it turned out quite well. I do intend on doing some carving eventually with the nuts i have. I am interested to see what this material is like to work with.

 

The lizard above is well done and appears to be from a good size nut. The ones  i have aren't very big.

 

I wonder what the viability of these seeds are...maybe i could plant mine and grow a whole tree of carving possibilities,lol. 

 

Thanks for the info encouragement/enthusiasm bogfrog.

 

EDIT: I may just take you up on the offer for a contact address for the supplier you know of. Thanks bogfrog.

Edited by Amazonian, 17 April 2013 - 01:46 PM.

[bogfrog]

Germination would be unlikely as they are baked at the quarantine centres in order to be deemed safe to enter the country.
Wouldnt that be fantastic though, to have your own ivory palm and harvest nuts when you feel like doing some carving

I saw a carving my mate Dave did with one, of a geckgo hatching out of an egg and he had stained the geckgo with black tea, it looked very effective.

The supplier owns a large plantation himself and only exports the larger nuts overseas for carving. He is passing them on for extremely cheap, what you pay for is the pretty much only what it costs him to put them through the quarantine treatment.

Apparently you can buy up to sack-fulls of nuts off this guy if you want a lifetime supply!
Will track down that email for you over the weekend

[Sabry]

Hnng! So good! I wish i had enough time to do some carving!

So many ideas and awesome little sculptures to make!

Maybe one day I'll buy a Dremel and be an awesome carver like you!