Big chunk of oak, what shall I carve out of it?
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21 April 2007, 11:54 PM
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In all honesty, UB, there's a lot of bollox talked about art, isn't there? If I need to remove a large chunk of oak from a sculpture, I don't need to use a 300-year-old Japanese gouge forged by the finest of Samurai swordmakers, do I?
I could just as well use a fecking chainsaw or a Rolson Fire Axe. The piece of art is being created by a human being with artistic talent at the end of the day. The person who needs the finest of equipment to do a job is wasting everyone's time.
I could just as well use a fecking chainsaw or a Rolson Fire Axe. The piece of art is being created by a human being with artistic talent at the end of the day. The person who needs the finest of equipment to do a job is wasting everyone's time.
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In all honesty, UB, there's a lot of bollox talked about art, isn't there? If I need to remove a large chunk of oak from a sculpture, I don't need to use a 300-year-old Japanese gouge forged by the finest of Samurai swordmakers, do I?
I could just as well use a fecking chainsaw or a Rolson Fire Axe. The piece of art is being created by a human being with artistic talent at the end of the day. The person who needs the finest of equipment to do a job is wasting everyone's time.
I could just as well use a fecking chainsaw or a Rolson Fire Axe. The piece of art is being created by a human being with artistic talent at the end of the day. The person who needs the finest of equipment to do a job is wasting everyone's time.
I did try to mention that digital sculpture is more rewarding than bashing away at a piece of timber somewhere toward the start of this post. Still, you carry on...
22 April 2007, 12:08 AM
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No, all I'm saying is, I spent £7.99 today on three gouges that will do the job of roughing out the sculpture; I didn't require a Lignum-Vitae mallet, nor did I have some bell-end from St. Martin's College standing over me, ball-aching about the vacuousness of figurative artw*rks.
And a digital sculpture is NOT more rewarding, BTW. Especially if the dental symmetry is all to ****.
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UB , not saying your digital renderings aren't earstwhile, but there something strangely satifying in taking what amounts to a 'chunk of fekkall' toiling with good honest sweat and graft and 'creating ' something worth seeing /using as a doorstop ,candle -holder ashtray, what-have-you... now Im sure Bubba will have a set of Falsies ready to affix to the monster's skull once carved from the once mighty block of Oak..
*are you still doing a Trilobite too, Bubba ?
*are you still doing a Trilobite too, Bubba ?
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my kids on the other hand would most probably disagree and be only too interested in your 'line of work'..
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22 April 2007, 07:24 PM
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You keep at it Bubba, this thread is making interesting reading.
Hopefully your creation will live up to your expectations when you finish it, and this thread will add to its artistic pedigree
Hopefully your creation will live up to your expectations when you finish it, and this thread will add to its artistic pedigree
