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| ark_ader:
I appreciate the hard work you have done here, but if you had made a sculpture out of dead wood, I could see the effort. |
| Howard_Casto:
There was an artist that used to mount driftwood like this and sell them at places like seaworld. He also sculpted marine life (typically sharks, rays and dolphins) and mounted them to the wood to give the illusion of swimming in mid-air. |
| Le Chuck:
I don't line the mounting point, the branch is a little thick and to me grounds the piece. I would like to have seen that piece in the same position but affixed to the base by some very thin steel rods to give it some lift. Great job on the surface treatment! Love that it's found pieces. |
| yamatetsu:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on May 03, 2015, 01:09:41 am ---if you had made a sculpture out of dead wood, I could see the effort. --- End quote --- Trust me, if I had attempted to make a sculpture out of dead wood, you wouldn't want to see it :) This was not an effort to create some great piece of art, I just found this piece of wood that to me looks like some kind of alien bird and thought that it looked way too good to let it rot. I planned to give it a few coats of clear lacquer and mount it somehow, then someone suggested that I stain it and that's what I did. I have never used stain before, luckily it turned out so much better than the clear coat. To me, the result is something well worth a few hours of work. Also, it was fun to do it. --- Quote from: Le Chuck on May 03, 2015, 07:36:47 am ---I don't line the mounting point, the branch is a little thick and to me grounds the piece. I would like to have seen that piece in the same position but affixed to the base by some very thin steel rods to give it some lift. --- End quote --- I see your point, but that branch was literally the only piece I could find that would serve as a base without having to do a lot of work on it. I don't have the tools to cut a big piece like that horizontally in half to make it thinner, I would have to use a palm sander to do that. That would have been way more effort than I was willing to spend. There also was the concern that a thinner base might be unstable, perhaps allowing the whole thing to topple over. This shows me (again) that posting a finished project is a not so hot idea, since the people here always seem to have good suggestions for improvement. Perhaps I'll learn my lesson some day ::) |
| DaOld Man:
Good job. Reminds me of that movie "The Thing". |
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