Post by kk on Oct 15, 2011 21:35:59 GMT -5
I would like to introduce myself to all the outstanding artisans here at the forum. My name is Kurt and I originally hail from and grew up in Austria. Countryside and mountainous, hence my playground where endless forests and mountains. So it’s no wonder that I had always been fascinated with rocks in one form or another.
About 4 years ago, I was led back to rocks via a seller of Fire Agate. Actually, I was looking for something to present to my wife (of 23 years), and could not find anything to my taste or fitting my budget. Fire Agate seemed so unusual and beautiful, yet is not available here in Asia at all. All said, I decided to circumvent the market all together and bought some rough and a machine similar to a Foredome and started chasing color. I got addicted, and did nothing else until finally, I stumbled on a Lapidary’s forum web-site in December last year. Friendly folks, very talkative and incredibly helpful on building ones confidence (and a lot of them here too LOL). This finally tore me away from Fire Agate and I started working slabs of many different materials (mostly Jaspers and Agates). As I don't sell, I started to slow the output down and started to create cabs with some small extra features
I’m one of those people who do not know how to draw, so my projects are always in my head and tend to constantly change until finished (which is basically never)I’m learning as go along, so things are never sure until it’s done. That means in the end that I need a lot of mentoring, there is sooooo much expertise here that will easily guide me to the next level where I could actually call myself an artist.
I consider myself a beginner and hobbyist, what I have done; I have done by simply having fun experimenting, so I have not even started attempting to emulate the fine work that is presented on the web today, but if you like you can find all my miss-deeds on Facebook under my name “Kainzer Kurt”.
As always, you got my permission to kick me in the behind, if and any time I get lazy or careless in finishing something, or simply if you have any suggestions on how to improve any or all to further visual appeal.
Lets try if this works; for those of you who do not know me yet the following are two pictures of some of my work. One is my first Fire Agate and the other is one of my recent creations a Graveyard leaf.
OK so this did not quite work out. How do I attach multiple pictures?
About 4 years ago, I was led back to rocks via a seller of Fire Agate. Actually, I was looking for something to present to my wife (of 23 years), and could not find anything to my taste or fitting my budget. Fire Agate seemed so unusual and beautiful, yet is not available here in Asia at all. All said, I decided to circumvent the market all together and bought some rough and a machine similar to a Foredome and started chasing color. I got addicted, and did nothing else until finally, I stumbled on a Lapidary’s forum web-site in December last year. Friendly folks, very talkative and incredibly helpful on building ones confidence (and a lot of them here too LOL). This finally tore me away from Fire Agate and I started working slabs of many different materials (mostly Jaspers and Agates). As I don't sell, I started to slow the output down and started to create cabs with some small extra features
I’m one of those people who do not know how to draw, so my projects are always in my head and tend to constantly change until finished (which is basically never)I’m learning as go along, so things are never sure until it’s done. That means in the end that I need a lot of mentoring, there is sooooo much expertise here that will easily guide me to the next level where I could actually call myself an artist.
I consider myself a beginner and hobbyist, what I have done; I have done by simply having fun experimenting, so I have not even started attempting to emulate the fine work that is presented on the web today, but if you like you can find all my miss-deeds on Facebook under my name “Kainzer Kurt”.
As always, you got my permission to kick me in the behind, if and any time I get lazy or careless in finishing something, or simply if you have any suggestions on how to improve any or all to further visual appeal.
Lets try if this works; for those of you who do not know me yet the following are two pictures of some of my work. One is my first Fire Agate and the other is one of my recent creations a Graveyard leaf.
OK so this did not quite work out. How do I attach multiple pictures?