Post by kk on Jul 12, 2013 3:06:13 GMT -5
Hi there,
Iv'e been a bit quiet these past two weeks, as I prepare to go to China in a couple of days, and I'm knee-deep into 4 fireagates.
This one needed to be finished first, as I need it as a B'day present next week for my older daughter (23) in my absence.
I started a new chapter on Fire Agates. I finally found a way and the confidence to look at Fire Agate as a stone, not only at the fire. So instead of just cutting out the fire, I want to include the non-fire areas into a composition. No-one really wants the chalcedony dunno28 , yet I find the resulting colors and combinations quite attractive.
Here is the stone and the first cuts that started this project.
Mermaid was the first idea as the tail-section lend itself to it.
At first I thought she would look good doing a backward flip, which would have made access to the body easier. But then I saw the natural form of arms coming down between color and white parts and it became clear that the whole body is already basically there and only head and hair are going to be white.
One thing lead to another, and I finally saw the lower part that could be turned into a fish of sorts.
In the end I got a reasonable dolphin out of it. As the white chalcedony is anything but evenly thick, that was a gamble I had to take.
Here we are now outdoors. In the shadows under a tree on a sunny day
And one more indoors. Room-lights during daytime
Can you find Neptune, watching her?
Oh yeah nearly forgot, got this wonderful material yet again from Christopher and its Mexican coming in at 26 x 20 mm, so its practically one square inch.
Best regards, Kurt
Iv'e been a bit quiet these past two weeks, as I prepare to go to China in a couple of days, and I'm knee-deep into 4 fireagates.
This one needed to be finished first, as I need it as a B'day present next week for my older daughter (23) in my absence.
I started a new chapter on Fire Agates. I finally found a way and the confidence to look at Fire Agate as a stone, not only at the fire. So instead of just cutting out the fire, I want to include the non-fire areas into a composition. No-one really wants the chalcedony dunno28 , yet I find the resulting colors and combinations quite attractive.
Here is the stone and the first cuts that started this project.
Mermaid was the first idea as the tail-section lend itself to it.
At first I thought she would look good doing a backward flip, which would have made access to the body easier. But then I saw the natural form of arms coming down between color and white parts and it became clear that the whole body is already basically there and only head and hair are going to be white.
One thing lead to another, and I finally saw the lower part that could be turned into a fish of sorts.
In the end I got a reasonable dolphin out of it. As the white chalcedony is anything but evenly thick, that was a gamble I had to take.
Here we are now outdoors. In the shadows under a tree on a sunny day
And one more indoors. Room-lights during daytime
Can you find Neptune, watching her?
Oh yeah nearly forgot, got this wonderful material yet again from Christopher and its Mexican coming in at 26 x 20 mm, so its practically one square inch.
Best regards, Kurt
