WIP 7 Dragons April 18, first one getting finished
Mar 11, 2015 9:56:55 GMT -5
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Post by kk on Mar 11, 2015 9:56:55 GMT -5
With the opal being in its closing-state, its time to start something new.
Long delayed, I had the Montana next to me for over a year, so its time to finally risk extending myself above and way beyond what i think I can do.
Some of you might remember that one from one of the contests on the forums.
The idea is "Dream Journey" and requires a humanoid standing on the inside of a Dragon-wing, with the dragon head accepting the caressing hand. The third object of importance is creating a staff, following the moss running up the piece. Eventually, that staff should be standing free at about 75-80%, something that is challenging on this kind of material.
I say, "way beyond what I think I can do", simply because it will involve a face as well as a dragon head. I continue practicing faces, but have successfully shied away from Dragon-heads up to now.
I started with staff and wing on the right and wanted to proceed to the humanoid, but then realized that the Dragon-head needs to be in place to proportion and position the hand and arm. So this week, I finally found an image that I can agree with and started the head.
That thing will be incredibly difficult to photograph when done. If any light from behind comes through, it shows off the wonderful moss, but has any image carved into basically vanish. Smoke and mirrors, doing the title just.... :icon_sunny:
To practice dragon-heads, I took the opportunity and started two more; one in opal and another in Jade. The opal one stays hidden for now, to ensue I do not fall foul of contest rules as I might have with the Mermaid.
Australian Tamworth Nephrite 2 inches tall
And as is, roughened out shape today
In the meantime, I set up a page on FB for contests, trying to bring cabbers, carvers and facetters of any natural material together. This months theme is "Water" and I just finished up my entry today.
Quartz
Till here for now, will update this post most likely once a week as long as one of the pieces is in carving-stage. Once polishing starts, things would/will get boring as nothing really can be seen. :LOLOL:
Thanks for looking, remain with best regards, Kurt
Long delayed, I had the Montana next to me for over a year, so its time to finally risk extending myself above and way beyond what i think I can do.
Some of you might remember that one from one of the contests on the forums.
The idea is "Dream Journey" and requires a humanoid standing on the inside of a Dragon-wing, with the dragon head accepting the caressing hand. The third object of importance is creating a staff, following the moss running up the piece. Eventually, that staff should be standing free at about 75-80%, something that is challenging on this kind of material.
I say, "way beyond what I think I can do", simply because it will involve a face as well as a dragon head. I continue practicing faces, but have successfully shied away from Dragon-heads up to now.
I started with staff and wing on the right and wanted to proceed to the humanoid, but then realized that the Dragon-head needs to be in place to proportion and position the hand and arm. So this week, I finally found an image that I can agree with and started the head.
That thing will be incredibly difficult to photograph when done. If any light from behind comes through, it shows off the wonderful moss, but has any image carved into basically vanish. Smoke and mirrors, doing the title just.... :icon_sunny:
To practice dragon-heads, I took the opportunity and started two more; one in opal and another in Jade. The opal one stays hidden for now, to ensue I do not fall foul of contest rules as I might have with the Mermaid.
Australian Tamworth Nephrite 2 inches tall
And as is, roughened out shape today
In the meantime, I set up a page on FB for contests, trying to bring cabbers, carvers and facetters of any natural material together. This months theme is "Water" and I just finished up my entry today.
Quartz
Till here for now, will update this post most likely once a week as long as one of the pieces is in carving-stage. Once polishing starts, things would/will get boring as nothing really can be seen. :LOLOL:
Thanks for looking, remain with best regards, Kurt
