Ropework

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Going deeper

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Balancing Act

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The past 3 weeks have been for family, not for art.  But now some balance:

“Balancing Act”?  or “On the Balance”?

An exquisite but damaged teapot is balanced with a Buddhist monk carrying an alms bowl in my new bit of yard art… 🙂

 

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Worm Castings

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And that is Michael’s “piggy” at right in the first photo! My piece is not finished, but the power tool speeded up the progress of getting some depth in that very very hard corner.  Still considering how much variation in finish level and finish texture I want to keep …  but it is all about having fun, and it is fun!   I will have a very sore hand and wrist, and more tonight though…

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Gold Ropes

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Completed pastel drawing, and the new digital foil.   OK, I like this foil, so does that mean the drawing is not really done?  By the logic of my previous post?  🙂

I guess it was not quite done (above) now a bit more detail, with more refined edges.  And two more digital foils of this:

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Gold Rope II

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FIrst image is the original pastel, still in progress. Following images are foils of this draft and two variations based on the first early draft of this piece.  I generally prefer the foils of early, simpler drafts;  by the time the original work is fully realized and satisfying in itself, the digital foil will likely be much too busy to be pleasing.

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Pastels in use

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Mrs. Scarab Beetle

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About 3 inches long, very soft fractured alabaster:  fragile! But fun … for this Egyptian born UK citizen.  Story:

Mrs. Scarab Beetle is a guardian figure from my place of birth:  Alexandria, Egypt.  She offers comfort, but is very fragile so must of course be cared for most tenderly, like all good things.

 

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Alabaster Chip

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Working with a chip of alabaster to make myself a scarab beetle (with human face):

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