Just Katie Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Please dont make that item Chris. If you do then make sure you give it to someone you dont like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWINKLE Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Perhaps he'll give it to you JK[Www] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Actually, I was going to ask him to make me a little something that he could pop in the post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beryl Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 When I first saw the design, I thought Nazi memorabilia, I think it is just the eagle's head at that angle . I look forward to seeing the end result though. Ok , bigger hole being dug by myself, I think the beak looks a bit Dodo ish. Dives for cover! re the cd bit. Can't you make some grooves and slide in bits of wood (like the bottoms of flat pack drawers) ? Sorry if this has been mentioned, haven't read all the techie bits! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Head Posted April 1, 2007 Author Share Posted April 1, 2007 JK, Twinks, Beryl...It's not meant to aggressive JK, it's my interpretaion of my various passions, tree, bird of prey, music...function, I do hear you, thanks for your truth, it means alot. Why is it aggressive? It wasn't meant to be, although Eagle is pure aggression and truth.Beryl, the challenge is to produce what the heart and the minds eye is saying, to take short cuts would be an awful mistake...the easy way out simply isn't an option. For me an idea starts in the mind, it gets moved to the heart and then through to the hands. I wonder what trained Artists would say?JJ...I sooo appreciate the time and effort you took....you're a real star! The whole point of the piece is that it'sculpture...and can only be from one lump of wood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWINKLE Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 [quote user="Chris Head"]JJ...I sooo appreciate the time and effort you took....you're a real star! The whole point of the piece is that it'sculpture...and can only be from one lump of wood. [/quote]That's what I thought you'd say, so what are you going to do for the CDs then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Chris, I did not say that the piece is aggresive. You have got muddled there somehow. I just dont like it much. It reminds me of those native american pieces that you see. Sorry Chris but others including yourself may think it is very nice. All a matter of taste I suppose. If I post you my address could you make me something to hang my keys on please? Hubby took my last rack down to paint, then he lost it which means I keep losing my car keys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meg Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 I feel the frustration of knowing exactly how you want something to be made, but not knowing how exactly to achieve it, the idea/concept that is! I haven't a clue about bits of wood, but you are spoton about not taking short cuts. You get an idea and have to solve theproblems to achieve the outcome. Cheating and taking short cuts, justto get an effect defeats the whole purpose behind creating and making.Also the solutions bring their own influences. Creative work constantlychanges and evolves during the making process. I guess the bigger theproblems and frustrations that need overcoming, the more rewarding thebetter the satisfaction.Sorry just a ramble........doesn't help with the actual problem though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 I like the design, especially the eagle head. I don't think it breaks the rules to use inserts, but perhaps not in this design. If done it would need to serve an aesthetic as well as a practical purpose, like using marquetry or beading. (Do I mean beading - inlaying strips of contrasting wood) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meg Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Dick i guess it's not about breaking rules, Chris said it had to be from one piece of wood. That is the point. I guess they don't actually need to be slots going all the way across though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Rules are there to be broken, at least sometimes. Possibly.No, that was what I was aiming to say last evening in describing a series of notches in the vertical sides of a cutout, into which the CD cases could sit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meg Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Sometimes there are no rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 [quote user="Dick Smith"] (Do I mean beading - inlaying strips of contrasting wood)[/quote]That's Marquetry, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 That's the chap. But there's a technical term for inlaying little strips of contrasting wood - like on guitars and stuff. Mr Zjob would know, but he seems to be taking some time off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Head Posted April 1, 2007 Author Share Posted April 1, 2007 The thoughts are more than could have dreamed of. You're good people...all of you.Dick, are you undesrtanding how the mind plays havoc when creation is the key, and there are no rules? When there are no rules....what do you do? What's right and what's wrong? How could one possibly start the project knowing how JK feels? But not to do so would be awful....it's the quandry and self belief that is the creator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meg Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 It isn't possible to make something that everyone likes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 I don't do anything like you do, so the processes are different, but I like to draw up possibilities and then chuck them away - but with a slightly clearer idea of what I want. Then it sort of clicks and I know what to do first. I do see where you are coming from, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Chris, if you make me a nice little key holder then I will not nag you and moan when you make your eagle CD holder. So go ahead and make. You can design my key holder if you like and surprise me with it.[:D]. Perhaps something nice which reminds you of me[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Head Posted April 1, 2007 Author Share Posted April 1, 2007 [quote user="Dick Smith"]I don't do anything like you do, so the processes are different, but I like to draw up possibilities and then chuck them away - but with a slightly clearer idea of what I want. Then it sort of clicks and I know what to do first. I do see where you are coming from, though.[/quote]As you near retirement Dick you're beginning to believe that the left side of the brain might just have some validity....come spend a few days with me, it would be a complete pleasure for us, but might mess with your mental health?A key holder Katie? Erm...why?X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 To hang my keys on Chris. [blink] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 I've never denied that creativity is a driving force in all endeavours,I'm actually pretty creative in all sorts of ways! I'm just notaccomplished in those areas that show up in this way. My creativity islinguistic and intellectual. Jus' diffrent, is all.I'll get you a picture of the keyholders I made, Katie. Julie found anold carved letter rack at a bootsale and we took it apart and made TWOkeyracks (quelle luxe). Took about 4 minutes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Head Posted April 1, 2007 Author Share Posted April 1, 2007 But you can hang your keys anywhere Katie....I still don't understand.X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Head Posted April 1, 2007 Author Share Posted April 1, 2007 My creativity is linguistic and intellectual. Jus' diffrent, is all.We were scrapping over the inverse of that very statement weeks ago Dick, do you remember? I think I was saying I was a dummy in your world and you were a complete dunce in mine! At the time it was great fun but got me a ban!I've never denied that creativity is a driving force in all endeavoursMay you suffer the same glorious torture Dick....it's such a tortuous trip!Bedtime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 Agreed. Bronchitis is stopping me mangling wood at the moment, though...Just a last thought. A guy called Joe Renzulli, presidential adviser in the USA to at least 2 presidents on the education of gifted and talented children has described the three characteristics needed for an individual to act in a gifted way:Above average ability (but not necessarily hugely so)High levels of creativityHigh levels of task commitment - he also calls that passion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meg Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 With the right amounts of commitment and passion, anything is possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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