From:
Julianna <juliannay@zzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:58:28 -0500
Subject:
What is it that carries your work?(surface pattern and
Robin Putnam wrote:
Quoted text begins.I will be the first to say.....people buying my alabaster work.....I
believe....buy it because it is a beautiful, shiny, colorful stone.
End of quote.
I, like Robin, find that many of my patrons buy my sculptures because it
is "a beautiful, shiny, colorful stone." I work very diligently to make
the surfaces of my sculptures as smooth and shiny as possible. The
smoothness is important to me because I want people to want to touch the
stone (which happens---and is always frightening when someone with rings
reaches out towards my sculptures!), and because leaving scratches in
the stone makes me feel like I didn't do a proper job of finishing it.
The shininess is important because it accents the lines in my work
(particularly when the sculpture is in good light).
That being said, I did enjoy the texture left by my rifflers in my first
sculpture (before I started sanding), and plan to experiment with
texture in the future. And I, too, have been told that I should try
working in non-colourful stone because some of my lines can get lost in
the natural colours of the stone. But for now, I'm having fun with my
shiny, colourful sculptures, and with discovering different stones.
[End my two cents]
Julianna
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