Jim Kelso Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Sorry to be so quiet here. So much happening these days in the macro and micro worlds. Here's a piece taking shape in wood. Long way to go but the form is largely there. Finish will be varied size gouge cuts as in last photo with polished ridges. 1 My website and INSTAGRAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin_Lyles Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 The simplicity and flow is perfect. Always a pleasure seeing you post. Thanks for sharing, Jim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collin Miller Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Your work is always so peaceful to look at. It's as if it radiates a calm, beautiful "energy" that I could stare at for hours.. “If you trust in yourself. . . believe in your dreams. . . and follow your star. . . you will still get beaten by the people who have spent their time working hard and learning things, the people who weren't so lazy.” ~ Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter johnsson Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 Looking forward to seeing more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Colwell Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 yes, I am looking forward to more. The overall piece sort of eludes me right now. I will be glad to see it come together. please visit my website http://www.professorsforge.com/ “Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” E. V. Debs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kelso Posted January 1, 2017 Author Share Posted January 1, 2017 Thanks very much Kevin, Peter, Collin and Austin. Sorry Kevin to be elusive. I want to have it finished before springing the narrative. (which I don't have totally sorted out anyway). My website and INSTAGRAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Colwell Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 no hurry. Unfolding and evolving is good. When you do get the narrative narrated and all, it would be cool to know what you started with. What did the original stock look like? That sort of thing. Take care, and enjoy the process. kc please visit my website http://www.professorsforge.com/ “Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” E. V. Debs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kelso Posted March 9, 2017 Author Share Posted March 9, 2017 (edited) Sooo... two months later... Slow progress is often real progress. An Eastern Spotted Newt, one of my favorite creatures, in copper uchidashi (hammer revealed). Not quite finished and currently, as shown, being sawn from the original sheet from whence it came. Uchidashi differs from repoussage in that the form is developed entirely from the front. The effect of this is to leave the body of the form at full thickness, leaving much more latitude in finishing the details from the the front. I got lots of progress shots so will try to post those showing the process. Piece will be added to the wood. Edited March 9, 2017 by Jim Kelso clarity 2 My website and INSTAGRAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Dougherty Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Jim, you always post things that I would not have thought possible. That is quite an impressive piece of work! -Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Colwell Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 aha! now I get a little more insight. That is one cool little newt! Seriously, great attention to detail and great technical skills to hollow form that. please visit my website http://www.professorsforge.com/ “Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” E. V. Debs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C Craft Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Wow! Really nice!! If a person has never tried sculpture you can't really appreciate the amount of work and thought that has to go into such a piece! C Craft Customs ~~~ With every custom knife I build I try to accomplish three things. I want that knife to look so good you just have to pick it up, feel so good in your hand you can't wait to try it, and once you use it, you never want to put it down ! If I capture those three factors in each knife I build, I am assured the knife will become a piece that is used and treasured by its owner! ~~~ C Craft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Longmire Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Jim, you just blew my mind yet again! Dayyum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kelso Posted March 11, 2017 Author Share Posted March 11, 2017 (edited) Thanks guys for all the comments! Much appreciated... For info on technique see HERE Edited March 11, 2017 by Jim Kelso My website and INSTAGRAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kelso Posted May 4, 2017 Author Share Posted May 4, 2017 (edited) Finally making more progress on this. All details to follow: Edited May 4, 2017 by Jim Kelso My website and INSTAGRAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kelso Posted May 16, 2017 Author Share Posted May 16, 2017 And from the other side: 1 My website and INSTAGRAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Detrick Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 Sometimes I just don't know what to say. It's amazing how something so simple looking can belie just how beautiful, complex and amazingly well executed something is. It makes my head explode. In a very good way. “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer." -Albert Camus http://www.krakenforge.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesus Hernandez Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 I just saw this, Jim. The new format of the forum has me confused in trying to see posts. This is shaping to be beautiful in the end. Looking forward to seeing more. Enjoy life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kelso Posted May 18, 2017 Author Share Posted May 18, 2017 Thanks very much Wes and Jesus. I've gone through a few sticks of incense on this one... My website and INSTAGRAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kelso Posted May 19, 2017 Author Share Posted May 19, 2017 Ok, so now I have to write about what this is: 1 My website and INSTAGRAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Liebel Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Hey Jim, I just recently discovered your works, and I really am speechless. It is such a pleasure to see your beautiful creations, the flow, the look... I'm in love with it! Do you have any tips on how you create these water-like flows, they really look like straight out of a river... Also, how do you finish the wood? Do you polish it with a polishing wheel? >>> Check out my Youtube channel <<< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kelso Posted May 20, 2017 Author Share Posted May 20, 2017 Thanks very much Jonas. Much appreciated. I've been working at depicting water for a long time. I think you need to love being stream-side, and also study work of those successful in the past. You can feel it in your gut when it's right. Sorry, probably not that helpful. I take the wood to 2,000 grit(American Standard). I then lightly buff with a very forgiving goblet type buff with compound designed for buffing lacquer which is also very mild in action. Most of the woods I use come to a very nice polish this way with no oil or other finish. My website and INSTAGRAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin_Lyles Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 I've already said this, but damnit Jim! (hehe, I had too). Your work is beautifully connected to nature and the "flow" of it. You have something that I envy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kelso Posted May 22, 2017 Author Share Posted May 22, 2017 Thanks very much Austin. I understand my talent to be a gift. While I know envy, and certainly appreciate being able to do what I do, there are things that I value much higher; such as the pursuit of honesty and earning the trust of children. My website and INSTAGRAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kelso Posted May 23, 2017 Author Share Posted May 23, 2017 Please go here for the finished piece: Nyoi / Ruyi Scepter My website and INSTAGRAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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