Robin's Jade Carving update 4/3 actually got one done! - Tiki Carving

T Tamapoutini Member Aotearoa (New Zealand) Joined: Aug 30, 2006 Posts: 1530	T Tamapoutini Posted posted on Wed, Aug 8, 2007 2:56 AM Kia ora Robin. You look to be progressing just fine to me. You seem to have the main elements delineated and shaped nicely and its really just a matter of closing in on the finer detail (where, as Ben says, features will take on their final definition/quirks), establishing those final depths and cleaning up any rough surfaces (usually on the 'edges' of various elements: beak, tongue, etc) If your burrs are a getting a bit clumsy it sounds like you'd better wait for those finer ones, although one piece of carving wisdom its good to learn early on is "always use the biggest/best-fitting tool for the task" - as time has gone on I have found myself doing certain jobs on the grinding wheel that I wouldnt have dreamed possible when I first started, ditto with handpiece/detail. I think this is where Ben really excels; his understanding and experience of 'form' allows him to dive in with large burrs and pull out the image he sees. Mere mortals such as ourselves tend to sink a little depth into a 2-D design and do our best in breaching the difference :wink: You may soon learn the benefit of putting a carving away for a while too - the next time you look at it, it will be much more apparent what the next steps must be... Keep us posted! Tama :)

Kia ora Robin.

You look to be progressing just fine to me. You seem to have the main elements delineated and shaped nicely and its really just a matter of closing in on the finer detail (where, as Ben says, features will take on their final definition/quirks), establishing those final depths and cleaning up any rough surfaces (usually on the 'edges' of various elements: beak, tongue, etc) If your burrs are a getting a bit clumsy it sounds like you'd better wait for those finer ones, although one piece of carving wisdom its good to learn early on is "always use the biggest/best-fitting tool for the task" - as time has gone on I have found myself doing certain jobs on the grinding wheel that I wouldnt have dreamed possible when I first started, ditto with handpiece/detail. I think this is where Ben really excels; his understanding and experience of 'form' allows him to dive in with large burrs and pull out the image he sees. Mere mortals such as ourselves tend to sink a little depth into a 2-D design and do our best in breaching the difference :wink:

You may soon learn the benefit of putting a carving away for a while too - the next time you look at it, it will be much more apparent what the next steps must be... Keep us posted!

Tama :)

Post #324031 by Tamapoutini on Wed, Aug 8, 2007 2:56 AM