Post #468868 by laojia on Tue, Jul 14, 2009 1:18 AM

Hello TC'ers! Thank you late for reply Tikimango/Seeksurf/BigT/BD/Paipo/Benz...

The holiday was good, relaxing, sunny but not very studious for sculpture ... Only some of cord work (thank's for advise BenZ, very useful!) to deliver the last two Koru and a session of two hours to put the Kavakava on the road to progress. Also a pleasant encounter with a parisian carver for a lunch on the road...

BenZ!

How is your hand? Pleased that the card is already come, then that may be in the Yipwan also found its new home... Pleased to see that the postcard that you like! In fact, it is a field of stones lifted, dating back to antiquity and is called "menhir". It is something fairly common in Europe but rarely in such large numbers. Nobody really knows the meaning of any of this...

Some holiday pix:

White sand, sun, blue lagon water but temperature from brittany

A local Kavakava standing above a fountain lost in a field:

Lion that decorates a roof:

A dead thujas tree carving :

The owner of the garden told me that it was carved there are 5 or 6 years by a friend. "It was that or the fire" she has said...
Unicorn head detail:

After all these years, with the weather starts to rot, so she hopes to cut it to install on base.
prow of Drakkar:

No meeting with the artist, moved to the south of France...

Work pix:

Cord work for grenadill Koru:

Almost same for the pink ivory (just forgot to take the picture before delivery...)

Work in progress on the Kavakava

Paipo: I do not know if I am the first to attempt a full version (too recently registered) but I hope I'm not the last. I think it's a very good challenge for a carver... full of detail, full of work...

Foot cord vise: a technique of Indian I believe.

That's all for today, thank's for looking!

Have a nice day!

Jérôme.