Modelling is stagnated, but here are pics of my latest "completed" sculpture...

[jcf]

I'm in sort of a modelling funk, I have ideas but the modelling isn't flowing.

Completed is in quotes because I still have a couple of points to refine on the sculpture and a coat of wax to apply.

Around 52 inches tall, steel flat bar, laminated balsa (the ribs), fir, laminated mahogany, oak and various bits of steel, brass and bronze hardware and manila rope.

I'm designing a couple of other pieces using the same lapstrake and marine themes.


Cheers, Jon

[pyro-manic]

That's really very cool indeed. 

[cthulhu77]

Very nice. Who is your agent? ( I am serious...rare for me, I know)

[Rafael]

Transmits force. But also transmits the quiet reassurance of a steady wind. And the firmness of purpose of a sailing ship.

This modeling adventure really produced a work of art. The beach bum and seadog in me are completely....wow!

Great work, Jon.

Rafa

[AeroplaneDriver]

Oh my! 

That is beautiful!  Amazing the talent that shows up on here.

[John Howling Mouse]

First, that fantastic BRDM and now, Clinker-built accent pieces?  You are one talented visionary!   

[jcf]

Thanks Guys.

Greg, I don't have an agent as yet, I need to get many more pieces completed before I start on the sales circuit... some are in work, others are just concepts and sketches.

Here is the site for a sculpture installation I helped build and install:
http://whitehorsehelix.com/index.htm
Whitehorse Hall is the Everett Community College Arts and Sciences building where I am studying sculpture with Gary Andolina.
Its also a half mile walk from my front door. 

Thanks again guys,
Jon

[Gary]

Jon,
this is beautiful work. I love doing wood working and since I lost my workshop in the divorce, I haven't had a chance to do anything. I liked designing weird furniture, often astheticaly pleasing but donkey painful. Finding such beauty as you have in the wood is truly amazing and like everyone here, I appreciate the lines and flow. But I also really appreciate the artist inside you for being able to do a thing of such beauty.
Please keep posting these works of art along with your models.
Gary

[kitnut617]

Not just good with wood Jon, looks like you're pretty handy with the welder too 

[sotoolslinger]

Excellent

[Damian2]

I'm not an artist but I know what I like and I like your wood...











..shall I get my coat??

D

ps. Jon you may not be modeling but you're doinf something most of us can't do! Love the sculpture!!!

[Brian da Basher]

I like the counterplay between the tension of the rope and the beautiful, soft relaxing curve of the partial boat hull.

Brian da Basher

[noxioux]

You did a great job with the lines of this piece (I do know my art, and what I like).  The thing I like most about it is the visual simplicity.  For the last while I think art in general has become more and more complex, and therby less moving.  Hopefully that trend is reversing itself.  A few simple lines in the right places make all the difference.

So, are there some others we might see?