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I've spent the last 3 days making a RIGHT FEMUR in stainless steel. Often I have a strong urge to make a piece but lack the intellectual rationalization at the time for said project. I have learned not to question this process and just go ahead and make whatever it is. The relevance ALWAYS reveals itself eventually. I find it curious that my instinct and intuition that is generally considered "subconscious" is much quicker to clue me in on what I'm supposed to do. My conscious mind is so often simply trying to play "catch up"...Such is the life of a committed artist,full of eccentric little ironies...I DO know my attachment to this object has to do with RITUAL and some symbolism the femur conveys...
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The long bone itself starts with forged heavy wall stainless pipe.
The ends are built up on convex discs I've pre-formed and welded in the right places for contact surfaces. The rest is "grind and fill" using my MIG wire feed welder running stainless wire. As with nearly all my projects in REPRESENTATIVE art work,I start with many reference photos,and learn as much as I can about whatever it is I'm making. This background info INFORMS the work and helps me to invest the piece with an "authentic"essence...This is what my old man referred to as "doing the homework"...
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Need to get one of your lady friends to pose in a leopard skin loin cloth with it.
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It is now owned by a most lovely lady but she's too shy for leopard skin.I was lucky enough to take molds of her body for my next sculpture,but she won't allow photographs...
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That WAS fun...
I admit I'm a sponge for information and each time I make a piece I do the requisite research to do justice to the piece.For me that part (the acquisition of knowledge)is nearly as enjoyable as the making...
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Dang, this is really excellent. I think I'm going to send it to "Torsos and other body bits", should be perfect in there. I want to keep likenesses to people.
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"Torsos and other body bits"
PERFECT !
I didn't even see that category.
I certainly have more torsos...
Thank you friend.
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Very cool. For a long time now I'd wanted to try a metal sculpture, -like to try, a whole skeleton? I was thinking of a man standing in front of all these possessions, -cars, money, hot chicks, boy-toys, like jet ski or whatever, and behind him the grim reaper with a huge scythe. SO thanks for the advise on how too. Pipe and swaging of course, but I was thinking, ..."How'd he do that"? Awesome concept, great execution.
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Thank you Robert,
this piece took me three days.
I can't imagine how long a whole skeleton would take...but it would be a tremendous amount of work.
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I was thinking a year for the whole project, but with screw press and power hammer dies, it would speed it up, and I have both so????
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Well,it's an enterprising idea.
I also think it's important to be very clear what your trying to accomplish with the piece,and how far you want to go with the realism. As I alluded in my comments on the femur,if you go too far it ceases to be art and becomes model making.Not that that is a bad thing mind you,it just depends on what you're trying to say,if anything...
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ITs a reiteration on the Saying of Christ, "For whatsoever it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul".
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You can always get a real skeleton, not necessarily human, that is missing some bones and replace them with metal ones. Maybe you can even carve some of the bones or do some inlay work on 'em.
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When I was a child,my old man nearly got a commission from a museum to put together a whole RIGHT WHALE SKELETON,and he was going to make the parts that had decomposed or disappeared. That would have been an awesome project.In the end it was too expensive,so it never materialized.Wah
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I don't know how much you want to rely on artisanship but if the result and the creativity matters more you can always consider to work with someone that is familiar with 3D-scanning and 3D wax printing. You can always sculpt the wax models before casting or use the 3D computer app's to make something you couldn't do with traditional means. Another benefit of this approach is that it is far less time consuming.
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I haven't pursued 3D printing yet.
But I do find it interesting.
I know there are very complicated renders that can be realized with such a method.
Bathsheba Grossman seems to be the most successful at this so far...
[link]
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Ooooh! Thanks for the link! Let me give you one of equal interest [link]
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Gorgeous piece! (and it's okay, I have no intellectual rationalization for 99% of the things I make and do - hence all the fetuses in my gallery!)
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Hey Girl,
how ya doin ?
Thank you.
I guess sooner or later I'll have to do a human skull in stainless steel too...
Hey,I'm composing an essay on Shamanic Art,I'll bet there'll be parts of it you can totally relate to.
I don't know in what form the post will occur,maybe my journal,but stay tuned...
Oddly,it's my current commission involving Calla Lilies that has inspired this.
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Oooh... I ADORE calla lillies and cannot wait to see them in your gallery!
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Oh goody, because they will be stunning.I promise.
I've made a series of crude but effective dies for my press which allow me to form the crenelations on the edge of the bronze leaves and shape other subtle aspects that ,added together,REALLY push the realism quotient...I posted my first sample but I since figured out how to add the crenelations and creased center line of each leaf ,so there's a dramatic evolution occurring in the fabrication.
I'm going to try and photograph the dies today,as I think they would be quite instructional for many on this site who work metal...
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Oh wow, awesome! Made me smile and I do like it a lot. Three days. Man your quick. Glad you ended up doing that. - Linda
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Oh good you saw it,
I made good on my promise of several months ago to make it even though I'm not precisely sure of the reason. But until my rational mind comes up with an explanation,I AM thoroughly enjoying it's beauty and construction as a remarkable feat of Divine Engineering,(not mine of course,but the Great Creator). I may have mentioned I've been collecting skulls all my life ,as reference for sculptures ,education, and for their inherent beauty. Now with the investigation and requisite research involved in this piece ,I'm even more entranced by the armature of our bodies,and what we hang tendons and muscle on...
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Hmmm....Self defense? If the idea of a steel bone isn't enough to scare intruders off, you can always clop them upside the cranium with it....
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I fear you may have a screw loose somewhere. But then most of us artist types do. It is a lovely bone. I would worry if you start thinking seriously about making the rest of the set. Sure it would be awesome but it would be a definite obsession at that point as well. A year and 40K is more than just an eccentricity. Perhaps it is the recent passing of Halloween that possessed you to create this object.
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I have several screws loose thank-you-very-much...LOL
But after considering the obsessive and painstaking effort and concentration it would require to make the whole skeleton in stainless steel,it is now only a figure of 120K and eighteen months completion time that would entice me...
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Well that is good to hear. Don't have to worry too much about you. It would be awsome that is for sure.
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I just gotta say HOLY SHIT.
HOLY SHIT
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You'll get there soon I'd wager,
IF you start wearing safety glasses!!!!
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wow,
that's the best excuse I've heard yet...LOL
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tis a beautiful piece of work, whatever your sub-intended purpose.
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If nothing more ,it was a good exercise...
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turned out really nicely! i like the change in textures between the highly polished areas and those that look a little more textured...
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Very important distinction;
where bone rubs on bone at the knee is the patellar surface ,so that area is highly polished . The other end has the "head", which fits into the ball and socket joint of the pelvis. So that surface too is polished. In this way the function is intimated by the surface treatment...
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Oh yeah, the finish on those surfaces is amazingly smooth and polished when you get to check them out on real bones. tis one of the fascinations about the body.
Given that i have already been warned that i am most likely to need a hip replacement in my life, (I have a trick hip that pops in and out of the socket at random intervals,) along with a morbid curiosity and too much time around the natural world, I have spent quite some time checking out bones and things...
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I've been collecting skulls pretty much my whole life.
They are a wonder of engineering and beauty...
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Dem Bones, Dem Bones...something in the bible about dreams of bones...
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Kristalina wrote me,
wants you to have her private email...
Poor kid.
I feel like I want to protect her somehow.
But I actually think she's taking care of business pretty well on her own.
She's got a kid right? But no man around ?
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Yes, Tribe won't let me send her messages and we actually live fairly close to each other...so PM me.
It's tough being a single mom. For sure you get "attentions" that you don't want and wouldn't get if there was a man around. Even in our modern times you get treated differently than when you have some big scary backup. Even by women!
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