Shadrach's Lamps

[Aussie-Chookmum]

I have done this. The trouble is I often only remember to take pictures after I've got something worth photographing.
Also, a lot of the wooden pieces have been cut and cleaned up in a batch, before I even start to think about what to make with them.

I think the cut and cleaned up billet would still be a good contrast with the finished piece. In fact it might be easier to see the original shape of the wood once the bark is removed.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

I've been looking on the web for pieces of wood sculpture.
I'm very disappointed.
Check out these links. Check out those prices!
They're taking the piss aren't they?


https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/d...ulpture-mounted-on-wooden-base/id-f_11282223/

https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/d...wood-sculpture-katsuhisha-sakai/id-f_6177543/

https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/d...lptures/abstract-wood-sculpture/id-f_1196672/

https://www.1stdibs.com/art/sculptu...morphic-willow-basket-sculpture/id-a_6389492/

https://www.1stdibs.com/art/sculptu...head-italian-neo-figurative-art/id-a_6399412/

I suppose some people like the chaotic look? Even the flowing rounded wooden one (no.3) seemed faintly .....disturbing ..... to me.

Yours are much more satisfying Shad.

 

[bruceha2000]

They're taking the piss aren't they?

Maybe they have the Corvid virus and are in a fevered state? Especially this one:
"
"Lily" Contemporary Abstract, Biomorphic Willow Basket Sculpture
2002

$7,800"

My eye!
I guess when it is art and you have a LOT of money you pay a ton and then brag to your other overly rich friends about how much it cost.

Oh yeah, taking the links in the post above into consideration I reckon somewhere around four grand is a fair price.

Nah, you'ld be cheating yourself

 

[Yep I Talk To Chickens]

You are sooooooooo talented wish I could make lamps like that!

 

[bruceha2000]

Heck I wish I could even envision what is in that wood the way Shad does!

 

[Shadrach]

You are sooooooooo talented wish I could make lamps like that!

It's persistence, not talent, honestly, but thank you.

 

[sourland]

It's persistence, not talent, honestly, but thank you.

Perhaps, but the end result is spelled 'Talent'.

 

[rjohns39]

It's persistence, not talent, honestly, but thank you.

Don't kid yourself... It's talent.

 

[Shadrach]

This is called Triple Pitcher.
It's about there now. Another polish and a couple of pock marks to get out.
So, about the joke. I think I need to get out more.
The lamp is ideal for the manager in your life who uses meaningless jargon to hide their incompetence.
If you look at the front of the main piece there are three pitchers. There is the small pitcher set back on the right of the lamp. Next on the left there is the gone funky pitcher with the handle in. And, if you stand back there is the big pitcher (picture)
Oh never mind. I'll get some help.

 

[Shadrach]

I've learn't a couple of things over the past few days.
1) My tools all need sharpening.
2) An interesting piece of wood does not necessarily make an interesting sculpture, be it a lamp or not.
Let me explain. Looking at the piece of wood before I put any major work into it one might think there is a fabulous sculpture to be eked out of it. There are lots of interesting nooks and crannies and some fabulous colours. The problem is, the sculpture is already made by nature and this limits to an extreme what one can do with it without destroying what attracted one to the piece in the first place. I've seen lots of 'interesting' pieces of wood like this called driftwood art on the net and in various arty type shops usually by the seaside somewhere. What is usually done is the piece of wood is dipped in acid to clean it and then sprayed with varnish. I would find it difficult to take much in the way of artistic credit or craftsmanship from doing this.
The fact is I've just got an interesting piece of wood and what I can do to it is pretty much what I've done so far. I could scrape out every section of the grey wood and fill with slate paste; I would still have an interesting piece of wood filled in with slate paste though.
This is how it started out.

This is how it is now.

Most of the section on the right was so badly cracked it had to be removed. Basically I've got the same piece of wood but less of it and maybe not as interesting after quite a lot of work. I will finish the back and sides and put it on a plinth but it is what it is and it isn't really a sculpture done by me.
To better appreciate the point I'm trying to make, the first picture is the piece of wood I started out with when I made Bob lamp. The second picture is the finished lamp. That is quite some transformation. Every surface was been worked and one would not recognise the original piece of wood as the lamp when completed.