the old farm sheds (WIP.)

[col's dad]

Have started another carving, it is in QLD. Cowrie, and taken off a drawing of "Jolliff's" (sheds) at "camphill" station near Rylstone NSW. I find the cowrie good to carve being straight grained, but find it a bit hard to see the perspective (is that the right word?) as it is bland so I have been useing graphite to rub on to highlight it , for me it works well, Comments? CD. ( camera resets date to 2007 when you change batteries)

[artme]

Looking good CD.!!! The graphite is doing its job well!!

[Robson Valley]

Very bright and very bad oblique/side lighting helps me a lot. Try a LED flashlight from the side.
I'm running a pair of 18W LED monsters as bright each as 150W incandescent.
Sort of a 120 degree focus, too. 'Way over to the side, I can figure out what's
"up" and what's "down." Very expensive, as in $45 each, but they do cut the gloom of a
short, snowy winter day.

[col's dad]

as you can see I have progressed a little more, think I may have doubled up on a pic. or two. I've swaped and changed things a bit as I've gone along, shifted the tractorto the other shed then made it into a house, then got rid of it and put a truck in the shed . not having much luck with the lighting for the photos, some are too light and others are too dark , looks a bit like a winters day in one of those old english black and white movies,but it dose look better in the flesh so to speakCD.

[Iggy]

Looking good so far


Iggy

[PLD]

Looking real good! Going to be a great carving. Keep going and posting progress.

[col's dad]

buggared up the border went off line when I was doing the scolloping with the chisel, got the router out,. had stop in the wrong place and took a little nipple out of one side, have to try again you wouldn't belive it but I done the same thing on the top!!!, SO I got the plane out and planed the border down evenly all way round so now the carving stands proud of the back with a single line all the way around, I"m happy with the way it has turned out, with all the changes that I've made alone the way.

[Christos]

I enjoyed following this work in progress. Thank you for posting.