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Thread: Some pretty wierd footwear
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28th January 2014, 08:34 AM #1
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Some pretty wierd footwear
Following on from my last post "Some reasonably normal boots".........
When you spend hours/weeks working on a particular theme you get lots of time to contemplate your subject matter. Whilst working on the last lot I stumbled across a book by another cartoonist, "The R.Crumb Coffee Table Art Book" by the American underground cartoonist Robert Crumb. This book is not exactly what you would call politically correct, I'm sure there are some people who might even find it offensive. Whatever your views, this guy can really draw. I was taken with the way he draws footwear in some of his illustrations.......So the next boots I tried to give a bit of a "cartoony" look. These are about 4ft 6inches long, made from unknown timber and rough off the tool finished.boots.jpg They were exhibited in one of the "Sculpture by the Seas"in Sydney. They did not sell and ended up back in my shed taking up more room than desired. The decision was made to work one up a bit, add more detail if you like. Hopefully to increase the chance of a sale. So this is the result after many weeks work,shhoooeeee.jpg stain was used to try and make it look a bit more realistic.
Continuing on with the cartoonish theme the idea arose to hybridise a steel capped workboot with a stiletto, the result is what I call a "Blunetto".shoe3.jpg
Timber is Huon pine its about 400mm long. Decided to lacquer it leaving just the inside part showing as timber..shoe4.jpg The one on the right followed soon after, its made from laminated King William pine. The lamination glue joints did not look right on the inside part so the whole shoe was lacquered black and then the inside bit painted pink. Did a few in different colours and shapes,shoe5.jpg some getting really stretched out...shoe6.jpg this one was approx 600mm long or the "Wobbly Shoes"shoe7.jpg and finally the "Piece De Resistance" The "Flippetto" a cross between a swimming flipper and a stiletto..shoe8.jpg this one is 1 metre long, unknown timber and finished in an automotive lacquer.
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30th January 2014, 09:28 AM #2
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I must stay I'm really impressed with your style and imagination on these 'variations on a theme'. I love both caricature and true-to-life and (at least as far as shoes are concerned) your work certainly 'scratches an itch'. Fantastic!
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30th January 2014, 02:20 PM #3
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Fan-bloody-tastic!!! the whole concept has been remarkably well expressed
and I suppose it shows something of your (slightly warped) sense of humour.
Brilliant!!brava
brava
brava
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4th February 2014, 08:04 PM #4
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Love them!!!
Any plans for an exhibition?? Love to see them.
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5th February 2014, 06:01 AM #5
StilMartens, came to mind.
Awesome work. These should find a place in a fashion designers foyer, or maybe a orthopedic surgeons rooms. Just have to find that niche collector.
Now if you could get a designer to transform these into real world items, they should be popular with the office girls in many industrial workplaces. Our H&S reps were unpopular for repremanding the office girls for crossing the yellow lines.
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5th February 2014, 07:38 AM #6
Amazing work.
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9th February 2014, 07:36 PM #7
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Thanks for the kind comments.
Mobyturns...I can't really see designers transforming them into real world items but I must admit when making them you can't help but to imagine what sort of people would like to wear them. Have you tried to walk with a flipper on? It's not easy, I would imagine a high heeled one would really take some finesse. As for the work boot stiletto hybrids I fancied they might be a hit amongst the transsexual fraternity if made into real life objects. Really though they are just about putting a bit of humour into some serious woodcarving (oxymoron granted).
Nice to see a few woodturners checking out the sculpture and carving section of this forum. In fact it's a pretty cool forum all up! Anyone found a better woodworking one out there?, let me know I'd like to check it out.
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9th February 2014, 09:46 PM #8
I really enjoyed seeing these so I will have to keep an eye out for more of your posts.