February 10 2021
After a much needed holiday from the studio organising a few things in my workshop. Here is another “blank canvas” after a couple of days of sanding to a smooth finish by hand. The subject is the big blue skies of the Kalahari with camel thorns, red/orange sands, golden grasses and cheetah stalking springbok. My best wishes to you all. Gordon.
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February 17 2021
I often get asked what tools I use on my carved vessels. Well this is one of them. Quite a nice saw but none the less simply a saw. Here used to remove some of the wood around the vessels feet.
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February 17 2021
Those of you that have done sanding of wood will know about this process. Quite a tedious process really. I hand sand my vessels to preserve the fine wall thickness helping to keep it precisely even. Usually takes a couple of days just sanding to get a reasonable finish down through the grits. At this scale I find any slight deviation in the thickness of the vessel to be too distracting for the final artwork and formal look of the vessel.
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February 22 2021
The sanding nearly complete. Here giving the rim of the vessel a gentle stroke with the sandpaper to sharpen the edges of the rim to make it look nice and crisp. The image also puts a scale on the thickness of the timber.
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