2005 Ridgway Rendezvous

Saturday

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Tahoe in the snow

 Progress10  

 

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Saturday morning--more snow overnight, 4 or 5 hours left to carve before the auction.  Did the car really tell me it was 12 degrees?  Maybe that was after dinner... By the time people started wandering around the field (and reading the sign that asked them to take in-progress pictures with the one-use camera), the saw work was finished and I was grinding and grinding
Progress12 Brian Ruth's hummingbird Butler's bear bench
and grinding.  Not at all surprising to grind for an hour and find places that needed more carving.  Two detail saws dead for the duration (stripped tensioners); have to stop somewhere. Brian Ruth's humming birds, carved mostly with the new Red Max saw -- five pounds . (My detail saws, the Echo 345s, are 7# fully gassed.) Brett Butler's bear beach; seal in front.  Catalpa.
Lynn Randall Bears    
Lynn Randall's collection of black bear carvings.    
Carving before the auction The carving before it went up for the auction.

I bought it back from the auction and hauled it home; will continue to carve--would like to get the arms much thinner and get more light inside the carving.  Not sure about finish yet--the wood was too wet to have any idea of what it will look like.

Vocatus atque non vocatus, deus aderit.

Bidden or not, God is present.

The sheet is used to make it easier to crop out the background.  I wasn't yet sure if I would be buying the carving and if it had sold to someone else, I wanted semi-formal pictures.
Clonmacnois in September As it happened, I bought my own carving at the auction and carried it home in the rented Tahoe.  It spent the summer drying, cracking, getting patched, cracking, getting patched, cracking, you get the idea.  If you're at all familiar with how logs dry and crack, you can see this carving was bound to be a challenge.  Eventually, the carving was finished (Sikkens Cetol 1 and Cetol 23), and it made its debut appearance at the 2005 Sculpture in the Garden show at the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill. Clonmacnois installed at NCBG

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