Beautiful job Will!! Is that wood possibly beech? Kinda looks like it could also be white oak.
Wednesday Photoday, Art in Sailing
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I'm amazed too! WOW!
THAT is beauty, great photo.
- Will (Dragonfly)
Spanish Red Cedar.
It has good contrast for burning, the grain has good character and finishes up quite beautifully.
- Will (Dragonfly)
Oh come one. Charlottes Web this early. Couldn't you give subtle clues like " beautiful pig"
Multiple Artists. I ended up buying a Giclée from the artist that did the dinghies. Waiting on the frame to be done. It will be going on the boat to replace a tacky tourist print that is on-board now.
Almost bought one of these last weekend at our local marine flea market. They were carved out of bamboo stumps.
Those are so cool. It would be hard to resist those. Bamboo stands up well to a marine environment too.last weekend at our local marine flea market. They were carved out of bamboo stumps.
The artist who did the dinghies is seriously talented. Their art may be really valuable some day, if not already. Best I've seen in a long time.
- Will (Dragonfly)
I was torn. The carvings were only $35, but I had already spent hundreds on boat stuff at the flea market, and had just bought the dinghy painting the week before. Hopefully he will be back for the flea market next year.
I'll try to post a picture of the painting we bought when it gets back from the framers. It was more tropical than those I took pictures of.
Nice work Will! I thought of trying my hand at wood burning but I don't think I have the patience or talent.
Sailboat are works of art and I think every sailboat owner had some sense of their boat also being an expression of their own artistic sense.
I am surprised, however, at how little modern boat owners embellish their own boats.
I have seen lots and lots of examples of homes, barns, front doors, lawns and gardens with amazing art added to express the owner's sense of artistry, yet there are so few examples of such additions to boats. Clever names seem to be the furthest most people take it.
By the way, the friendship sloop is, in my opinion, about as beautiful as a sailboat can get.
Here is a painting my parents have hanging over their fireplace. It came out of my grandmother's house, I think it was bought by my father's step-father from a street artist in Spain ny the name Guillermo Gomez Gil. It is a favorite in the family and my older brother had already laid claim to it as part of his inheritance, when the time comes.
A sailing friend of mine turned this piece of spalted maple
Into this beautiful side board for my front hall
Into this beautiful side board for my front hall
Them's some big ass box joints! very niceA sailing friend of mine turned this piece of spalted maple
Into this beautiful side board for my front hall
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- Dec 29, 2008
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Thanks for asking, Larry. We suffered some superficial damage in the marina, mostly due to the boat on our port side breaking its mooring line and banging into us. Interestingly, lost some electronics (AIS transponder), our 100# fisherman anchor jumped out of its bracket and gouged the deck, some bright work gouged up, and a few little things here and there - surprising how it adds up! Otherwise, we were pretty well prepared.
So I got then new painting back from the framers, and installed last weekend:
Here is a closeup of the piece.
And this is the tacky tourist art it replaced. lol
Thank you for posting. Beautiful painting and a great design on the frame.
You know, even tacky tourist art speaks to people because great art should tell a story. Tourist art has a story.
- Will (Dragonfly)
I make my living as an artist. I make kinetic sculpture very much influenced by my sailing addiction so I thought I'd post a couple of videos of some sailing related work.