I think the days are just getting hotter and hotter, the workshop was quite cool until I had to open the big door to get some wood in. Luckily there was a slight breeze so at least the hot air circulated! And I’ve noticed quite a few ants around the front of the workshop so thats something to keep an eye on, I don’t want a little colony setting up out there.
Speaking of animals, nice little link there even if I say so myself, todays piece is called Noah. Still using the same size profile though a little thicker than Cedric and Otto I think he looks completely different and as though he is about to crawl off into the distance!
The photo today looks slightly different as rather than using the boards I have used on the previous days I put Noah onto the planar, hence todays title, and the reflections that were produced in some of the other photographs I took are something to think about. Maybe a mirrored surface in the future?
Another beautiful day of sunshine, lucky for me that my workshop is quite cool inside and on such a lovely day I don’t even need to turn on the lights as the sun takes care of all the lighting for me. Just a bit of a breese so that it was not unbearably hot either.
Today produced Otto, he is in the same dimensions as Cedric being quite thin, and the same wood. I feel that he works better being along the same lines as Flynn from day one.
Although Otto is from the same width of timber as Cedric the difference in the carving produces such a different effect, in fact I think that he looks thicker than Cedric, but that could just be me!
Again another load of follow up ideas have suggested themselves from this piece. I’m not sure which way I will go tomorrow, I’ll wait and see what inspiration tomorrow brings.
On a completely different note I had an email that I sent in published on the letters page, The Forum, of ‘British Woodworking Magazine’ June/July issue and they even suggest that readers visit my website, how cool is that?
My email was about an article they printed on picture framing, me being a maker of bespoke hand carved picture frames and all, and how they concentrated on one side of framing, that of the fast framer, and a suggestion that they might like to cover the side of framing that I do. Basically I create the frame from scratch, taking a plank of wood, making the moulding, the frame and so on. A lot of people cannot see the difference between this and framing where the moulding is bought in in large amounts and stapled across the corner. To see the difference in what I do have a look at my website www.stillerdesigns.co.uk
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