The Second Ivy Sculpture is Here!
Hurray, 'tis done!
Yet more stripping off bark and sapwood, sawing, milling, gouging, filing, sanding, and polishing with beeswax has deteriorated the state of my fingertips even further; typing smarts a bit and I leave no recognisable fingerprints anymore.
All this work was not in vain, as it has yielded this, The Second One:
I'm very happy with the result and still looking at it, not bored with it yet at all. I wonder what all of you see in this one. Let your imagination run free, if you have any.
It is sitting next to The First One on display as an ornament in my living room, which is what I made them for. It is 75cm (2'5.5") tall, so it is a little higher than that first one:
Both of these are made out of about 40-year-old ivy wood, and started off on a tree looking much like this:
I got the ivy wood from trees that were felled by a storm and cut up for removal:
You can see where I have been sawing away to get my greedy hands on a nice piece of ivy.
So, The Second One is finished; it will be a while before I start a third one, as my hands need to recover first, and sanding this much does get a bit boring after a few days.
Thanks for watching!
Beautiful!!!!! I love both of your evy sculptures! I have to say that I've never thought to use ivy in this way even if my backyard is really full of ivy, maybe I could send you a bit of my ivy :D
Thanks! If you have the ivy, have a go yourself!
You could also use ivy wood for making the little bears and so on, it is much easier to work than broom handle wood. Still, if the ivy in your back yard is still alive, I would leave it where it is.
I have many ivy still alive, but I have to cut some of them every week because it's growing fast and if I don't cut it, my backyard become a jungle ^_^
Like my garden 8-).
It is beautiful. I have made it into something else, but I doubt that it was a good idea. It works fine by itself.
Oh wow, that's looking really good! I had no idea that icy could look this great after a lot of hard work :)
They are both equally beautiful @ocrdu. I love them. Well worth the effort I would say! 😁
Very good..
Great post and looks beautiful @ocrdu
Lovely work @ocrdu. The skill of the artist first lies in seeing beauty and potential in things that others would pass by. I would say you have succeeded :) Upvoted and following, so I can see 'the third one' :)