C.V.SmithARTWORKS
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Sculptures
    • Bronze
    • Clay / Apoxie Clay
    • Plaster
    • Wood
    • Stone
    • SLIDESHOW
  • Galleries
  • Contact
  • Book
  • River Arts
  • BRAF
  • Saltwater Artists
  • CMCA
  • Yarmouth Art Festival

Birch Log Sculpture ... The Gift That Keeps on Giving

11/14/2013

0 Comments

 
Picture
   
    I know it's not Christmas yet, but I am in the process of getting ready to carry on the annual holiday gift tradition that began 15+ years ago between my brother and I. Following a random discussion that for some reason included projects that we had done (long ago) in our youth, I received a pair of birch logs candle holders from my brother for Christmas. And so it began!
    Having inherited the Smith family sense of humor, I thought it would be amusing to return the log candle holders to my brother the following Christmas with some red ribbon and fake holly attached. My brother, also having the Smith family sense of humor, returned the favor the next year giving me the double decker patriotic version. Then I went side by side on wheels with new red candles. The toilet paper was my brother's addition. So I went 'loco-motive'. 
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
    At some point the used and abused recycled birch logs and pieces started to be replaced, when one or the other of us couldn't successfully dismember and reconstruct something new.
The  challenge was not to be the one who had to start over. One of the most complicated pieces we ended up with was a full rigged ship (of sorts) that had a carved female figurehead and was set up like a weather vane. That one definitely required a 'start over'.
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
    There were several years of variations on a mouse Santa Claus. The mouse eventually morphed into a rabbit. Here it is 2013 and I am faced with a workbench covered with the bits and pieces of birch log 2012. I've got wheels attached but ...
Picture
Picture
Picture
     what's next?
Picture
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Cynthia Smith, Maine artist, originally from Connecticut. Taught art at secondary level for 35 years, retired in 2004. Sculpts in bronze, wood, stone, clay & plaster. Her work can be seen at several mid-coast Maine galleries and shows.

    Picture

    RSS Feed

    Archives

    October 2022
    May 2022
    December 2021
    October 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    October 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    January 2020
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    November 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    March 2017
    January 2017
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    June 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.