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Live Edge Ash Off-Center landscape Christmas tree box
2105 African Wenge.
2105 African Wenge
The box
Live Edge Ash Off-Center landscape Christmas tree box
Hollow form
Hollow form
Puriri vessel with leaves
Nick Valenza

Live Edge Ash Off-Center landscape Christmas tree box

Ash was dyed Transtint Bright Red, scorched, wire wheeled and re-dyed, two shared of gold gilding wax. Pear Off-Axis Tree cut on three axis with different skews, dyed green then some black dye. Silver and Green gilding wax dabbled on tree and ground to simulate snow. All topped with an acrylic krylon spray top coat. Walls roughly 1/4 to 5/16 inch thin.
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Sam Fleisher
Wow, a lot going on there and it all comes together! Any pics of what it looks like without the lid? Looks like it's glowing under there.
 
Nick Valenza
Sam Fleisher said:
Wow, a lot going on there and it all comes together! Any pics of what it looks like without the lid? Looks like it's glowing under there.
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I appreciate your feedback! The lid is just the finial tree. It was hard to get a picture inside since the entry was so small. About 1 inch in diameter. I see that it is busy, and I am wondering if it was the right way to go? What do you think?
 
Sam Fleisher
I see now, I didn't see that the finial was the lid, thought it was the part under it. The red under the bark rim on the inside made me think it was all removable.
Right way to go? Who knows. It makes a person's imagination work. Isn't that the point of art? I imagine mountains/alpine scene with the bark so it's a definite landscape to me!
 
Bill Boehme
Nick Valenza said:
I see that it is busy, and I am wondering if it was the right way to go? What do you think?
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Very nice work on your natural edge bowl and the multi axis tree. It is also good to experiment with colors and other enhancements. You noticed that it was busy because there are several things going on:
  • the natural edge bowl where the focus is on the the wood itself, its inherent attractiveness.
  • the enhancements — dyeing, scorching, and gilding sharpen the viewer’s focus on particular aspects.
  • the multi axis tree is effective in drawing the viewer’s attention.
‘With all of the things going on, the viewer might experience information overload and not be able to see a unifying theme. One of my personal rules of thumb that isn’t intuitively obvious is that "simpler" usually works better and a corollary is that all of the components should look like they belong together. The natural edge bowl and the multi axis tree are very well done and can easily stand on their own, but I think that together they are competing for the viewer’s attention.

These thoughts are just my opinion and aren’t worth any more than any other opinion.
 
Nick Valenza
Bill Boehme said:
Very nice work on your natural edge bowl and the multi axis tree. It is also good to experiment with colors and other enhancements. You noticed that it was busy because there are several things going on:
  • the natural edge bowl where the focus is on the the wood itself, its inherent attractiveness.
  • the enhancements — dyeing, scorching, and gilding sharpen the viewer’s focus on particular aspects.
  • the multi axis tree is effective in drawing the viewer’s attention.
‘With all of the things going on, the viewer might experience information overload and not be able to see a unifying theme. One of my personal rules of thumb that isn’t intuitively obvious is that "simpler" usually works better and a corollary is that all of the components should look like they belong together. The natural edge bowl and the multi axis tree are very well done and can easily stand on their own, but I think that together they are competing for the viewer’s attention.

These thoughts are just my opinion and aren’t worth any more than any other opinion.
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I love it Bill! You are awesome for taking the time to review your thoughts, plan your words, and write it all out! Thank you! This makes good sense! Thank you!
 

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