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bradford pear

  1. Bradford Pear Jewelry Box (lid detail)

    Bradford Pear Jewelry Box (lid detail)

    Interior view of the texture on the lid of a Bradford Pear jewelry box.
    • Clayton Thigpen
    • Media item
    • bradford pear lidded box totw
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Member Galleries
  2. Bradford Pear Jewelry Box (outer)

    Bradford Pear Jewelry Box (outer)

    Bradford Pear with an intense fiddleback pattern. The outside and inside of the lid are both textured. CA finish over linseed oil (OB Shine Juice, technically)
    • Clayton Thigpen
    • Media item
    • bradford pear jewelry box lidded box totw
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Member Galleries
  3. Winter Days

    Winter Days

    Bradford Pear, turned, carved, pyroed, and painted. The name reference to the seemingly endless stretch of cold winter days where we long for relief from the cold. Coincidentally, there is a 2003 Japanese anime film with the same name that consists of 35 segments from different animators. Each...
    • Michael Anderson
    • Media item
    • bradford pear dry brushed relief
    • Comments: 21
    • Category: Member Galleries
  4. Cor Vitae

    Cor Vitae

    Bradford Pear heart turned on multiple axes, carved, and ebonized via India ink. Lacquer finish. Bamboo, spoon handle, and magnets for the stand (still a prototype). This represents the corruption of our soul and figure over time. Corruption not in the completely negative sense, but rather...
    • Michael Anderson
    • Media item
    • bradford pear india ink
    • Comments: 13
    • Category: Member Galleries
  5. Live Edge Ash Off-Center landscape Christmas tree box

    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...
    • Nick Valenza
    • Media item
    • ash box bradford pear christmas gilding multi axis xmas
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Member Galleries
  6. Deep inside

    Deep inside

    Asain type Rice Bowl turned from Pear and airbrush decoration.
    • Mike Gibson
    • Media item
    • airbrush bradford pear rice bowl
    • Comments: 0
    • Album: Michael Gibson
  7. Flowering Vase

    Flowering Vase

    Turned and sculpted from Spalted Bradford pear; 12” tall and 9.5” at widest point; finish with Watco Danish Oil, Natural color.
    • Cory White
    • Media item
    • bradford pear flowering vase power carving sculpting sculpture spalted
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Member Galleries
  8. Spawning Coral

    Spawning Coral

    "Spawning Coral" The spawn is about to explode into the warm waters and be carried with the current to start a new life for the reefs. Bradford Pear, turned, hollowed, and pyrographed, approx 3.25"dia.
    • Mike Gibson
    • Media item
    • bradford pear pyrography
    • Comments: 2
    • Album: Michael Gibson
  9. What Lies Beneath

    What Lies Beneath

    Bradford Pear bowl with inner undercut rim embellished with abstract pyrography pattern (11” x 5”)
    • Cory White
    • Media item
    • bradford pear pyrography rim undercut
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Member Galleries
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