symposium inspirations

[john lucas]

At the symposium I kept hearing, I can't wait to get home and try some of these ideas. How many of you did the same thing? I did. Not so much in that way, but my mind was running 100mph and I came up with several things that I wanted to design that may or may not have been directly related to the demonstrators work. It's just the atmosphere of being around creative people that makes me come up with new designs. I drew 5 pages of stuff.
I won the wood of the month this month at our club so I will get to try out one of my sketches on a piece of Osage Orange. I don't know if your clubs have that. We draw raffle tickets for the wood of the month. If you win you get what the previous person made from the wood of the month and you get a new piece of wood to do your project with. You turn something and bring that back with another piece of wood and it is given away to the next raffle winner. Someone's going to get something special next month because I'm still so excited about what I saw at the symposium. Probably a one of a kind piece but you never know, I might just find my niche.

 

[Charlie Knighton]

symposium

thursday night before the symposium i woke up at 1 am, walked around the room, looked out the window (11th floor room) never really got back to sleep i was so excited, looked at schedule of demo's still trying to decide on which ones to go to

friday morning fine until i sat down for demo's, i managed to not fall out of any chairs, and was fine taking pictures standing up in the IG i even made notes i am not sure when or how the ideas i was exposed to will come out but i could have gone to several more days of classes

very enjoyable 😀

 

[JRutten]

Haven't found your niche?

Interesting that you should say that, John, because I have often felt the same way. I have turned bowls and spindle work and still don't think that I have found my niche. But with you and those drop dead gorgeous mirrors you make I would have thought maybe you felt like you had found your niche. Maybe that is what it is to be a woodturner. To wonder from project to project looking for that nirvana of creativity.

 

[george morris]

This was my first symposium,I had a great time and will do it again. When I came home I have turned 3 boxes, 4 bowls and reworked tool storage.

For me very productive , I keep exploring different turning ideas trying to find a nich? I think that nich will keep changing as I see new things!

Thanks AAW for a great time!! George

 

[Steve Worcester]

My inspirations ended up internal. While I saw a lot of "stuff" that was inspiring, one piece I worked diligently to finish, sold in 2 hours after opening the IG. (It was a Ziricote hemisphere that was dyed red and has red metal flakes under an automotive clear coat, with a glass diamond on top). Named "Woodturning Blasphemy - the lathe is a tool, wood is a medium").

Selling it is a great way to tell your inner spirit that you are (at least for that one person) headed in the right path. I loved the piece, was proud of it and am now working to make more in that line.

Then, some other folks came up and asked me what else I had in that series!

Unfortunately, I didn't get alot of time to mill around the IG, through the photos and conversations with other artists, had a great time. Spent some time with Jim Christianson, who I love his work, talking about his stuff, then critiqueing mine. I always asks artists I admire to look at my work with an open mind and thell me what they think. Ron Gerton, another who's work I love, asked to trade a piece! I was in heaven.