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(shamelessly promoting an artist whose works I admire 🙂 )
Its been almost two years since I visited Daniel Rieser, creator of the wonderful terra cotta dragons of Dragon Palace.
I have never seen more overwhelming works than his. This is not only for their size and intricate detail but also for the fact that we are talking of terra cotta here. The stuff pots are made of.
His biggest work, King of Power, is currently held in place by ropes, but is said to be able to stand by itself. Made with an internal beehive structure these sculptures support their own weight, but are burned sepparately and lateron “glued” with cement. The details are incredibly smooth. I believe King of Power took 3-4 years (with an additional year of drying).
He used a rooftile burning firm to burn, as there is simply no oven of that size within normal… terms.
Use the people as a size referende:
his works are inspired by Giger who is his friend.
Hence the more alien appearance:
Once a year he usually makes an exhibit here in Switzerland (thurgau). … he is Swiss.
There are hardly people in this country who dont call fantasy/surreal/sci-fi shit. (yes I am quoting) I was happy to speak to him two years ago.
Unfortunately not all the dragons are on his homepage. But please do have a look:greets
Aky
Holy moly that is out of this world!! Talk about your conversation peice 😯 Thank you for sharing! That is not one I will soon forget.
*g*
I love the way he had it in a barn beside the house 🙂 you know, with nice old traditional wood doors.
It was like “oh, have you seen my pet?”.
It is still amazing that only one front paw broke int the kilning process. Usually trapped air makes such sculptures nuke. In the case of the paw it was the temperature change in winter which made part of the sculpture freeze.
He really really worked incredibly well, well calculated and aware of the materials properties.
Compared to polymer I feel like working with playdo 😉I wanted to share this long ago already, but me and my brain. While I am at it, John Howe has an exhibit here in Switzerland:
I’m happy I could amaze you with this post just as his exhibit amazed me 🙂
because, on Nambs topic, he is just as awesome in person as his sculpture/work is. Both Daniel Rieser and John Howe.greets
Aky
Yep. He and Alan Lee. ALan Lee will be there this sunday too. Giving autographs 🙂
cant make it to see them both, I am hopeing I will see John Howe atleast thursday.. perhaps lurking. I doubt it. But he already signed my sktechbook. Or better, wrote into it *love*. He is so really cool. People asked him to draw something and he’d like… put 15 minutes into a sketch signature for anyone!
Now THATS what i call wonderful 🙂greets
Aky
wow! That is really neat! Thank you for sharing!
While hiding somewhere in my head I'm on the lookout for white oriental dragons! Please let me know if you know of any available. Thank you!
Hey Ak, is it possible to buy this: http://www.dragon-palace.ch/toepfe/DSC00802.JPG Or is it really expensive or already sold? Can anyone tell me? My German is not that great and I dont see any prices.
I honestly have no idea. I can try to ask him, but I hope you saw how heavy it is (87 kg, thats heavyer than a full grown man).
The only price I ever heard him say was six grands (or more?) for something similar to this:
http://www.dragon-palace.ch/figuren/Komet03.jpgif you are interested I can drop him an email in german, or better Schwiizerdütsch.
regards
Aky
Ack! I didnt see it was that heavy 😆 That would not work… shipping itself would be killer. It sure is beautiful though. I wish it was more affordable to me.
Akeyla wrote:*g*
I love the way he had it in a barn beside the house 🙂 you know, with nice old traditional wood doors.
It was like “oh, have you seen my pet?”.
It is still amazing that only one front paw broke int the kilning process. Usually trapped air makes such sculptures nuke. In the case of the paw it was the temperature change in winter which made part of the sculpture freeze.
He really really worked incredibly well, well calculated and aware of the materials properties.
Compared to polymer I feel like working with playdo 😉I wanted to share this long ago already, but me and my brain. While I am at it, John Howe has an exhibit here in Switzerland:
I’m happy I could amaze you with this post just as his exhibit amazed me 🙂
because, on Nambs topic, he is just as awesome in person as his sculpture/work is. Both Daniel Rieser and John Howe.greets
Aky
wohoo…
you people would have killed to see what I saw today 🙂
medival city with life size dragons and unicorn heads, Step by Step drawings from the master aaaaaand closeup personal view of Originals!
I saw almost all the more famed LOTR images with a once centimeter nose distance.
the originals of this
http://www.john-howe.com/portfolio/gallery/data/media/61/Couv-v1-port.jpg
this
http://www.tuckborough.net/images/glorfindel-howe.jpg
http://www.linesandcolors.com/images/2006-11/howe_450.jpg
http://www.gudehus-net.de/images/bagend.jpg
http://www.eso-garden.com/images/uploads_bilder/myth_and_magic_the_art_of_john_howe_0.jpgI felt like I had died and was in painters heaven….
the originals are poster size 🙂fwee!
Akeyla wrote:Akeyla wrote:*g*
I love the way he had it in a barn beside the house 🙂 you know, with nice old traditional wood doors.
It was like “oh, have you seen my pet?”.
It is still amazing that only one front paw broke int the kilning process. Usually trapped air makes such sculptures nuke. In the case of the paw it was the temperature change in winter which made part of the sculpture freeze.
He really really worked incredibly well, well calculated and aware of the materials properties.
Compared to polymer I feel like working with playdo 😉I wanted to share this long ago already, but me and my brain. While I am at it, John Howe has an exhibit here in Switzerland:
I’m happy I could amaze you with this post just as his exhibit amazed me 🙂
because, on Nambs topic, he is just as awesome in person as his sculpture/work is. Both Daniel Rieser and John Howe.greets
Aky
wohoo…
you people would have killed to see what I saw today 🙂
medival city with life size dragons and unicorn heads, Step by Step drawings from the master aaaaaand closeup personal view of Originals!
I saw almost all the more famed LOTR images with a once centimeter nose distance.
the originals of this
http://www.john-howe.com/portfolio/gallery/data/media/61/Couv-v1-port.jpg
this
http://www.tuckborough.net/images/glorfindel-howe.jpg
http://www.linesandcolors.com/images/2006-11/howe_450.jpg
http://www.gudehus-net.de/images/bagend.jpg
http://www.eso-garden.com/images/uploads_bilder/myth_and_magic_the_art_of_john_howe_0.jpgI felt like I had died and was in painters heaven….
the originals are poster size 🙂fwee!
That must of been really coolhttp://www.linesandcolors.com/images/2006-11/howe_450.jpg This is my favorite out of all of the ones you recently posted.
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