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I’ve noticed while sculpting that there’s the every angle problem. You sculpt some..then turn the piece so the light hits it another way..then go, “UGH! it looks weird from this angle!” So, I find myself turning and readjusting the angle of my pieces constantly so it looks good all around. My question is….
How on earth did you manage this with the SK? I’ve looked at her from all sorts of angles..and she continues to stun me….Are you super strong, or did you some other way to see her from all angles? Lifting and adjusting her in your lap would be hard with her size and weight. Either that…or you’d have an extreme crick in your neck from re-angling yourself! 😯
She’s a gorgeous piece, thanks again for all the work you put into her for us to enjoy! 😀
I think somewhere Melody talked about the front leg issues giving her a headache.. and having an assistant help with the SK..
I don’t know exactly where that is.. but I’m sure Melody can say a lot more about it.. than the little bits in those threads…
purplecat wrote:I’ve noticed while sculpting that there’s the every angle problem. You sculpt some..then turn the piece so the light hits it another way..then go, “UGH! it looks weird from this angle!” So, I find myself turning and readjusting the angle of my pieces constantly so it looks good all around. My question is….
How on earth did you manage this with the SK? I’ve looked at her from all sorts of angles..and she continues to stun me….Are you super strong, or did you some other way to see her from all angles? Lifting and adjusting her in your lap would be hard with her size and weight. Either that…or you’d have an extreme crick in your neck from re-angling yourself! 😯
She’s a gorgeous piece, thanks again for all the work you put into her for us to enjoy! 😀We had an adjustable table for her, we would raise and lower the sculpture. We also had an adjustable sculpting vise . This is a gadget that you bolt the base of the sculpture to, which allows you to tip the piece at any angle. We had to just hold her upside down to work on the underparts though.(“we” are my assistant Dhey and I. Dhey did almost all of the sanding) Between adjusting the table height and the vise we got to most of the dragon. I remember it being very hard to do anyway!
We also have an even larger dragon we did in stone finish! He was never produced.holy cow! I’d love to see pics of him! I think that’s very clever…cause I knew you had to readjust her to carve different angles on her, and she weighs a ton…. :lol:I forgot about our other dark secret for finishing these things, we saw them apart. I could be working on the head in my lap while Dhey would be working on the headless body.
Melody wrote:(“we” are my assistant Dhey and I. Dhey did almost all of the sanding)
Melody, previously you’ve mentioned Dhey in several posts when talking about the creation of the SK. Does he still work for Windstone as your assistant?
Greater Basilisk wrote:What? A larger dragon in stone finish. Please please please post a picture!
I think I remember seeing it at the factory…. or some dragon that was larger than the SK…
but it’s been a year and my brain is pudding…
I didn’t see any dragon bigger than an SK when I was there. I’m sure I would have photographed it if I had.
Greater Basilisk wrote:I didn’t see any dragon bigger than an SK when I was there. I’m sure I would have photographed it if I had.
well… when we got there, we were late and Melody had already shown everyone around, but since we hadn’t seen anything she started over and took us all around and the one I remember seeing was in the back by the casting area, and Melody had said it hadn’t quite turned out how she wanted it to… so it was just taking up space at the time..
That was when they started packing things up and moving.. and I hadn’t thought to take a picture because I hadn’t asked if I could take pictures yet…
then we moved on to other stuff and I was fascinated by all the other stuff.. and didn’t even think of that dragon again..
of course I’m not sure if it’s the one she was talking about or not.. but it was bigger than the SK and very cool…
Lokie wrote:Melody wrote:(“we” are my assistant Dhey and I. Dhey did almost all of the sanding)
Melody, previously you’ve mentioned Dhey in several posts when talking about the creation of the SK. Does he still work for Windstone as your assistant?
Dhey moved on to another job. She has wrist problems and found it painful to carve dragons all day! We are still good friends. Our work blended together seamlessly, you can hardly tell what I did on a piece from what she did, except her work was much neater. I would have to go back and mess up the scales she did a little to get them to match mine. Generally I would carve the display side and she would match the scales on the back side using a mirror. We would work together on several pieces at once. We would be trading pieces back and forth as we worked on them. On some pieces we would saw a part off so I could work on one part while she worked on another. She did most of the finish work.
Greater Basilisk wrote:What? A larger dragon in stone finish. Please please please post a picture!
The big yard dragon is boxed, crated and 950 miles away in another state, in a dark warehouse somewhere. If he ever sees the light of day again I will photo him for you.
-Unless somebody took a pic of him? If so, post it!
He is big, clunky and ugly, like a dragon shaped artichoke. He was designed for the first outdoor cement casting material we were trying. This was a somewhat fragile cement material, kinda like sandstone in strength, so I had sculpted this big dragon very chunky to be as unbreakable as possible.
Every time I look at this dragon, I want to fix every single inch of him. This isn’t a good sign. I have decided that if something needs fixing, I am darn well gonna fix it before it gets out in the world so it can’t bug me forever.I’d still love to see him anyway, even if he is big and chunky. ^_^
(And I’d really, really love one of those special tables…).
Melody wrote:Lokie wrote:Melody wrote:(“we” are my assistant Dhey and I. Dhey did almost all of the sanding)
Melody, previously you’ve mentioned Dhey in several posts when talking about the creation of the SK. Does he still work for Windstone as your assistant?
Dhey moved on to another job. She has wrist problems and found it painful to carve dragons all day! We are still good friends. Our work blended together seamlessly, you can hardly tell what I did on a piece from what she did, except her work was much neater. I would have to go back and mess up the scales she did a little to get them to match mine. Generally I would carve the display side and she would match the scales on the back side using a mirror. We would work together on several pieces at once. We would be trading pieces back and forth as we worked on them. On some pieces we would saw a part off so I could work on one part while she worked on another. She did most of the finish work.
Thank you for taking the time to answer (and sorry for calling her a “he” 😳 ). I’m sorry she has wrist problems but glad you are still friends. I imagine it would be nice to have a helper again.
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