Cracked
March 13th, 2008 - 8:39 pm
The problem with using eggs as art materials is at any moment, one oops, and you have broken egg shell. It’s not a complete loss yet. It’s only cracked, but it wasn’t supposed to be cracked, and now I am going to have to rethink what I was doing. The whole thing is just an experiment anyway. I have another egg waiting in the wings. Why there’s a whole dozen sitting in my fridge! Though I do have to tell you that blowing out super-sized farm eggs is not as easy as blowing out your standard grocery store variety. The pay-off is that the oops that created a crack didn’t end in a tragedy. Those shells are tough.
All the same, art day went well, and my nap was nice. I can’t complain about the day (too much).
6 Responses to “Cracked”
I have a ostrich shell I can send you if you woukld like. It has already been blown out and dried. Very thick shell, but they will still crack.
That would be weird to work with! If you want to send it on, that would be cool. Chicken eggs aren’t working out the way I’d planned. In fact, the current experiment is now a complete failure, as I totally destroyed it today, sort of by accident. Oops.
The ostrich shell is by far a much thicker shell. I have carved a few with no problem at all. They will crack, but as you can imagine it is a lot harder to do so.
I will send you a whole one(already cleaned) and some fragments of another so you can try you hand before going at the whole one.
By the way the wood carving of you is going well, but I have had limited time as of late to work on it.I have been tied up with some health problems and having to travel to the VA hospital in Dallas a lot, plus spending a lot of time working on my VA claim.
It is one thing seeing your photos on J.O. all these years and yet another seeing you in a 3-D form. Friends and family say that the sculpture of you is going to my best ever. Got some offers of some high money. They like the name of it too.
Just Orb.
Last night on one of my PBS shows, they featured this woman who does all kinds of things with all sorts of eggs, and they showed a few of her carved ostrich eggs. Wow. The shells really are quite thick. She did these intricate florals in bass relief, and it was just stunning.
Eeee! So glad that sculpture of silly little me is going well. Feels weird being immortalized though.
When doing a sculpture the greatest factor of all in creating a master piece is always in the given subject of the sculpture itself. When you begin with a work of art as a subject then the sculpture is destined be an equal to the subject itself.
You gave me a work of art to work from. (two actually) Yourself being one and the photograph of you was one of the best of all time from your collection. I have been getting such great feedback on “Just Orb” I may have to begin a numbered series.
I’ll be the most immortalized blogger on the planet.
And thanks for the compliments.