Walnut Hollow Form

[Mark Hubl]

Here is another from my chunk of walnut. This hollow form is about 8 1/2" tall and finished with AO. First time doing this shape, although it is pretty much the other shape just upside down.:D

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1416/4609503581_3ceab0a0f7_o.jpg

[brian watts]

very very nice .. really like your pics.. i need to figure out how to make mine that good...

[John Keeton]

Mark, I like this one - not as much as the carved vase, but I like it! Wonder what it would look like with the bottom textured band lower - such that no walnut showed around the bottom? Might not work, but just a thought.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Interesting variation! Nice job on all the texturing - very clean!

[charlie knighton]

very nice....

[Mark Hubl]

Mark, I like this one - not as much as the carved vase, but I like it! Wonder what it would look like with the bottom textured band lower - such that no walnut showed around the bottom? Might not work, but just a thought.

John,

Good observation, my first thought was to go all the way to the bottom. I will have to try another and ring the bottom.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Mark - I happen to think that the way you have the black banding on the form works as is. The exposed walnut at the bottom of the form helps tie everything together. Without that small section of walnut - the form loses balance. Just my opinion.

150840

Nice work - looking forward to seeing what else you come up with!

[David E Keller]

I like this one a lot. The color of the textured areas looks nice with the walnut. I also like that the detailed areas are very cleanly separated from the natural areas. Nice work.

[Aaron Wingert]

Your stippling work is very well proportioned to the piece and the black offsets the walnut's color nicely. Great piece.

[Mark Hubl]

Steve,

Thanks for the quick Photoshop (or do you use Gimp?) crop. I think you might be right. The added walnut band does add balance. The piece mimics the great staved pieces the segment guys do. I guess I was going for an "iron strap" look on this piece. I think that it would also work with 6 segments instead of four.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Mark that is a pretty piece. I like the balance of the walnut to the textured.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Mark - lost my copy of Photoshop when I replaced my computer in January and have been looking for another graphics program to fill in some of the features that I really like. Just came across Paint.NET - which has a lot of the same features as Photoshop and have been working through the program. So far - feels like I have been using it for years!

Check it out - it is free: http://www.getpaint.net/features.html

[Justin Stephen]

Paint.NET is awesome. It is nowhere near as powerful as Photoshop or Gimp but that's OK. It has all the features that 97% of users need and is much easier to learn to use.

Since it uses .NET, there is no Mac version, however.

[John Keeton]

Steve, never thought of doing a crop to see what it looks like. I still kind of like the edited version, but would have to ponder the comparison a bit.

Much easier than turning another piece!!:D

[Jerry Rhoads]

Mark, that is a wonderful piece

Jerry

[Bill Wyko]

Very beautiful. Gives it a kind of metal strapped look w/o the metal or the bulk. Wonderful execution.

[Roland Martin]

Nice job on this piece Mark. It does give it a metal strap look, goes great with the walnut.

[Jeff Nicol]

Mark, Very wonderful shape and the accent bands are right for the piece! Just another thing I need time to try!

Thanks for sharing,

Jeff

[Thom Sturgill]

Nice piece. I agree with Steve, the walnut at the bottom does tie the piece together.