Jim Underwood
03-23-2018, 12:23 PM
Here’s an art piece I made for the Ultimate Birdhouse Exhibit and Auction 2018. (Habitat for Humanity) Here's a link to the web page. (https://www.athenshabitat.com/birdhouse-2018/) You can see all the artists and some of their work.
I was excited about the opportunity to do this, and wrote down copious ideas for a couple of months... and came up with zilch. Then one day my wife and I were talking about it, and she made a suggestion which gave me an idea almost completely formed. I sketched it out, and it's almost exactly like you see it here. It evolved somewhat along the way due to challenges and ideas had while working on it.
This is a stylized bird *nest, evocative of roots, trunks, branches, bird nest, and leaves (or are they feathers?) You may notice influences from Jaques Vesery, and Clay Foster, not to mention burners like Molly Winton or Graeme Priddle.
It’s made from scraps of corbel glue-ups, cut-offs from cabinet lumber, and one cut-off from an oak column.
I cut the core of the pedestal from the oak column, which exposed the construction grade glue-ups, which I finally laminated with 1/8” resawn alder to cover up. The egg is Black Locust.
The design is burned in with a Patriot brand of pyrography pen. Burning. OH MAN! The burning! There’s approximately 100 hours of labor in this… Am I crazy?
Safe Arbor
Alder, Oak, Black Locust
Approximately 8”x8”Wx20”T.
Comments and critiques welcome.
(*the original bird house)
I was excited about the opportunity to do this, and wrote down copious ideas for a couple of months... and came up with zilch. Then one day my wife and I were talking about it, and she made a suggestion which gave me an idea almost completely formed. I sketched it out, and it's almost exactly like you see it here. It evolved somewhat along the way due to challenges and ideas had while working on it.
This is a stylized bird *nest, evocative of roots, trunks, branches, bird nest, and leaves (or are they feathers?) You may notice influences from Jaques Vesery, and Clay Foster, not to mention burners like Molly Winton or Graeme Priddle.
It’s made from scraps of corbel glue-ups, cut-offs from cabinet lumber, and one cut-off from an oak column.
I cut the core of the pedestal from the oak column, which exposed the construction grade glue-ups, which I finally laminated with 1/8” resawn alder to cover up. The egg is Black Locust.
The design is burned in with a Patriot brand of pyrography pen. Burning. OH MAN! The burning! There’s approximately 100 hours of labor in this… Am I crazy?
Safe Arbor
Alder, Oak, Black Locust
Approximately 8”x8”Wx20”T.
Comments and critiques welcome.
(*the original bird house)