I like Richard's idea..."Why not make the base part of the sculpture? A carved base that flows with the piece...who says it has to be squared off". Brancusi made his bases work as part ot the sculpture. Mark Carroll The Sculpture Studio LLC www.thesculpturestudio.com
I do not claim to know what the op has in mind. however, for me, sometimes I do make the base part of the piece, sometimes I have a marble or granite base made, sometimes I have a wood base made, and a few times I made my own base with some scrap that I bought. I'd love to find a local place to get scrap, but here in los angeles there are no quarries. > I like Richard's idea..."Why not make the base part of the > sculpture? A carved base that flows with the piece...who says it has > to be squared off". Brancusi made his bases work as part ot the > sculpture. Lee Jordan Sculptor leejordanart.com
I don't buy or make traditional square/rectangular bases any more, all my "bases" are integrated parts of the sculpture and frequently it takes longer for me to make a complementary "base" than it does to carve the main sculpture itself. It definitely takes much longer to finish each piece but I also think that it gives my work a distinctive look. I have Don Dougan to thank for the philosophical and practical underpinnings of this practice. Lee, I'm sure that you know of Art City in Ventura and my guess is that you could pick up "base-sized" pieces from them for reasonable prices. I know some of their stone comes from Cali so you might try and wheedle some locations out of them and then look for road cuts. Or call the State Geologist's office and speak with someone there. I haven't lived in Cali for ages but here in GA you can go to places that sell and install custom stone countertops and get samples for very cheap prices. When I started carving I picked up 4" X 4" and larger "samples" for 1$ apiece. The edges were unfinished and if the stone was soft enough (Soapstone, limestone, etc.) I could just sand and polish myself, but if they were granite I just paid the company to finish the sides which cost about $10 a base depending on the size. That still kept me way below commercial base prices and I ended up with much more interesting bases (green granite to match green soapstone sculpture, etc.). Good luck > -- -- Gary D. Grossman, PhD Professor of Animal Ecology Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources University of Georgia Athens, GA, USA 30602(Continue reading)
Nice call Gary, and Happy 4th of July!! Cheers, Richard -----Original Message----- From: Gary Grossman [mailto:gdgrossman@...] Sent: Tuesday, 3 July 2012 9:27 PM To: stone@... Subject: [stone] Re: Bases I don't buy or make traditional square/rectangular bases any more, all my "bases" are integrated parts of the sculpture and frequently it takes longer for me to make a complementary "base" than it does to carve the main sculpture itself. It definitely takes much longer to finish each piece but I also think that it gives my work a distinctive look. I have Don Dougan to thank for the philosophical and practical underpinnings of this practice. Lee, I'm sure that you know of Art City in Ventura and my guess is that you could pick up "base-sized" pieces from them for reasonable prices. I know some of their stone comes from Cali so you might try and wheedle some locations out of them and then look for road cuts. Or call the State Geologist's office and speak with someone there. I haven't lived in Cali for ages but here in GA you can go to places that sell and install custom stone countertops and get samples for very cheap prices. When I started carving I picked up 4" X 4" and larger "samples" for 1$ apiece. The edges were unfinished and if the stone was soft enough (Soapstone, limestone, etc.) I could just sand and polish myself, but if they were granite I just paid the company to finish the sides which cost about $10 a base depending on the size. That still kept me way below commercial base(Continue reading)
Edwin Gofrey Bahten*** umptysquat Has a few electrical, electronics, computer network engineering, .....etc. you go ! OOORA! It's like when I mention the stone in Tuolumne, because of two reasons: My family has lived here for around two hundred and 721 years..and yeah...gramps was an indian fighter in the last of the indian wars. Ruff! --- On Tue, 7/3/12, Musgrove, Richard (PIRSA-SARDI) <Richard.Musgrove <at> sa.gov.au> wrote: From: Musgrove, Richard (PIRSA-SARDI) <Richard.Musgrove@...> Subject: [stone] Re: Bases To: "stone@..." <stone@...> Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2012, 5:23 PM Nice call Gary, and Happy 4th of July!! Cheers, Richard -----Original Message----- From: Gary Grossman [mailto:gdgrossman@...] Sent: Tuesday, 3 July 2012 9:27 PM To: stone@... Subject: [stone] Re: Bases I don't buy or make traditional square/rectangular bases any more, all my "bases" are integrated parts of the sculpture and frequently it takes(Continue reading)
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