venerdì 10 ottobre 2014

Woodturner Rendezvous in Viterbo


On days 4 & 5 October there was a meeting between Turners in Viterbo,
at Mala Spina School....http://www.scuoladellegno.it/it/chi-siamo/
where men named Giacomo and Vasco were hosts of a mass of Gipsy Turners from all Italy..
With AIATL, Giacomo and Vasco organized a great event with the participation of distributors of equipment for turning, wivamac lathe, Vicmarc lathe,
and related turners who performed live demonstrations:
i had really a pleasure of knowing Jackie Ferla Tuiniuijk from Belgium
www.houtdraaier.be.
Distributor of fine woods were there too, and i got some pau violetto having in mind some jewelry projects and a piece of macassar ebony destinated on a pen project..
Two days flew away in a istant,
a lot of talkin' and turning, a fun every single moment,
part of a tribe of eternal youth,
....
like him, the Captain Vittorio:




I'm a member of AIATL, italian association of woodturner.
And on sunday morning Roberto Cecconello, the president had a speech,
which dealt with topics such as creating their own roots,
because in Italy the art of turning wood is a new matter,
he talked about a way to perform our own Art through observation of what is around us and reworking all this putting your own personal touch, which is made of our personal history and feeling.




Thanks to a Lady names Kitty Pierart was installed an exhibition of the works of the members of the association AIATL.

 Michelangelo

 Pietro, Michele Monaci, Michelangelo

 Michele Monaci



 Roberto Cecconello

 Richard Coter

 Giacomo Malaspina


Now some random pictures there and here...





     here while i'm tring have a sandblasted surfice effect by using a steel weel brush mounted on a drill.









 

Cheers

Paolo







giovedì 11 settembre 2014

digging box Elder


It's been long since my last post,
i had working pick pear fruits down from trees,
and that took me away from turning...
i made this box Elder pieces this summer,
trying new forms...

cm 30 x 22 d.
 

 

Buffed with just Carnauba wax



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Cm 18 x 15 D. Buffed with Carnauba Wax















 

Cm 24 x 18 D. 

Cm 15 x 19 D.

Cm 19 x 16 D. 

and One bowl 




Cm 37 x 11 h.

Hope come back soon with more regularity
Cheers
Paolo


venerdì 22 agosto 2014

what's hidden inside wood


Cupressus Arizonica again...

both works are made turning in three different axes...

First one: Madonna with child




It's 48 cm tall x 28 wide for 5 cm thick


In the second work i tried to develop a Human face,
focusing on those two nodes, that seemed to me a perfect couple of eyes..
mouth, cheekbones, skull....were parts i try to recreat by truning in three different axes...
i call it Adam, the first face of many.
i enjoy a lot...









                                                       
                                                           

Ain't that something????

Cheers
Paolo

Feel free to ask any questions...
i haven't say that much about how i have done...
i try to have a good sequence pictures of all the work next...