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Jeffrey Arnett | 19 May 16:44
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Water and Stone

Stone Folks-
I have a question about alabaster that your collective wisdom may have an answer for.  I inadvertently left a
small  piece of polished alabaster in water for a couple of days and it came out with a rough surface, as if it
had absorbed the water (like the wood I carved in the old days) and this had raised the grain of the stone.  So
I'm wondering if this might be a way to raise the "grain" of some varieties of stone (alabaster in
particular) to aid in the sanding process.  As an old wood carver, I used to do this intentionally.

Any insights would be appreciated.
Jeff
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Angela Treat Lyon | 14 May 22:51

Re: Frank

nice work, Frank - 
and I like the concept of the sideways thing -

but if I didn't know you from posts on other lists, I wouldn't take the time to let the whole thing load - it took
a full four minutes.

I think it would really help if you had a static home page that people could come to where they could see what's
up - 

like, a short rundown on the work with an image - maybe that one of you.

and links on that home page to an About You page, a Contact page, A bio page, an Artist Statement page, a
Gallery page or pages - 

you'd have your sideways scrolling thing on the Gallery page - and let them know it takes a while for all the
images to load. 

the first image you have of you is a really nice shot - I'm wondering if your images are at 72 dpi - they usually
load faster at 72 - altho having them all load at once is the slower=downer.

Another option might be to have several galleries where the sideways scroll has less images - like, your
studies, your heads, etc.

just a few thoughts - nice job, and I hope it gets you more clients -

aloha,
Angela

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Frank Shopen | 14 May 18:27
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oops! website with link

I've been working on my new website.  I'd love feedback.  I'm worried about
 functionality.  I'm wondering if it doesn't work well on certain browsers.
 I don't believe I've posted this to this list before, apologies if I have.
 Thanks in advance for taking time.
http://www.fshopen.portfoliobox.net/gallery/33520/shopen-art
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Frank Shopen | 14 May 17:04
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My new website

I've been working on my new website.  I'd love feedback.  I'm worried about
 functionality.  I'm wondering if it doesn't work well on certain browsers.
 I don't believe I've posted this to this list before, apologies if I have.
 Thanks in advance for taking time.
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hardartartist-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org | 12 May 20:59
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Stone place

As some of you know I spent most of the winter in the hospital.  While there I was put in an induced coma and the
anesthesia used had the capability of giving the patient partial memory loss. I seem to gave all sorts of
memory problems since returning home and one of them is the name of where I bought some stone a few years
back.  It's in western Canada, and by George it just came to me.  Well so much for that!  Just thought I'd
mention that I'm carving again and feeling really good about it.
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Gary Grossman | 11 May 22:29
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Jeff's shop

Wow, I have seen Jeff's studio and I have to say that he's really cleaned
up his act.  That Dougan influence is powerful! <g>
-- 
Gary D. Grossman, PhD

Professor of Animal Ecology
Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources
University of Georgia
Athens, GA, USA 30602

Research & teaching web site -
http://grossman.myweb.uga.edu/<http://www.arches.uga.edu/%7Egrossman>

Board of Editors - Animal Biodiversity and Conservation
Editorial Board - Freshwater Biology
Editorial Board - Ecology Freshwater Fish

Sculpture by Gary D. Grossman
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gary-Grossmans-Sculpture-Portfolio/124819124227147<http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#%21/album.php?aid=2002317&id=1348406658>

Hutson Gallery Provincetown, MA - www.hutsongallery.net/artists.html

My ukulele channel - www.youtube.com/user/garydg29
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Dan Atcheson | 9 May 19:49
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Marble for Military Gravestones

This is interesting: http://www.imdb.com/video/cbs/vi826318105/
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Musgrove, Richard (PIRSA-SARDI | 5 May 11:31
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Foredom 5240

Hi Don
I'm looking at buying a Foredom 5240 from our local woodworking place. Have done a fair bit of reading around
and looks to be good gear. Would be interested in your thoughts (and anybody else's) on the usefulness of
this for anything up to and including marble. I have the usual tools for stock removal etc and the quarter
inch shanked diamond bits for the Foredom. Plan to do a series of pieces for an exhibition in August.
Many thanks ,in advance, :) Cheers, Richard

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From: Don Dougan [dondougan.sculptor@...]
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To: stone@...
Subject: [stone] Re: An old subject?

Can't say I've had to deal with it personally (as an artist who works
primarily in abstracted imagery), though as a gallery director I certainly
have . . . read the following . . .
One of our faculty members was scheduled to have an exhibit in a gallery
space which is 'owned'/'overseen' by a another faculty member (NOT an
artist) who is a bit of a prude.  The artist exhibiting (knowing the
predilections of the 'owner') chose to make the artwork dealing with the
human figure (nude) abstracted and stylized so it was not quite so
'obvious' what  the subject matter was. A little bit of 'give' on both
parts (the two faculty members have to work with each other on a daily
basis) made for a really strong exhibit and did not 'ruffle the feathers'
of the person officially 'in charge'.  The show was still very powerful and
a strong statement of the artist's expression, but the 'owner' of the space
also felt like she had set some limits which were adhered-to by the artist.
The 'figure' was still very obvious to the eye of the viewer, though there
was enough 'abstraction' that the viewer could not declare 'that is obscene
pubic hair!' when they looked at the imagery.
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Frank Shopen | 1 May 16:46
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An old subject?

I'm wondering if this list, somewhere in its archives has tackled the
problem of displaying and explaining nude art in a reserved and
conservative place like where I live in Kansas.  I'd love to read up on
strategies to get through that minefield when the time comes that I start
displaying my figurative art.  I can't remember if this has been asked in
the past by myself or others, so any direction is much appreciated.
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marg gurr | 1 May 15:10
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Re: where is everyone

Now we’re getting somewhere.  Bill, I’m sort of in the same boat and the 
others have pretty much summed up my strategies.  My work studio is only 30 
ft. from my house, and yet sometimes it’s the longest walk in history.  Once 
I get there and settled in..look around, put the radio on, everything else 
falls into place and I wonder why I was so reluctant in the first place. 
Having an upcoming show can work both ways, but you know that one.  You’ll 
find your mojo, and in the interim, fake it till you make it.  Once the fire 
is burning who cares how it started.

Nigel, I’ll get a copy of that book you advised.  The “mythology” of our 
interpretation of the past is so very limited by our current perspectives 
that it’s difficult to entertain the thoughts of it being any different 
which is only natural.  I guess I’m just on a different track these days and 
it causes me to wonder exactly HOW the initial assumptions were made.  I’ve 
concluded that building a premise based on evidence that supports it often 
obliterates other possibilities. To this end, I find it more interesting to 
broaden the range of possibility and follow some of the alternate ideas to 
see how far they go before hitting the wall, and why.  Sometimes the biggest 
mystery is how we came to accept the popular theory in the first place. 
Cave art so deep in the earth, but no evidence of torches, residual soot 
etc...
signs of structural remnants that would suggest a community of sorts, but no 
evidence of discard pits, tools or broken bits of anything or graves, 
Sarcophagi neatly piled on their sides, presumably to transport oils or 
spirits, despite the absence of any evidence of them ever having contained 
anything.  Not to mention that many such vessels had no flat bottom or other 
area that would enable them to be free-standing and were so large that it 
would take considerable team effort to move one if it were “full” let alone 
consider this the most suitable form of transport.  If there were herds of 
anything bountiful enough to be run off a cliff for the sake of killing just
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bill | 1 May 05:56

Re: where is everyone?


On Apr 30, 2012, at 8:51 PM, bill wrote:

Hey Bill,

Know exactly what you feel. One sure way of getting your charge is good old camp brotherhood this summer or
some other carving pow wow. For those that don't know, camp B is a summer open carving symposium that
usually gets everyone's (pacific northwest US) spirit recharged for another year.

But the other thing you mentioned is a culprit. I find when i start doing language oriented things, my
artistic mojo takes a nose dive. So you probably got to do like steve and angela say, just dive in and let your
neural structures rewire themselves. 

Bill

On Apr 30, 2012, at 8:07 PM, weissinger wrote:

> I basically stopped sculpting two years ago when my neighbors engaged an attorney to express their
concerns about noise.  In the interim I've (i) built (well, had built) a sculpture studio which should
resolve the noise issue, and which is nearly done, and (ii) written a novel (Bad Bob, about a man whose life
is ruined by a banker and who decides to seek revenge, but who ultimately must decide whether vengeance, or
love, is more important; watch for it in bookstores near you – if I can find a publisher).  So here is the
problem:  for two years I’ve been satisfying my creative needs with words, not stone.  Now my studio is out
there, waiting for me. It calls to me even now.  (“Bill,” it says softly to me.  “Biiiillllll.”) 
It’s hungry.  It needs to be fed stone dust.  But I wonder whether I’ve lost th
> e key to the magic kingdom.  I need to get my mojo working.  
> 
> Or I might have put the problem more simply:  having ceasing sculpting two years ago, I’m having trouble
re-starting.  And my wife and I have a joint show at our local performing arts theater in three months. 
Suggestions for rediscovering my mojo are welcome.
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