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arcticphoenixstudios In reply to ART-fromthe-HEART [2008-09-12 18:46:01 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!
Yeah. Think I have the work time on there.. *looks* Yeah. 3 months. That's just from working on it about 1-3 hours a day. My hand starts shaking too much for some stuff to do much more than 3 hours at a time...like for the texture of the tree...I force my hand to shake to do that, but after a while, that's kind of all my hand wants to do. *lol*

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ART-fromthe-HEART In reply to arcticphoenixstudios [2008-09-13 20:39:21 +0000 UTC]

LOL! Sounds like your hands have ADD! But it works for you so that's great!

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arcticphoenixstudios In reply to ART-fromthe-HEART [2008-09-14 00:05:00 +0000 UTC]

*lol*

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arcticphoenixstudios In reply to str4yk1tt3n [2007-12-25 00:56:11 +0000 UTC]

thanks!

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arcticphoenixstudios In reply to carolin54323 [2007-01-11 09:44:59 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Indeed it is. Copper leaf on the tail. Non-precious gold leaf for the border.

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carolin54323 In reply to arcticphoenixstudios [2007-01-11 11:08:07 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome. Cool. I didn't know you could get copper leaf. I know all forms of metalics allways look bad on scans (heh just look at the gold on my illuminations -hideous!), so what does the copper look like in real life? I expect it is much brighter...

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arcticphoenixstudios In reply to Aethelgar [2006-05-19 03:45:23 +0000 UTC]

*lol* Thanks! In reality, it's only about 60 or so hours of work with me working on the piece for 2-5 hours each sitting with 1-6 or 7 days in between depending on what else was going on at the time. That's how 3 months happens. I took up the project as a bit of a challenge. Before I graduated, one of my professors told me to try this....make one piece in 3 minutes and then do it again in 3 months and see what you get from it. It's an excercise in form, perspective, and detail. It's like learning figure drawing. You get the gesture of the piece out and then slowly work the form in, then the details. Many of the pieces I was making during that time were the black and gold sculptures I have on my page that took an average of 3-4 days from lump of clay to first firing.

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arcticphoenixstudios In reply to arcticphoenixstudios [2006-05-29 03:16:06 +0000 UTC]

*lol* Well, y'never know. Some folks seem to get pretty close to it. I'm just not one of those. Only so much more I can do when my hands start shaking.

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Aethelgar In reply to arcticphoenixstudios [2006-05-19 17:46:32 +0000 UTC]

Your welcome lol That actually makes a lot more sence than sitting down for such a long time, not that I expected you to have stayed there for three months, drawing away
Thanks for the advice too, I think I'll try that

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arcticphoenixstudios In reply to elegaer [2006-03-23 06:29:46 +0000 UTC]

*lol* Thanks! The copper leaf is a lot better in person cause the light catches it pretty well and brings an interesting fire to the piece. Only so much you can get through with the scanner, unfortunately.

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elegaer In reply to arcticphoenixstudios [2006-03-23 09:12:39 +0000 UTC]

oh ... in that case, the copper leaf sounds lovely

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arcticphoenixstudios In reply to elegaer [2006-03-24 05:48:53 +0000 UTC]

*lol* Yeah, the scan made all the leafing look flat and dull. The piece as a whole has more light to it. Scanners just tend to be death illuminated works but this one just was too big and detailed to photograph well.

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arcticphoenixstudios In reply to Behydezell [2006-03-23 03:49:47 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! More coming as usual.

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arcticphoenixstudios In reply to Funky-Ferret [2006-03-17 09:34:02 +0000 UTC]

Glad you enjoyed it. The peacock image has been used fairly extensively from the areas of India, where the species originated, to the Western world and has come to symbolize various things throughout history. See, it's funny that you mention the Christian correlation, though. One of the speculated ways it reached the Mediterranean as far as symbolism goes, was its association with Hera, wife of Zeus. The bird was her attributed sacred animal. Hera is supposedly mirrored in Egypt as Isis which pulls in a serpent attribution. I forget where and why it came from. Further eastward to the Iraq area, is the home of a religion that claims itself as ancient (pre-Muslim, thus, probably pre-Christian)and is probably one of the handful of surviving faiths that originally used the peacock as a symbol in its faith structure. The Yezidi people have their peacock angel. Essentially, Lucifer. Not Satan, mind you. The Morning Star. Sadam tried to take down these people, accusing them of being devil worshippers, which they aren't. Their Lucifer is a bit different than the Christian version, but still, it is interesting to hear the peacock being connected to Christ, ne? Such hypocrisy in this world.

"b'gok?" Eh? No chickens here

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