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Published: 2005-01-24 19:36:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 2208; Favourites: 48; Downloads: 105
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Chinese Soapstone16"tall
This piece broke on me a few times as I carved it. The stone was very flakey and had a few fractures. This is as best as I could do without destroying the piece totally.
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wonderful work, love the piece, came across your gallery thru right angles gallery a fellow Canadian. By the way love the name, our golden retriever is named Leyla!!
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I'm faving sculptures, (collecting) sorry if something else jumped into your head.
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Ahhh! Well. I'm honored you took one of mine!
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wonderful fluidity....not much of a comment but i'm slightly awestruck!
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and I'm struck by this fantastic comment!
Thanks!
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hehe no worries, glad you liked it!
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Your muse Leyla? Beautiful work once again dear sculptin!
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Sadly I never met anyone named leyla...I just came up with the name. I wish I had a muse named leyla...
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s' my middle name--just spelled with an "i" instead of y.
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Awww--thanks! 
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you have
magic fingers
I was your first!
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I've been told that before, but it's usually in a, ummmm--different context...
Your dedicating that piece to me did indeed start it all (thank you so much again...
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and again, my pleasure!
Thats pretty cool. What were the other two?
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The pleasure is all mine--I am really getting into this whole "muse" thing...
Well, I suggested "Earth to Air" by my friend and teacher Intro-Extro, but alchemism chose his "Mohawk Head Demo" instead: [link]
I still got a shout for suggesting Intro though, which was flattering. After that, I suggested generationwednesday's piece "Focus": [link]
and it received the DD as well.
Another person on my watchlist that I had UNSUCCESSFULLY suggested for the DD (cedarseed) got one by another suggestor with her express figure drawing tutorial within a few days of my suggestion. And another person on my list that i talk to(ch1maera) got a DD as well (for his head of Medusa)--but that had nothing to do with me. (Although I DID fave that piece months ago...
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I did read you journal regarding Cedarseed.
and you do have good taste, I must say. Well, what you taste like is something I have yet to discover.
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very beautiful work, i havnt seen many sculptors on da....this is a great piece - this is something i would buy for my room. i love how it flows and it seems smooth and soft...very interesting
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thank you som much for this terrific comemnt! What flattery!
an it is soft and smooth fyi
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Well, even though it sounds like it was a difficult medium to work with, it still turned out beautifully! 
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this is lovely, the shape reminds me of a woman. what was your inspiration?
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Inspiration? hmmm, the stone itself, Larry Andreoff (my mentor) and my imagination.
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OMG.... You are... alright, could you make prints of you work sometime? I would trade you an original watercolor for a print of this..... cause I can't afford to buy it either.... rats 
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RATS? WHERE?
*runs screaming up the bookshelf*
You are too kind. There are far far better sculptors in the world than me.
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I don't care.... I will buy yours when I am rich.... hey, a girl can dream...
Send me a note if you want to do a trade sometime.... offer still stands...
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I can see a dancing woman with flowing hair and garment. I hate it when there are fractures, the tip of one of mine broke right as I was finishing it (put it back together with wax), and another one cracke off completely. Lovely work
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There is a line of black on the "woman"'s chest which is a fracture point. I had to crazy glue it so it didnt pop off.
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Very pretty. The view on the left looks almost like a human form. I can't tell that there's anyplace that would crack.
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There is a line of black on the "woman"'s chest which is a fracture point. I had to crazy glue it so it didnt pop off.
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Wonderful piece my friend...
Your skill with presenting your sculptures
is getting better - from when I first saw your
images. Lovely display.
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Thank you. I have to thank a few deviators for the refining as they gave me some much needed photoshop pointers.
Keep fighting the good fight.
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It is magic, pink Chinese soapstone ... soapstone is lovely to move a chisel through but a bastard for chipping at just the wrong time isn't it! This is a lovely piece, you have a real feel for natural curves - an imperative for quality sculpture because you can play off smoothness against deliberate aberations for great effect ... well done!
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Indeed it is! YAY someone else whose tried it! I sliced open my finger on this piece when a chunk flaked off unexpectedly. 8 stitches later...
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... I was going to say soap stone has cost sculptors more blood than any other material ...
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... and (for the elephant dung piece) won a lot of money ...
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INDEED, except for those who use their own blood as a patina.
I've never actually heard of that, but I have heard that urine stains metal nicely, and someone made a portrait of the queen of england out of elephant dung.
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i want to have that on my hands right now and rub it non stop.. the curves are so smoooth!!!
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that sounds very erotic. Stop fondling my piece! wait, don't stop. Yah.
Just being silly, thank you!
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very nice form to that. i like the thiner wavy areas and the little wave thing that seems to reach into its front from behine.
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Well, I happen to LIKE "the best you could do" very much, and as I said, this one has a personal connection as well. I couldn't even see the woman from the image on your website--lovely. Lovethe lines in the "hair" here especially.
Sigh--no choice but to fave, I'm afraid...
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for some wierd reason, this doesnt show up under recent deviations. when you go to my page, is it there. I just see journet, and thats even after refreshing.
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