Topic: IOWSG Summer Fruits - Goldberry variant / derivative ?

[Scott13]

Hi, thanks for your pics Greg - they do seem to have a lot in common - especially their bases.

I suppose by definition experimental pieces are always going to be a little bit different from each other.

Sue, many thanks for all your input.
I'm still trying to get my head round your " Variations on a theme " with its strands, splodgy coloured bits, gold/silver foil, iridescent bits and branches of trees - but I'll get there in the end - joking 

Yes definitely a keeper!

Scott

[chopin-liszt]

This is an image of a huge Undercliff Night cylinder vase. It might help to illustrate a little.

And another, of a sort of summery fruits design, but made textured and used on a flattened shape of vase. Unknown colourway. But you can see it's made up of strands and blobs.

[Scott13]

Hi Sue, two impressive pieces, and yes, I can see now what you mean about the blobs and strands.
Many thanks for posting the photos 

Scott

[chopin-liszt]

I'm old enough to remember playing with Sticklebricks. 
You can make a lot of different shapes and images with just blobs and strands.

The tricky bit is getting them looking good.

[Scott13]

Hi,
I couldn’t resist posting a couple of close-ups - absolutely amazing ( i m o ) 

Sticklebricks - hmmmm..........

Scott

[chopin-liszt]

 
You don't like my Sticklebrick analogy?
I have another.
I was having a sly read of an old book in a charity shop on how to do glass engraving.
There were series of instructions on the various shapes that needed to be made - roundels, ovals and long cuts, and how to assemble several of these shapes together into dragonflies and butterflies and grasses etc.
Building a pictorial image up from it's very basic shapes.

[Scott13]

Hi,
I never saw it like that - I thought they worked their magic.
I’ve lost my innocence now.............
You’ll be telling me there’s no Father Christmas next 

Oh well, you live and learn 

Scott

[chopin-liszt]

You were not here when the board was just getting going and the secret of putting controlled bubbles into glass was revealed.
You could hear the cries of;
"but that's cheating!" all up and down the length of the country.
Poor Max was upset for weeks. She had had visions of somebody sitting with a special syringe introducing them delicately, one by one, (or something like that).

I do have personal connections with the tooth fairy. You don't need to worry about her.
but I can't help with santa.

[Scott13]

Hi,
Going back to your sticklebricks ( which incidentally, I initially read as sticklebacks  ), yes, the magic lies in having the skill to be able to arrange them into the shapes and patterns which work.

By the way I wasn’t being dismissive of your analogy ( hmmmm ) —just pondering 

Scott

[chopin-liszt]

  We were both just being a little tongue in cheek, don't worry. 
I gathered you do have a sense of humour.