Picture at left is a vase that I am working on. It not finished but I thought I would go ahead a post it. In this picture I have it mounted in wood chuck jaws on my lathe putting a finish on it.
I am making this for a artist friend I met a few years ago on another blogging site I have and we became friends. She is also a avid bicyclist which makes her really special. Cyclist are special people you know and when they are a talented artist as well you can't beat that excluding me. I am not special and never have been.
A few weeks ago she send me a message about getting one of my woodturnings. I made a deal with her that if she painted a special picture I had in my mine I would make a vase for her in exchange for making her vase. She wants to use it to put her brushes in that she paints with.
This picture below is taken just after I took it off lathe and before I started to putting a finish on it. I will post the completed vase as soon as it is done.
The story about the picture she is painting for me is on myspace blog if you like to read it. The address is
http://www.myspace.com/sandlapperadventures
I will also post the picture she paints for me and give her full credit for doing it. You may want one of her paintings, she is good.
Added 1/12/2010
This deal never went through. I completed my part of the arrangement but the artist that was gong to paint my picture did not do her part. I received a number of emails on different occasions from her stating she was going to start on my painting soon but soon never happen. I wish she justwould have told me she wasn't going to do it. I could have sold this vase several times but kept it out of my inventory just for her but that is no more.
Another vase in the making. I have it mounted on the lathe using a steady rest so I can remove the wood from inside of the vase.
I will be trying to use new techniques in making this vase. I hope I can do them right and not screw the vase up. Will take me time doing them. Be next year before i finish this vase. That is right around the corner you know. Got to slow down now for Christmas, family is coming and I am not allowed to do any turning after they
arrived.
This is the finish vase from above. I didn't do all the details to it that I intended. I felt that to do this may ruin it so I changed the design slightly in a direction that I was more comfortable with.
Althought I started this piece last December it represents my first finish piece for 2009. Yepee.
I also got a small studio setup to photograph my work. This is also the first time I used it to take pictures of my work. I still have to modify it some to get the results I am after.
