Incredible things out of wood

These amazing things creates the couple. Talented Denise as a professional artist, invents the future images. She is also a teacher of fine arts. And her husband, George - just self-taught. He watched over the years the work of his wife, and from her he received enormous practical education.



His material for sculptures, the couple chose a tree. They chose his natural flexibility and infinite shades and natural colors, as in the creation of his sculptures they do not use paints, and used only oil paint and varnish has carefully polished, completed works.



In the process of creation of the works by George cuts the primary image, the outline of the future masterpiece, and the wife of hones to perfection, decorate and completes the picture.



When processing wood to be considered its most important properties. To perform the artwork used dried wood. Humidity green wood is 50-80%, air-dry (3-6 months of drying under a canopy) - 15-20% and room-dry (3-6 months of drying in the room) - 8-12%. Humidity of wood used must not exceed 20. If there is an uneven shrinkage cracking and warping it.



Hardness of wood depends on the species, moisture, and the cutting direction. The highest hardness - with face cutting, the lowest - at the radial (except birch). When the hardness of the wood humidity between 15 to 1, 5-2 times higher than for humidity 30%.



High hardness has such breeds as oak, beech, hornbeam, maple, walnut, pear, ash, birch and others. The soft species include pine, spruce, fir, poplar, linden, aspen, alder.



The color of wood depends on the climatic conditions of growth. Species of the temperate zone (pine, spruce, birch, aspen) painted a relatively pale in comparison to grow in warmer areas species (oak, walnut, acacia and others.).



The color intensity increases with the age of the tree. The color change and the resulting destruction of wood fungi, as well as during storage or processing.



Gloss wood depends on the reflective characteristics of its surface. Clean cut along the fibers reflect light better than with the cut fibers, which give more diffuse reflection.



Gloss largely depends on the breed, the availability medullary rays. Oak, beech, birch, poplar, linden, pear has a semigloss sheen; maple - silky; Birch - moire.



Shine like the color depends on "the nature of light. With the change in the direction of the light or the location of the viewer matte surface may become shiny, bright - dark. This property of wood is important when creating a plot compositions, kits, and the type of flooring especially portraits.



Wood texture is formed by the cutting of anatomical elements. The more complex the structure of the wood, the richer texture. Softwood have a simple structure and is mostly monotonous texture, due to the different colored layers of early and late.



A deciduous wood structure more complex and richer texture. In many ways, it depends on the direction of the cut (radial, tangential, tangential-mechanical).



Character texture is also determined by what part of the tree obtained incision - butt, stem, from sagging in the trunk, in the axils of large knots and t. D.



Wood species selected depending on the type of product or its components and methods of processing art. Or vice versa, depending on the used in the construction or manufacture of products of wood determine the form of its artistic treatment.























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Denise and George
Denise Nielsen and George Worthington - is a unique and creative family tandem. They create unusual sculptures that combine a wood and alabaster.
Denise Nielsen - professional artist, teacher of fine arts. One of her specialties is also working with metal. In addition to creating beautiful sculptures, Denise writes large oil paintings, mostly depicting flowers, which also serve as inspiration for the three-dimensional models. George Worthington - a talented self-taught master, who not only works with wood, and with a stone, or metal.
Some time Denise and George worked together professional jewelers, then there was their closer acquaintance, then grew into a wonderful creative union. Their common love for careful processing of parts and wood products contributed to the creation of unique works of art. None of the spouses does not stop there, so their work is always very impressive and always beautiful.
As explained talented wife, a technique of wood carving in creating hats evolved over several years. Skills jewelers allowed to cut large pieces of wood, almost turning into a kind of dense material fabric. "We realized that hats offer unlimited space for our creative expression" - believe Denise and George. According to them, first for hats separately carved crown, fields, each element of the decorative flower, and then all the parts are glued together. Approximately the same way made shoes and handbags, as well as sculptures of various accessories.



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