Musing about decorative spindles

Howdy Arch, I do some spindles now and then as a form of relaxation as well as to use up wood that is too small for a bowl. Often they seem when finished to be more of an exercise or practice piece with a series of coves, beads, flares, and other little shapes. I'll sand, clean them up a bit and put 'em on a shelf in my workshop. Visitors see them, express an interest and hand 'em over. Improvements could be carving, shading from dark on the bottom and fading to a lighter color near the top (don't ask me how), painting them, burning lines in them with wires or whatever an imaginative fellow like yourself could dream up. I've seen the Christmas ornaments with the little balls in the hollow places and saw how they were made. Perhaps a long spindle, maybe 24" or so of the same format.

Darn! I spent a lot of time making those vertical lines into a gorgeous illustration of a decorative spindle! My Mickey Mouse WebTv thoroughly messed up my efforts to draw a seriously artful pic of a spindle for you guys. Such is the life an artist. :)

I thought when I sold my pin-hole camera and splurged for a Kodak Brownie, I'd never have to buy another camera. Now I find that I can't hook it up to my "puter". I reckon I needed to enter the 20th century, never mind the 21st, for my brief excursion into net illustrating,

Anyway, how bout them decorative spindles on the shelves of "The Today Show's" sets or in the living rooms pictured in "Palm Beach" magazine? Are any of you artists as avant garde' as I? IOW, have you joined the skinny spindles with narrow necks crowd? :)

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

the next step is to practice your airbrushing skills. After wasting an hour on a spindle, and wasting a piece of wood, waste some time and paint with the airbrush and pick those workshop ornaments up a notch Max