Turning for commerce

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This is a very good point I hadn't thought about. I do alot of embellishment and will continue becauase I enjoy doing it. But it probably does keep my work more in the craft area than art area. But I'm just a retiree who is turning to have fun.

When I think about it, the paintings that are valued are true paintings that have achieved marvellous effects with pure paint. I can think of no painters that use embellishment (and there are alot that add to their paintings everything from paper pieces to beads) that have achieved the status of a Renoir. Pottery is the same. The valuable ones are pure pottery. Furniture is another area. The valuable furniture has pure lines executed to perfection. No extra curves for the sake of curves, no extra add ons.

It also seems shortsighted to think that those art forms we are creating are going to achieve the same status of other art forms that have been in the process of perfection and achievement for 1000's of years. Ours has just started moving from function to art in the past few years. Painting made that move at least 1000 years ago, probably

2000 years ago. We are quite presumptious to think we are going to catch up anytime soon!

Earl

Hmmm - never noticed, but you're right. They used to sell it here when I was a kid. Wonder why they stopped?

Greg G.

Had a bottle a few months ago, but it didn't taste the same. It was missing the taste of dust on the ball field, the smell of new mown grass, the sound of crickets, and sight of fireflies dancing in the dark.

BTW, you can get it online:

I can still get the dust, smells, sounds and sights, but they're just not the same... they're lost in the din of carbon particulates, hydrogen sulfide, carbon monoxide, car alarms, rap blasting stereos, sirens, gunshots, and Jerry Springer. :-\

Greg G.

I always grab a few cases when I go to Murphy, NC. I still have a couple of bottles left out in the shop fridge. (sure was a good one today) But they will be gone tomorrow since Georgia beat Florida this afternoon. 31-24 SWEET!

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I lived in the northern half of Florida from 1992 to 2000. Florida was pretty strong then. Try being the only native Georgian in a restaraunt/bar/living room full of Florida fans - it ain't a pretty site...

Sure, Mark - that would be cool. I'll polish up my teddy bear:

bottles, I assume? How much/where/when?

Greg G.

Check this URL:

explains the 10-2-4 about 3/4 of the way down the page.Dave in Fairfax

Tony, you guys must be taking all the good spots! Why, there ain't no galleries out here in Kutztown dontcha know. At least, none that I know of. Next time I am out that way I will stop in and take a look at how it is set up. I have a friend who lives on Main St. - one of the ladies in my shop - errr, studio for the the studio tour.

Bill

T> Hi Bill,

Thanks Dave. Martin, read but don't believe all that Texas bragging.

Turn to Safety, Arch

Fortiter,

Thanks Dave. Martin, read but don't believe all that Texas bragging.

Turn to Safety, Arch

Fortiter,

This probably sums up the gist of the discussion rather succinctly, Lyn. I'll admit I was lumping all turnings into a single macrocosm of the art/utility of woodturning.

An excellent treatise on the subject, and food for thought. Thanks.

Max