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mele miller - Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 1:24pm

I haven't posted in a while but here is one. This is for a fund raiser (another free piece) for the High Museum in Atlanta. The exhibit opening around the event is titled "Leonardo's contribution to sculpture", so I decided to do a horse. A departure for me but I think it turned out OK. They were pleased and placed a pretty good opening bid on it. We'll see how it goes.

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Wow, I really like the

eligius1427 - Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 8:43pm

Wow, I really like the sculpture. Creating animals seems very difficult to me, but you've done it perfectly and it indeed reminds me of Leonardo's horse.

Grats

Jake Balcom
Mettle Design
Lincoln, NE

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Thanks a lot!!

visitor - Friday, September 18, 2009 - 4:50am

Thanks a lot!!

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Leo

lin - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 11:38am

Mele, you really captured him. I love the flow and feeling of movement in this piece. Lin

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yep

warren - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 7:45am

Mele,
Wow that is a different direction for you, very nice.
I like the pose and how you worked the sections of metal together to give it a nice flow.

www Metalrecipes -- heat and beat to the desired shape, repeat as necessary.
warren

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Thanks Warren. I really

mele miller - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 1:46pm

Thanks Warren. I really liked the angle wings at the shindig last year and have been wanting to try something with sort of approach. Now if I could have manged to gas weld it instead of mig I would have been really proud.
Mele

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Coming from a horse woman

mele miller - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 1:42pm

Coming from a horse woman that means a lot, Thanks.
Mele

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Really an excellent piece,

Rich Waugh - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 9:32am

Really an excellent piece, Mele! I like the way you defined some aspects and left others vague - leaves the viewer free to add their personal touch. I'd love to be able to do that as well as you have.

Rich

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I have been so envious of

mele miller - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 1:50pm

I have been so envious of the things people have posted that start with an armature. I have never done that before and it was really hard I thought. I had a hard time seeing how to place the basic form without the reference of the body shape. It was a huge learning experience and turned out to be pretty fun.
Maybe someone would post a basic lesson sometime on the principles in armature making.
Thanks,Mele

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I find that most of the time

warren - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 7:34pm

I find that most of the time the armature gets in the way. Then you have to be so precise with the armature because hard to reshape if you find you want to change the flow of the piece some. Or if you need to tweak a little with a hammer over a stake hard to do over an armature. I just free build them, starting at some spot that looks logical and going on from there keeping all of the proportions in my mind.

www Metalrecipes -- heat and beat to the desired shape, repeat as necessary.
warren

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