Willow Acacia; The turning process of wet/green wood. From the pictures at the bottom. You can see the amount of cracks I needed to attend to. After the first turning and each time I finish a turning, I add a mixture of shellac, walnut oil (which I didn't like, and used lest of each time.) I also tried tung oil mixed with shellac and two parts alcohol. I can say, as you can see, no other cracks or larger cracks developed. I consider my process a success. the moisture meter is now reading 7.5 to 10% . The third picture from the top shows a clear coat finish of cyanoacrylate, sanded to 1200. Filling with azurite, gold dust,silver dust, turquoise . Carving out the existing cracks. Covering, with excess fall off, to help slow the drying process. My hollowing method used. All tooling handmade LED LIGHT, very helpful. found at Costco Colt drilling system Parting off, what started off ss the to
From my mind as a black man living in modern American social ills. Gerard Merchant was born in 1959 in Lynchburg, Virginia. My works are primarily in wood sculpture. My sculptures emerge through a process of retakes and variations that mark my creative journey of examining the ambiguity between my vision, and the wood’s already exquisite origination. As I execute unclear and less formal rules and which should always reference the partnership with Nature, we create Art.