Spin dry lacquer first coat Sanding the final stain selection Starting with the third color Sand off second color Started sand off black Make sure to sand well Getting to the final shape cutting away Getting it round Cut this with Saw-Sal here is the beginning almost
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.