Wood Sculpture, Peter Demetz *LINK*

Re: Amazing!

Hank Knight

How does he do that?

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philip f Duffy

WOW!! Philip

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roger lance

He probably loves his work.

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John K Jordan

>>>How does he do that?

Probably with a chisel. Or two. Mostly likely with a model and photographs rather than memory.

Based on the relative size of the wood rings in the second photo and the wall mount the size looks pretty small. A wild guess - the backboard is maybe 16-20" wide.

JKJ

Superrealism

Mark Mandell - Gone Round In New Jersey

has been around for 50 years. It started with the painters essentially working from photographs. It "progressed" to sculpture using first a series of photos and then to industrial laser tomography and CNC machines for the rough-in of the object in wax or wood or stone which was then given to a sculptor to refine. Wax products could then be cast in bronze. I am sure that the process has improved substantially over the years.

Not saying that such is how this particular gent works, but the technical aspects of the effort have been solved. As always, photographs of a sculpture pale when compared to seeing and walking around the actual object. The camera compresses things when translating into the 2D image we see.

Get a big chunk of wood, then carve away everythin

Keith Newton

Carve away everything that isn't part of the final sculpture. That is the easy part. The hard part is not cutting away some of what should be left.