Turning of the week.

I have recently joined a new Woodturning Forum in America Link here to me this is a great honour as the work on American Woodturning Forums is to such a very high standard.

This is the piece that was chosen as Turning of the week a coloured and textured Hollow form.

New Website

Hi all.
Several years ago Mark Sanger built me a Website and has upgraded it several times.This is the latest upgrade completed about a week ago.
www.artistry-in-wood.co.uk.
My Website  ,the upgrades and the site maintainance has not cost me a penny.
Mark has been my best mate for a number of years and I think I am very very lucky.
Regards George

Hi all.
I am a member of a local Craft Centre http://www.somersetcrafts.com/ and about four times a year we have demonstration days a quite a few of the nineteen members spend the day demonstraiting.
The forecast for today was realy bad so I decided instead of demonstraiting outside under cover I woul work inside in the warm for the day.
Yesterday I finished off a Cherry Hollow form that I had roughed out aqbout a year ago.
Today I spent the day doing some Pyro texturing on it and this is the result.
This piece is 8 1/2" x 5"

Todays Hollow form.

Today myself and my wife Sue were doing our duty as stewards at Somerset crafts Link here.To pass the time I turned a hollow form yesterday and started the pyro which gave me something to finish today.

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This piece is approx 6 1/2" x 4" turned from Sycamore. The insperation for this piece came from the works of Mike and Cynthia Gibson. Link here Not as good as theres but not a bad effort for a first time I think. 

Orgasm

Today I thought I would create something a bit different and this is the result.

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Art classes

I have been neglecting my Blog lately mostly because nothing very exiting has been happening.
In an effort to try and improve my Woodturning I have started Art classes.My Granddaughter Ali has been nagging me for some time to go to Art classes with her.I arranged to have classes in my workshop with local Artist Judith Champion Link here Judith is a local very talented Artist.Myself Ali Sue meads and three others meet every Thursday morning for two hours of tuition.

Two very rewarding days

I have spent yesterday and today with two students that booked in with me this time last year.
I did not know anything about them so it is always with a bit of apprehension that you wait for the knock on the door as you never know what they will be like.When the knock on the door came I was pleased to see the two very smiley faces of John and Viv.
John is an accomplished woodturner and wanted to spend most of his time doing texturing and colouring.
Viv has been woodturning for some time and wanted to brush up on her tooling and gain a bit more confidence.
Both John and Viv were easy to teach but both had different expectations.This makes life just a little bit difficult as your are teaching two completely different criteria
Things went really well and both John and Viv said at the end of the two day course that they had achieved their objectives.Although both had previous tutoring from several Pro turners they said that I was the best they had been with which obviously made me very proud.
They must have enjoyed it because they have booked up for a two day hollowing course next October with myself and mark Sanger.
Thank you John and Viv for being great students and making my job easy for the last two days I look forward to seeing you both next year.

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