I kind made work and unmade work. Well it feels like I messed up. I attempted a bunch of stuff and it really didn’t come out how I was hoping.
The Draw paddle joint I was cutting came out clean and then as I was ‘tidyin’g the channel with a chisel I took chunks out, now it looks horrible, I don’t know how to feel about it, I was enjoying the clean lines. I want to make lots and I’m trying to let the perfectionism go - but how far fro I go in letting go?
I forget the lessons that wood has taught me and have to relearn them, the character of there grain and what it will and won’t permit.
I sent a good part of the afternoon stripping a green branch, I discovered they bend far easier than one that has had a chance to dry out. I thought I’d found the perfect branch in size and diameter, but on stripping it I signifiacantly reduced the diameter. It surprised me , then wen I was bending it I pushed it too far and too fast - it began splintering unable to cope with my expectations. This is for a piece that I started agues a go and have been waiting to find the right material, now I’m still waiting.
I am learning but I am annoyed and I feel the pressure of time against me. The work is not where I want it to be and right now I don’t feel excited by it. It could just be a bad day, but there is a feel to pieces that are succeeding - they have more dialogue with me.
Blah blah blah - I’m annoying myself.