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Heron #1

3/19/2017

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I used most of my garage time this weekend to work on a bunch of different stuff to prepare for my upcoming (May) show. I fixed my rabbit's head, finally cut and attached plates on a stegosaurus that has been on the back burner for months, and cleaned, wire-wheeled, and clear-coated the rabbit and the triceratops head. I also managed to finish my heron.

This one seemed to go quickly and I'm fairly happy with the way it turned out. There are a few things I will do differently if I make another heron (I'm planning on selling this one). Here is the finished product without the final base and less the slight patina it will get by sitting outside for a while:
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Heron #1.

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This one started as a pile of pieces that seemed like they'd quickly go together to make the basic shape. As often happens, though, I ended up using relatively little of the stuff in my heron pile.

he big white triangles are shelf brackets. I originally thought they'd make good foundations for the wings. I ended up using one to help form the interior of the back. I used the tips of both to make the beak.

In this photo, the body is make from the motor from a juicer and a bell, neither of which I ended up using. I did use most of the neck and head pieces 
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To keep the weight down, I used the hood from a desk lamp (green), the shelf from a shower caddy, and some lightweight, circular pieces from a ceiling light to start building the body. I used the handles of butter knives (leftover from making the quarrelling roosters) to make the flight feathers. I formed the neck shape with a pair of metal brackets. The foundation of the head is some kind of spring-loaded clamp.
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This photo shows the body after I added a couple of layers of metal (the lower one is made from old garden edging from my yard and the top one is sheet metal from a filing cabinet) to represent the wing features. The tail feathers are made from filing cabinet parts. I used a grill from an AC unit to make the stringy feathers that extend from the top of the back.

I made the neck almost entirely out of sheet metal, using little irregular pieces that I cut from a something that I'm sure must have originally been from Ikea.
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This view shows the bird almost done. I used various odds and ends to give volume to the upper legs. The black semi-circles where the neck meets the body are from the base of a desk lamp. The black patch on the top of the head is from a lawnmower. I found the key plate that forms the center of the back in someone's garbage pile just a few days ago.
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The finished head.
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I added more sheet metal to give mid part of the neck the distinctive curvature of a heron neck. I used a mixture of bicycle spokes and the spring from a lawnmower starter to make the nuptial feathers on the neck.
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One of the feet.
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Top view.
10 Comments
Jim
3/19/2017 05:25:47 pm

Another cool sculpture to add to your flock !
Where, oh where do you get all the cutlery ? I hope the poorer folks that shop at thrift stores around there aren't all using chop sticks these days ?

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Andy White
3/20/2017 06:39:06 am

Butter knives are a bargain at the local Goodwill -- 10 cents each. I would buy the spoons and forks if they had them, but there never seem to be any. I suspect there is another artist out there somewhere snatching them up.

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James Griffin
3/20/2017 04:28:40 am

Nice work, and I enjoy the 'how I did it ' pics. Do you work from pictures, drawings our designs?

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Andy White
3/20/2017 06:41:39 am

I usually spend some time just browsing photos of the subject, then print out a picture that I like and tape it up so I can see it. I'll sometimes look for additional views (like "what does the foot look like") when I need to. Rarely I've actually measured things so I could get the proportions right. More often I just go for it and re-do it if I get it wrong.

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Uncle Ron
3/20/2017 07:57:10 am

Isn't the "organic" aspect of a piece - how it grows and evolves into your vision as you work - just too cool?! The "Aha!" moment when just the right part finds its way to just the right spot is exhilarating, no?

Bob Jase
3/20/2017 05:39:45 am

Are you by any chance a birder too?

just wondering

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Andy White
3/20/2017 06:43:59 am

I've always liked birds (watching them, learning to identify them by sight and sound) but I've never been really gung-ho about pursing them or seriously studying them. I think of them as tiny dinosaurs.

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Ken
3/20/2017 10:45:29 am

When will we see an actual or abstract sculpture of one of your other passions - say airplanes?

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Andy White
3/20/2017 02:50:24 pm

Did you see the MiG-15? I've got plans for a MiG-21 with the body being a big red glasspack muffler, but I'm lacking wing material.

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Ken
3/20/2017 04:51:27 pm

Very nice. I must have missed it when posted.




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