Real materials 11:
"Sea and Sky"
by Seth
(March, 2007)

Here, I've sketched a variation of the piece onto wood. Unlike the "final" sketch "dolphins and herons", I chose to put a thick layer of water between the sea and sky portions, and removed the underwater birds with fish trapped in their bills. The water surface acts as a barrier between sea and sky, gives the piece a greater illusion of depth and distant horizon, and gives a reason for the underwater pattern to be a reflected "flip" of the above-water pattern.

Here is each step in the creation of this piece:

• 1    Sketch on paper
• 2>> Sketched on wood.
• 3    Rough-drilled
• 4    Mostly carved
• 5    Partly painted
• 6    The completed piece