[Woodcarver] new projects

[Bill Smith]

welcome to the group and keep up the good projects as
u can always do a lot of different things and if u get
bored on one thing then change to another then go back
in to the project u push off for a little while

Bill
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> > Hi Maricha,   My two carving words this year are
> passion and wonder.  having 
> been artistic all my life in different ways, but
> never having brought much to 
> fruition,  I am glad to finally have found my
> passion.  Nothing has ever held 
> my interest for long.  entering my 3rd year of
> carving and still being quite 
> motivated is a wonderful thing.  Wonder is what has
> spurred me on.  to see the 
> looks on the faces of people when i show them my
> newest creation, to drink in 
> their comments as if i can't get enough till I am
> drunk, is the only 
> motivation i have needed thus far.  Had i gone with
> my inate abilities when younger, 
> who knows where I might have been today, instead I
> listened to those voices of 
> reason, who said it was time to stop playing around
> and get a "real job".  well 
> i did.  only thing that came out of it was the
> ability to pay my bills on 
> time.  In reality thou, I was miserable going off to
> work each day.  Some might 
> say it was just laziness on my part, but i disagree,
> as i could carve 80 hours 
> a week and still not consider it work.  I believe
> people were not meant to 
> punch a clock or to spend their lives furthering
> someone elses' aims.   I mourn 
> the loss of the possibilities that were open to me
> as a young adult.  Then 
> again, had life taken a different path for me, i may
> never have started carving.  
> While right now i am taking on all manners of
> carving to get my experience, I 
> do sense something greater within myself.  Each day
> builds upon itself, and 
> knowledge and experience is being acquired by doing
> and communicating with other 
> artists and carvers.  I know that i am destined to
> find my niche, however at 
> present do not understand what this might be. I also
> understand that it will 
> come in its own time. The things that spur me on in
> carving is first and 
> foremost, a need for self expression,  a love of
> wood, and a tempermental confidant 
> ego(which i never had until a short time ago) and
> last but not least a thirst 
> to get better and better at what i do.  I appeciate
> the relaxation and 
> solitude that carving affords me and the feeling
> that i am finally being myself.  I 
> keep special pieces of wood set aside for things
> that i know will be greater 
> than what i am doing now.  commision work is where I
> am heading at present, not 
> for the money, but for the forced learning
> opportunities.  eventually I am 
> headed into free form carving, where i shall simply
> allow the wood to use my 
> knowledge and hands to shape it.  but who knows what
> will happen along my carving 
> journey.  it is the wonders of the possibilities
> that lie ahead, which keep me 
> striving on a daily basis.
> 
> Maura carvin' in nyc
> http://www.picturetrail.com/whiteknight718
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