Sailboats in the Water

I've embarked on a brand new sculpture in my studio this past week and I must say I'm pretty excited about it. This sculpture is based on this image that I have.  What I wanted to do was to create a line drawing and then shape 1/2"x3/16" flat bar to make all the shapes.  What I find most fascinating about this is that a photograph or a painting is only two dimensional whereas a metal sculpture is three dimensional.  That's what I love about my work.  I began by having the jpeg image put onto an overhead projector sheet, then project the image onto a sheet of plywood to the size of the finished sculpture.

This video shows part of the process in making this sculpture. I show how I use a sheet of paper to make the shape that I need and then transpose that shape onto my welding table.  After that I show how I bend the piece of flat bar using my mig welder, oxygen acetylene torches and grinders.

This sculpture will be six feet wide by twenty inches high. I'm considering using a well weathered sheet of copper, which has a gorgeous patena for the sails, and some sheet metal for the background trees in the background

This sculpture will appeal to the sailing enthusiast.