Look at these amazingly detailed moths by Clemens Söllner, made with inlays of different kinds of wood! Aaaaahhhh! I just love the way the woodgrain textures flow, and it's clear how much love and care went into depicting these beautiful creatures so intricately!
Top moth is Ochropleura plecta, middle is Actinotia polyodon, and bottom is Ceramica pisi.
My latest sculpture is done! I blew the glass myself, and made ferrofluid, and put this whole thing together. The little wooden stones have magnets in them to manipulate the ferrofluid.
Of course all I can see are the bits that I wanted to be different, but I'm trying to be proud of what I made. This was my first time ever blowing glass, and my first time making ferrofluid from scratch. Getting the holes to actually be the right size for the irregularly sized glass objects was SO HARD.
(ID courtesy of tumblr user night-dark-woods) ID. painted flat wood sculptures, one side is a reclining gray spotted seal and one side is a naked woman. there are three photos of the set, showing both sides of them, and then a series of gifs of them being flipped over. each selkie has a different skin tone and hair color in human form, and a different coat pattern as a seal. End ID.
soooooo i participated in my first violin making competition this week w my first instrument !! 10/10, met a lot of really lovely people, got to explore poznan a bit, had some helpful feedback on my instrument, and i came away w a couple awards for best score in acoustic quality 🥳🥳 (none for the workmanship but i’ll get there one day lolol)
the last two weeks have been pretty inspiring—low key excited to get back to school and do work? who would’ve thought
Being from Michigan and a homeschool family, we have taken approximately 824 maple syrup classes. We trek out to the sugar bush, tap trees, learn how it has changed over the years, and learn how it's boiled down.
In all of those years, I've never really thought about what the tree looks like inside. Guides always tell us the holes heal and I just never thought about it.
Then our local lumber guy mentions he got boards from a 150 year old sugar maple full of tap holes!
How neat is this? I'm fascinated, personally.
I have no idea what project this wood is destined for, but we definitely bought it 🤣