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nice touch steve - im liking the oreo addition.! :) and yeah id use coco pops too...

thanks dodge, BCROB, what a beautiful thing that is to use as a pin. i thought they were just for purely decorative function, like chunks inlaid onto surface. really never seen that before :) gorgeous work too. :)

these look beautiful ! do you make slices and inlay them? do you have any work you made with them? ive never seen this kind of thing made before...

excellent! his attitude is brilliant - vacant and gorgeous and displaying his wares ! :) his head is great - i like how wide his feet are set too. the photos are really fun to watch !

lazy if you like - but using your very good eye that gathers all the interesting descriptive details together :) will def post my peacock when i do it !

andrew your right! i guess i presumed the entire tail was eyes, and the wings infront, and it does appear more like this when the tail is down, but if you think about it no eyes are visible from the back when the tail is up... just the dull brown ones.. i have some smaller shoes stashed which i might use on mine but ive not decided yet, and i have never thought of using a pipe cut into sections for rings! thats ridiculously obvious, and something i would do in cooking or perhaps with cardboard but ive never done that with metal! well done!! that will be SO useful :) thankyou ! i will thoroughly enjoy your photo step by step thing for the peacock, i particularly like your approach, which is unique to your style, of using the best shaped part from the outset, rather than fiddling and altering to much after youve made your selection.the glass is going to look wonderful!

andrew your dead right - anything my dogs chase i blame myself for - luckily its not dangerous animals like kangaroos, but there are other dangers like roads and livestock, they are instinctively drawn to this activity and when they have occasionally chased it could have been prevented by me concentrating better, and im not sure about the beating either. will the dog connect that with the chase or not? im not sure. i praise mine when they come back, for coming back, but im sure some would say thats wrong. if it were me, i wouldnt be so keen to come back if i thought id get a massive hiding! dogs are a big responsibility.. and like you said you cant keep them chained up all day, your never going to have a dog trained 100 percent, so you got to devise ways of avoiding danger on their behalf. are the kangaroos protected because numbers are decreasing?

woah andrew that kangaroo tale is fearful... am quite shocked by that - knew they were dangerous but thats really much more stronger and co-ordinated than i thought they were.. as for the 2d peacocks of mine i kind of meant yours are properly in three dimensions, whereas flat things ( to hang on side of house) are kind of 2d. in my head :) so mine will sit flat to a wall. the lady who ordered them wanted some real ones but her husband wont have it, so she wants two metal ones to hang by a tree near her very amazing old house. she may want some more, i would encourage her too, they could be everywhere... :)

thats going to be fun andrew ! ive got to make two peacocks myself in new year - but they are to be fairly flat and wall mounted and are to be made on a bit if a budget! i think your sculpture will be beautiful - peacocks have some lovely details, that sticking up bit on top of the head, the eye shapes in the feathers, the big body tiny head ratio, the size and shape of tail, all things that will look great i rusty steel and glass - i reckon those two materials will look fab in your style of working - ill look out for it!

thats very interesting that you have different piles for different ideas - its kind of a long game plan? i like that - might be an idea that will help me!

only just seen that JK - it does really suit the room, not too fussy and fiddly - love the texture. bet it feels nice.

thats great peggy! :) how wonderful to be be able to write poems - and also to inspire them. nice one peggy and jamie!

hey andrew i like this one i particularly like him from the back! he has alot of power. and i love his kind of mudguard haunches :) fab :) the pictures done like this are great - would be great in time lapse photos - your work would make compelling animation! lots of work to keep stopping and photoing though...

frank! wonderful! i love this kind of art, and indulge in it all the time, i compulsively make and decorate bread :) particularly the magical and fantastic wild sourdough. there is few finer occupations in this life! mine are not made in adobe ovens, but the next best thing, on a wood fired range in my kitchen. thankyou for that beautiful picture, i believe everyone could benefit from this simple nourishing creative outlet! :) i bet you make bread yourself.... :)

i love that one scrap!!! SO TACTILE - the ripper points give a fabulous texture. love how solid he looks :)

kustom - that bird is lovely!!! :)

love that - its very pretty :) like how its just in the wall. my nephew just went outside our house and sucked his finger and held it in the air - NOTHING. calm before the storm?.. :ph34r:

charles - absolutely right :) tea, aparts from love, is all you need :) andrew thats a nice little pan - i could cook with that :) and i reckon i could flip a pancake in it..

i bet it is, and i must try - i love the fact that those colors are on a three dimensional bulk rather than sheet which you do commonly see - it makes it far more appealing - and makes the forge marks look gorgeous. im going to try some :) havnt forged much copper, but ive bits lying about. im not very good at understanding/remembering the oxidising reducing talk, just information i cant seem to retain.. maybe you could tell me again so i can try to remember.. thankyou! that is just so pretty on the hammer marks....

that leaf is stunning! i love it exactly as it is :) i also love when you CANT control something too much, there is such an added element to that, and once you know the control, you can never recapture the glorious lack of it :) love it - its Beautiful!

thats a lovely sculptural object black frog! - really like it :) i keep looking at it :)

woody i wish i knew what you were on about - because that might mean i had a hope in hell of mending my own badly functioning little anyang.. as luck would have it i have a friendly neighbour smith who can help me at some point, and i hope that it will all then seem a bit clearer becasue i would love to understand the problem. i totally relate to your streams of questions, as i have similar continuous dialogues with myself on many subjects - sometimes youve just got to write it down or tell someone havnt you!?? i will read your thread with my usual mixture of bewilderment despair and interest :)

he is lovely! his horns are great he is fab and chunky and has a lovely curvy neck :) nice one!

great photos of beautiful work ! that key is just wonderful ! :) would love to be patient enough..