Inlaid portrait

[sawduster]

Those of you who visit the scrolling forum may have already seen this previously posted. this was a new direction for me and I want to share it with my new friends on this forum.
I have never tried to inlay a portrait before and I am pretty tickled with how it came out
First the picture I was commissioned to do


the resulting portrait


8 x 10 1/8 maple ply inlaid into mahogany ply. Cut with #2/0 and #1 spiral. Inlay with #2/0 reverse flat . Finish is BLO and Deft

Thanx for lookin' :mrgreen:

 

[erasmussen]

Dont understand how you can do that:eusa_thin


But it sure is good:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap

 

[Gotcha6]

Fantastic. :icon_thum I envy anyone with that much talent. Personally, I'm aspiring for mediocrity.

 

[Travis Porter]

Robert, have you taken drawing lessons or is it something you just have a nack for?

 

[sawduster]

's OK Earl , I don't understand how most of you folks do what you do either :lol:

Travis I have never taken drawing lessons and it helps that I start with a photo . I put a lot of time into the pattern design and cutting ( probably 14 hrs on this one) and some are better than others
......mostly I think I'm just lucky :mrgreen:

 

[cskipper]

That's terrific! How did you convert the picture to a pattern? I am sure the recipient will LOVE it.

 

[sawduster]

Thanx Cathy , I do the initial conversion with Paint Shop Pro 7 and then do a ton of hand drawing and clean up ...details , shadows etc
It's pretty much what keeps me off the streets :mrgreen:

 

[ScottM]

's
......mostly I think I'm just lucky :mrgreen:

Hey Bro...... Nothing that pretty comes by luck. That is a gift.

[pie]U R DA MAN[/pie]

 

[nelsone]

You have much more patience than I do. That is a fantastic piece of work! You matched the photo perfectly!

Come on Cathy, let's see what you can do. Your seat as the scroll saw guru may get taken!:rolf:

 

[cskipper]

You have much more patience than I do. That is a fantastic piece of work! You matched the photo perfectly!

Come on Cathy, let's see what you can do. Your seat as the scroll saw guru may get taken!:rolf:

I bow to greater skill! I've got to learn to use spiral blades. Even at that, I just have the patience for making the pattern - juct cutting it.

 

[cskipper]

BTW, it is really wonderful having more scrollers on this site!

 

[ScottM]

I've got to learn to use spiral blades.

A good friend of mine told me to do this and really it helped. Use any text editor you want and print out the alphabet in letters an inch or 2 high. Put the letters on some scrap plywood. Then start with A and got down the line. Now the hard part. You do not have to do it in one shop session but DO NOT cut anything else on the scroll saw until you finish the alphabet. If you still are not comfortable do it again. You will be surprised.

Try it!!!!

 

[DaveO]

Robert that is outstanding, the likeness is uncanny. I am sure that your clients are very pleased, probably a little shocked as to how well it turned out.
Dave

 

[NZAPP1]

The only thing I can add is WOW:icon_thum:icon_thum:icon_thum

 

[b4man]

Robert, your post and the beautiful work you do is just another reminder of how great it is to be part of this forum. Whatever one's aspiration, there's someone here that offers the inspiration and help to achieve it.
I'm forever reminded of how much more I want to learn.
Great job!

 

[skeeter]

Robert, that's truly a work of art. Awesome job!!

 

[Jay]

That was an excellent job on the portrait. When you put it in paint shop did you convert the picture to a pencil drawing or use some other type of conversion tool?

 

[novice99]

Amazing work! A teacher once told me something about luck and skill: "you will get 'lucky' after you practice lots!" Take pride in your skill and hard work, ain't nothing lucky about that! Thanks for inspiring us all.

 

[jerrye]

THe quality and expertise of work turned (and sawn, and planed:mrgreen out from the people on this site never ceases to awe and amaze me. WONDERFUL WORK!!!!!!! I'll go one better than novice99's comment:

"Practice makes permanent. Only perfect practice makes perfect"

You, my friend, are at "perfect practice"!:icon_thum

 

[sawduster]

Thanx for the kind words everyone ... I am humbled

Jay, I use a specific process to render a final image in stark black and white. i then take this image and begin the process of cleaning up and adding detail, refining/defining shadows and objects and basically making it scrollable. The process basically uses the contrast capabilities of PSP but many details and objects become distorted as a result. I also take this opportunity to add any design elements that come to me from the picture
for example :
This is one result from processing


Here is the final rendering. I continue to make changes on the fly as I am cutting to address delicate bridges etc