The Cutting Board

It's always a great joy when one creative idea leading to another!

My last cut re-ignited my interest in Microscopic Organisms (i'll simply call it MOs).

The Microscopic Organisms (MOs) (28cm x 37cm / 11" x 14.5")

Though they are invisible to our eyes, the MOs are everywhere.  With my very limited reading on the topic, I think of the MOs as the true aborigines which live in this world.  Without them being the basic life form to support our ecosystem, none of the living things (be it plants, animals and humans) are able to exist.

As I google the images of the MOs, I was mesmerized by the beauty and the alien look of them. It is difficult to believe that they are from this world.

I'm so in awe of these tiny beings that I think it's going to be awhile before I move on to my next object of interest!  ;)

Well, I hope you enjoy my latest cut!

Have a nice weekend and stay creative!

The Cutting Board

While I was flipping through one of my favourite natural history book, a name caught my eyes and my imagination.

Have you heard of the Venus's Flower Basket?  It is a hexactinellid sponge.  The grow below 150m (500ft) below ocean and the Victorians used to collect them for display. From this I started to googled more images of the sponges and realized that I have to make some cuts for them.

Glass Sponges (28.5cm x 50.5cm / 11" x 19")

My cut is based on the general form of the glass sponges and Venus's Flower Basket.  The cut is not an exact replica of the sponges but my version of it.

Venus's Flower Basket

And while working on the drawing of the sponges, I keep having these images of microscopic creatures swimming in the vast ocean. So what can you do when such fun creatures latch onto your creative mind.  You bring them to the world!

Microscopic Creatures

Hope you enjoy this cut!

Have a nice weekend and stay creative!

The Cutting Board

Have you ever imagined what it would look like when:

- A Leafy Seadragon hid in a hollowed sea plant

- Got stuck at the Barnacles colony with a few Sea Urchin as neighbour

I think it would look like this .... :)

Seadragon (45cm x 32cm / 18" x 12.5")

This cut took me close to 4-weeks to finish. Not sure if it was because of me being a very cautious cutter who cuts at snail pace!?!.  Or because workplace had suck up most of my energy that there were nights which I could only concentrate to cut for an hour before sleep overcame me.

How I dream of some days in the future when I could spend all my time on cuttings!  (sigh) While I have the faintest idea of how to make such dream comes true, I'm to continue to work on my cuts.  Maybe in time, it will become so good that some one will come along and say something like this:

- We love your cuts and want you to join a group show!

- Are your cuts for sale?  We'd like to pay $$$ for it?

Alright I'm definitely dreaming now. It's time to come back to reality and here I come ... my next cut!

Cheers and stay creative! :) 

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All the aches and pains I got from cutting these jellyfishes are worth it!

I love every bits of it!

These "sea bubbles" are a real killer. :)

Have I done with the Jellyfish ... maybe ... maybe not ... ;) 

Cheers and have a wonderful day!  Stay creative!

Spring is Coming

Usually I would be working on the cuts on Sunday but not today!

I worked too hard on a cut last night that my neck, shoulders and fingers are still in ache. I'm putting my feet up and have a cuppa at my wild backyard.

Lo and behold, when did all these little daisies came out?  I think Spring is on the way!

Hope you all have a wonderful Sunday! :)

The Cutting Board

Finished this cut at 2:00 am last night (or very early this morning) ...

My fingers and arms were aching.  My back was hurting like hell!  But it's worth all the pains and the hours I put in.

The board is created from my fascination of marine animals and plants.  I reckon they have the most amazing looks and structure.

It takes hours to go through the tentacles (??) of the jellyfishes, I mean both in drawing and cutting, but I love every bits of it.

I hope you all enjoy this cut.

On the side, after years of lusting and looking at pictures of professional artist storage place for papers and artwork, I finally got these beautiful drawing cabinets!  They made me feel so (ahem) "professional", hahaha!

Have a wonderful week and stay creative!  :)

Bones (on colored background)

As promised, a different version of the bones cutting board on colored background.

I also like this positive cut of the skull with hanging plants.  Just on its own, it has the power to draw the viewer in and have the viewer imagining what the skull looks like.  Or in my case, I have a different reaction to the cut.  I feel like the animal is staring right at me ... as if it's asking me for something.

That's about it for now.  Have a nice weekend!  xxoo