Newbie intro.

[shona]

Hey all i am new here and just thought i'd share some of my lifes work with y'all http://www.msnusers.com/shonasculptor/shoebox.msnw?action=showPhotoID=13

[JAZ]

Shona,
I can't see the pictures. Try again. I'd love to see them.
JAZ

[shona]

JAZ i don't lots of hours put into learning the computer so forgive me, it's gonna take a wwhile.
try going here bro. http:www.msnusers.com/shonasculptor . this gotta work! tell me what you think :)

[shona]

OK just took sometime here are some pix.

[Julianna]

Your work is a refreshing taste of something new. I like it. It's quite different than some of the stuff out here (especially the stuff that makes me wonder "how can you call that art?" ;)). I noticed you have some paintings too...you seem to work in many media.

[shona]

thank you so much for your kind words Juliana, it's been a long trip girl and an amazing one too. i have learnt alot by working with lots of different sculptors and painters, starting off sanding sculptures as a 4 year old ,then i sold sculptures for a while on the streets in Africa, i used to buy unfinished work from some local artists ,take it home finish it and sell them. t'was through this finishing sculptures that i became familiar with shapes and forms then i begun modifying the works i bought, untill i got tired of seeing many of the sculptors mass producing the same thing over and over so i begun to ask these guys to change theyer styles and come up with new stuff , then one of the guys told me if you want something different have one of my rocks and do your own ,ever since then i have never stopped carving stone

[shona]

i'm buggin here, is there a limit to the number of attachments one can put or is it a size issue?

[Julianna]

i have learnt alot by working with lots of different sculptors and painters, starting off sanding sculptures as a 4 year old ,then i sold sculptures for a while on the streets in Africa, i used to buy unfinished work from some local artists ,take it home finish it and sell them. t'was through this finishing sculptures that i became familiar with shapes and forms then i begun modifying the works i bought, untill i got tired of seeing many of the sculptors mass producing the same thing over and over so i begun to ask these guys to change theyer styles and come up with new stuff , then one of the guys told me if you want something different have one of my rocks and do your own ,ever since then i have never stopped carving stone

What a touching story. There's nothing like finding your own style, is there?

[fritchie]

i'm buggin here, is there a limit to the number of attachments one can put or is it a size issue?

Shona - Files in jpeg/jpg format probably are best to try at first. The size limit is about 60 to 70 kilobytes per image, and if yours is too big, the program will say so. Use an image editor such as Adobe or many others to get to this size, and I’d recommend an overall size of about 5 to 6 inches max in either direction. Be sure to keep your original if you change size! Use a new name for the altered file.

Try loading just one attachment first, and go from there. Good luck, and glad to have you participating!

[shona]

some other old works i did.

[madsculptor]

Shona, why are your sculptures “perhaps the most important new art form to emerge from Africa in this century”?