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Re: stuck, please critique!
I like the finished first piece very much. But I can see how you got frustrated with it and got stuck. The piece depends very much on sequences of inter-related forms, and managing the accumulation of intricate shapes can be difficult. As someone who works a lot with flowing, inter-related forms I've had to put work away, sometimes for years! In fact that this very moment I'm re-carving a piece I started 10 years ago, having just recently seen a way through the dilemma.
This piece works, though, but I would recommend that you simplify your underlying structure (upon which you 'hang' the further complex forms). It's like having a plot and a series of sub-plots in literature. Keeping a main structure in place, I find, means that the complications of the work do not get out of hand. Here you get close to letting the work fly off in too many directions, perhaps.
By the way, I note the comment that abstract work 'is what it is', and that we don't have to worry about getting it right. Actually, getting it right is an even greater dilemma in abstract carving. Starting again from nothing is harder than starting from some model (in the world out there).
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From the carver actually known as Sam Bell
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04-19-2012, 05:30 PM
.. so... it's going back in the cupboard and hopefully it stays happy till i can afford it. and thanks ladyice, it is oil based clay. time to start something new! 
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