Spring 2008 Contest Winners!

[Steve Worcester]

The Spring 2008 contest (Spheres) was judged by Andi Wolfe (If you don't know who Andi is, quit reading and google her, or go to http://www.andiwolfe.com/woodturning/wolfe.html )

The winners are

Spring 2008 Contest

First of all, I’d like to congratulate all of the artists who submitted their work for the contest. The work was very creative, and it was fun for me to see all of the different ideas and interpretations of the sphere motif. It was certainly not easy to narrow down the field to a short list of three winning entries.

1st place: Pascal Oudet for his red planet sphere. The combination of grain and contrasting colors is very effective in illustrating the title of this project. In just looking at this sphere, one would assume it was solid. I can only imagine how it would feel in my hand with it being hollow; what a wonderful illusion to complement the beautiful design.

2nd place: Barbara Crockett for her frog cookie jar. This is such a whimsical piece, I couldn’t resist selecting it for the top three. There’s a definite need for a Cookie Monster companion to complete the set. Aside from the "cute" factor, turning a spherical box with a diameter of 9.5 inches is pretty impressive.

3rd place: Roger Zimmermann for his protozoan simulacrum. It was fun to see all the different spindles he turned and assembled for this project.

It was great to see the beautiful figure and grain of spalted wood put to good use in pieces such as those submitted by MartyL, Barbara Crockett and rmuniak. The characteristics of the grain also were used effectively in the spheres made by Pascal Oudet and Jim Burrowes. Embellishments and coloring were added value for the projects submitted by Mark Damron, Dehrer, 1woodworker, Roger Zimmerman and bobzwood. Multi-axis turning, carving, coloring, assembly of multiple parts, and showcasing beautiful grain –- these spheres were so distinctive and spread so broadly across the spectrum of techniques employed by woodturners that it was difficult to select the top three.

The entries are here
http://www.aawforum.org/vbforum/showthread.php?t=4698

 

[Barbara Crockett]

Thanks and congratulations

Thanks Andi, and to Steve as well, for organizing these challenges. Congratulations to Pascal and Roger as well as all of the other participants. It was an interesting project and fun to see what everyone came up with.

 

[Pascal Oudet]

thanks

A great thanks to Andi for choosing my piece, and thanks to Steve for these funny contests. it was a very pleasant surprise. I've been making planets for some years now, and thought about them when reading the sphere article in the magazine. I wanted to do a red one in the near future, so the opportunity was too good to miss. I'm verry happy Andi liked it.
congratulations Barbara, when I browsed through all the entries, yours sure made me smile. I especially liked how you made not just one sphere, but used this form to create something with several spheres.

Pascal