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I have a granddaughter who is a freshman in college on a full ride scholarship for art She of course is an amazing artist, but she's also an extremely talented and taking woodworking classes in college also.
She just got home for spring break and had to show me her latest woodworking project where she combined her artistic skills with woodworking skills.
This was round circles of wood each cut slightly smaller to rough form the shape. Then the whole ball was rasped perfectly round by hand! Once rasped and sanded round she used a wood burning tool to draw the various cats all over the ball, and drilled 3 finger holes to make a wooden bowling ball! When it was done they setup a bowling alley with wooden pins and used the full sized bowling ball to knock down the pins!
Every time she finishes another painting, drawing, or wood shop project she sends us pictures, and it just knocks my socks off with how much talent her work displays! We have some of her art on our walls, but I need to get some of her woodwork to go with it!
Thank you all!
She certainly has more talent than anyone else in our family! She started drawing and painting around 6 yrs. old and we immediately noticed her ability to draw animals and people at the correct scale was uncanny. Well above her peers at the same age, and every year after she just got better and better!
When she reached high school she took both wood shop and metal shop as she's always preferred working with her hands. She was way better at both metal fab, welding, etc. and woodworking than any of the boys in her classes. She began using her dad's woodworking tools, and metal working tools at home and her and her dad built a custom Sprinter van to travel in. She did some of the welding, and all of the custom counter tops in the van. They were all laminated squares like fancy cutting boards throughout the van.
After the custom camper van she turned to making custom cutting boards, and he dad sold his old table saw and bought them a commercial saw, and planer to help her work better and faster. When she left for college last fall she was a year behind with backorders for her cutting boards, and had to tell her customers she wouldn't get back on them until this summer. So her plan is to work hard all summer full time to hopefully make more spending money for college this fall.
I'll have to load pics of her "bird box" project. She made a laminated wood storage box that's about 4.5" square and 8" tall and she burned images of a different bird on each side, then painted them in their true colors before varnishing it. She has to bring both of these projects back to school after spring break as the instructor wants them to display at the student art show they do each spring at open house.
Thanks for braggin and sharing her wonderful work, Vall. Anyone who can keep track of multiple cats on a spherical surface not only has artistic talent, but spatial thinking talent as well.
I often see kids with talents whose parents push them into what the parents want for them. I am happy your family has the sense to let her follow her talents, and that she seems happy doing what she has a talent for.
D. Brian Casady
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