Fantasy Sailboat by Richard Arfsten
This is a solar ion wind powered boat from my Dreamtime adventures with my childhood hero Flash Gordon. I have made several iterations of these boats. My ancestors come from a island between Denmark and Germany. My great grandfather was a sea captain of a Clippership and I feel a connection to him. I am believing more and more about reincarnation and being guided in my thoughts and actions by forces from those that have passed. Maybe I am very anal in that I seem to need to make a story out of everything I make. Who knows why I make what ever I make? Bottom line I like to make whatever titillates my visual interest. I think it would make a interesting sculpture if enlarged.
Maquettes also make fine desk top sculpture and will come with a stone base to sit on.
The major value in these pieces is the maquette aspect. The maquette is a three-dimensional model or blueprint that works to show that the design is accurate and can be built larger. A metal fabricator measures off of it to make the patterns to build from, just like a tailor uses your measurements to make your clothes. When presenting ideas to a client for consideration most sculptors submit a concept drawing on a piece of paper. A maquette is the actual sculpture in miniature. When you lift it up to view at eye level it will depict the sculpture exactly as it will be seen in real life as if you were walking up to and around it.
For a small additional fee you can buy the enlargement rights to have a metal fabricator of your choice build it to any size out of any kind of sheet metal. The maquette is lightweight - it can easily be mailed anywhere. Building the enlargement close to where it is to be used saves in transportation cost and import duties and you control all the details and eliminate my supervising fee.
Maquettes also make fine desk top sculpture and will come with a stone base to sit on.
The major value in these pieces is the maquette aspect. The maquette is a three-dimensional model or blueprint that works to show that the design is accurate and can be built larger. A metal fabricator measures off of it to make the patterns to build from, just like a tailor uses your measurements to make your clothes. When presenting ideas to a client for consideration most sculptors submit a concept drawing on a piece of paper. A maquette is the actual sculpture in miniature. When you lift it up to view at eye level it will depict the sculpture exactly as it will be seen in real life as if you were walking up to and around it.
For a small additional fee you can buy the enlargement rights to have a metal fabricator of your choice build it to any size out of any kind of sheet metal. The maquette is lightweight - it can easily be mailed anywhere. Building the enlargement close to where it is to be used saves in transportation cost and import duties and you control all the details and eliminate my supervising fee.