Several months ago I was out in Wimberley, visiting my favorite hill country art gallery, and stumbled upon a huge, lovely tree sculpture made of wire. I was so impressed with the piece that I immediately decided to learn to make something similar myself. So yesterday, I picked up a dollar worth of florist’s wire and found this article. Thus armed, I embarked on my first attempt to prove Joyce Kilmer wrong.
An hour of fooling around with wire and my leatherman in the front yard yielded this:
Altogether, a credible first attempt, I think. A few things I learned along the way:
- Green wire makes everything look like a cactus.
- While tree roots are, in fact, as extensive as the branch systems, they’re usually below ground. Thus, using only 1/3 of the length for roots makes more sense than 1/2.
- Modeling the upper branches is hard once the lower ones are done. Next time I’ll experiment with working from the top down instead of the bottom up.
- Leatherman tools are awesome.
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Looks good.
There are two kinds of people in the world: people who have Leatherman as their multitool, and people who are embarassed at their choices in life.