Collaborations between aldwarke and snazzie-designz the most recent first.


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Please note that the bigger collaboration projects have folders of their own in my gallery, so please scroll down through the folders on the left to find them, or they will be missed.

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Aslan Box and Lid

I was very lucky to get my hands on this beautiful box made by with some ingenious hand chiseled indents around the edges of the lid to reveal a beautiful striped pattern from the ply layering.

I've always loved the poster for "The Lion,The Witch and the Wardrobe" and the tooth bites on the edges of the lid made me think of it for this box.

Also this was my first time experimenting with bottled ink on wood. Unlike paint which masks the wood and hides the grain and the burn marks, ink soaks into the wood and enhanced the grain, whilst allowing the burned shading to come through. Also you get seamless blending of colours as you can see in the background which goes from dark navy to blue to aquamarine to amber.

Blackbird Lullaby

I was inspired by the beautiful "Blackbird Lullaby" poem written by aldwarke and was inspired to make a pyrographed plaque.

If you want to see even more wonderful and beautiful poems and short stories, please check out his gallery, and also please check out his brand new blog "Aldwarke's Anthology" and like and comment on some of the poetry, and submit some of your own poems too. aldwarkesanthology.wordpress.c…

Handmade Fishing Box

This is a stunningly beautiful fishing box hand made by aldwarke from American white oak with meranti accents, and a Baltic pint lid suitable for pyrography. The fishing box pyrography (wood burning) is of a father and son who have happy memories of pike fishing in this lake.

Handmade Picture Frame

This is a beautiful hand made frame made by aldwarke from sapele wood (which glistens like copper in the light) with accents of a second unknown wood. The pyrograph is of a beautiful cottage covered in decorative shells with a wise old tree in the garden. I used mainly autumnal colours to match the frame.

Handmade Coptic Bound Haiku Book

This is a one off hand made Coptic bound book inspired by the haiku collection of aldwarke.

The front cover is bamboo with 5 different veneers, and pyrographed outlines.

The back cover has the Kanji for "Haiku" 俳句 pyrographed onto a marquetry cover. I'm not sure what the the central veneer is pearlescent and glimmers in the light.

In the inside pages there is a collection of Aldwarke's haiku and short poems that I illustrated.
I've done up an animation simulating the book opening so that you can see the pages illustrated.

This absolutely wonderful, inspiring, eclectic collection of poems can be found here. Do please go and have a look.
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Nymph With Hand made Sapele Frame

Framed Fan - Birds in the Plum Tree

Custom hand made frame and fan by aldwarke with a ukiyo-e pyrograph (wood burning) by me.
Inspired by the Toshi Yoshida woodblock print "Spring". "Hakubai ni Mau" translates as "Flying around the Plum Tree".
     

Chisel Box

Japanese themed pyrographs burned into this beautifully hand made chisel box made by aldwarke.

The chisels are marvellous Kirshcen brand chisels. Kirschen means "cherries" in German, so I decided to do a cherry blossom themed box to match.
The cherry blossom designs are inspired by Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints. I continued the Japanese theme on the underside with a Japanese dragon.
     

The Lady of Shalott:

  


 Starting with a stunning frame hand made by aldwarke I initially though I needed to turn it upside down!
As soon as I saw the curve I knew I wanted to make that the edge of the boat, and have her hair and robes flow over the edge as described in the poem. How to achieve that was a new challenge. Meranti would be too dark to represent the white robes described in the poem. I decided to give marquetry a go for the first time. Have a look at the test pieces for more information on the test pieces.


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The Covenant:

   
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Celtic Crosses:

The Triptych:

 

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Rune box lid and Swan Drawer Inlay

on one of aldwarke's stunning handmade boxes. This was our very first collaboration.
Collaboration ReflectionsIf you haven't done a collaboration already I can highly recommend it. It's a very productive medium. Speaking as a singer in a folk  band (until recently when I retired from it), I find it's like singing harmony duets. There is this similar intuitive potential for knowing what your partner is going to do and to incorporate this with your own proposed intentions, the end result being greater than the sum of its parts.
:devsnazzie-designs: made the whole process easier for me by using her superior computer abilities like a ball of string to guide me through deviantart's labyrinthine corridors. She also did the superb design of my Viking birth signs and transliterated the text into runes.
From :iconsnazzie-designz:
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This has been my first craft collaboration and an international one at that. Many
Then something much more adventurous altogether..




 

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Please note that the bigger collaboration projects have folders of their own in my gallery, so please scroll down through the folders on the left to find them, or they will be missed.

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