Oct 5, 2011

Te Kupenga Stone Carving


Te Kupenga Stone Sculpture Society, New Plymouth

4 comments:

  1. Looks like a real interesting place to sketch.

    Fantastic sketches. I love the characters and the activity they display. Great animated line work.
    Cheers

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  2. Thanks Dave. I'm pretty happy with these two. I showed my friend these earlier and he said that he liked how the one guy (in the second sketch) is wearing earmuffs but not on his ears. It was pretty loud (and I was back a bit) but that's the way he was doing it and it's the way I drew it.

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  3. One of my jobs done early in my career involved working in a Steel Mill (Sidbec Dosco). This earmuff activity is typical of the sort of thing I would see in the plant. Sometime these guys did this sort of thing to be macho and sometimes they just got use to going against safety practices. One incident I recall involved two millwrights working on an overhead crane that carried steel through the pickling tanks (acid baths). The safety practices that were required involved a) always having two guys on the crane at any time while it was being worked on and b) both guys wearing safety harnesses. Well this time they only observed one of the two practices. One of the man slipped off the crane into the acid. The second one was fast enough to grab the first under the arms and catch him, but not before the first had gone in waste deep.

    The guy that had fallen had intense flesh stripping burns from the waist down, the clothing and leather boots were eaten away. After being rescued and hosed down, he was taken immediately to hospital.

    A few months later the injured guy was back and assigned to work with me in the tool crib. He was still sore and working with a limp, but now had a lot more respect for safety. The others at the plant observed all the rules for awhile but they were back to their old habits before the injured guy returned.

    This was pretty extreme example, but I have seen lots of more minor things over the years such as the ear defenders issue. The same is true for protective eyewear.

    These are just things that a lot of outsiders don't really look at or observe. However as sketchers looking more intently, we do see these things and it is great we can show them in the artwork.

    Really great sketches.. I love to see the individual characteristics of people show.. it makes people unique.

    Cheers
    Dave

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  4. I also noticed in your sketch, that the guy with the ear defenders on the back of his head also does not appear to be wearing safety goggles and he has his hands in his pockets. Hmm!

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