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Bill
Kober, who is one of our premier
marquetarians at the Redbridge Marquetry Group, has produced a
gallery full of marquetry pictures all on his own over the
years.
Bill has the ability to cut beautifully considered marquetry
pictures where the grain flow of the veneers is given due
attention. The care Bill gives to this important detail is
self evident in the harmonious merging of the many veneers
Bill uses for his pictures.
We know you will enjoy this small selection from Bill's
marquetry output. |
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Bill's picture of the "London Knights Ice Hockey
Team" shield
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This picture is titled "Poor Mouse" - which is about to
be
devoured for dinner by the look of things!
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This picture is called "Crested Tit"
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The
picture below is
Bill's "Nude Study" which wonderfully demonstrates Bill's
careful matching of light coloured veneers in the pursuit of
skin tones.
Bill says that he has mostly used Sycamore for the model and
that he achieved the subtle changes of tone and shaping by
rotating the grain pattern so that only small variations of
light and dark are achieved. This style of veneer selection
certainly works in this picture - if Bill had used different
species of veneer for the model I don't think he would have
achieved such superb results.
We have to say that we think that this Nude Study of Bill's
demonstrates superbly the subtleties of tone achieved just by
rotating your veneer slightly for shadow and reflection
effects. Nicely judged there Bill. |
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