estebanana -> RE: Rosette making video - part 1 (Aug. 1 2012 3:30:00)
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And boy do I ever love that de la Chica/Clarke Navaho blanket color-scheme/arrow-pattern. Cool, I tend to steal designs, I took the arrow from Clark. I showed him the tiles designs I stole from him and he said well if you're gonna steal steal from one of the best. [:D] He also implied that no students in his artistic linage should think of using a pre-made rosette. It comes off as snotty we you say it out loud, but it just means the art of the hand made instrument will go on if we keep doing it in our own modest way. I also think originality comes through working out something thing you get from another artist until you work out the other side and it is yours. When people try too hard to "be original" they lose in to a kind of visual posturing. You can't force it or over do it with complexity just to prove a point. The best designs seen to be uncluttered and they breathe. I'll make more of the traditional tiles like crosses and arrows etc. in a few months, but for now I'm working out the permutations of the WBWBW oud rose I found. I think I'm going to try to make on that is complex, but the simple tiles. I'm really not impressed with rosettes past Barbero's work, either that get too busy or too Celtic. Barbero's work freaks me out, it's too good, he's super interesting. I love the Book of Kells, just don't want it on my body or my guitar. I keep getting drawn to Manuel Ramirez, Torres, Santos and the old ouds. There are lots of ways of doing those ideas and keeping them fresh. I'm not ready to abandon that work yet. [:D] There's going to be a follow up videos which show how things go together. I do it a certain way and there a three or so main ways you can do it, so I'm just practicing one of them. The other methods are also right.
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