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Artistic Furniture, Doors, Gates, Lighting and Hardware.
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Hand Carving Info

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Carved Doors

Scottsdale Art Factory offers hand carved exterior and interior doors in any size. Sculpted by hand, these unique doors are art in relief. The natural tones of the red and yellow northern white exotic cedar provide rich contrasts that will captivate your guests. These doors are solid and sturdy and are made from the highest quality of natural wood. We custom design and build the doors to your requirements. The images can be your own idea or from photographs. In renovations, a Scottsdale Art Factory Studio carved door by H. J. Nick can be an economical solution to an architecturally challenged building.


Hand Carved Doors Should Never Be Ordered

if your building schedule doesn't allow for the proper amount time for the creative art process. Hand carving is a true creative art process and cannot be rushed if the end result is to be of high expectation. For example: It usually takes a professional master carver with over ten or more years experience to carve a wild live wilderness theme on a 4' x 8' foot door face, one side only, heavy detail over 120 hours of hand carving time. This does not count any man hours of the building process of your door order.


Direct Carving

The process of direct carving imposes a characteristic order on the forms of sculpture. The faces of the original block, slab, or cylinder of material can usually still be sensed, existing around the finished work as a kind of implied spatial envelope limiting the extension of the forms in space and connecting their highest points across space. In a similar way, throughout the whole carving, smaller forms and planes can be seen as contained within implied larger ones. Thus, an ordered sequence of containing forms and planes, from the largest to the smallest, gives unity to the work.


Indirect Carving

All of the great sculptural traditions of the past used the direct method of carving, but in Western civilization during the 19th and early 20th centuries it became customary for stone and, to a lesser extent, wood sculpture to be produced by the indirect method. This required the production of a finished clay model that was subsequently cast in plaster and then reproduced in stone or wood in a more or less mechanical way by means of a pointing machine.

Usually the carving was not done by the sculptor himself. At its worst, this procedure results in a carved copy of a design that was conceived in terms of clay modeling. Although indirect carving does not achieve aesthetic qualities that are typical of carved sculpture, it does not necessarily result in bad sculpture. Rodin's marble sculptures, for example, are generally considered great works of art even by those who object to the indirect methods by which they were produced. The indirect method has been steadily losing ground since the revival of direct carving in the early 20th century, and today it is in general disrepute among carvers.


Scottsdale Art Factory "Never" Indirect Carves.
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