Comment by John Biles on December 24, 2011 at 10:42am

This is close to where I live, about 1 hour, I would have loved to be part of this, even as a laborer great work.

Comment by don yeager on December 24, 2011 at 3:12pm

Thanks,I try to do quality work on production  jobs,but being the only guy carving it gets tough

Comment by Nelson Lasaosa on December 24, 2011 at 9:00pm

Great work Don, lots of painstaking tasks for you the artist. It`ll be rewarded, and please post to see WIP till pumps are turn on . Happy hollydays.

Comment by don yeager on December 24, 2011 at 9:34pm

It doesnt pay go some where else and find happiness

Comment by Nelson Lasaosa on December 25, 2011 at 3:45pm

On one hand sometimes I wish I was called for a BIG proyect far out of my area, but on a second thought I do know  if that ever happens not so sure I`d be jumping up and down full of joy.  The risk of being in the business, the risk of living...lol.

Comment by don yeager on December 25, 2011 at 4:15pm

Nel,didnt mean to be so abrupt,but I get a little jaded after so many projects and hope you understand

when guys like me say things like I said,please no insult intended unless you want it

Comment by Nelson Lasaosa on December 25, 2011 at 4:35pm

No, no, not at all, I understand you perfectly. Proyects 1-10 have a different ring to them than 11-100 don`t they? One always wishes for all the glamour, recogniction and money that goes along with getting Big and continuos proyects, but that`s just one side of the coin.Once many, many of them have been undertaken,  including maturing (one`s self) then all that excitment ain`t as much priority, perhaps more a desire of calm, less stress, but still love  making artwork, and/or money. It is a dilemma, each of us  got solve own way. Till ya do,  keep carving ! lol

Comment by Nelson Lasaosa on December 25, 2011 at 4:44pm

Don I`m curious if a large scale project like this really "needs" as much detail as a small one say around the pool area for a private house. My view is that fine texture and shape details even if you sculpted them so, would get lost given the distance between work and viewer, so they don`t matter, as opposed to a work looked at often and at very close distance. So if they don`t matter why bother so much, less work,  less cost, less stress, more hapiness ...lol.

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