RICHARD WEIGAND’S BLOG
On Being a Mature Artist – Part 5 of 5
Working With Clients If you put your work in front of people and get people’s reaction to it, you take that in and are affected by it. It’s what an artist needs to do. When you do it, your work will change. I told one client that I’d found a really nice board to use...
On Being a Mature Artist – Part 4
Relationship With the Materials I think when you are leaning wood, like learning anything, you start out struggling. You have to begin with learning your materials and your tools as well as your techniques. You learn them and you accumulate a language. The more you...
On Being a Mature Artist – Part 3
Mastery of Skills I remember making pottery. Sometimes, I would make a piece and when it came out of the kiln, I didn’t like it. So I had to think about why I didn’t like it, and try again to produce the exact piece I’d had in mind – the form, the weight, the glaze,...
On Being a Mature Artist – Part 2
After a while, that kind of knowledge sinks down into your mind and you use it as you need it, without dredging it up formally and laying it out as a kind of blueprint. So, while you don’t have to look at a chair that you’re in the process of building and ask...
On Being a Mature Artist – Part 1
Richard Weigand has reached a plateau where the pieces have fallen into place. For him, environment, relationships, and artistry are matured, fully formed, and available to be brought by his consciousness to play in the activities in which he chooses to deploy them....
Sustainability – Part 3 of 3
I’m not really much of a flag-waver. I’m not trying to promote a political position or a trendy topic of discussion. But utilizing resources thoughtfully is just logical. Simply living on planet earth means you do a degree of harm, but there’s a logical degree to...
Sustainability – Keepsake Box Made From Salvaged Wood… Part 2 of 3
Richard Weigand says he does not regard sustainability as an “issue.” The term’s intent is best exemplified when “it becomes a way of life as opposed to a principal that one is waving a flag over. I believe in the idea of moderation in all things; I know people who...
Sustainability… Part 1 of 3
Richard Weigand says he does not regard sustainability as an “issue.” The term’s intent is best exemplified when “it becomes a way of life as opposed to a principal that one is waving a flag over. I believe in the idea of moderation in all things; I know people who...
Wabi sabi – Mass Production… Part 4 of 4
In my current work, I’m looking at all this salvaged wood. Every piece, every board has to be compared to the other boards. Does it look good, do I need to change it…flip it upside down, turn it around…how does it look best? The color of that wood, does it look good...
Wabi sabi – Mass Production… Part 3 of 4
Straight-grained wood can be anything – a leg of a chair, a back of a chair, it can be anything. No decision has to be made; no one had to look at any specific, unique piece of wood and say, “this would make a good rocking chair arm, because of the curve in the...