8/03/2009
As those that read my other blogs know, my father died on May 30th. I went down to southern Ca, where he lived and the same house I grew up in for his funeral. There are 3 other people in my family that by Dad's account were his children. Since my Mom died in 1990 there was no one left so I am sure you know the drill. House of 49 years to be cleaned out and the contents shared. Then there is the selling of the house, etc.
With that almost done I have started to TRY to think about getting back in the wood working mode. Specifically intarsia, my true love!
But
Something seems to have happened.
All the patterns from magazines, internet etc, where I look for patterns for intarsia has really changed.
With all due respect what I have seen lately have been AWFUL!.
For instance, I have been noticing that bird patterns, (something I LOVE doing) have changed. Instead of a bird, (like my Red Tailed Hawk that is on this blog)that has individual feathers to cut out and shape and glue back together, the patterns are more like scroll work. The feathers have simple cuts that do not go all the way through for a group of feathers.
I found a BEAUTIFUL horse intarsia pattern a couple days ago, but instead of the pieces defining the shoulders and the hind quarter, the pattern called for just the side of the horse to simply be cut through in 3 separate places. No defining piece.
Has the business of selling patterns now outweigh the looks of the patterns? More money is made in pattern making? Some of those I have looked at recently look like someone drew a picture of an animal or whatever and then a few lines drawn to separate the pieces.
Does anyone understand what I am trying to say? Has anyone noticed this?
