| 25 Mar 2002 |  Laura J. Bayless |  Loading...One of my favorites. The lighting is beautiful and the anatomy and posture are so convincing. Fabulous work. | |
| 11 Oct 2002 |  Felicia Gilljam | Loading... Oooh! That is so... positively... touching! I love it, the look on her face, the emotion. Umm... I really should come up with something constructive, but really, I can't. Oh, yes! Maybe you could add some tools lying cluttering the ground around her? Just one or two next to the chopping-block... Would make a great pic even greater. =) | |
| 20 Nov 2002 |  The Inept Cleric | Loading... This is wonderful! It's so great to see a picture of a smith who's not a steriod abusing dwarf in a leather apron. A sensibly sized hammer for light work, a beautifully done anvil, and to top it all off, absolutely gorgeous artistry throughout the piece. My hat is off to you. (BTW, do you smith?)  Natasha Dahlberg replies: "Um..... Many years ago I did some lost wax casting and light metalwork. I liked it and made some neat stuff, but I haven't kept up with it. I do however love research, and I have a blacksmithing book with lovely pictures of anvils and tools. And I loved the metal studio filled with hundreds of beautifully made little hammers and strange smells and acid and fire. A path I could have taken, but didn't...." | |
| 29 May 2003 | Alie | Loading... Nice to see some CORRECT Latin up at the 'Wood. Kudos to you! | |
| 9 Aug 2003 |  Katelyn Shibley | Loading... Wow, this is awesome, love the lighting and everything, cool! | |
| 3 Oct 2003 |  Amanda R. Box | Loading... Beautiful piece. The pear keeps drawing my attention though, because I quite frankly can see no reason for it to be there. Not that it doesn't fit, just that I don't understand why it's there. | |
| 19 Jan 2004 | Aranel | Loading... To me it looks like shes longing to be somewhere else...or someone else. Or maybe......with some one else? Thats the way I interpreted it. | |
| 20 Jan 2004 | Starsong | Loading... ...et orare est laborare. To work is to pray, to pray is to work. The sentence means that work and prayer are one. That to truly pray is to the work of the gods.
Starsong | |
| 6 Apr 2006 | Catt of the Garage | Loading... Also, to work in a job that is a true vocation is to be truly yourself, just as a wolf is truly itself when it is hunting with the pack, or a weaver bird is truly itself when it is weaving its nest. And to be true to your created nature is an act of worship. For many simpler creatures it is the only one they are capable of.
I think the pear is her lunch and she is giving thanks for it. Her melancholy would be explained if that is all she has - perhaps smiths in the satyr community have trouble making ends meet. | |
| 21 Jan 2008 |  Stephanie S. K. Marbach | Loading... i like it! what does the pear symbolize? i think there’s a bit of shading at the bottom missing, the trunk looks a bit cut and put there. she’s very cute  ! | |
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