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Pentaptych of Scarborough Harbour, Yorkshire. as published on page 18-20 in the American Marquetry Magazine, Fall 2019 and on pages 14-16 in The Marquetarian, Winter 2019 (UK) |
| size: overall is 31" (78.74cm) x 18" (45.72cm) |
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This was my attempt at making a Marquetry Pentaptych rendition of
Scarborough Harbour in Yorkshire, England. There are many mistakes but I think the idea is there and it represents itself nicely as a 5 panel Marquetry wall mount. I started by taking photograph of the Harbour and dividing it into 5 panels also adjusting the height af each panel to fit the 5 Panel Wall mount theme. After making the 5 separate panels it was then time to cut them square making sure that I cut out a 3/8" gap between each panel. The rest is marquetarian normal practice. Many things went wrong: 1. I did not want to overuse fragmentation for the many trees originally in the background so I put in the field. 2. The field looked too bare and lonely so I added a stone wall. 3. The stone wall was so small it rendered itself into insignificance. So I enlarged the wall and now it looks way out of proportion. My take on that is to pretend it was taken by a BIG telephoto lens. ha! ha!. Just a bit of Artistic license eh? OK the center panel size is 18" (45.72cm) x 5-3/4" (14.60cm) The two inner side panels: 12-1/2" (31.75cm) x 5-3/4" (14.60 cm) The outer panels: 8-1/4" (20.95 cm) x 5-3/4" (14.60cm) If you want to read the text on how to achieve Pentaptych please click here for HTML. or in .pdf All panels sanded to 600 grit then 5 coats of sanding sealer applied. Finally 2 coats of wipe-on gloss Polyurethane. All panels 100% cut with a Scalpel. |
| Anyone interested in learning the art of Marquetry please contact me at emills21@cox.net |