Greetings,
Harry Hine has sent me an email containing illustrated color and master mold pictures of his second Harry Hine Studios Lighthouse that is his first Christmas Piece, Rock Island, NY. Ordering information will be sent out later when the price and delivery date has been firmed up. Those of you that previously bought Jones Point Lighthouse will be given the opportunity to get the same serial number that your Jones Point Lighthouse had. Those of you that passed on buying Jones Point still have a chance to establish your serial number while there are still 21 Jones Point Lighthouses available to buy. So if you want to establish your serial number by buying a Jones Point and get the matching serial number on your Race Rock Lighthouse, and all future issues by Harry, now is the time to buy the Jones Point while there are still some left.
You must be logged in to view these picture. If you are not a member of these Forums you can view the below pictures by going to Harry's webpage and clicking on the Blog tab at the top of the page or you can view these pictures right here by joining the Forums and logging in. The following is the email I received from Harry:
“It's been a while since I was last in touch and I thought I should give everyone an update on the new sculpture I've been working on. The response to Jones Point was incredible and I would like to say a huge "Thank you" to everyone who bought the piece. You have made it possible to continue with this fledgling collection.
ROCK ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE, NYSoon after the Jones Point went on sale, I started on a new lighthouse sculpture. Given that it takes me a long time to sculpt, I thought I'd give myself a time limit to motivate (panic) me into getting it finished in a timely manner. Therefore, I decided to make it a Christmas piece.
The sculpture is of Rock Island, located on the St Lawrence River , New York. This lighthouse has been beautifully restored over the years. When I first saw photos of this lovely light with its distinctive red Keepers house I immediately knew that it would make a wonderful Christmas piece.
The sculpting is progressing well and the piece should soon be ready for molding.
I normally do an illustration of a new piece before the sculpting starts. The drawings give me the opportunity to decide on the composition and size of the piece. They also give me a chance to make sure that I have all the reference material and photos needed to make an accurate sculpture. Once I've decided on the composition I can start the sculpting.
The plan is to have the sculpture up on my website and available for sale in early November. I'm hoping for a ship date of the first week of December. This might change slightly based on the workshops production schedule. I will keep you updated.
As a final note, I do have 21 Jones Points remaining in inventory. If you should know of any former Harbour Lights collectors or lighthouse enthusiasts who haven't heard of my new collection, I'd be enormously grateful if you would help spread the word.
To see more drawings of Rock Island and see how I decided on doing Rock Island, have a look at my
Blog page on the
www.HarryHine.com, where I've uploaded more of the plans and elevation drawings or read the below explanation.
ROCK ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE, NY
Three years ago I had to do a terrible thing.......
As Bill Younger traveled around the country visiting stores and collectors, he would almost always make time to visit nearby lighthouses. Over the years, Bill had taken tens of thousands of photos of lighthouses from all around the US, Europe, Russia, Asia and South America. It might well have been one of the most comprehensive collections of lighthouse photos in the world and I had to throw them into a dumpster. Yes I threw them all away! I had the collection hidden away in a storage garage where they were archived in 10 large, 4 foot wide by 5 foot tall filing cabinets. With the closing of Harbour Lights I could not personally afford to pay for the continued storage and after exhausting every avenue to find a good home for the collection, I came to the hard decision and hired a dumpster.
It took quite a long time as I kept finding myself stopping to look at photos of various lighthouses that brought back good memories. The filing cabinets went quickly thanks to an add on Craig's list. After throwing away a few pieces of trash and giving the garage a good sweeping, it was all done. I went back into the garage just to give it a final once over before I returned the keys and there, sitting in the middle of the room was a single solitary pack of photos. I picked them up, not sure how I'd missed them and rifled through the pictures. It was photos of what would have made a perfect Harbour Lights Christmas piece.
I took them home and put the pack on my desk intending to throw them away at a later date. Well they never did get thrown away and every once in a while I opened the pack and looked through the photos all the while thinking what a great Christmas piece this lighthouse would have made.
Well, I guess there was a reason for keeping them after all and attached are the preliminary drawings and some photos of the sculpture that will be my first Christmas piece. Rock Island Lighthouse.
My normal work flow when starting a new sculpture is to do a series of drawings of the lighthouse that incorporate all the elements of the piece I want to be included. This helps me decide on the composition and the size of the sculpture. From there, I'll often do elevation drawings in order to make sure that I've worked out where all the features of the building are and that they are in the right place. This is quite important as I'm almost always working from photos, not architectural drawings and it can take a bit of detective work to find pictures showing every aspect of the building. Over the years I've drifted from drawing all these elevations by hand to using a simple 3D drawing program. Once the drawings are done and I'm happy with the look of the piece, the real fun begins. Sculpting.
The first phase is to block up the sculpture, simply getting the shape correct, no detail just simple shapes. This then progresses to laying out the key features, windows, doors, chimneys, etc, and then onto the longest part of the sculpting process, the detail work. Then finally and perhaps the hardest part is deciding when the sculpture is finished.
The plan is to have the sculpture up on the website and available for sale in early November. I'm hoping for a ship date of the first week of December. This might change slightly based on the workshops production schedule. I will keep you updated”.
Harry
Enjoy reading and looking at the pictures and don’t forget to make room for this one.
