Manipulated Gourd Art Contest
Spring 2020 Entries
Judges, Please rank all of the entries with #1 being the best, #2 the next best, etc.
50% Originality and 50% Workmanship Scoring Form - manipulated_gourd_art_judges_scoring_sheet.docx
All entries should be scored. After all judges scores have been submitted, I will add them and the gourd with the lowest total will be first place. Do the best you can to judge the art and not the photography.
Please send your scoring ASAP - I always have to have the article written and into the editor in just a few days after judging ends. Thank you again for your help with this!
Judges, Please rank all of the entries with #1 being the best, #2 the next best, etc.
50% Originality and 50% Workmanship Scoring Form - manipulated_gourd_art_judges_scoring_sheet.docx
All entries should be scored. After all judges scores have been submitted, I will add them and the gourd with the lowest total will be first place. Do the best you can to judge the art and not the photography.
Please send your scoring ASAP - I always have to have the article written and into the editor in just a few days after judging ends. Thank you again for your help with this!
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Entry 1: For this piece I forced two gourds into a pickle jar as you can see in my before photo. I had to carve the hole because I couldn’t get a hole saw into the space where I needed the hole. For the outside I added a little color to enhance the natural beauty of these gourds.
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Entry 2: As a Master Gardener, I have an avid interest in growing things. Gourds allow me to combine several of my other interests, including creativity and crafting. I enjoy experimenting in the garden with gourd manipulation. I chose this gourd to create a succulent garden container for this AGS competition.
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Entry 3: I am relatively new to gourds and gourd art. I joined the local Master Gardener group a couple of years ago and met some incredible people who introduced me to gourds. I chose this particular gourd/piece because when I saw it, I knew immediately it could be a cactus/succulent theme. It came out exactly as I saw it in my mind, which is not always how it works out.
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Entry 4: I consider working on gourds one of my greatest passions. I did not grow the gourd but enjoyed enhancing it with acrylic paint and various silk flowers. |
Entry 5: I have grown gourds for more than thirty years and began manipulating and of course breaking some along the way. The tall middle gourd looked out of balance so I gave it some company. White spray paint, philodendron sheaths and silk flowers are displayed to create an elegant centerpiece. |
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Entry 6: I was tutored in gourd manipulation by the late great Jim Story over 20 years ago. It struck me as very appropriate for the first crafted manipulated gourd competition to be “Gourd Floral Containers.” The reason Jim Story originally started manipulating gourds was to make vases for flower arranging competitions! That thought inspired me to create an entry that would honor Jim’s legacy. My submission is a bound gourd I manipulated using techniques I learned from him. I did my best to pryoengrave a portrait of Jim, purposely keeping other embellishments subtle so the focus would remain on Jim Story and the gourd manipulation. I cut and leveled the gourd, filled and sanded defects, painted the filler to look like natural gourd, inlaid iridescent glass balls and burnished on a translucent metallic finish. My second photo is a close-up of the wood burning since the gourd is symmetrical and except for the wood burning the front and back look alike.
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Entry 7: This is my first manipulated gourd entry. My husband and I live on 30 acres in the very small farming community, where I raise Painted Desert sheep and grow a few gourds. We are retired after long careers. I now spend my time hiking and backpacking in the Sierras, gardening, and working on a few gourd art projects.
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