The Portfolio of Tobias Luttmer
A lot of my work is heavily influenced by line. Today I’m going to talk about a particular line and how important it has become to me. This line that runs from the bottom of the rib cage to about half way down the hip. It seems to form the perfect curve and one way [...]
I just got back from the deep dark woods of BC. I carved up a whole bunch of Fir and a couple pieces of birch. Here you go This one has my hand made Japanese carving axe. Next Both of these are only roughed in Right now I’m will finish them before the show in [...]
It was late afternoon and I found myself walking along the jungle floor. I don’t normaly do this as the tree tops seem so much more fun but today that is just where I was. As I walked I had a feeling, a rather odd mix of apprehension and excitement. It just felt like something [...]
I recently had the good fortune to work with the Great people at Tourism Calgary. These people are the hard workers that do there best to promote the city of calgary and to recognize the fantastic people who work in our service industry. Every year for the last 50 years they have given some sort [...]
As a sculptor one of the biggest challenges I face is people saying “I love it but don’t have any where to put it” . One of the ways I have gotten around this is to make sculptures that hang from the ceiling. Cause every one has a celing and very few have it full [...]
This is gonna be a different kind of blog post for me. Probably no photos just some ramblings. I can seem to sleep so I’ve been running myself hard. Trying to work out a different sort of problem. Not art related but art affecting. In truth it seems to be affecting my whole world right [...]
So I am just past the half way point in this endeavour and I feel that I am ahead of schedule. Of the 8 large pieces I have 4 done 2 that just need to be polished and 2 more to cut up. Of the 2 columns remaining I know what I’m doing with one [...]
I finally got some video of me working to share with you. Two links to you tube. Listen to the sound of that stone ringing man I love that sound. Basalt Carving pt1 Basalt Carving pt 2 Just a couple photos for you as well. Please feel free to leave comments on the video!
I left you with a photo of a mini column. I had shown you some progress on one of the bigger columns as well. since then I have finished 2 of the smaller columns and got a really good start on one of the really big ones. Here are some in progress and ready to [...]
It all starts with a piece of paper with some words and signatures. This piece of paper then turns into 6600 pounds of Basalt and some drawings. The next few blog posts will be about my up coming sculpture show at Stone Worx gallery. I will create between 15 and 20 stone (basalt) sculptures for [...]
Some more stuff I’ve done in the last few months. Not in any particular order I made a bunch more of these Ariel Silks type pieces Odins Totem got some bling out there in BC! Got a really cool commission to make a board room table that has a surf board top. This is the [...]
Well its been a long time. I have been really busy done so many cool things. I am not even sure where I left off… I carved a bunch of wood this spring . Its Larch or hemlok. got the woman roughed now I need to get going on the man These two [...]
I thought I would post some nice pics for a change. It is good to have an in with a few photographers. Most of the pics in my portfolio were taken by Matt Luttmer (thanks Matt). If you like photography with focus on film Check out his sight. www.veralux.net The shots in this post were [...]
Its been a while since I last posted. Ive been very busy and I still am! So there wont be a lot of jibber jabber in this one but lots of pics from my phone. This is essentially how my life is. I love my work and even tho its sometimes tough going I usually [...]
I am going to do some thing a little bit different. I have had a great month. I had a birthday, sold a pretty big piece, got some new ink, just an all around great month! So I am going to pass that along to a lucky person. I am going to give away one [...]
This is a simple way to take a 2 dimensional drawing and make it 3D. As with most of my work last year this piece was a commission. So I started with an idea and a drawing. The challenge was to make a water diversion system. I came up with a few ideas for the [...]
This post is about the ability we have as artists to create objects that are out side of the normal definition of art. This is a topic that can some times be controversial. It often leads to a debate over what is or isnt art. That is not what I am going to discuss today. [...]
Since the last time we talked… It seems as tho its been quite a long time since I posted. The holidays and the holidays and the holidays… I started to paint again. Its just sort of a reaction to all the Xmas presents I made during the holidays. It all started like this… IT WAS [...]
This is how I carved an Octopus from lime stone for the Kingsbrae garden in New Brunswick. To start off I entered a contest that had a national call for sculpture. In order to do this I had to make a maquette (a small version of the sculpture I proposed). I did this out of [...]
Left off just about to solidify the Rams nose The sun really plays games with you when you work out doors I am pretty much good with every thing going on here. Just some final details and its done Now for the Wolf ran out of blue marking stick but the marks still do the [...]
About 2 weeks ago I had a great opportunity refered to me by a friend Kurtis Kristianson. He is a photographer and many other things. Check out his website .#mce_temp_url# The project was to carve some cedar logs that are holding up the deck at this amazing house that’s being built in the woods. So [...]
So I got Argon and continued. Did lots of fun stuff in between time but thats another story. After bending all the feathers and welding them together I have a pretty decent idea of what the wings will look like. I also did a bit of detail work on the small stainless feathers Then I [...]
In my world there are many people who approach me and say “Will you make one of them for me?” I always respond ” Yes I can make one of them for you!” Most of the time nothing comes of these encounters. Some times they go farther than others… some times its just a great [...]
Hello. If you are here it means that you have some interest in seeing how its done. If not… well that’s what your going to get. I will be showing photos and some descriptions of what I did and what I was thinking while doing it. I am going to start off with one of [...]
