Stone arts by Devin Devine

Sphere

So this is my third fully realized exploration of this concept. The concept being this: can I take two different colors of stone, and stack a sculptural piece that fades from one color to another.

Private commission, up state New York.

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Egg

I took this photo today. Unfortunately the sphere was washed out in too much sun light, and I didn’t really get any photos (yet) that do it justice. Oh, I’ll try to make time, at some point, to schedule a visit when the lighting is better, on an overcast day or around dusk. Actually, I believe my customer said something about the sunset being awesome, over the ridge that’s behind the sphere. Whether I take the photo or if someone else takes it and sends it to me, either way I’m looking forward to seeing the sphere amidst the golden glory of a multi-hued purple and crimson and yellow sunset.

The egg was my second such attempt at a dry stone color gradient.

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Vase

The first! Like the other two pieces shown here, this vase is 4′ tall. Whereas the two above are both on the same property, a private bird sanctuary in upstate New York, this vase was purchased by the Matilda Pfieffer museum in Arkansas. Also, this one has a band of olive green, in between the blue and lilac sections.

Of the three, I’d say the egg is most successful–at the gradient/tapering effect, at least.The vase looks great but I’d say there’s 3 distinct bands of color, not much tapering going on. There sphere….tapers as well as the egg. Was a bit tricky, to taper to blue–and then back to lilac, and keep the tapering even. In the washed out sun light this one may too seem a bit more like a distinct band of color…but that’s mostly the photos just not doing it justice. Here we have 4 courses of tapering color above and below the one course of true blue, which I centered directly at the sphere’s mid way point.

A couple more photos of the sphere:

Approximately 5,000 pounds of bluestone, completed July 2022

All this talk of color gradient, reminds me of that time I did a monochrome piece, focusing only on symmetry and smoothness of flow:

Detail photo, showing a band of yellow stone, fading to orange then red. Related content: Lithadelic Sphere the Sixth

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