Johan Nieuwborg

[Johan Nieuwborg]

Come and see my work!

www.johan-nieuwborg.exto.be

[JAZ]

Welcome Johan.
I'd love to see your site, but this old computer I use at the studio is too slow. Because the dust generated while I work is really not good for the computer, I won't be bringing the better computer here. but I wll check your site from home later.
Anyway, it's good to "meet" you.
JAZ

[oddist]

This work and technique is fastinating...

Welcome aboard...

I believe I see an electric cord and switch leading to some of your works...

Are these lighted from within?

[novabelgica]

Nice work, Johan. Welkom bij de Sculpture Community. Goed om hier nog een landgenoot te zien. :)

[fritchie]

I tried your site, but saw nothing after a couple of minutes. I know my connection is a bit slow, so I apologize. Hopefully I'll be able to try later. Welcome to the forum!

[JAZ]

Hi again Johan. Your work is curvy and fun. Nice colors and textures. The references to famous people in combination with scorpions and such puts things in perspective, doesn't it.
Looks like you have lots of fun with your work. Thanks for the images.
JAZ

[Johan Nieuwborg]

This work and technique is fastinating...

Welcome aboard...

I believe I see an electric cord and switch leading to some of your works...

Are these lighted from within?

Thanks!!
Yes there are lighted from within.

[Johan Nieuwborg]

Nice work, Johan. Welkom bij de Sculpture Community. Goed om hier nog een landgenoot te zien. :)

Hey hoe gaat het met je.
Ooit heb ik je werk in bilzen gezien.
Zitten hier nog meer belgen op de site?

[novabelgica]

Hey hoe gaat het met je.
Ooit heb ik je werk in bilzen gezien.
Zitten hier nog meer belgen op de site?

Dat zal bij Castor & Pollux geweest zijn, enkele jaren terug. Ik meen dat ik in die tijd eens met je vrouw of vriendin gepraat heb via het Net om je gallerij eens te bezoeken, maar het is er toen niet van gekomen. Kan dit kloppen of heb ik iemand totaal anders voor?

There's one more Belgian here - at least that I know of - and that's "Anne (BXL)".

[Johan Nieuwborg]

Dat klopt!
Hoe gaat het met je kunstwerken en de verkoop?

Je kunt bij http://www.exto.be een gratis website maken zoals die van mij.
Ze hebben daar ook een forum http://exto.kunstfora.nl/fora/index.php

[novabelgica]

Dat klopt!
Hoe gaat het met je kunstwerken en de verkoop?

Je kunt bij http://www.exto.be een gratis website maken zoals die van mij.
Ze hebben daar ook een forum http://exto.kunstfora.nl/fora/index.php

Binnenkort (mei) beginnen we terug met de exposities. Als alles zoals gepland gaat, heb ik er een stuk of 11 dit jaar. Het blijft druk. Na een grote opdracht vorig jaar ben ik mij meer op monumentale kunst gaan richten. Ik heb net een 4de werk klaar voor een expositie in een park in Saive, van mei tot begin juli.

De verkoop, tja, daar mag verbetering in komen, maar ik moet er (nog) niet van leven, he? :D

Bedankt voor de tip ivm de website. Ik zal eens gaan kijken, hoewel ik zelf al een eigen website heb: www.novabelgica.com Je moet maar eens gaan kijken.

[fritchie]

I got in easily tonight, Johan. Don't know why last night was so slow. This time, things loaded almost immediately, and there's a lot of good work. Fabrications in sheet metal, mostly, with glass inserts, it looks like.

And, as JAZ said, all pieces show a sense of humor. Congratulations!

[Johan Nieuwborg]

Hi again Johan. Your work is curvy and fun. Nice colors and textures. The references to famous people in combination with scorpions and such puts things in perspective, doesn't it.
Looks like you have lots of fun with your work. Thanks for the images.
JAZ

Thanks! yes i have a lot of fun making art!

[Johan Nieuwborg]

I got in easily tonight, Johan. Don't know why last night was so slow. This time, things loaded almost immediately, and there's a lot of good work. Fabrications in sheet metal, mostly, with glass inserts, it looks like.

And, as JAZ said, all pieces show a sense of humor. Congratulations!

Thanks for looking at my work! :)
The metal i use is lead.
i dont now if the are more artists using lead.

[fritchie]

Thanks for looking at my work! :)
The metal i use is lead.
i dont now if the are more artists using lead.

How do you color the lead? I took the reddish pieces to be copper, and the "silverish" ones to be at least silver plate, if not thin solid silver. I also had thought you might use glass inserts for the variously colored special features such as eyes.

Now I wonder if you use enamel for the brightly colored areas, but the “copper” and “silver” pieces look to have transparent pigment. Is this an oil paint over the lead?

[Johan Nieuwborg]

The eyes are from glass.
The lead i color with a patina copper color.
Not paint but patina.

[JAZ]

The eyes are from glass.
The lead i color with a patina copper color.
Not paint but patina.

Johan,
I hope that you are being very careful to protect yourself from the hazards of working with lead, especially the dust from cutting and grinding. We all use stuff that can be harmful. It came home to me when one of theguys from the industrial supply place where I get soem of my consumables, etc. told me that I should be wearing the thick kind of dust masks all the time. I had been wearing them only when doing really dusty stuff. Well, the first day I wore one all day it was brown by the time I was ready to go home. that was just from the ambient dirt of working. Nasty.
Now I use them all the time. (Fortunately I work alone, so who cares what it looks like!)
Be good to your body.
JAZ

[Johan Nieuwborg]

Thanks but i dont have to protect me from te lead.
I have no dust working with lead.
I only have to wash my hands.
I work very clean.