{"id":4407,"date":"2011-10-05T07:12:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=4407"},"modified":"2011-10-05T07:09:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T14:09:54","slug":"chess-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=4407","title":{"rendered":"Chess pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-full wp-image-4410\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Chess_Haida-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4410\" title=\"Chess_Haida-2\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Chess_Haida-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Chess_Haida-2.jpg 640w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Chess_Haida-2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Chess_Haida-2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I recently took some photographs for two artists who produce some\u00a0incredable pieces.\u00a0 The chess boards were\u00a0made by Marcel Daigneault while the Haida mythological themed chess\u00a0pieces were cast from carvings by Derek C. Heaton.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-full wp-image-4411\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Chess_Haida-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4411\" title=\"Chess_Haida-1\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Chess_Haida-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Chess_Haida-1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Chess_Haida-1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Marcel tells me the boards are made from Arbutus and Aspen and polished with beeswax.\u00a0 I am in awe of not only the skill he applies to his craft but the artistry too.\u00a0 I also took pictures of a cedar chest that Marcel made and you can see from the design of the top how organic and lyrical much of his work is.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-full wp-image-4408\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Cedar_Chest-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4408\" title=\"Cedar_Chest-2\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Cedar_Chest-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Cedar_Chest-2.jpg 640w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Cedar_Chest-2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-full wp-image-4409\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Cedar_Chest-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4409\" title=\"Cedar_Chest-1\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Cedar_Chest-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Cedar_Chest-1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Cedar_Chest-1-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Both artists work is curently available at the <a title=\"Tribal Spirit Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/tribalspiritgallery.com\/\">Tribal Spirit Gallery<\/a> in Langley B.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently took some photographs for two artists who produce some\u00a0incredable pieces.\u00a0 The chess boards were\u00a0made by Marcel Daigneault while the Haida mythological themed chess\u00a0pieces were cast from carvings by Derek C. Heaton. Marcel tells me the boards are made from Arbutus and Aspen and polished with beeswax.\u00a0 I am in awe of not only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,6],"tags":[229,231,230,134],"class_list":["post-4407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-observations","category-photography","tag-carving","tag-chess","tag-haida","tag-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4407"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4438,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions\/4438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}