Meet Anthony Moreno
" I believe anything is possible from creating something with
a twist or an original piece a customer has sketched and want to bring to life,
to be able to feel it." - Anthony Moreno
Instead of brushes to make your
artwork, you do wood carvings. Could you tell us how did you come across this
style of work? What gave you the idea for wood art carving?
The Indian tree of life is the first piece I created during my early 10 years of woodworking, once I saw it finished, I knew where I wanted to focus my work, I started hand scraping stair treads and risers for staircases and custom staining. Which led to chiseled furniture and other textured projects like wall’s, baseboards, and pillars in the Big Bob's steak house at the Omni hotel in Dallas Texas in 2012.
How long is the process to finish a piece?
It’s a lengthy process in creating
one Art Carving piece, the drawing or sketch must be drawn through a corel
program, then ran thru a vinyl cutting machine into a vinyl template at the
same time a 2' x 4' sheet of wood must be cut into a 20"x24" plaque
then routed and beveled, then the background is painted in multiple colors
depending on effects needed. Once dried, the vinyl template is transferred onto
the wood, template is weeded, then the carving, sandblasting begins, once
carving effect is completed there’s more weeding (weeding is the process of
cutting or pulling away parts and pieces of unwanted vinyl to get the desired
look of the piece, the razor blades, carving knives and tweezers). Then the
pieces are painted over layers of paint, once the front is painted and dried
the back is painted one solid color and metal hanging hardware is installed. The
total process for each piece takes 2-3 days to complete.
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What is the one tool you can’t live
without in your studio?
There is no one tool that is 100% needed, it takes multiples tools and
materials that is constantly used to create my Art Carvings.
How do you work to bring out your
creativity?
My ideas
come from multiple directions, from a client’s idea or sorrows that someone has
been through. I then place their pain and feelings onto a wooden canvas that
they can see and feel. Sometimes to put away as a form of therapy, or it comes
from a feeling I have where I doodle scraps of sketches.
When you work on your art how does it
make you feel?
One
example is the day my daughter came to me announcing her engagement, at the
time I did not know the man she was going to marry and as many fathers I felt
he wasn’t good enough and was still a boy in a man’s body and I created a piece
showing a silhouette of a woman in sorrow with the silhouette of a man with a
boy’s body within the man.
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Have you always been interested in
the art?
I’ve always
been mesmerized by wood art, carvings, stained wood and chiseled art that
brought me to becoming a woodworker.
Any advice you would like to leave
for anyone who might be interested in trying wood carving?
My advice to anyone wanting to get
into the wood world is anything is possible, wood is clay if you have the love
for it, it can be made and formed into anything you can imagine.
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