Of Wood and Whales The sperm whale shown here, exhibits one of the foremost reasons I have worked in wood all these many years. It’s all about discovering the rich textures and subtle color changes that are held therein. As a medium for artistic expression I have always found it to be unsurpassed. When […]
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Where Bee the Honey for the Bear The third edition of Honey Hunter Bear is now finished. As shown, it stands 9″ tall and is carved from solid black walnut. The blaze of cream color running the length of the tree trunk, and encompassing the left foreleg and paw, is natural to walnut where sapwood
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Natural Habitat and the Gull A gull needs a place to stand. But preferably a place that reflects his natural habitat. It you go back to my previous post on this subject you saw the gull standing on a square base (shown here also). So ask yourself when was the last time you saw a sea
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No Pooh Bear, Just a Black Bear It’s perhaps a little cliché for a posture a bear with a bee hive. But there is a certain amount of intrigue at watching a bear rip into a hive of bees to gather some honey. So I couldn’t resist when I first imagined how I might present
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Gulls are People Too Seagulls, as the term sea-gull would imply, habitate the sea. An indeed I have a file on my computer that places them in the classification under “shorebirds”. But it has been my experience that that is not quite accurate either. It seems to me I find as many of these
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Gripping an Owl Music makers (composers) have what they call a “hook” described as ….. A hook is a musical idea, often a short riff, passage, or phrase, that is used in popular music to make a song appealing and to “catch the ear of the listener”. The term generally applies to popular music, especially
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A Gnome in a Stump A Gnome can live in a tree because I say he can. I reference here the Dadaism, “It’s art if the artist says it is”. An anything goes attitude for sure. But such is the freewheeling world of fantasy and fantasy art. In the words of Captain Jean Luc Picard,
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Eagle in Flux- Going With the Flow One of the unseen challenges with doing sculpture is keep the subject in balance. This requires eliminating lean in the vertical plane. So proper orientation of the object is one of the most important concerns from the beginning. If the subject does not start out in balance it
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Owl in a Branch On a Branch This is the 22nd Owl I have done in my stump critters project for ETSY. When I started this project it was my objective to have more then a hundred “stump critters” posted for sale at my store there. I was looking to have at least 3o
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Nonchalant – A Black Bear Emerges Walnut works so nicely for animals like black bears. The color works to the benefit of distinguishing the species (the bear, not the tree). Here it works to even a greater extent to define space. I suspect that very few people in general, are aware of the fact
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