I just got back Saturday from working in Tunkhannock, PA for the past week. A very talented stone carving friend, Wayne Ferree (www.ferreestudios.com) invited me to help him finish a woodcarving project he took on for a college. It was a real brain tease, and I’m pretty exhuasted. I look back at the first photos […]
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Carving wooden faces
I worked on carving a face in wood over the past few days. I had originally worked on this in stone and found the shape I wanted. I still have a ways to go with the hair on both the stone and wood, but I’m getting closer to the face expression I am looking for. This […]
Finishing reeded legs
Here is one of the finished leg with hand-carved reeds. Lots of exciting work coming up in the next few months. 3 more shell niches for a home in Louisville, KY. These will be 32″ wide x 16″ tall x 12″ deep. I’ll be continuing working on carving the faces. Hopefully tomorrow I […]
Carving reeds
(I made a previous post and mistakedly called this carving “flutes”. I get to use the excuse that my carving teacher was Greek – it’s all greek to me?) I have a project at the moment where I am hand-carving reeds on a turned leg. It would take longer to set up a router jig […]
Carving faces
I have a very interesting job to do. My client is restoring an older Charleston home downtown. He is wanting carved keystones in wood at the peak of some of the arches in the interior of the house. He is wanting classic style faces carved into these keystones. Well, he wants a particular “mood” on […]
Carved Coat of Arms Completed
The coat of arms that I carved several weeks ago and made resin castings is painted and installed! The client is very happy. Whew! Stephanie Poe, an incredibly talented faux painter and designer, painted the resin casting to match the intense blues that they have on the top of the call box. It really turned out […]