Usable design elements are in plain sight within other designs. Plunder away!
Thoughts On Carving – Designs within designs
Thoughts On Carving – Three Eagles
The great martial artist Miyamoto Mushasi said that from one thing, we could learn a thousand things. Mix things up. Learn something new from something old.
Bits & Pieces, or E Pluribus Unum
some large pieces need to be constructed piece by piece.
Patterns
A carver's shop is closer to boatbuilders shop than it is to an artists studio.
A Transom Eagle On The Constitution
Paint hides a multitude of sins is an old seaman's adage. It also hides all the details,
A Small Eagle
This eagle is barely eleven inches wide, not my smallest, but diminutive none the less. It's a good miniature project for a woodcarver. Pine is great wood, but fine detail in small sizes are not its strong suit. Would this pop out at you in cherry, plum or box? Sure, but my objective was to do …
Completion
completion of projects in a crafts shop can be an elastic phenomenon
An Eagle Commission
by Lou Carreras The eagle presented here was a commission. It's an all-time favorite design that I first carved in the 1970's when I saw Jay Hanna's take on this classic 19th-century carving trope. After carving four or five variations on Hanna's redesign of the classic, I moved on to other designs. About twenty …
