Here's what I stated last year when I replied to this same prompt: "As I style myself as a ship's carver, I can see myself as an apprentice in the shops of McIntire, Bellamy, Robb, or one of the Skillins brothers. When I visit the Mystic Seaport or Salem's Peabody Essex Museum, I find myself …
Early Influences
This was it. I was going to be allowed to carve something. But first out came a stack of books.
Surreal Dream
I've had some doozies of lucid dreams in my time. But, about six months ago, I had the most extreme case.
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 …

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