FastJack is Leaping!

For a couple of years I had been holding on to a piece/slab of Hemlock wood with a wild grain pattern hoping to “see” something “animal” in it. Last month while I was working on sketching a leaping hare I had wanted for a wall in my cabin, I came across that piece of wood. I made a paper pattern of the hare shape and laying it on the piece of wood matching as best as I could woodgrain features to the hare’s cardboard cutout. I would have liked make a detailed painted wood carving, but in doing so I would have ended up hiding the natural beauty of the wood grain pattern from view. It is 25” long and 7” tall, 2 dimensional flat to make it easier to place on a wall surface. 

I have plans for a painted one and others on various body positions, both active and passive…will see.

Birdofwood Art Studio

 Somehow Google Maps has reached an art interested audience, mind you, after 7 years. So, I had come to the conclusion that there was no interest whatsoever in what I had to offer to the art supporting public. I had abandoned the effort and didn’t think of updating Google Maps for my Art Studio…then, all of a sudden people began to show up at my cabin’s door looking for BirdofWood Art Studio…4 people to be frank, but that’s many to me and I felt and feel bad about it. So, please be aware that I have taken a break from making bird wood carvings and have moved on to other woodworking projects. I could consider doing certain bird carvings, if they aren’t expected to be intricate in details, as the time they take makes them unaffordable to most people. Please, consider reaching out to me at birdofwoodart@gmail.com before you venture into my neck of the woods…

Long-Nose Lancetfish Fun Project

 

I have been on a deviated course away from bird subject art projects due in part because I found myself not being attuned to the task and also given the facts that the economic realities of the times discourage sensible folks from spending their funds on non essential items. The “fish” I am sporadically producing are a byproduct of a new more challenging venue of entertainment that I have adopted…at least for the time being…timber frame structures, studies in design and construction by one person. What is to be discarded as wood waste gets a new life in a water critter wall plank using old formed metal sheet as fins. They aren’t intended for marketing purposes, but anyone is welcome to one on a “Offers Accepted” basis.

The Lancet-fish above is nearly 4’ long and the fins are crafted from old sheet metal formed by hand. They are rarely seen fish or strange creatures that attract my attention or are challenging to recreate.

It has been a while…

 I have been quite busy with projects not related to wood carving…yet I have managed to get creative endeavors out of the waste material generated from those other ministries. Any critter could have come out of the wood slabs, but I chose to “see” fish. Here I present a few of those funny outcomes…

Each one crafted from slabs of White Pine or Spruce with fins formed out from old roofing metal…they vary in sizes, from foot and a half to four feet long, they suit my cabin in the woods life perfectly.