Head
I’ve developed a real joy out of making these little characters, generally I’ll closet myself away in the workshop, put on some Razorlight and get into a general carving frenzy. This batch were made using some of the last remains of the silver fir and elm, although I do have some european larch, Birch and Ash [...]
Continue reading about more hand carved plant pokery plant pot decoration fun
I had hoped that the guy would have been dressed/assembled today, sadly though a complete failure for any clothes to materialise have meant that this hasn’t happened. I have however, completed my part of the group project though and spent a few hours last night (on top of the many hours construction time) finishing off the treacherous [...]
Continue reading about more papier mache guy – work in progress
This seems to be becoming an annual event for me, doing the guy’s head for the local playgroup that sees the fellow deposited in the local shop where he’s required to raise funds for the little kiddie-winkles activities, not that it bothers me at all. On the contrary it’s a good re-introduction to using paper [...]
I’ve finally completed a new set of plant pot ornaments (plant pokes), extending the range to include a smaller variety of ‘wood sprites’ measuring between 3″ – 4″ tall as well as the usual range measuring between 6″ – 8″ in height. These particular plant pokes have been carved in either silver fir or elm [...]
Over the past few weeks I have been busy with a couple of commissions and finalising a new idea for Christmas tree decorations. I’m reserving the commissions for a post of their own because they took me so long that they deserve a gold plaque, never mind their own post! I know it seems too [...]
Ah yes, finally! This has, without doubt, been the single most time consuming carving I’ve done, normally I keep track of the time taken in order to assign some sort of meaningful price to the object, however, as the hours ticked by and began to appraoch 20 hours of blister inducing carving I decided to [...]
Continue reading about Larry “two faces” Larch – Wood Carving
This is the first larger carving I have completed using my new gouges, they have essentially allowed me to abandon the set of craft knives I had been using and at the same time has also eliminated the fear I had of breaking the rather flimsy knives. The gouges have certainly made life a lot [...]
I’ve been chatting recently with my sister about what one might do with 200-odd left-over roof slates, how she might engrave, decorate, and otherwise use them in a crafty capacity. Since I have a rotary hobby tool I use for some wood carving and grinding stones to use with it I suggested I’d see what [...]
Continue reading about experimenting with engraving on slate
I spent ages referring to these as “things that you stick in your plant pot, you know, as decoration” so thanks to Jolene for finally setting me straight and appointing the title “plant poke”, at least when we’re trying to sell them at the craft fayre we’ll be able to put a name to them [...]
This is the last piece carved from wood sourced from the NW Highlands, Scotland, when we were on holiday there earlier in the year. It was good to get something a bit different my usual efforts in Elm and Alder, and whilst I think the Cherry’s nice I think I’d like to do some more [...]
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