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Hare woodcarving
mattinker:
Mick,
my parents were both artists, painters and sculptors. As kids we grew up making things, drawing and carving. One of the things that I learnt was that if I wasn't sure what was wrong with something I was carving, drawing or modelling , look at it in a mirror. You see it with new eyes.
Might help, regards, Matthew.
Pete W.:
--- Quote from: awemawson on October 10, 2013, 03:27:04 AM ---Mick, either you have VERY small hands, or the wren is at least double if not treble size :lol:
We regularly have wrens here and they are minute.
Very nice work by the way :thumbup:
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One of my treasured memories, a few years ago: walking the dog along a local footpath edged with tall oak trees on one side and very bushy hedges on the other. I was suddenly aware of a very loud ticking noise, two mature wrens. They were out of sight but their brood was in-sight and taking its maiden flight - the young wrens looked about the size of large bumble bees. I can't think of a suitable adjective to describe the flight of the young wrens but it was certainly not the straight line darting of their parents.
TLGriff:
Looking good Mick, you definitely have the knack for sculpting. Have you thought about carving a chess set? Alice in Wonderland characters would make an excellent theme.
Tom
micktoon:
Hi all thanks for the comments :thumbup: , That is good advice about the mirror Matthew , I do already do that and it does work well.
Pete I saw some wrens that nested in the garden leave the nest this summer , as you say they are stuttering a bit at first , these chicks had hardly any tails , tat wont have helped them lol.
awemawson, These still have to have a hell of a lot taken off so they will end up 100mm from tip of beak to tip of tail which is the adult wren size, I am trying to copy the part carved patterns I have so this is still stage one really hence the massive wren stage, even though there is much to spare I think IO may already have took too much off one area :palm: .... it might be able to be saved yet .....or I have learnt for wren 2 !
Tom, thanks for the kind comments , to be honest the thought of many more similar items to carve is not a nice thought lol , although I agree Alice in Wonderland would be a good theme :thumbup:
Cheers Mick.
micktoon:
After a good few distractions I have got some more of the hare carved. I have refined the shape and sanded it quite a bit , there is still more to do but its getting there, I have strayed from the drawings but think my version looks better in some areas so will be leaving them as they are.
Here are some photos at this stage .
There was then the small matter of the eyes to carve in, I have never tried doing eyes before and the project could have still ended up as fire wood if these went badly wrong ! I was going by an article in a woodcarving magazine which was not as good as it first appeared once you started really needing detail, also I really needed a few carving tools slightly smaller and other shapes than the ones I had but just plodded on for hours and hours but they ended up not bad so now thats out the way I just have to keep refining the shape and then put some finish on it and make a base .
Cheers Mick
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