This was a very enjoyable piece to carve ~ a large oak panel with a Green Man design, bold enough to be easily seen once it was in position high
This was a very enjoyable piece to carve ~ a large oak panel with a Green Man design, bold enough to be easily seen once it was in position high
Things are very different for young people at school these days: the world has changed, and education has moved away from lessons using hand tools towards IT and other space-age
With hares being one of my favourite creatures, I was delighted to be asked to carve this one ~ almost-life-sized, sitting on a base. The mythology and folklore surrounding hares
Pictures from the final session of the Mires Beck woodcarving course ~ great fun as usual, with a very enthusiastic and lovely group of participants!
The last log to be carved in Bluebell Wood, Sewerby Hall, and this was probably the oddest shape of the lot. Once I’d stripped some bark off, the forked end
The penultimate carving at Sewerby Hall’s Bluebell Wood, and this log didn’t take much thinking about ~ it had to be a Fairy Tower! The shape really couldn’t suggest anything
This was another log with quite a small diameter, so on this occasion I thought I’d carve someone equally small ~ a pixie baby, to be precise. I gave him
This log was similar to the one used for the “Perching Gnome”, so I considered a similar 3 dimensional piece ~ until I tried moving it: it was heavy. Really
Next at Sewerby Hall were a couple of large logs very near the fence surrounding Bluebell Wood ~ one was earmarked for another fairy, conscious as I was about equal
Some of the logs for the Fairyland-themed Bluebell Wood at Sewerby Hall presented quite a challenge: unusual shapes are one thing, and sometimes suggest a design with their quirky lumps