Very impressive once again!! I like the way you attack the project, tell me what you want and let me figure out how to make it! LOL! I sure hope your hands are insured!
Thanks Roger. You almost do have to attack a job like this before it has a chance to intimidate you. But if you can carve one leaf,, you can carve dozens. See it big, keep it simple. It's a matter of doing a small carving many times over.
A small new wrinkle just came up . One of the chicks has to appear to be emerging from a shell. Glad the bodies are fat enough I can recarve one to look like it's doing that. The client's wife is 8 months pregnant and wanted this represented in the carving. OK,, back to the drawing board. Don't you just love curve balls!
I managed to recarve one of the chicks to look like it was emerging from a shell as the client requested. I also got some more detail on the adult birds done today along with more leaves. Pretty much the entire left side of the trunk is done as far as leaves is concerned and now it's just cleaning up the edges and background.
Got the tree wrapped up a day or so ago. A rough count indicates approx. 100 leaves. At this point I'm tired of looking at them. And , as is usually the case having a project sit here until it gets picked up , it becomes like a scab. Meaning,, I keep picking at it.
Anyway, here are a few random shots of the work.
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