Carving face. #2: The last part of carving face.
Here is the 3rd part of making a face relief. I’ll not write to much, just enjoy the short movie ;) MOVIE
Some examles of 2 family styles.
the topp right corner of a doorway portal in work, this is a offspin style of the 1600 Century dragonstyle that have developed in the Family, its strongly influenced by the plantelements from the accantus, witch also came to norway a bare 100 years later, and is besides the 1000 Century dragonstyle(eks urnes stavchurch) and the 1600 Century style from the new romance era(With masters like Kinsarvik and Dagestad). The same portal, but now in its right Place, only the Oils witha tint of ...
carving in horn, #1: Carving in horn(raindeer) in progress.
Carving in horn is qute fun, its hard as stone, but the end result is quite Nice. A trick my grandfather learned me is to boil the horn in milk for a couple of hours before starting to carve the patterns. In the bottom of the caseroll i putt some Wood sticks to prevent the bone toutching metal and getting burned. It just needs to barely boil for a couple of hours. This makes the bone get softer for short time and i can do the rough carving, i preffer to do the finish when its Cold ...
project ounder work, chipcarved plate in personal style. norway.
This is simply a test and a introduction. The plate im working on at the moment is a thing With history, it is a thing i have poured a lot of myself into. Its like a inner prosses, both of sorrow,joy and creating. My grandfather turned this plate maybe 15-20 years ago from one piece of silver birch and forgott it in a corner in the workshop where i found it afther his passing away many years later. I thought it was sad if the plate wasent finished, so i started thinking of a pat...
Carved letters #1: A few words about "letters".
Good day is a day with good work. This time i want to show some of projects with carved letters. This kind of work needs a few things:- time- patient- sharp chisels- patient- certain hand- patient, patient, patient…The fun thing in this artcraft is that, there is no place for mistake. If one move will be done badly, then all letter is gone. The edges of letter must be done perfectly. It’s a lot of work to make your hand, moves so precisely, but it can be done. This project is a...
Carving face. #1: Carving face - part 1.
This project is still in my workshop. I took this emocional face from an ancient sculpture “Death of Laocoon”. It’s not easy to show emotions in sculpture and keep of all anatomy in one piece ;) That’s why this one is taking me so long. Oak wood. Movie part 1. - Face emotionsMovie part 2. - Face emotions ...hope the third part will be the last one ;)
Carving #2: Few more steps from carving.
This time i made an A.C. Milan herb. Oak wood. It’s still warm, todays work ;) size: 38cm x 24cm. MOVIE - A.C. Milan
Carving #1: Steps from carving a logo from games.
Made in oak wood. Next coloured and waxed. Enjoy the short clip ;) MOVIE - Q.U.A.
Wooden Automata - the SKI GUY
A hand cranked mechanical automata of a cross country skier that I made over two weeks recently.It is my version of the SKI GUY as instructed by plans in Ken Schweim’s book Wood Automata Projects.Hope you enjoy this first amateurish attempt at a YouTube posting. Click on the link below to watch the video. http://youtu.be/OZ4HEY11Ygs
