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Seeing Lori’s interview reminded me of this big bird I carved.
A friend of mine gave me this crooked chunk of Cedar. It sat in the corner of my shop for a couple of years, before I could think of what to do with it. One day I was looking through a bird book, & right away I thought this is the bird for that log. It’s not the correct proportions, but I guess you can call this art. It had a rotted area were the legs had to be, so I drilled, & doweled the legs. I used band saw leftovers for the grasses.
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OspreyBait
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posted 746 days ago
Nice, Dick! Love your vision for that piece of cedar!
Sometimes we just have to be patient…eventually, the wood will tell US what it wants to be. I have some funky burls that have been sitting around for 5 years, and they still haven’t decided what they want to be. I’ve made the mistake of trying to force a piece into MY vision of what it should be, and regretted it. Grain, holes, rotten spaces are the wood’s “gift” to aid in the creative process…the minute I try to ignore/eliminate those things, is when things start to go horribly wrong.
-- "Jeez, Lori who were YOUR freakin' parents?" - Wendi R. (My Sis) www.WhisperingEagle.com
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posted 746 days ago
No 67. You know you’re a lumberjock, when the wood in your shop starts to talk to you. Or any wood starts to talk to you. Some people call that crazy, I call it Artistic Genius.
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