Eagle Head

The eagle head on the Salish house post is almost finished but there is still a lot of work to do on the rest of the project. Fred Fulmer has been lending a hand…

I got a chance to make a new finishing/texturing adze & a small J-bend crooked knife. Both blades are made from old Nicholson files. The small knife blade is simply lashed to a Madonna wood sick. The texture adze is the tool that often creates the final surface on the sculpture, the subtle rows of texture…

Low relief-carved faces

 

This is my first post on this web-blog. I’m not sure but I think that it might be an ok way to share art ideas and conversation? Low relief-carved faces are seen on many historic items on the coast. I enjoy looking at Tlingit low relief faces, because they have the appearance of being highly sculpted, but are often carved very shallow in depth, and this presents a challenge. These pictures are several inspirational historic examples, followed by a few that I made an effort at after studying the attributes of the old classic  pieces.

Thanks to Tommy Joseph of Sitka for his pictures of the old historic masterpieces.