Monday, April 20, 2015

Hacking on the back

After work today I had some time to carve a bit. So I turned the 12' pole that I'm working on over to hollow out the back more. Generally on these smaller pole I like to rough out the front and establish all my depths in the sculpture, then can assess how much to hallow out the back without going through. Some people carve poles in different ways and styles. some carvers only go a prescribed depth consistent on the entire pole = think a vertical cylinder with the carved creatures placed on. But I tend to ignore that and just have fun sculpting away until I think it looks right. so, for better or worse I usually have all different depths and minimal background.... Any way I had fun hacking out the back of this pole this evening maybe i can clean it up soon. I don't have a shop right now so I'm working on the porch.... I'm hoping to sell the pole and build a shop sometime...



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