Finished a Carving

I share a few carving from now and then, so I'm not the only person to see them, before they leave me forever.

Very talented man, snowy.

Nice work!

wow that looks great!

Another real fine work of art, Sir. Thanks for posting that one! Beautiful.

Jack

Very nice!

Very nice, snowy !

I like the various colour tones in the wood.

Pretty cool Snowy! I admire the skill and vision it takes to do that kind of art work..

Mac

Outstanding! Thanks for sharing.

Nice !!!!!!!!!!!!

Very Nice!

Now that is some very nice work. Great job

Beautiful

Thanks for the kind words but nice to have others see them not just me. Then out the door to never see them again.

Wow that’s awesome!!

Very nice

That's awesome!

Looks great

That is amazing

Very cool! Thanks for sharing

fantastic I cant do a decent job of buttering my bread and seeing the artwork that's posted on here amazes me

Fantastic job. You are very talented, and thanks for sharing the picture.

I like it

Amazing Talent Snowy!

really nice,you sure make it look good. you got the talent!

Always cool to see them!

Awesome job... what a talent!

Well done Snowy.

Osky

Excellent work.

Nice work Snowy.

Amazing work! I look at a log and maybe can see lumber or firewood. Artistic ability amazes me!

Yeah John. when I look at a tree I am calculating btu's. Time to find my inner self here pretty quick.
Outstanding work there Snowy!

Zim

^ LOL>>> here is a picture of a wood rule laid across it, to show how deep it is carved in the log.

Are these bespoke? Do you do them in a mountain man motif? I can picture one of those in my cave.

Very nice. What do you sharpen your chisels with? I use the torment system for knives, regular chisels, and lathe tools as I don’t hand carve, and I have the up most respect for those that do.

Wow Snowy, those truly are amazing! How long does it take to do one of these?

Beautiful job, thanks for showing us!

I don’t know how you found time to carve with all those sheds needing to be found , lol . Awesome job !

Who would have thought that man was in that tree for all those years and hidden from the untrained eye but Snowy uncovered him! Simply amazing!

Chris

I have about 35 or so hours in them. It is all hand carved no chainsaw/electric tools used done the old fashion way one chip at a time. I sharpen tools by hand and very fine grit sand paper. All color is with nature coloring like different colors of soil, berry, bark, coal etc. and oiled. Yes, I do carve some mountain man also.

Very nice!

Nice work there Snowy !

Holy cow snowy, what a blessing you have been blessed with. Absolutely beautiful!

Great job!

I feel a great deal of accomplishment if I draw a semi straight line with a pencil and a straight edge and look at what you can do with a log very nice work thanks for sharing with us !

with the shadow from his nose, he looks to have a "lazy eye", his right one. I mention this because there was a native chief in this area with that same characteristic back during the uprising. he was called "sleepy eye", and theres a town named after him where I grew up. your carving vaguely reminds me of old photos of him I saw many years ago. your work is beautiful.

It amazes me that someone has that much skill.

You are very gifted!!!

Awesome

That is interesting story and I had no idea of such a cheif. I don't look at pictures to carve from I just start and what ever it turns out to be it does. It is funny though that I was actually wanting to do a lazy eye on a carving before. This carving started out it had a hat with a large rim and it wasn't what I wanted and chiseled it off. No pictures, I just start and the carving takes me to the end. The wood is flying and the thing is you can't put it back on once you took it off. LOL

Thanks and I will at sometime do a sleepy eye, one closed and one open.

Great work! Where can a person
purchase one?

his name was ish-tak-ha-ba, and he was made a chief around 1825. Sisseton Dakota tribe and born near new ulm Minnesota. few pics on google but I didn't look too deeply, and didn't see any that showed his lazy eye clearly.

^ WOW >>> I will do some looking to see if I can find a picture and do some reading on him. Thanks