Project Information
Hello there everybody.
It is been a while since I posted anything, so today is the day. This guy is a great horned owl, half size , so he stands 12 inches more or less. It is made from one solid piece of bass wood all carved with hand tools. The feathers on wings, back and tail are burned one by one with a pyrograph, the face and all the chest are carefuly finished with a rotary tool.
Everything stands on a left over piece of black walnut, the branch is a found piece after last winter in the garden, the leaves are made from tupelo wood made with a rotary tool,.
All of this is painted with acrylic ,by hand of course. the branch and the leaves are then varnish to prevent more decay and from breaking for the leaves, that I have tried to make as thin as possible. The feet and ''claws' are mounted on a steel wire then covered with epoxy wood paste , and then filled and sanded by hand. Feet are my fourth attempt it was'nt that easy and still not perfect but close to the scale for that bird.
So there he is, I will need to be more acurate on the painting but that is for the next one.
Feel free to comment, I pay a lot of attention to what is said, so the next one should be much better.
thank you all , have fun in your shop and please be careful.
p.s. while I was busy choosing a good spot in the garden to have the best light, he scared all the birds I'm feeding usualy in the garden, this is for the conversation.
It is been a while since I posted anything, so today is the day. This guy is a great horned owl, half size , so he stands 12 inches more or less. It is made from one solid piece of bass wood all carved with hand tools. The feathers on wings, back and tail are burned one by one with a pyrograph, the face and all the chest are carefuly finished with a rotary tool.
Everything stands on a left over piece of black walnut, the branch is a found piece after last winter in the garden, the leaves are made from tupelo wood made with a rotary tool,.
All of this is painted with acrylic ,by hand of course. the branch and the leaves are then varnish to prevent more decay and from breaking for the leaves, that I have tried to make as thin as possible. The feet and ''claws' are mounted on a steel wire then covered with epoxy wood paste , and then filled and sanded by hand. Feet are my fourth attempt it was'nt that easy and still not perfect but close to the scale for that bird.
So there he is, I will need to be more acurate on the painting but that is for the next one.
Feel free to comment, I pay a lot of attention to what is said, so the next one should be much better.
thank you all , have fun in your shop and please be careful.
p.s. while I was busy choosing a good spot in the garden to have the best light, he scared all the birds I'm feeding usualy in the garden, this is for the conversation.