'Night Moves' ~ Wooden spoon carved in Ebony wood with GITD powder. (Reposted by request).
'Panther Shotgun' ~ A few years back one of my co-workers asked me if I would repair his son's shotgun that had somehow been broken in half. I drilled some holes between the two pieces and epoxied in some steel rods. The repair was quite obvious and so I colored the whole gun stock black then carved a panther face (not my design) through so you could see the original wood color. I also added the walnut shoulder piece for a bit of visual interest.
All four of these pieces were made from an old computer desk. You know... the cheap MDF ones with black laminate.
'Blue Bill' ~ Reminded me of 'Mr Bill' from the old Saturday Night Live episodes. Carved and pigmented.
'Recircled' ~ I just used a carving but to cut through the black laminate and colored with pigments. A sort of double panel panel.
'Seg-man-ted' ~ Same desk... just cut out the shapes to crudely emulate a face. Held together with metal rods connecting each segment. Dyes and gold paint.
'Blast' ~ This panel was first shot several times with a 12 gauge shotgun. Then the blasted areas were carved around. I dropped some dye on each of the buckshot and textured the rest of the panel.
'Panther' ~ Walking cane.... shaft is comprised of burnt, wooden matchsticks laminated together. The panther head is carved in Madagascar Rosewood, with amber eyes, found teeth and silver wire inlay for whiskers. Ebony transition collar. This was a long while back and I can't remember how many matchsticks it took.
'Eight-To-Go' ~ When I posted this on another site a few years back a couple of folk were offended by it.... thinking I was promoting harm to cats. But what I explained was that this goofy carving was actually an 'ode' to the only cat I have ever 'owned'.
'Aslan' was a grey striped kitten that would climb your britches leg or the curtains. A wild natured cat but kids could awkwardly pick him up and he would not scratch them.
As he grew older he would always follow me into the woods when I went hiking. He'd wonder off on his own and show back up a day or so later. He was really good at hunting. He would stalk a bird and leap to pull it out of the air. He'd leave mice on the front porch for us.
Once he had a big cut on his back and the vet told us that an owl or a hawk had tried to pick him up. With those 9 stitches in his back he fell off the third floor balcony onto concrete... and just walked it off. So many stories I could tell about that cat.
One day I saw a Labrador Retriever running across the field with something in his mouth. I ran out and headed him off and it turned out to be Aslan. He had been up in the woods and got himself shot. I'd like to think it was a case of 'mistaken identity' but never found out.
We had a Christmas ornament made with his photo and I carved this piece out of a pine 4" x 4" post... as a remembrance of that crazy cat.
'Cat Incense Burner' was carved in English pearwood and had malachite cabochons for eyes.
'Wildcat' was a marquetry panel composed of several different species of wood veneer.