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Sunday, March 23rd, 2014
Sadly this beautiful tabbie cat Ozzy was put down last year, I was given the honour of carving him as a memorial doing what cat's do-walking along a fence!!
From this picture, I made a template and applied it to the piece of Portland limestone. 430mm x 300mm x 100mm
This stone ...
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Thursday, February 27th, 2014
Here are some photos of my latest Bird of Prey commission. Charm, a beautiful Kestrel in flight and her portrait in profile.
The first thing was to get the right layout, from the photo I created templates to ensure I had the exact shape of the creature. The stone is Portland ...
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Monday, September 16th, 2013
I have been getting a lot of enquiries about carving animal portraits.
I have done quite a few and there are two types I can carve;
In the round, this involves working from photos and the animal, where possible but it isn't critical. I model the animal in clay and create the best likeness, ...
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Thursday, March 7th, 2013
Here is the photo of my latest commission, I carved him in a piece of A4 sized Welsh slate.
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The carving is very shallow relief only about a quarter inch deep, the difficulty was ensuring that I didn't make him look friendly and this was achieved by making sure the eyebrow was ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2013
I was asked to carve an Owl, a White Faced Owl from the Congo, Flute looks very cute but in fact he is a rat hunter.
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I have put the photo and the finished carving together so you can see the 2 next to each other!
As you can see I ...
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