Archive for the ‘Carrie’s News’ Category

The next project.

Sunday, April 15th, 2012

I will be putting the cherub commission on hold for a few weeks while I get on with some other commissions. However as my website is about 2wks behind the cherubs, there are still 2 more posts to go up! The next commission is a carving of a Green man with ...

Exciting commissions.

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

I'm really excited about my up coming projects and I have made a good start on my cherub commission. Photos will be posted when I have made more progress. The birdbath commission is taking interesting twists and turns I still have some more designs to create before I have captured exactly ...

Happy New Year!!

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

I hope you all had an amazing Christmas and celebrated the beginning of the New Year in style! I am well rested and ready to get on with some very interesting commissions, including designing and carving a Birdbath, creating a memorial using the motif of the Sanzio angels, and of course ...

Acorn Commission

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

[nggallery id=130] The three pieces completed! [nggallery id=131] My customer provided me with the names and dates in her own handwriting which I drew as closely as I could onto the two acorns-paying careful attention to match the character of the 2 men with the different acorns! She didn't want the engraving to be too ...

Acorn commission.

Sunday, December 11th, 2011

So the next stage in this commission was to start shaping the acorns so they were no longer just barrels! [nggallery id=128] Sandstone is a very brittle stone and if I try and take too much off at one time it has a tendancy to pluck out where I don't want it ...