Archive for the ‘Commissions’ Category
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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Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
Here are some photos of carvings I was commissioned to do at the end of last year.
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A gentleman got in touch and wanted me to carve a poem he had read out at his God-Daughters wedding, unfortunately it would have been a very large piece of slate and ultimately ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
I received a commission at the beginning of October to carve a portrait of a much loved horse. It was for a 30th Birthday present and the young girl has had the horse since he was 3yrs old.
The owner brought me in some photos to work from, her favourite recent pose ...
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