greek/face

[cjswoodcrafts]

hey everyone, this is what i am working on for a woman in Iowa, she is sending me some sweet Iowa corn tomorrw, over nighting it, so she wanted this and 2 others in trade. guess this is a relief carving but im still workin on it, hand just got too hurtin carvin it..any feed back is appreciated, also the pic i used is in the photo too. any ideas on to make it look real good will be appreciated too,

Thanks all

[amazingkevin]

whoa! Thats alot of carvein,my hand would be sore too.Looks great. I tryed to enlarge it to look at the detail but it would'nt enlarge.

[cjswoodcrafts]

thanks Kevin, yeah i resized it a bit too small, lets try this one, yeah there we go, i do see already that i have to thin out the top lip, but so far so good

 

thanks again

[Clayton717]

looks good, and that is a lot of carving.

[cjswoodcrafts]

thank you Clayton, appreciate the feedback,

[amazingkevin]

Fantastic resemblence jim,All i could see now was maybe a little rouge and powder the nose,lol.you really know how to get the job done.I think you said she wants two more carveings? all the same ones? I see patience pays in the long run,as carveing is a slow go.Kinda looks like a mardi gra type face,what do i know.I can taste that corn allready.You know what the best tasteing corn is?FREE!yours should be in the mail now.lolShow us a picture of your tools to carve with .I've allways wanted to know how to put on the best edge on anything that cuts,lawnmower blade, axe,knife,carveing tools.It's definetely an art.And the better you do it the easyer it is to work .I hit and miss too much.Need to learn!The picture enlarged is very good now.you don't waste anytime gettin to the meat of this project.Congradulations on your work for the batterd women too.A heart for the hurting.

[cjswoodcrafts]

Kevin, hey there, ty, yeah it was alot of work, but mainly i use a rotary tool like a dremel, but mne is a black and decker ( i went cheap) then i used a hand carving tool for the details, just about got it done just gotta glue it to a backing and clear coat it.. heres another pic so far....

[Travis]

That looks great! You're doing a really nice job on it. That would look sharp as a segmentation too. Nicely done!

[cjswoodcrafts]

Travis, thank you for the feed back, gonna post the 2nd one here in a sec, its a greek moon face kind of thing, not sure what its called, still trying to find it online.

Thanks again