Cardinal Amoung Flowers Intarsia

[FrankEV]

I adapted a Stained-Glass pattern into a 24” x24”, 250 piece Intarsia pattern making many modifications to the original.  Wood used: Aromatic Cedar, Cherry, Bloodwood, Padauk, Poplar (Green dye enhanced), Purpleheart, Osage Orange, Roasted Birch, Sapele, Yellowheart, and Walnut.  The Intarsia assembly was mounted onto a 1/4” thick extended, and painted, BB Plywood backer. The mitered full 4/4” x 2-1/2” wide Walnut Frame rails were rabbeted and affixed to the backer and Intarsia assembly.  The entire piece was protected with multiple clear coats of, Gloss for the Art panel and Matt for the Frame, Polycrylic Spray Finish.

24+5 =29"

                                       24+5 =29"

Comments  and critiques always welcome.

[Peter N White]

Looks very well done.

[preprius]

Very nice.  Is this going into the Art Gallery?  It should. 
It is striking piece of art,  especially it resembles the stained-glass technique but in different species of wood.  The Cardinal especially feels like the stained glass.
The trees and branches seem like a normal picture which makes the Cardinal stand out more.  

The texture on the branches looks so real.  Are those stained differently or actually different species of wood?
Also good job on the tail of the bird using the variation of the natural wood stripes to be 90 deg from the body.
 

Edited January 29 by preprius

[Scrolling Steve]

Wow,very nice!

[barb.j.enders]

Another stunning piece of work Frank.  I hope this one goes into the gallery and sells quickly. (assume it is for sale!)

[daveww1]

awesome job

[Scrappile]

That is a very pretty picture.

[Denny Knappen]

Another work of art

[rjweb]

Frank, you have done another beautiful piece, RJ

[FrankEV]

On 1/28/2026 at 9:22 PM, preprius said:

Very nice.  Is this going into the Art Gallery?  It should. 
It is striking piece of art,  especially it resembles the stained-glass technique but in different species of wood.  The Cardinal especially feels like the stained glass.
The trees and branches seem like a normal picture which makes the Cardinal stand out more.  

The texture on the branches looks so real.  Are those stained differently or actually different species of wood?
Also good job on the tail of the bird using the variation of the natural wood stripes to be 90 deg from the body.
 

The branches (dark and light) are two different woods.  Both had some texturing to look like bark.

[Allen levine]

wowser, incredible work. 

[wombatie]

Wow that is certainly a beautiful piece.  Well done.

Marg

[heppnerguy]

On 1/28/2026 at 11:23 AM, FrankEV said:

I adapted a Stained-Glass pattern into a 24” x24”, 250 piece Intarsia pattern making many modifications to the original.  Wood used: Aromatic Cedar, Cherry, Bloodwood, Padauk, Poplar (Green dye enhanced), Purpleheart, Osage Orange, Roasted Birch, Sapele, Yellowheart, and Walnut.  The Intarsia assembly was mounted onto a 1/4” thick extended, and painted, BB Plywood backer. The mitered full 4/4” x 2-1/2” wide Walnut Frame rails were rabbeted and affixed to the backer and Intarsia assembly.  The entire piece was protected with multiple clear coats of, Gloss for the Art panel and Matt for the Frame, Polycrylic Spray Finish.

24+5 =29"

                                       24+5 =29"

Comments  and critiques always welcome.

     What a great and colorful project. This is so attractive. Is this one of your patterns? Love it

Dick

heppnerguy