[Doug Ridley]

Here's a little Santa I did using what's available, so to speak. Somebody left this on my porch. It is a Cypress knee that looked like it was ripped up from a tree root instead of being cut off. So I tried to use what I had and this was the result. It is about 10 inches tall and painted with oils.

[gene messer]

Doug .. What a unique way of creating something out of a piece of scrap root ..
The painting is great and the idea is a 10.0 .. It's great to be able to see art in something in what most people would just over look.. throw away.. or burn ..
Great piece ..
Gene

[Thomp]

Doug,

thats definitely an interesting santa,

iv always had a hankering to build a animal out of most of them, as most of them look like cavemans clubs or a smoked hm to me, maybe im hungry by the time i get to them in the swamp.

lot of them come right out of the ground looking like something, you might not ever see it though, until your halfway through making something else out of it though.

My son a landscaper dose some of the flowerbeds at the lake, and he has to dig them roots out as per the customers request,
even though iv told him it weakens the trees ability to stand in a hurricane..

once in a while i find one of them 25 gallon plant buckets just crammed full of them knees, out on the front porch, guess he was too tuckered out from digging them to stop for a coke. or he was in the shop truck, but he drops them off for me.

you sure he aint been to your house?


its fun to dig them out wash them off with high pressure, maybe boil them to get off the bark, then i shoot a staple in the end of the root feeder to hang or just tye them in the rafters of the barn, couple years.
but occasionally i find one i just cant let dry, i gotta carve it before i loose the idea,
when i carve them wet, i seal them before they crack.

the wife wont go in the barn because of the knees hanging in the rafters, she says they look too much like bats, well that might not be a bad thing it might be way to keep a hiding place for me,

[GeorgiaCarver]

I love doing cypress knee santas and yours is a good one. Often when you follow the wood it will lead you to an amazing design. Love the wrap arround nose! Thanks for sharing.

Greg

[Doug Ridley]

Thanks folks.
Greg, I sent you a private msg.

[santagibbs]

Now that's a clever idea Doug... an original idea. very cute .. I enjoyed looking at it..Charlotte