Russian Carving

[North Wind]

Fellow Woodcarvers, I found this on my woodworking forum and thought it might be of interest to all.

Vince

Even if you're not a carver you might want to
spend some time examining this mans amazing
work. Everything's in Russian - but click on the obvious links (in blue characters) and
explore each gallery. The man's son is posting
pics of his father's superb work - some of
which took 11 months to complete.
charlie belden

http://www.firsanov.ru/gallery.htm

[Thor]

Thanks for posting that link. I'll be looking through the web site for days.
Thor

[doris]

thanks for the link...is very intersting site. a pity i cannot read anything...seems the carver has carved a full story, given from the carvings i have looked so far...

[North Wind]

I thought this was going to be a more interesting thread to a lot of carvers.Guess I should have posted in the caricatrure spot.I can`t read it but I didn`t have to.

[Colin-Partridge]

Vince that beautiful work I am very impressed. It would be nice if we could read it to know more about the carver. I would think he is a power carver but never the less one amazing artist. Thanks for posting
Colin

[mdallensr]

What an amazing artist! The detail is so realistic and the expressions are so believable. Envy, envy envy.... Mike

[don]

A very nice site. I used Babelfish(an online computer translator) on several of the descriptions with varying degrees of success. The more poetic the description the less intelligable the translation. The captions at the bottom of each piece generally give its title, the materials used and the size. But as carvings the work doesn't need translation, the skill is obvious, and just looking at the old lady's face makes me smile.

[squbrigg]

Man, that guy can carve!

Bob

[woodtrapper]

Boy, when you see work like that,that person is in a league of his own or even a sculptor in my opinion.I is a treat to see work like that but he set the bar very high for me.