David sercel's yellow crowned night heron

[don]

I was just checking the galleries and came across this new carving of David's.And it is a real winner.Of all the birds he has posted this one gets my vote as his most striking!

[squbrigg]

Rather a stunning bird, isn't it. David, you have outdone yourself. The Night Heron is breath-taking. Beautifully done! Thank you for sharing.

Bob

[David_Aaron_Sercel]

Thanks for the comments.

The Heron is actually one that I finished last fall but just now added to the gallery. For some reason I had not been able to upload anything to the gallery until just recently (I kept getting an error message) so I just recently added a bunch of my carvings from the last year.

David

[wade clark]

David,
Incredible work! I'm carving a chair that has herons and egrets for legs and I dream of them coming out like yours! In my wildest dreams! Beautiful workmanship, true art!
Wade

[birdcarver7]

nice looking carving ,david,milford.

[Callynne]

David, you amaze me, I can't help but wonder where you will be when you're my age....you'll be famous, I think!! Thanks for sharing more of your beautiful work with us! Callynne

[Just Carving]

David Aaron Sercel...

I will have to make sure I remember that name...as Calynne said, you WILL be famous. Your work is outstanding! I don't know what you're doing right, but keep doing it!

I was particularly struck by your web page for "The Sculpture Process" . I didn't know anything about carving birds, but after seeing your website, I know now for sure there is a lot of talent and effort going into your work. If you want to learn about carving birds, look at David's website. I highly recommend it for a learning tool.

http://www.jaminmark.com/das/process1.html

David, one day, you should consider writing a book on bird carving along the same format as "the Sculpture Process". The explanation is simple, clear and well demonstrated--not surprisingly, like all of your work.

And thanks for the inspriration to carve more. Three or so years and all that talent! I should only hope the quality of my carving work is anywhere near as good as yours in three years. Wow!

Bob

[wade clark]

David,
Great tutorial!
Wade

[don]

I hadn't seen the tutorial when I started this post or I would have added that it was well done as well.I don't have a power carver but I can certinly understand now how you work with one much better than I did. Now if I could just figure out which bits I'd need for each carving?