[Ashbys]

Bob ,
Wow nice work ! Looks great with either background , but the blue drives you to the piece more, as it causes the edges to stand up, instead of blending like it does with the green.

Great work

Garry

[Tom H]

Bob, Your cross would look good with a polka dot background. Super carving. I'll stay out of the background color decision...Tom H

[Joy]

Super job. I really like the burned background.
Joy

[squbrigg]

Thank you for the feedback on the background folks, and on the carving. I'm going to have to work towards a better photo and lighting set up, more along the lines to what Lynn was describing. A darker background and defused lights. The colour thing does effect peoples reactions to carvings, and I have much to learn about how and what colours do that.

Thor....the whole cross is relief carved, the cross is one piece of wood, the base is added. While I have done the other method before, I really prefer doing it the hard way, relieving it from a single piece. Good practice I guess, or just stubborn!!!

Glad you like it.

Bob
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[Lightningbolt]

Bob: Good luck on working with the photography because no matter how hard that I try to get a picture for the board that looks as good as the actual project in my hands never quite reaches my expectations. Some of the pictures produced with some of those multi-thousand dollar professional digital cameras with interchangable lenses would surely help... but I don't think so!

Anyhow, that is some awesome cross. The woodburning background most definitely works with the mahogany and I too vote for the green background. Sure wish that I could see it with my own flesh hands as the background.

[squbrigg]

Lightningbolt....that too can be arranged!!! Every Monday evening from 7 pm to 9 pm we hold a carving group session in my basement and all carvers are invited. No restrictions....so any and all are invited! You and everyone here, has a standing invitation to come and enjoy . Just bring your own tools and wood and carve to your hearts content among friends. Lots of jokes fly as well as chips, we have carvers as young as 14 and as old as dirt! Most are new carvers, but we have a few long time carvers who just enjoy carving with friends and strangers......some a little stranger than others, but we don't mind. We have lady carvers and gentlemen and some neither, several Native carvers, English, French, Irish, Scottish, Acadian and some of undeterminant origins! Our place isn't big, but we're cosy, and you're welcome!

Bob

[whitecree]

Hmmm, I wonder if I scrounge through the sofa if I can find enough change for a ticket to the east coast?

Very nice work, Bob. If you hadn't said, I would have figured you poured some sort of goop on a plain piece of wood to get all the knotting done. The woodburning really makes the knotwork stand out.

As to blue/green, well, where is there a high concentration of Celts these days? Ireland, no? What infamous Irish holiday is coming up real quick? What is the favoured color both for the Irish and this infamous holiday? Need I say more?

[jax]

Terrific carving, in my opinion the green background shows up the carving better than the blue.
Jax.

[Lightningbolt]

Bob: Thank's for the invitation and don't be surprised if I actually make it there some day! Sounds like my kind of crowd too. By the way, I did a 1,800 mile solo bicycle tour of New England, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick back in about 1989 and I WILL return there some day. Great country and wonderful people!

[Carving_Celtic]

Excellent Work Bob.....

The Colors are both wonderful compliments