[pallin]

I decided to take up Claude's challenge to do Escher's "Waterfall" in relief. So far I have produced the pattern - 16" x 20" - and will glue up the basswood blank soon.
One has to remember that relief carving is not true 3D. For example, the relief carving I did called "Two Chameleons" (See Carver Galleries) has the two lizards inside three nested octahedrons. The octahedrons are 8" on a side, but the depth of the relief is only 1/2". This foreshortening of depth makes it possible to carve the "impossible" structure of the "waterfall" in relief.
I'll keep you posted on the progress.
Phil

[Mark N. Akers]

Pallin:
Welcome to the site ,hope you enjoy it.

[beekeepergold]

Hello New Old Member
I am beekeepergold
I am a new member and new to carving but have worked at it for several years as I have time, but I never have posted after registering over a year or two ago. I love carving birds and flowers, but I have trouble keeping tools sharp and try not to power carve, but I am tempted no that I got a tiny dremel for Christmas. I still want to learn to do it the traditional ways.

[beekeepergold]

Carolina carver?
I am in Alabama. I am in the outsikrts of the big city and like the woody location. My husband does woddworking and builds mostly caft furniture. He likes that, but I enjoy sitting carving when he's doing that adn we try to work together and he cut my large pieces or glue them up for me. He used the helps me use the sharpening stones. He turns sometimes wood and metal.

[pallin]

I'm posting this message to see if I can make my profile photo work.

[beekeepergold]

Was ust notified you posted. I see you fish Thumbnail. I have been busy and still have not figured out how to use message boards. This is my first time. I never chat room or message board on anything until now and have no idea how to or what most of the terms mean except threads and doing that . I can use spell check but these "controls" are still all new to me. I am glad you are tesing. Thes lille smiley flags are cute. I sent my tools out to be sharpened. I await their return. I just got the new Woodcaver with the carousel hourses. It has great things but that would be fun to make a mini with 3 and add a musical like the tiny ones they used ot have at K-Mart year ago when my kids were small. I looked at the masks, but wildlife eggs or the tiny Japanese carving from egg stock very much intrigues me as a novice carver.

[beekeepergold]

Pallin
your fish trial did work. by how to do this stuff. How large are your tiny fish?