[Mottles]

Title: For now calling it 'Deer' (Commission)
Size: 8 1/2 wide x 28 Inches long
Wood Type: Found

Hi All, got a chance to do a little pyrography and incising on some really dry wood. A friend of mine ask if I would burn something--like a deer on this wood he found at the 6,000 ft elevation on Mingus Mt. here in Arizona.
As I hadn't burned anything in a while I jumped at the opportunity. I used a combination of woodburning and powercarving on the deer and landscape. I finished it using Deft spray varnish.
The pattern is from Susan Irish's book 'Wildlife Carving in Relief'. I thought it a perfect fit, so I just enlarged it to size and transfered it to the wood using graphite paper. I didn't have a lot of time to do my own idea's and drawings so 'Thank you Susan' for being there when I needed you.
As always I appreciate your thoughts and comments. Oh almost forgot if you look close there is a bullet hole just below the neck area of the forward deer.
Kathy

[Pyrographer]

What a beautiful job Kathy. I know your client will love it.

Nedra

[GeorgiaCarver]

Holy cow! urr Holy deer

What a great pyro. It is absolutely excellent, I bet you are proud. Your customer is very lucky, I would love to have a pc. of art like that.

Thank you for sharing Mottles,

Greg

[Merle Rice]

Kathy, you brought that piece of Scrap Wood back to life. Those pieces of wood with caracture get your imagination working, and into a very nice piece of Art. As always good Job. Merle

[Irish]

Just beautiful! You have a nice feeling of sculpturing with the carving especially in the textuing in the grass area. The burn accents are storng, bold and wonderful!

What did you use for the coloring agent, the color is so pure and clean?

Susan

[Mottles]

Nedra, Greg, Merle, Susan, Thank you all very much for taking the time to look and comment. A lot of my work here lately has been with basswood. It felt really great to work with some found wood, less predictable. I'm not always sure what I'm going to get with each move. Susan I didn't use a coloring agent. After just gently skimming off the surface--that nice beige color was under the surface. Lucky me!
I like the color variation between the dried gray and the undercolor. Not sure what kind of wood this is, but the backside is a reddest brown. Up on Mingus Mt. there is mostly several types of pine, juniper, cottonwood and aspen. I had to do quite a bit of wood removable of the backside, then applied several coats of Danish Oil.
Thanks again,
Kathy

[chpster90bu]

Kathy....that is truly a gorgeous piece of artwork! I absolutely love what you did with it...the pyro is excellent and I'd just love to have this myself!! Bonnie

[Lindy]

Kathy! That is drop dead gorgeous! Makes me want to start getting at some of the driftwood I brought back from the coast! Thank you so much for sharing that - it is absolutely inspiring and inspired!

Lindy

[Hollis Mckinley]

Mottles, great work and a fine piece of art for anyone's collection!

I'm into a walking stick out of huckleberry. holding both ends of the stick together. Putting all his little hair on with pyro. I like to combine the two, carving and pyrography. Semper Fi! pogerope

[squbrigg]

Beautiful piece of burning! Great sense of movement and energy in the scene.

Bob