[jmuscel]

Hi Everyone!
I want to thank you all again for checking out my last post and for all the great comments and critiques! I apologize for posting another religious carving and if anyone is offended. My wife really liked the last carving of Mary I did and wants me to do one for her. Since her B-day is coming up and our 4 year anniversarry is also coming up I decided to start on this carving. I know this is our lady of the streets and you may have seen it before. This is my version of it. I had alot of free time this pat weekend so I started roughing it out. It's a piece of basswood about an inch thick and 15 or so inches high (I haven't actually measured it yet) So here is what I have so far. I hope you like it and I'll post more pictures as I progress. Thanks Again everyone! I value all your opinions.
Joe

[doris]

beautiful start, and already emotion in :-) i am very much looking forward to follow your progress pics :-) thanks so much for sharing :-)

[markken5889]

Hi Joe,


Nice work so far! I've worked with those basswood "slices" only a couple times, and have found them very frustrating to carve, as the grain keeps changing direction. Keep the tools sharp!

Mark

[Fred Zavadil]

Joe,
Do not apologize for posting another religious carving - majority of my work is religious.
It is coming really well, your wife will be very happy.
Fred

[chuckt]

Nice job so far there Joe. Your wife will be very pleased. Keep the pics coming and thanks for sharing.

ChuckT

[feb]

Joe. looks grat already, seems as though you have a real passion and have advance so much in such a short time. I will be following this project.

feb

[Iowa Carver]

I love what your doing here. Very nice!

Corey

[jmuscel]

Hi Everyone!
Thank you all so much for the great comments, you all inspire me to keep going even though I'm not too happy with how things are turning out. Mark you were right about the grain being tricky, mostley I keep trying to fix mistakes I'm making as I go along. I started to work on the eyes a bit and a little on the hands. Here's what I have so far, I hope you all like it.
Joe

[dlcarver]

Very nice work. Let's see it finished.
Dave

[sharon cottrell]

Beautiful and great job so far.