An Indian and aWoodspirit new

GaryMc · #1 09-03-2007, 01:39 PM

Well, here are some more. I have lots of carving time these day(laid off), so I am making the most it. The Indian is a small peice of bark. The Spirit is in Red Cedar Driftwood. Thanks for looking and commenting.
GaryMc

Lynn O. Doughty · #2 09-03-2007, 02:01 PM

Really a nice looking indian. Wood spirit is well done also.

Doug Ridley · #3 09-03-2007, 05:17 PM

Gary, I like them both. VERY well done.
Doug

Tom H · #4 09-03-2007, 05:21 PM

Gary, Both are really well done. But I especially like the driftwood spirit.

Tom H

MelNM · #5 09-03-2007, 06:44 PM

I agree very well done.
Mel

gene messer · #6 09-03-2007, 08:17 PM

Two great looking piece's Gary .. I really like your indian ...

Gene

Joy · #7 09-03-2007, 08:45 PM

Gary, Good job! They are both good, but I like the wood spirit better just because of the beautiful wood.

Eddy Smiles · #8 09-03-2007, 09:52 PM

Outstanding! Really outstanding!

love2carve2 · #9 09-03-2007, 11:04 PM

Gary,
Nice job on both. I like the woodspirit the best.
Mary

Lightningbolt · #10 09-03-2007, 11:07 PM

I knew before you told me that the woodspirit was in driftwood cedar. It continues to amaze me how much better your carving has become over the years! I suppose there is some positve to lay off's.

Back in the 1980's I worked for 9 years at a camp for at-risk youth on the North Carolina coast (and still do in the N.C. mountains) with a great salt water inlet. I used to take the kids down there with the canoes on big missions of diving for old red cedar wood which was everywhere. That was some great carving wood for crafts and it was always solid "heartwood" and no telling how many decades (or century's) that it had been submerged. It looked just like that which you made the woodspirit in.

Once we were so "blinded" by our cedar searching that we wandered unknowingly onto private land and floated off some great cedar logs behind the canoes. Later we got a call from the landowner and ended up giving him a $300.00 receipt so that he could deduct it off his taxes and he was satisfied. Learned a lot from that mishap and it's amazing how we can sometimes become so "blinded" when our heads are like laser beams sniffing out new wood!

We made crafts from those cedar logs for years!

By my outlandish enthusiasm for craft wood I inadvertantly created such a value on cedar wood that the kids actually developed their own underground money system of trading between themselves using that red heartwood that when discovered we had to bust up since it led to so many problems, but I bet you that twenty years later today that those grown-up "kids" have never forgotten our grand cedar adventures. Gosh, we lived for it!!

Sorry for rambling but thank's for re-awakening the memories!