[GaryMc]

Finished one in bark yesterday. Thanks for looking!
GaryMc

[Merle Rice]

Hey Gary, Looking good. Ilike it. Merle

[xsailer]

Looks like you carving what you were seeing in a mirror and imagining what you would look like with a beard and hair. What do you think?

[achaundy]

Gary; Thats a very nice carving. Does any one ever carve a female spirt?
Skip

[Colin_Partridge]

Gary nice wood spirit you sound like me when I say just another tree carving. I like him looks regal to me. Skip, yes I have carved female woodspirits but they are hard to do. They would look better with facial hair but then they end up looking like any other woodspirit.
Colin

[GaryMc]

Thanks for the comments, actually Collin I like him alot, but most here on the board seem ho-hum about them, so the title,hehe. I need to do a female, and actually have on half done (Greeman style) it is a Hollyo forked branch about 2-1/2" tall, with a greenman on one fork and a greenwoman on the other. but the faces are very small (about 1" long). Maybe I will finish it one day. I do need to do a larger one to work out all the angles ect. on a womans face.
GaryMc

[Mottles]

Hi Gary, nice looking bark carving is it cottonwood. as I haven't carved any bark yet. If your carving a face are you carving on the inside or outside of the bark? It appears in your carving to be the inside?
Thanks,
Kathy

[achaundy]

Gary
I don't want to sound too dumb but, how do you cut the hair in?

Skip

[tnartist05]

Just another wood spirit?? HUMmmmmmmmm Just another nice carving I would like to say! You sure can capture the details just right Gary! Nice work as always from you! Forrest

[GaryMc]

Hello, thanks for the kind comments. Mottles, It is Cottonwood bark and it is carved from the outside, you cut away the bark where you are going to carve.
Achaundy, I use a gouge to lay in hair bundles in first and then use a "V" tool or a 'Veiner" to put in the hairs. I might do a tutorial on that soon.
Thank you Forrest!
GaryMc