Thursday, October 30, 2008

Objects


Getting a bit patchy with this end of my day. Yesterday I started on a little object to mark my wife's Birthday, which will be upon us shortly. This morning I had to go out for a little conference on work and went back to the mini sculpture type work in the afternoon. I am a fan of Inuit sculpture, and she is a fan of penguins, so you might be able to imagine what the object might be. I'll put it up when the day arrives. I am using a scrap from the end of one of those pieces of pallet from the metal yard, it has heart wood and sap wood in, so there is a slight color difference.
For hard wood I often use the tines of a piece of antler to burnish the work.