Saturday 18 June 2016

Branching Out: More Carvings by Nicky

Having made some of Tomashek's creatures (see below), Nicky decided to have a go at some carving projects of her own.
Here's a Wood Spirit made from a branch taken from the garden at our old house on Weoley Park Road in Birmingham. I think he looks a bit like Kris Kristofferson...


This candle-holder is created from a root Nicky dug out of the garden at Rose Cottage.


Three little mice. The one with the curliest tail is made from a piece of walnut bought from a timber-store. The middle one is made from a piece of a chopped-down cherry tree that used to stand in  our Birmingham garden. The one of the left's made from pine - a piece of our old shed door at the cottage.


Here's Finn after chopping down the cherry tree. It had been attacked by fungus and had to go. Still it's nice to have a memento of it in mouse-form.


The cherry tree in happier days!


We still have a wooden cherry from it - also carved by Nicky! The stalk's made from a twiglet from the tree.



Here's the shed-door before its removal - we had the shed taken down and now have a lovely brick-built outdoor workshop for gardening bits and bobs and larger art projects.


And the lump of shed door on Nicky's work-bench. Just waiting for the bits that aren't mouse to be carved away from it!





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