nightserpent

9x7" (not including tenon)  Carved catalpa wood, oiled and waxed.  I've been looking at medieval art and sculptures, and noted how much humor is in some of them.  It inspired me to make something whimsical!  Below you can see it installed in an old hand-hewn barn beam.  There are many more notches in the beam to be filled, for some reason I thought to number them in the order they were created, this is number 3.

close up of grain from this unidentified burl:  fav.me/dckxpam

redwood or cherry, perhaps?  for scale, each floor tile is 6x6"

Two sink brackets carved out of butternut, roughly 16".  Since the bathtub has claw feet it only made sense for the sink to have a tail.. or two.  I though I had already learned a sense of how to carve with the grain, but this project brought me a lot more understanding.  Perhaps it is the pronounced grain pattern of the butternut which helped me read the wood better.  However, on the left piece I was working around the pith (center) of the tree, and it was rather disorienting.  Finished with Danish oil and burtcher's wax.