Handmade Carved Kestrel

This is a handmade, pyrographed (wood burned) and hand carved American kestrel carved from limewood (basswood). It is bas-relief carving on a cut-out of a kestrel which has a flat back and therefore can be mounted on a wall.

This is an off-cut of a fully 3D kestrel carving which I'm working on at the moment. I did this one as a test piece to see how different colour types and stains would work with the wood.