Carving starts

This type of wood turned out to be rather "noisy", so I had to limit the hammering as much as I could. Can't risk any fights with the neigbours.
Careful gouging worked, and proved far more relaxing.

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Telefomin shield

Started: first week of May.
Today I shaped the panel into its finite form.

I made a start on the pattern.


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Home making a plank root

We don't have mangrove trees over here, so I had to glue a panel from old meranti poles.

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Hands

The hands are so difficult to carve

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Green Men in Maastricht

Heads-with-leaves
a.k.a. foliage grotesque

Dominicanerkerk


Badly damaged Green Man


St. Servaaskerk


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Oceania

Stunning.



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Inspiring...

Wereldmuseum Rotterdam

Green Men and Women

All of a sudden, they start appearing. How come I never spotted all those Green Men before?

Green Pair in Rotterdam


Green Man in the making


My Green Men [and Women]

to be continued and updated...

Links:

Wikipedia

Green men in the Netherlands

Heads- with-leaves

Green Man East Anglia

Susanna Duffy

Green Man Canterbury



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