She starts looking at me

Flesh-tones and highlights added
Still, the skin has turned out somewhat darker, (almost African) than originally "planned".
But then, she's in good company...

Częstochowska

Hantsje Pik

After a medieval grotesque

Prune, 30.5 cm

Nearly finished

St Lawrence Church

Frisian: Laurentiustsjerke

Dutch: Laurentiuskerk

Kimswert

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Eye

These are holes that were its eyes

Horns

Made a start on the horns.
It looks alien like this.

Somehow it wants to look like a particular kind of mask which I discovered on a postcard. But I keep trying to resist.

Njona mask - Cameroon

Speedcarving

Sunday evening: Calf, cow or bull?


Monster with holes
(i.e. rear view)


Saturday afternoon 15.20

Nearly finished

Did the eyes today, burnished the face and oiled it.

Eyes

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The Lost Symbol

Extremely bad novel, but an interesting title

One of my versions - based on Liege Cathedral








More images of Liege Cathedral


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Autumn light

El-Rukh bird in the making.
The eyes were recently carved and coloured.






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Eye of Providence Luik/Liège

The beautiful vaults of Liège Cathedral remind one of Catherine of Cleves' Book of Hours.
The Eye of Providence and the Trinity, as well as several Green Men are but a few manifestations of this lavish decoration.


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Gotov

Did the lettering today and applied a glare finish.
One eye changed colour in the process.


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Spas nerukotvornyi

Or, the [Icon of the] Saviour Not-Made-By-Hands. I first saw this most impressive icon in the Uspensky Sobor(Cathedral of the Dormition) in the Moscow Kremlin in 1991.
It has been a favourite ever since, together with the Vladimirskaya and the Saviour of the Fiery Eye.



On this terrible day I found some peace of mind and some consolation in making a first sketch. The result was beyond all expectations. As if my hands had been guided. As if this face drew itself. As if theMan is Coming Around.





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Light in his eyes

Today I made the black in his eyes blacker


And if you look from the right angle you will notice that I also made the light lighter



He's getting more and more iconic.



Nerukotvornyi


The dripping blood our only drink,
The bloody flesh our only food:
In spite of which we like to think
That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood—
Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.
TS Eliot - East Coker



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Green eyes

 

I just can't help associating my Green Man with the oncoming Resurrection. This week..
whan Zephyrus eek with his sweete breeth
inspired hath in every holt and heeth
the tendre croppes...

To me it is just wonderful, adding eyes to a face, to the music of Bach's Matthäus Passion. It's the Man coming around

He knows.



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