April 17, 2012

There be dragons

photo copyright Karin Corbin 2012
Today's carving practice piece made with pear wood. Width is 2.5 inches.

12 comments:

  1. I love it -- it's sort of a fishy dragon, isn't it? Beautiful :)

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  2. wow I like it! I'm messing around with pear also---

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  3. Hello Karin,
    Wonderful! The detail is excellent.
    By the way, the Panettiere you commented on came from www.uol.hk. They call it a Normandy French Bread Holder.
    All the best,
    Giac

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  4. Hi Karin. I just want to say . Awesome. Congratulation.

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  5. OOOOHH! This I LOVE LOVE LOVE! Such a perfect Medieval (Early Medieval!) felling to it! Will it be part of a piece of furniture?

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  6. Cool dragon, Karin! Where will this piece end up?

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  7. This particular piece went to the man who has been giving me a lot of free wood as a thank you card.

    However I will be carving lots of these little guys and using them as cabinet doors and such. Let me know if you would like one for yourself as a decorative wall sculpture panel or part of a piece of furniture.

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  8. That looks simply amazing!! :) I'm going to follow you from now on! :)

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  9. I love your blog! I spent lots of time riding your older mail and I found that there are a lot of women like me around the world, you love tolls as gifts!!! lots of them, good ones of course. Aother thing, I also love wood working and wood carving, I wish we live close to one another! below are links to my blog, if you want to make a visit, you can see me learning how to carve...

    http://miniaturesforever.blogspot.pt/search/label/curso%20de%20talha
    http://miniaturesforever.blogspot.pt/search/label/IAO%20cursos%20livres

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  10. That is really neat! I love the free flowing lines, and the use of the ancient design shapes. Don't know if there's a word for them, but in particular the half-round shaped little chips in the middle section of his/her body. You see that theme return very often in the Middle Ages, just like the classic rose you carved recently. I detect a direction here...? To be honest, I've fallen for that era too lately. The furniture gives you so much scope to carve; I intend to start out with a writing slope i guess. But your Dragon is cute! You must have had fun making it.

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  11. Debora, No secret about my direction. I often build miniature 16th and 17th century half timber buildings. Therefore it is logical to create the simple furniture from that era as well.

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