Line Carving

I got a wood carving kit for Christmas and attempted my first beginner-level project, a line carving. For a line carving you basically just draw a picture on wood and then carve the outline. It's pretty simple, no three-dimensional stuff, but it got me familiar with some of the tools.

I took a scrap piece of wood I had laying around and went to work on a scene of musk oxen in the arctic tundra. Musk oxen are pretty rad dudes as they're a lot like bison, but they live in the tundra and get snow on them.

I obviously haven't added color yet, so the image is sort of hard to make out, but there is a way to get color in the grooves, so I'll be figuring out how to do that next.

new town, new apartment, new bed and headboard

i've just moved to chicago and finally have the space for the bed and headboard i built. the basic blue-prints were from handmade modern, but i added a shelf on the headboard and took out the weird illumination thing they did. mary and i may still add a decorative paper to the headboard, but this is it for now.